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lower chamber

[ loh-er ]

lower chamber

noun

  1. another name for lower house
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of lower chamber1

First recorded in 1880–85
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The win helped the GOP hold on to their slim majority in the lower chamber.

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The GOP holds a narrow majority in the lower chamber, and that slim margin already made problems for Republican leadership in the early months of Trump's second term.

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All the seats in the lower chamber, the House of Commons, are up for grabs during an election.

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House Republicans have a knife's-edge majority in the lower chamber, making the task of carrying out the party’s agenda through the legislative channels a contentious game of whipping votes.

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But how else will Republican representatives in the lower chamber spend their days, now that they've handed their main job duties over to an unelected megalomaniac?

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