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The House of Federation (Amharic language የፌዴሬሽን ምክር ቤት Yefedereshn Mekir Bet) is the upper house of the bicamerial Parliament of Ethiopia of Ethiopia. It has with 112 members. This page contains a list of heads of state of Ethiopia since 1974. ... Girma Wolde-Giorgis Lucha (born December 1924) is the President of Ethiopia. ... List of Heads of Government of Ethiopia (Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office) Affiliations:- See also Ethiopia Rulers and Heads of State of Ethiopia List of Presidents of Ethiopia Lists of office-holders ... Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi Legesse (Meles) Zenawi (born May 8, 1955) is Prime Minister of Ethiopia. ... The Parliament of Ethiopia consists of two chambers: The House of Federation (Upper Chamber) The House of Peoples Representatives (Lower Chamber) This politics-related article is a stub. ... The Federal Parliamentary Assembly of Ethiopia has two chambers. ... Politics of Ethiopia Categories: Election related stubs | Elections in Ethiopia ... Ethiopia held general elections on May 15, 2005, for seats in both its national and in four regional government councils. ... Political parties in Ethiopia lists political parties in Ethiopia. ... Ethiopia was relatively isolated from major movements of world politics until the 1895 and 1935 Italian invasions. ... During the post-World War II era, Ethiopia received small amounts of economic development aid from such countries as the United States and Sweden. ... According to the U.S. Department of State’s human rights report for 2004 and similar sources, the Ethiopian government’s human rights record is poor. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Information on politics by country is available for every country, including both de jure and de facto independent states, inhabited dependent territories, as well as areas of special sovereignty. ... Amharic (አማርኛ ’amarəñña) is a Semitic language spoken in North Central Ethiopia. ... An upper house is one of two chambers of a bicameral legislature, the other chamber being the lower house. ... The bicameral legislature of the United States is housed in a capitol building with two wings. ... The Parliament of Ethiopia consists of two chambers: The House of Federation (Upper Chamber) The House of Peoples Representatives (Lower Chamber) This politics-related article is a stub. ...

Each Nation, Nationality and People shall be represented in the House of the Federation by at least one member. Each Nation or Nationality shall be represented by one additional representative for each one million of its population (Article 61:2 of the constitution). Ethiopias population is highly diverse. ...

Members of the House of the Federation shall be elected by the State Councils. The State Councils may themselves elect representatives to the House of the Federation, or they may hold elections to have the representatives elected by the people directly (Article 61:3 of the constitution).

Committees

The House of Federation has two committees and a Council of Constitutional Inquiry. Each committee consists of fifteen members including a chair person. The two committees are the Regional & Constitutional Affairs and Budget Subsidy & Revenue Affairs.

Committee for Regional & Constitutional Affairs

The Committee for States' Affairs is responsible for taking measures which promote unity with the consent of peoples and manages the implementation of the rights of nations and nationalities that fall under the jurisdiction of the House of the Federation. With the approval of the House Speaker, it creates committees to resolve disputes or misunderstandings that occur between states and was to failed to reach an agreement at the state level. It's the committee's duty to present a report to the House for Federal intervention it any state, in violation of the Constitution, endangers the constitutional order. The Committee also responsible for Legal Affairs identified civil cases that need to be incorporated to the code. It also has the duty of coming up with issues which require consitutional amendment and reviewing similar cases to present recommendations to the House. It is also responsible to see that the rights of deputies aren't infringed and to identify other disciplinary actions the house should take when the quorum for House Sessions repeatedly fails to materialize. In law, a quorum is the minimum number of members of a deliberative body necessary to conduct the business of that group. ...

Budget Subsidy & Revenue Affairs Committee

The job of this committee is to present recommendations in determining the division of revenues derived from joint federal and state tax sources which is proposed by the executive branch and the subsidies that the federal government may provide to the states. The committe conducts a through review and presents a report incises where conflicting issues arise in the division of revenues. In consultation with the House speakers, it names a committee to draft the budget of the House and performs a follow-up that this is done at the right time.

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