Ultimately, the Senate parliamentarian will decide whether the Democrats' play is within the rules.
At around three in the afternoon, an Icelandic parliamentarian named Birgitta Jonsdottir walked in.
The party leader, Walter Veltroni, astounded his longest-serving parliamentarian by replacing him with a 26-year-old woman.
The idea was put to him by Senator Nancy Ruth, the Conservatives' only openly gay parliamentarian.
Even so, more came, said Vladimir Ryzhkov, an independent Russian parliamentarian, than a Moscow rally would muster.
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Mr Clark, briefly prime minister in 1979-80 and an experienced parliamentarian, returned as party leader in 1998.
Russian parliamentarian Vladimir Zhirinovsky and British MP George Galloway are also both named but have denied the allegations.
Sollecito's lead attorney, Giulia Bongiorno, a prominent parliamentarian, almost walked off the case because of the backroom deal.
Former prime minister Gordon Brown paid tribute, describing Mr Wicks as "a great thinker, writer, campaigner and parliamentarian".
This week a prominent Iranian parliamentarian said oil revenues had declined 45% in the last nine months.
Typically a Western parliamentarian or journalist will receive an email detailing how the government is unfairly targeting the opposition.
But a Sunni parliamentarian, Salih al-Mutlaq, predicted the deaths of thousands or tens of thousands because of the decision.
The House parliamentarian, whose job it is to pronounce on the rules, agreed.
But Deborah Bergamini, a parliamentarian and member of Berlusconi's PDL party, is expecting a "surprise" result on February 25.
The parliamentarian, Eyad Sulaiman, is an Alawite -- the same sect of Islam that President Bashar al-Assad belongs to.
Tory Oliver Heald dismissed this idea saying that every parliamentarian was elected to the Commons on the same basis.
Even Mr Mugabe's nephew, another parliamentarian, said this was a step too far.
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He established himself as an academic, an Islamic scholar and orator, a charity worker, a politician and a parliamentarian.
It is curious that a parliamentarian wants to shut down debate because the French president's intervention prompts an interesting question.
While rebel and government forces keep their positions around town, an unusual meeting takes place between a parliamentarian and rebels.
If MSPs are discussing ferret-taming, one cannot have a stray parliamentarian intervening with a comment about the rings of Saturn.
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Mr. Mikati's government will remain in place until President Michel Suleiman consults with parliamentarian blocs to nominate a new prime minister.
However, the reality of Guantanamo, which a visiting European parliamentarian delegation dubbed "a model prison, " starkly contrasts with its harsh reputation.
Jaipal Reddy, a canny parliamentarian from the shrinking Janata Party, contends that Congress need not call new elections to govern successfully.
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When Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders goes on trial this week in the Netherlands, he will stand alone before a Dutch court.
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The 53-year-old head of the Chaudhary Group is himself a newly designated parliamentarian, one of a dozen businessmen in the 575-member Assembly.
Sunday Gaza-based Hamas terrorist and parliamentarian Yahya Musa accused Fayad of corruption.
Jordan's Prosecutor General has recently brought charges against Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders.
In some senses they are a good match but, says Muhammad Hikam, another parliamentarian, Mr Yudhoyono urgently needs to show he is boss.
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