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	Argentine Senate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Argentine Senate is the upper house of parliament in Argentina.
		Senators are elected by direct vote on a provincial basis, with the party with the most votes being awarded two of the province's senate seats and the second-place party receiving the third seat.
		The Senate is presided over by the Vice-President of the country, currently Daniel Scioli.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Argentine_Senate (303 words)

	Argentine National Congress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Congress of the Argentine Nation (Spanish: Congreso de la Nación Argentina) is the legislative branch of the government of Argentina.
		It is made up of the 72-seat Argentine Senate and the 257-seat Argentine Chamber of Deputies.
		The construction of the building started in 1898 during Bartolomé Mitre's mandate, and in 1906 it was precariously opened, to be later finished by Julio Dormal years later.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Argentine_National_Congress (206 words)

	networkideas.org - Argentine President bows to IMF and Banks
		On May 30, 2002, the Argentine senate voted to repeal the 1974 economic subversion law criminalising bad business decisions and capital flight in an effort to meet conditions set by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for issuing new loans to the debt-ridden nation.
		Of the many demands made by the IMF for renewed aid to Argentina, three had generated particular controversy and resistance from Argentine commentators, politicians and the public: changes in the bankruptcy law, a repeal of the law of economic subversion, and demands for a reduction of state spending in the provinces.
		The law was used by Argentine investigators to go after banks like Citibank who they claimed had illegally transferred large amounts of money out of the country, triggering last year's economic collapse and wiping out the savings of thousands of middle and low income people when banks froze their accounts.
	www.networkideas.org /featart/jun2002/fa04_Argentina_President.htm (822 words)

	Argentine Senate abolishes ... - Aug. 22, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The motion to abolish the laws, passed in 1986 and 1987 a few years after the end of the 1976-1983 military dictatorship, had already been passed by the Chamber of Deputies, Argentina's lower house of Congress, a week ago.
		A majority of the Senate's 51 members voted in favor of the measure abolishing the laws, said Senate president Jose Luis Gioja without providing the exact vote count.
		Senators, after nine hours of debate, also ratified a Chamber of Deputies decision reached last week for Argentina to sign the 1968 Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutes of Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity.
	www.inq7.net /wnw/2003/aug/22/text/wnw_4-1-p.htm (325 words)

	Print news - IPS Inter Press Service
		The Oct. 23 elections for 24 of the 72 seats in the Argentine Senate and 127 of the 257 seats in the Chamber of Deputies will be the first electoral test faced by the government of President Néstor Kirchner since he took office in May 2003.
		All three are at the head of the slate of candidates for their respective parties, and the one who finishes on top will bring a fellow male candidate to the Senate with her, since Argentine electoral law awards two seats per province to the winning party, while the runner-up gets the third.
		In the city of Buenos Aires, where 10.2 percent of Argentine voters cast their ballots, the poll favourite for a seat in the Chamber of Deputies is also a woman, ARI leader Elisa Carrió, a former legislator.
	www.ipsnews.net /print.asp?idnews=30631 (1210 words)

	Argentine Senate overturns 2 amnesty laws - The Washington Times: World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Human rights activists and relatives of the disappeared broke into raucous applause when it was announced that senators voted 43-7, with one abstention, to scrap the laws.
		Kirchner signed that allowed for the extradition of Argentine citizens responsible for crimes during the dictatorship.
		Pollsters say most Argentines are in favor of bringing to justice those guilty of crimes during the dictatorship.
	www.washtimes.com /world/20030821-100518-6263r.htm (582 words)

	CPJ Protests: 2002
		On September 4, the bill was discussed in the full Senate after the Senate's Penal Affairs and Prison Regimes Committee and the Communications Committee approved it.
		Argentine society, which is going through a profound social, political, and economic crisis, needs more voices, not fewer, to discuss issues of public concern.
		For these reasons, we urge the Argentine senate to develop legislation that regulates the airwaves while ensuring that community and other small radio stations that have served the public for many years are able to operate legally.
	www.cpj.org /protests/02ltrs/Argentina17sept02pl.html (361 words)

	GlobaLex - A Research Guide to the Argentine Legal System
		Senators are elected for a six-year term and can be re-elected indefinitely, with the party with the most votes being awarded two of the province's senate seats and the second-place party receiving the third seat.
		Finally, it should be stated that Senators may be re-elected indefinitely and that in the same election for a permanent position, a substitute is also chosen.
		In the Argentine judicial regime, the administration of justice is a concurrent power of the nation and the provinces.
	www.nyulawglobal.org /globalex/Argentina.htm (4589 words)

	MercoPress - Falklands-Malvinas & South Atlantic News
		The Argentine Senate on Thursday annulled amnesty laws which benefited 1,000 mainly soldiers and police officers accused of committing human rights violations during the 1976-1983 dictatorship.
		As the senators debated the bill, hundreds of people summoned by political parties, human rights organizations, unions and social, student and jobless groups demonstrated outside Congress to demand the scrapping of the laws, which are also known as the "impunity" laws.
		During the military junta's rule in the late 1970s and early 1980s, at least 9,000 and perhaps as many as 30,000 leftists were arrested, tortured and killed for their political activities.
	www.falkland-malvinas.com /Detalle.asp?NUM=2519 (911 words)

	BBC News \| MONITORING \| Argentine press eyes corruption scandal
		A judge investigating the scandal said it appeared that government officials bribed senators of the opposition Peronist party, as well as some of its own senators, to vote for a controversial labour reform bill earlier this year.
		Three senators have already surrendered their immunity from prosecution and four others have offered to resign their seats after the judge formally asked the Senate to strip eight legislators of their protection in connection with the alleged bribes.
		Clarin said the paralysis of the Senate would obstruct the work of the government "at a time of economic difficulties and when the eyes of foreign observers are focused on the political turbulence in Argentina.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/monitoring/908846.stm (736 words)

	Corruption Scandal in Argentine Senate - Pravda.Ru
		The case led to the resignation of the then vice-president Carlos Chacho Alvarez and sparked a political crisis that precipitated the end with De la Rua's rule one and a half year later.
		According to Pontaquarto, senators told De la Rua that they would support the bill "by other means", so the President replied that they should talk to the chief of the Argentine Intelligence Services, Fernando De Santibaáes.
		Senators, Jose Genoud and Augusto Alasino and the ex president Fernando De la Rua.
	english.pravda.ru /world/2001/08/01/11539.html (626 words)

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		Argentina's Senate has approved controversial austerity measures designed to balance the budget and revive the economy.
		The Senate's 26-18 vote followed nine hours of debate in an effort to approve the measures before markets opened Monday.
		The Senate, dominated by the opposition Peronist Party, has been sharply divided over the plan.
	www.globalaging.org /pension/world/argentina.htm (217 words)

	MercoPress - Falklands-Malvinas & South Atlantic News
		Early Thursday the Argentine Senate finally approved the 2005 budget which also extends discretionary “super powers” to the Executive with the purpose of redistributing outlays.
		Senator Jorge Capitanich from the ruling Peronist coalition argued that after 34 years of consecutive budget deficits, “we’ve finally managed to reverse the situation”, and recalled that the current Executive has been “very prudent” in exercising those powers in the past, actually 0,7% of outlays last year.
		The economic emergency instrument was first established by former president Eduardo Duhalde in 2002 when the Argentine economy collapsed causing one of the worst social and economic crises of the country in living history.
	www.falkland-malvinas.com /Detalle.asp?NUM=4701 (640 words)

	Argentine Senate Scraps Amnesty Laws (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Argentina's Senate voted overwhelmingly Thursday to scrap a pair of amnesty laws dating to the 1980s that had ended trials for human rights abuses committed during the country's military dictatorship.
		Human rights activists and relatives of the disappeared present broke into raucous applause when it was announced that Senators had voted 43 to seven with one abstention to scrap the laws.
		Some 9,000 people were officially reported as dead or missing during the junta's years in power, but human rights groups estimated the number could be as high as 30,000 from the seven-year period in which leftist opponents were hunted down, kidnapped off the streets, tortured and made to disappear.
	www.worldrevolution.org /Article/998 (1067 words)

	Inter American Press Association
		In the document sent yesterday to the Argentine Senate Committee on Constitutional Affairs, which has been studying various access to public information bills, IAPA President Jack Fuller emphasized that a debate on these laws is a significant step for strengthening democracy and is necessary for the development of society.
		Fuller, from Tribune Publishing Company, headquartered in Chicago, supported his statement by citing Principle 3 of the Declaration of Chapultepec, a document on freedom of the press and of expression, that states that authorities must be compelled by law to make available in a timely and reasonable manner the information generated by the public sector.
		Fuller explained that the IAPA will be watching the Senate debate on the bill and that the organization will examine - during its upcoming General Assembly on October 22-26, in Antigua, Guatemala – the possibility of sending an international delegation to Argentina.
	sipiapa.org /pressreleases/chronologicaldetail.cfm?PressReleaseID=1222 (228 words)

	MENAFN - Middle East North Africa . Financial Network News: Argentine Senate gets $4.8M loan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Senate will "redesign critical administrative processes to achieve efficiency and simplification, and an administrative regulations manual will be produced," the Washington-based agency said.
		The president of the Argentine Senate will be responsible for the implementation of the program.
		The IDB loan is for a 20-year term, with a grace period of five years, at a variable interest rate.
	menafn.com /qn_news_story.asp?StoryId=CqBAkueidyxjNzw50Aw5HlxnLBMf0zq (118 words)

	Argentine's Senate Adopts Resolution Condemning Armenian Genocide - Armenia Diaspora Conference Official Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		BUENOS AIRES, SEPTEMBER 3, ARMENPRESS: The Senate of Argentine adopted August 20 a resolution commemorating the 88-th anniversary of Armenian genocide.
		The resolution says that the Republic of Argentine declares its deep grief over 1.5 million of Armenians who fell victim to the genocide committed by the government of Turkey in 1915-1923.
		The resolution also says that Argentine rejects all forms of genocide, applied to ethnic, national or religious groups and condemns crimes against humanity which remain unpunished.
	www.armeniadiaspora.com /js/030904genocide.html (137 words)

	9/7/2004 -- Argentine Senate pushes plant-based green fuels
		A Senate bill enjoying broad support would boost the industry at home by offering tax breaks to biofuels producers and setting mandatory fuel mixes.
		And the state is drafting new rules that could set a voluntary mixing standard of 2 percent biodiesel with conventional diesel, raising the bar to 5 percent in 2005.
		The Argentine proposal to boost biofuels would give producers a host of tax breaks, which Falco said would cut the sales price by up to 30 percent.
	www.climateark.org /articles/reader.asp?linkid=33404 (600 words)

	RTE News - Argentine Senate passes emergency measures
		The Argentine Senate has given full approval to an emergency bill which will allows the government to devalue the currency.
		The reforms will end the peso's parity with the dollar and enable the foreign exchange and banking systems to carry out a currency devaluation.
		The move is part of an emergency plan by the new President Eduardo Duhalde to calm the protests that brought down two previous presidents in recent weeks.
	www.rte.ie /news/2002/0106/argentina.html (111 words)

	Inter Press Service News Agency
		Argibay is the first woman to be nominated by a democratic government to serve on the Argentine Supreme Court.
		If all of the periods for public input have been completed, the Senate is to consider the nominations beginning Feb. 25.
		She founded the Argentine Association of Women Judges and served as president of the International Association of Women Judges.
	ipsnews.net /africa/print.asp?idnews=22030 (1296 words)

	Argentina: Senate Votes to Annul Amnesty Laws (Human Rights Watch, 21-8-2003)
		The feeling of Argentine society is overwhelming that the amnesty laws should never be applied again.
		The “Full Stop” and “Due Obedience” laws were introduced in 1986 and 1987 to quell a military revolt against prosecutions for human rights crimes committed during Argentina’s “dirty war.” Thousands of Argentines “disappeared” when their country was under military rule from 1976 until 1983.
		The Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Argentine legislature, voted to annul the laws a week ago.
	hrw.org /english/docs/2003/08/21/argent6320.htm (301 words)

	CNN.com - Blair to make history in Argentina - July 31, 2001
		Blair will become the first serving UK prime minister to set foot on Argentine soil since the two countries went to war in 1982 over the South Atlantic islands the British call the Falklands and the Argentines call Malvinas.
		Trade between Argentina and Britain is worth about £400 million, and the Argentine Senate this week approved drastic budget cuts in an attempt to revive the economy and forestall investors' fears.
		Although this is the first trip by a serving British prime minister since the war, diplomatic ties between the two countries were long since re-established.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/07/31/blair.argentina (583 words)

	Derechos Human Rights Lauds Argentine Vote on Human Rights Convention (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		On April 30, the 20th anniversary of the first meeting of the Argentine human rights group Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, the Argentine Senate unanimously approved the Inter-American Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons.
		The Convention was drafted in part in response to the tactic of disappearing people used by the Argentine dictatorship from 1976 to 1983.
		Derechos Human Rights is encouraged by Argentina's approval of the treaty and calls on the Argentine government to overturn the laws of Due Obedience and Final Point and re-open criminal investigations into the disappearance of Argentine citizens from 1976 to 1983.
	www.derechos.org /press/arg1.html (361 words)

	Law & Our Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Argentine Supreme Court is due to make a final ruling on the constitutionality of the amnesty laws, following recent decisions by Argentine judges ruling them null, void and unconstitutional.
		The organisation also welcomed the senate's decision to grant constitutional statutes to the United Nations Conventions on the Non-Applicability of Statutes of Limitation of War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity.
		The National Commission on Disappeared People (CONADEP), created by the Argentine government in 1983, documented 8,960 cases of "disappearances" during the period of military rule and indicated that the true figure could be even higher.
	www.thedailystar.net /law/200309/01/reform.htm (425 words)

	Soya & Oilseed Industry News
		BUENOS AIRES, Apr 20, 2006 (Dow Jones Commodities News via Comtex) -- The Argentine Senate has approved a measure that aims to create incentives for a bio-fuels industry that would tap the nation's vast corn and oilseed production to make bio-diesel and ethanol.
		The Senate approved the measure late Wednesday by a vote of 39-21 with one abstention.
		The measure, which had passed the lower house with some modifications last month, now heads to the chief executive to be signed into law.
	www.soyatech.com /bluebook/news/viewarticle.ldml?a=20060421-3 (221 words)

	MENAFN - Middle East North Africa . Financial Network News: Argentine Senate approves debt bill
		BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Argentine lawmakers approved a bill Thursday to prevent the government from changing its latest debt default offer.
		The bill - approved by the Senate - must now go to the lower house for their approval before becoming law.
		Some of the more highly invested bondholders are reportedly planning to hold out for a better deal on a bond swap, however officials maintain this is Argentina's final offer despite the nation's recent economic upswing.
	www.menafn.com /qn_news_story.asp?StoryId=CqGgV0eidyxjNzw50Aw5HlwrLyNq (164 words)

	Scoop: Argentina: A new chapter in the search for truth
		Following last week's vote by the Chamber of Deputies declaring the laws null and void, the Senate's approval was required for the annulment to enter into Argentine legislation.
		The constitutionality of the annulment is, however, likely to be challenged in the courts.The Argentine Supreme Court is due to make a final ruling on the constitutionality of the amnesty laws, following recent decisions by Argentine judges ruling them null, void and unconstitutional.
		The organization also welcomed the senate's decision to grant constitutional statutes to the United Nations Conventions on the Non-Applicability of Statutes of Limitation of War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/WO0308/S00284.htm (1217 words)

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