Rural Tenn (31 replies). Latest news from Sweetwater, TN collected exclusively by city-data.com from local newspapers, TV, and radio stations. Ancestries: United States (22.3%), German (18.2%), Irish (13.3%), English (8.7%), Scotch-Irish (4.8%), Dutch (1.7%). Current Local Time: EST time zone. Land area: 6.90 square miles.
The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland which, like the House of Lords (the upper house), meets in the Palace of Westminster. The House is an elected body consisting of 650 members known as Members of Parliament (MPs).
Of those, about 600 have been appointed for life. Most hereditary peers - people who inherited their title - were removed from the House of Lords in 1999 in the first stage of reforms. However, 92 hereditary peers were allowed to keep their seats. The many other hereditary peers are still Lords but are no longer allowed to sit in the House of Lords. (The House of Lords is the upper house of the UK's Parliament. Its role is to scrutinise, revise and, if necessary, delay laws proposed by MPs.)