One critical factor in the board vote was that three newly-elected members took office in July, after the agreement had been reached.

Thus, when the newly-elected members of the House gather on January 3, it is the Clerk who summons Representatives and convenes the new Congress for the first time.

The subscription to these bodies are heavy and the newly-elected member may be surprised by their magnitude.

"This is a legislature that is just waking up from a 70-year sleep," said Santiago Creel Miranda, a newly-elected member from the conservative National Action Party.

The news segment concluded by saying that a representative for Stevenson told Channel 4 "that a newly-elected member receiving a new chair has been a long-standing practice."

Article 148 was amended, to provide for the administration of the oath to newly-elected members of Parliament by the Chief Election Commissioner.

Some of the newly-elected members have voiced opposition to changing the charter unless Israel recognizes Palestinian rights to self-determination.

Other traditions ending in the 1960s include the "Wetdown", in which newly-elected members of the student government were beaten with belts as they ran through a gauntlet spread across the Green.

Of the 3 newly-elected members of the U.S. House elected to the 113th Congress from Indiana, two are former members of the Indiana House of Representatives.

Of the five deputy commission or departments heads, three of them were newly-elected members.