Clinton's defenders argue that an executive order might have prompted the Senate to write the exclusion of gays into law, potentially making it harder to integrate the military in the future.

In 1968, Congress passed legislation as part of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act, June 19, 1968, that specified a 10-year limit, a maximum of two 5-year terms, for future FBI Directors, as well as requiring Senate confirmation of appointees.

This plan was thwarted for the time being on May 20, 2009, when the United States Senate voted to keep the prison at Guantanamo Bay open for the foreseeable future and forbid the transfer of any detainees to facilities in the United States.

Following conviction, the Senate may vote to further punish the individual by barring him from holding future federal office, elected or appointed.

In November 2003, Zubrin was invited to speak to the U. S. Senate committee on the future of space exploration.

The rise of Caesar and the subsequent civil war between his two most powerful adherents effectively ended the credibility of the Roman oligarchy as a governing power and ensured that all future power struggles would centre upon which of two ( or more ) individuals would achieve supreme control of the government, rather than upon an individual in conflict with the Senate.

The Senate may also choose to bar the removed official from holding any federal office in the future.

Harding took on a personal secretary in the Senate, George B. Christian, Jr., a former neighbor, who protected him from political patrons and intrusive inquiries, and served until the future president's death.

One of his childhood friends was J. William Fulbright, the future United States Senator from Arkansas and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

The choice was left to the Senate, who unanimously selected Valerian ( the future emperor ).

The Senate can do no more than remove the accused from office and bar him from future offices of public trust or honour, though the accused remains liable to trial and punishment in the lower courts after removal from office.

The Roman Senate responded to the tragedy by banning people with a fortune of less than 400, 000 sesterces from hosting gladiator shows, and also requiring that all amphitheatres to be built in the future be erected on a sound foundation, inspected and certified for soundness.

Following the 2006 mid-term Congressional elections, Democratic Nevada Senator Harry Reid, a longtime opponent of the repository, became the Senate Majority Leader, putting him in a position to greatly affect the future of the project.

However, 14 years after this deadline, the future status of the repository at Yucca Mountain is unknown due to on-going litigation, and opposition by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid ( NV ).

Two duos entered: Ina Brouwer ( former CPN ) combined with Mohammed Rabbae ( independent ), while Paul Rosenmöller ( independent ) formed a combination with Leoni Sipkes ( former PSP ); there were also five individual candidates, including Wim de Boer ( former chair of the PPR and member of the Senate ), Herman Meijer ( former CPN, future chair of the party ) and Ineke van Gent ( former PSP and future MP )).

Lott and his future Senate colleague, Thad Cochran ( also elected to Congress that year ), were only the second and third Republicans elected to Congress from Mississippi since Reconstruction.

Rosen testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2000 on the future of digital music

President Andrew Johnson offered Thomas the rank of lieutenant general — with the intent to eventually replace Grant, a Republican and future president, with Thomas as general in chief — but the ever-loyal Thomas asked the Senate to withdraw his name for that nomination because he did not want to be party to politics.

His meeting with Roosevelt to report his findings was judged as impressively cogent and optimistic, but the president ruminated on Arnold's future for three weeks before submitting his name and the others to the Senate.

In particular, the army ’ s support was split between three main candidates: Maximianus, the former domesticus (" bodyguard ") of Aëtius, who was the son of an Egyptian merchant named Domninus who had become rich in Italy ; the future emperor Majorian, who commanded the army after the death of Aetius and who had the backing of the Empress Licinia Eudoxia ; and Maximus himself, who had the support of the Roman Senate and who in the end, on 17 March, defeated his rivals and secured the throne by distributing money to officials of the imperial palace.

As noted above, the terms " magistrate " or " chief magistrate " were sometimes used in the early days of the republic to refer to the President of the United States, as in President John Adams's message to the U. S. Senate upon the death of George Washington: " His example is now complete, and it will teach wisdom and virtue to magistrates, citizens, and men, not only in the present age, but in future generations, as long as our history shall be read " ( December 19, 1799 ).

* On this day, the future Roman Emperor Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ( born 12, died 41, emperor 37 – 41 ) " Caligula " was named consul by the Roman Senate in 31.

At the request of the Senate in 1807, Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin presented an overall plan for future transportation developments of national importance and scope.

Many of the earlier hearings, in 1966, were televised to the nation in their entirety ( a rarity in the pre – C-Span era ); the 1971 hearings included the notable testimony of Vietnam veteran and future senator and Senate Foreign Relations Chair John Kerry.

Pelosi interned for Senator Daniel Brewster ( D-Maryland ) alongside future House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer.

In 1998, Ensign ran for the Senate but was defeated by the Democratic incumbent, future Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, by 428 votes.

In 1793 the ' Honourable Arthur Wesley ', 3rd son of the Earl of Mornington, the future Duke of Wellington, purchased a ' Majority ' in the 33rd.

Spilotro's role as enforcer, however, was severely curtailed after he was blacklisted by the Nevada Gaming Commission, in December 1979 ( then chaired by future United States Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid ), a ruling that legally prevented Spilotro from being physically present in any Nevada casino.

* 2000 – Dean Johnson, former GOP State Senate Minority Leader and future DFL State Senate Majority Leader, while State Senator from Minnesota

Notable freshmen were future Democratic presidential contenders Eugene McCarthy ( D-MN ) and Ed Muskie ( D-ME ), as well as future Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd ( D-WV ), who served until his death in 2010, and is the longest-serving Senator in the history of the Senate.

He was invited to join the congressional delegation to the People's Republic of China in 1972, which was led by House Majority Leader Hale Boggs from Louisiana, and House Minority Leader and future U. S. President Gerald Ford.

Notable freshmen are future President John F. Kennedy ( D-MA ) and future presidential candidate Barry Goldwater ( R-AZ ), future Majority Leader Mike Mansfield ( D-MT ), as well as Al Gore Sr. ( D-TN ), father of future Vice President Al Gore and Prescott Bush ( R-CT ), father of future President George H. W. Bush and grandfather of future President George W Bush.

), future Speaker Newt Gingrich ( R-Ga .), future Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle ( D-S. D.

) and future Majority Leader Dick Gephardt ( D-Mo.

Notable freshmen included future Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott ( R-Miss.

Notable freshmen included future Senate Majority Leader and presidential candidate Bob Dole ( R-Kan .) and future independent presidential candidate John B. Anderson ( R-Ill .).

Notable freshmen included future Speaker Sam Rayburn ( D-Texas ) and future Vice President and Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley ( D-Kentucky ).

More, the U.S. action was hailed by a principal opposition leader, Dr. Juan Bosch, as having saved `` many lives and many troubles in the near future ''.

" As southern Senators began to express their intent to resign their seats, Johnson reminded Sen. Jefferson Davis, the Confederacy's future leader, that if his coalition would only hold to their seats, the Democrats would control the Congress, and thus better defend the South's interests.

It has also been suggested that the name might be related to the ribat of Waggag ibn Zallu in the village of Aglu ( near present-day Tiznit ), where the future Almoravid spiritual leader Abdallah ibn Yasin got his initial training.

Democratic, Democratic Labour, and Radical were all mentioned as possible names for the new party, as well as New Labour ( which future Labour leader Tony Blair would use to promote the Labour Party more than a decade later ) but eventually Social Democratic was settled on because the ' Gang of Four ' consciously wanted to mould the philosophy and ideology of the new party on the Social Democracy practised on mainland Europe.

Ian Paisley, future British MP, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, and Moderator of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, who has referred to the Pope as a " Roman anti-Christ.

However, Patassé, who was living in exile in Togo, could not be ruled out as a leader of a future uprising.

Chiang Kai-shek ( right ) with future Prime Minister of Japan | Japanese Prime Minister Tsuyoshi Inukai ( center ), Pan-Asianism | Pan-Asianist leader Tōyama Mitsuru ( left ) in Japan ( 1929 )

In the manga and anime series Ghost in the Shell, the protagonist Motoko Kusanagi is the fully prosthetic leader of an anti-terrorist force, who lives in a future Japan where the majority of adults are cyborgs and can connect wirelessly to the Internet for real-time communication and data research.

Stalin, the second major contender, and future leader of the Soviet Union, was the least known of all the contenders, and he was not a popular figure with the masses.

Dollfuss was concerned that with German National Socialist leader Adolf Hitler becoming Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the Austrian National Socialists ( DNSAP ) could gain a significant minority in future elections ( according to fascism scholar Stanley G. Payne, should elections have been held in 1933, the DNSAP could have mustered about 25 % of the votes-contemporary TIME analysts suggests a higher support of 50 %, with a 75 % approval rate in the Tyrol region bordering Nazi Germany ).

He felt differently about the Muslim leader Muhammed Ali Jinnah, but was aware of his power, stating " If it could be said that any single man held the future of India in the palm of his hand in 1947, that man was Mohammad Ali Jinnah.

In January 1946, Adenauer initiated a political meeting of the future CDU in the British zone in his role as doyen ( the oldest man in attendance, Alterspräsident ) and was informally confirmed as its leader.

There, he met and won the confidence of Leonid Brezhnev, the first secretary of the Moldavian SSR from 1950 to 1952 and future leader of the Soviet Union.

In later Jewish messianic tradition and eschatology, a messiah is a leader anointed by God, and in some cases, a future King of Israel, physically descended from the Davidic line, who will rule the united tribes of Israel and herald the Messianic Age of global peace.

Gorbachev's positions within the CPSU created more opportunities to travel abroad, and this would profoundly affect his political and social views in the future as leader of the country.

* 1994 – The Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, The Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, and the Foreign Minister of Israel, Shimon Peres, receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in the establishment of the Oslo Accords and the framing of the future Palestinian Self Government.

In 1954, Julius Nyerere, the future leader of Tanzania, who was then a school teacher and one of only two Tanganyikans educated abroad at the university level, organized a political party — the Tanganyika African National Union ( TANU ).

In addition to her own party's support, the leader of the Left Alliance, Suvi-Anne Siimes, gave her support for Halonen's future campaign.

Formed in New York City, at various times the band included influential guitarist Robert Quine, Ivan Julian, Naux Maciel, Jahn Xavier, former Contortions and Raybeats guitarist Jody Harris, Golden Palominos leader Anton Fier, and future Ramone Marc Bell.

As the leading intellectual figure in Greece, Aristotle is commissioned to prepare Alexander for his future role as a military leader.

The future Labour leader Michael Foot remarked to a reporter that it was " tragic " that this " outstanding personality " had been widely misunderstood as predicting actual bloodshed in Britain, when in fact he had used the Aeneid quotation merely to communicate his own sense of foreboding.

After the Battle of Mortimer's Cross in 1461, during the Wars of the Roses, the defeated Lancastrian leader Owen Tudor ( grandfather of the future Henry VII of England ) was taken to Hereford by Sir Roger Vaughan and executed in High Town.

Captain Charles de Gaulle, the future Free French leader and President of France, was a company commander in this regiment and was wounded and taken prisoner near Douaumont during the battle.

Also, future revolutionary leader Maximilien de Robespierre and abolitionist Abbé Grégoire were awarded by the National Academy of Metz in 1784 and 1787, respectively, for their essays on capital punishment and in favor of the education of underprivileged people and the religious tolerance.

Somabhai, Narsibhai and Vithalbhai Patel ( also a future political leader ) were his elder brothers.