According to a congressional report, the jamming was caused primarily by a change in gunpowder which was done without adequate testing and reflected a decision for which the safety of soldiers was a secondary consideration.

According to a 1999 Fortune survey, lawmakers and congressional staffers considered NRA the most influential lobbying group.

According to Congressional Quarterly, " In 2002, Sanchez voted against reviving fast-track procedures for congressional action on trade deals.

According to Robertson, this had influence in the 1980 presidential election as well as congressional elections.

According to a letter to the editor of the The Washington Post after the September 11 attacks, most of the congressional leadership was evacuated to Mount Weather by helicopter.

According to a January 10, 2007 episode of the news and commentary program Democracy Now !, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics ( CRE ) called for a congressional investigation into the legality of broadcasting Radio and TV Marti over commercial airwaves from southern Florida.

According to MEMRI, its translations and reports are distributed to " congresspersons, congressional staff, policy makers, journalists, academics, and interested parties.

According to a US congressional report, Pakistan has addressed issues of survivability in a possible nuclear conflict through second strike capability.

According to the congressional testimony of Gary Milhollin of the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control in 1997, Norinco subsidiaries in the U. S. include: Beta Chemical, Beta First, Beta Lighting, Beta Unitex, China Sports ( California ), Forte Lighting, Larin, NIC International ( New Jersey ).

According to his biographer, Louis A. Barone, Snell, throughout his congressional career, generally opposed federal regulatory interference in the private sector and big spending programs.

According to Senator Bob Graham, who was chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee from June 2001 through the buildup to the Iraq war, " Two of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers had a support network in the United States that included agents of the Saudi government, and the Bush administration and FBI blocked a congressional investigation into that relationship ," as reported by the Miami Herald.

According to the Cook Partisan Voting Index, it is tied with Alabama's 6th congressional district for the most Republican district in the country ( R + 29 ).

According to the magazine, the Workers ' Party had promised that it would pay R $ 150, 000 to each PTB congressional deputy if they would give their support to the Executive.

According to Aurelius Victor and Zonaras, on hearing the news of Gallienus ' death, the Senate at Rome ordered the execution of his family ( including his brother Valerianus and son Marinianus ) and their supporters, just before receiving a message from Claudius to spare their lives and deify his predecessor.

According to legend, he died of grief upon hearing news of the defeat of the Crusaders in July 1187 at the Battle of Hattin.

According to the Toledot Yeshu, the body of Jesus was removed in the same night by a gardener named Juda, after hearing the disciples planned to steal the body of Jesus.

According to Simplicius, Diogenes the Cynic said nothing upon hearing Zeno's arguments, but stood up and walked, in order to demonstrate the falsity of Zeno's conclusions.

According to some accounts, he produced the severed ear when he attended, although no detailed record of the hearing exists.

According to his legend, after hearing a sermon on the virtue of chastity, they reportedly decided to live chaste lives

According to this investigation, a squad of Polish soldiers was sent in to clarify the situation after hearing shots being fired within the city.

According to Jewish law women and minors are exempt from the commandment of hearing the shofar blown ( as is the case with any positive, time-bound commandment ), but they are encouraged to attend the ceremony.

According to legends, when Sita's swaymvar was introduced Ravana also had gone and he came before Lord Rama but some of the officials and on Sita's instructions they told him that his sister was being kidnapped. On hearing this Ravana immediately departed from the swaymavar and arrived at his castle only to found that her sister was well and sound.

According to his legendary vida, or fictionalised biography, he was inspired to go on Crusade upon hearing from returning pilgrims of the beauty of Countess Hodierna of Tripoli, and that she was his amor de lonh, his far-off love.

According to a hearing in September 2000 of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, two CCB operatives ( Kobus le Roux and Ferdinand Barnard ) were tasked not to kill Ahtisaari, but to give him " a good hiding ".

According to Alabama case law, however, a petitioner could not seek a hearing or to dissolve an order until it purged itself of contempt.

According to the Gesta Regis Stephani, a 12th-century historical text, Roger de Beaumont died on hearing the news that his wife had handed over the castle.

According to a contemporary tradition, Yi then spent three years out of the army after hearing of his father's death.

According to Tacitus, Macro even played an active role in bringing about Caligula's rise to power by ordering Tiberius to be killed after it was revealed that reports of his death had been premature: Caligula had begun to take power immediately upon hearing that Tiberius had died of natural causes but without confirming that Tiberius had indeed died.

According to Black Crowes manager Pete Angelus, the magazine stated in an email that " Of course, we always prefer to hearing music, but sometimes there are big albums that we don ’ t want to ignore that aren ’ t available to hear, which is what happened with the Crowes.

According to the biographer Suetonius, upon hearing the news, Augustus tore his clothes, refused to cut his hair for months and, for years afterwards, was heard, upon occasion, to moan, " Quinctilius Varus, give me back my Legions!

According to Tacitus, upon hearing news of the fire, Nero rushed back to Rome to organize a relief effort, which he paid for from his own funds.

According to Kalugin, Stone followed a practice of having lunch with a Soviet press attaché from time to time, but broke off this luncheon relationship after his first visit to the Soviet Union in 1956 and after hearing Nikita Khrushchev's " Secret Speech " denouncing Stalin and the tyranny of his regime.

According to the Haïtian constitution, a hearing before a judge is required within 48 hours for anyone arrested, but Neptune was not given such a hearing.

According to Allcroft, after hearing him speak for the first time, she told her colleagues, " I have just heard the voice of Thomas.

According to the editors of the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, the prevailing notion in ancient middle eastern cultures was that bodily ailments and defects, such as blindness and loss of hearing, as well as circumstantial ailments, such as poverty, were punishments for sin ; the blind, together with cripples and lepers, were outcast by society and were prevented from entering towns, becoming paupers as a result.

According to Anna Mindess, " it is not the extent of hearing loss that defines a member of the Deaf community but the individual's own sense of identity and resultant actions.

According to Breathed, a wheelchair-using fan of the strip, upon hearing this observation, said Breathed " ought to try sitting in a wheelchair for real frustration ".

According to intuitionists ( anti-realists with respect to mathematical objects ), the truth of a mathematical statement consists in our ability to prove it.

According to platonists ( realists ), the truth of a statement consists in its correspondence to objective reality.

According to (), the first historical mention of the statement of this theorem appears in ().

According to his own statement, he was deterred from presenting himself at Rome by the warnings of Cardinal Contarini, whom he found at Bologna, dying of poison administered by the reactionary party.

According to Pasternak, during the 1937 show trial of General Iona Yakir and Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky, the Union of Soviet Writers requested all members to add their names to a statement supporting the death penalty for the defendants.

According to Catholic theologian Karl Rahner, the purpose of modern Christology is to formulate the Christian belief that " God became man and that God-made-man is the individual Jesus Christ " in a manner that this statement can be understood consistently, without the confusions of past debates and mythologies.

According to the logical positivists, unless a statement could be verified by experience, or else was true or false by definition ( i. e. either tautological or contradictory ), then it was meaningless ( this is a summary statement of their verification principle ).

According to phenomenalism, to say that a normal observer is present is to make the hypothetical statement that were a doctor to inspect the observer, the observer would appear to the doctor to be normal.

According to the canonical Gospels, Jesus was the " son " ( descendant ) of David ; thus, Hajj Sayed argues that this statement confirms the Gospel of Barnabas ' point.

According to a statement in July 2009 by a legal counsel of the Honduras military, Colonel Herberth Bayardo Inestroza, the Honduran military was opposed to President Manuel Zelaya, whom the military had removed from Honduras a few days earlier, because of his left-wing politics.

According to a statement of proceedings published elsewhere in the same edition of the BMJ, the report was officially ‘ approved at last week ’ s Council meeting of the British Medical Association .’ ( BMA Council Proceedings, BMJ, April 23, 1955: 1019 ).

According to Van Voorst, the statement " those that loved him at the first did not forsake him " has the characteristics of Josephus ' writing and points to the continuation of Christianity.

According to her statement, the Norwegian Film Fund was blocking her and writer Kjetil Bjørnstad from pursuing the project.

According to the theorem, within every sufficiently powerful logical system ( such as Principia ), there exists a statement G that essentially reads, " The statement G cannot be proved.

According to a 1996 statement from the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, although heredity influences behavior in individuals, it does not affect the ability of a population to function in any social setting, all peoples " possess equal biological ability to assimilate any human culture " and " racist political doctrines find no foundation in scientific knowledge concerning modern or past human populations.

According to the statement of European Ministers of Finance, the Eurogroup will closely monitor " the correction of economic imbalances.

According to Kant, knowledge about space is synthetic, in that statements about space are not simply true by virtue of the meaning of the words in the statement.

According to 9 / 11 Commission staff statement No. 17 there were several communications failures at the federal government level during and after the 9 / 11 attacks.

According to the redundancy theory of truth, asserting that a statement is true is completely equivalent to asserting the statement itself.

According to the theory, a statement like " There is a man to my left " is made meaningful by analyzing it into: " There is some x such that x is a man and x is to my left, and for any y, if y is a man and y is to my left, y is identical to x ".

According to Don Frew, Valiente composed the couplet, following Gardner's statement that witches " are inclined to the morality of the legendary Good King Pausol, ' Do what you like so long as you harm none '"; he claims the common assumption that the Rede was copied from Crowley is misinformed, and has resulted in the words often being misquoted as " an it harm none, do what thou wilt " instead of " do what you will ".

According to Natures original mission statement: