After complimenting Morgan and the riflemen and saying he was praising them to Congress, too, the ardent Frenchman added he felt that Congress should make some financial restitution to the widow and family of Morris, but that he knew Morgan realized how long such action usually required, if it was done at all.

Mr. Truman has only to recall the `` hopeless '' campaign of 1948 to remember what a loyal partisan he was and the first experience of Mr. Kennedy with Congress would have been sadder than it was had not Mr. Sam been there.

That breach was healed 20 years later by merger of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations.

The Twenty-second Soviet Communist Party Congress opens in Moscow today in a situation contrasting sharply with the script prepared many months ago when this meeting was first announced.

He was delighted to learn that the Post Office Department is now going to expand this service to deliver mail from Representatives in Congress to their constituents without the use of stamps, names, addresses or even zone numbers.

Mr. Dwyer said that although it was obvious that Mr. Rayburn was not well he stopped, gave the youngster his autograph, asked where he was from and expressed the hope that he would enjoy his visit to Congress.

The program was instituted in 1940, and releases are available only from the Recording Laboratory of the Library of Congress, Washington 25, D.C..

It seems that Khrushchev himself took a very special pride in having made a world-shaking contribution to Marxist doctrine with his Draft Program ( a large part of his twelve-hour speech at the recent Congress was, in fact, very largely a rehash of that interminable document ).

The news of battle on Breed's Hill had already seeped through, and New York itself was now left in the hands of the local Provincial Congress.

The Congress of Vienna is a convenient starting point because it both epitomized and symbolized what was to follow.

Thus the Congress marks a formal recognition of the political system that was central to world politics for a century.

It was defeated in Congress last year.

But with the convening of the new Congress, he was the public man again, presiding over the Senate until John Kennedy's Inauguration.

The American Constitution was historic at this point in providing that `` Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ''.

The departure of the Southerners gave Lincoln's party firm control of Congress, but no formula for compromise or reconciliation was found, and the war came.

Lincoln demanded that Polk show Congress the exact spot on which blood had been shed and prove that the spot was on American soil.

Lincoln was supported by Congress and the northern public for these actions.

By December 1863 a proposed constitutional amendment that would outlaw slavery absolutely was brought to Congress for passage.

After a long debate in the House, a second attempt passed Congress on January 13, 1865, and was sent to the state legislatures for ratification.

According to the Constitution, the President has ultimate authority over foreign policy, while Congress is tasked with reviewing and considering all diplomatic nominations and international treaties, as well as legislation relating to Brazilian foreign policy.

" He went on to say, " I'd love to have Congress make its own decisions " with respect to considering repeal.

In the early 1860s, when the United States Congress was considering organizing a new territory in the Rocky Mountains, eccentric lobbyist George M. Willing suggested the name " Idaho ," which he claimed was derived from a Shoshone language term meaning " the sun comes from the mountains " or " gem of the mountains ".

In addition to his fiscal and economic policies, Kemp advocated against abortion when Congress was considering a bill banning intact dilation and extractions.

Before Corea completed a draft of the Nicaragua proposal, Congress was considering the Spooner Act, to authorize the Panama Canal.

The US Congress even considered disestablishing the CIA, considering its chartered mission, of defeating the " International Communist Conspiracy ", had vanished.

When Congress began considering a resolution of independence in June 1776, Adams ensured that Jefferson was appointed to the five-man committee to write a declaration in support of the resolution.

When Congress had been considering the resolution of independence on June 8, the New York Provincial Congress told the delegates to wait.

On December 2, 2008, General Motors announced that it was considering eliminating numerous brands, including Pontiac, in order to appease Congress in hope of receiving a 25 billion dollar loan.

In 1999, as Congress was considering legislation that became the GLBA, he published an essay arguing that the “ moral hazard ” created by deposit insurance, too big to fail considerations, and other governmental support for banking should be resolved before commercial banking firms could be given “ universal banking ” powers.

The U. S. Congress is currently considering legislation that would overhaul the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

Congress finally appointed Knox the nation's second Secretary at War on March 8, 1785, after considering a number of other candidates.

We also recommend that a strict and inviolable regard be paid to the wise and judicious councils of the late American Congress, and particularly considering that the experience of almost every day points out to us the danger arising from the collection and movements of bodies of men, who, notwithstanding, we willingly hope would promote the common cause and serve the interest of their country, yet are in danger of pursuing a track which may cross the general plan, and so disconcert those public measures which we view as of the greatest importance.

Some members of the U. S. Congress are considering creating laws that would require travelers crossing entering or leaving the country to report these cards.

By 1985, their campaign had acquired sufficient traction for Congress to begin considering passing protectionist laws.

Congress is considering extending the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation program again.

The building was actually financed by Washington real-estate investors, who had heard rumors that some members of Congress were considering relocation of the national capital in the aftermath of the burning.

In May 2012, he confirmed that he was considering running for Congress as a Republican.

In his years in Congress, Rayburn always insisted on paying his own expenses, even going so far as to pay for his own travel expenses when inspecting the Panama Canal when his committee was considering legislation concerning it, rather than exercising his right to have the government pay for it.

In the case of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the “ FDLE conducted as thorough and comprehensive investigation as possible considering Congress and Mr. Foley denied us access to critical data ,” said FDLE Commissioner Gerald Bailey with the closure of the case.

Collins was reportedly considering another run for Congress, but he did not qualify to run.

LaHood was said to be considering a challenge to Governor Rod Blagojevich's re-election bid in 2006, but chose to run for another term in Congress instead.

Coincidentally or otherwise, he quickly announced that was considering retirement from Congress at the end of his present term.