As a congressman, LaGuardia represented an ethnically diverse slum district in East Harlem and, although barred from important committee posts because of his political independence, he was a tireless and vocal champion of Progressive causes.

Matthew Lyon, born in Ireland, was a Democratic-Republican congressman from Vermont.

After the eventual breakup of the peace negotiations, which had been stalled numerous times and finally ended due to a guerrilla kidnapping of a congressman and other political figures, the Caguán demilitarized zone was terminated by the Pastrana administration.

The Federal Reserve Transparency Act was introduced by congressman Ron Paul in order to obtain a more detailed audit of the Fed.

" He also blamed tobacco companies for lying to consumers about cigarettes, although congressman Ron Paul ( also a physician ) had advised him, in 1988, while on his show, that smoking was highly unhealthy and responsible for a huge number of deaths every year.

Lizcano, a Colombian Conservative Party congressman, was kidnapped 5 August 2000.

It would not be resolved until the congressman who was supposed to have reined in its excesses but instead wound up profiting from it was dead.

The Cross of Gold speech was delivered by William Jennings Bryan, a former United States congressman from Nebraska, at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on July 9, 1896.

The regular Democratic candidate was John W. Davis, a little-known former congressman and diplomat from West Virginia.

However, public reaction was largely sympathetic to Patton, and Herman F. Kuhl, Private Kuhl's father, even wrote his own congressman, stating that he forgave Patton for the incident and requesting that he not be disciplined.

Although his brother John was well known as an antislavery congressman, Sherman did not oppose slavery and was sympathetic to Southerners ' defense of the institution.

" It was better, Haywood said, to " elect the superintendent of some branch of industry, than to elect some congressman to the United States Congress.

Senator Lyman Trumbull of Illinois believed it was advisable that the bill should be introduced by an eastern congressman, and two months later Representative Justin Smith Morrill of Vermont introduced his bill.

One group of lawmakers led by Georgia congressman Lynn Westmoreland came from some preclearance states, and claimed that it was no longer fair to target their states, given the passage of time since 1965 and the changes their states had made to provide fair elections and voting.

The southeastern part of the Strait of Tartary was the site of one of the tensest incidents of the Cold War, when on September 1, 1983, Korean Air Lines Flight 007, carrying 269 people including a sitting U. S. congressman, Larry McDonald, strayed into the Soviet air space and was attacked by a Soviet Su-15 interceptor just west of Sakhalin Island.

Tradition holds that a congressman was particularly disgusted by the appearance of a midshipman returned from cruise.

The NPR was organized by United States Army Col. Frank Kowalski ( later a U. S. congressman ) using Army surplus equipment.

He was a congressman on the Spanish Parliament when he was assassinated.

He was a U. S. congressman from Wisconsin before serving as Secretary of Defense from 1969 to 1973 under President Richard Nixon.

He was a rarity in politics at the time — a truly senior Republican congressman from a former Confederate state.

His progressive stances on the issues put Kefauver in direct competition with E. H. Crump, the former U. S. congressman, mayor of Memphis and boss of the state's Democratic Party, when he chose to seek the Democratic nomination for the U. S. Senate in 1948.

As a congressman, Palmer aligned himself with the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, advocating lower tariffs despite the popularity of tariffs in his home district and state.

Lorenzo Pepe, former Justicialist Party congressman and president of the Juan Domingo Perón Institute, said " this type of program causes great harm, because the disappearances are still an open wound here.

* Dutch Ruppersberger, U. S. congressman from Maryland

* Wesley E. Disney, former US congressman from Oklahoma

* John Duncan Young ( 1823 – 1910 ), US congressman from Kentucky

For example, when a vote on behalf of a tariff is traded by a congressman for a vote from another congressman on behalf of an agricultural subsidy to ensure that both acts will gain a majority and pass through the legislature, logrolling occurs ( Shughart 2008 ).

Cold War tensions were exacerbated by the downing near Moneron Island by Soviet fighters of a civilian jet liner, Korean Air Flight KAL-007 with a complement of 269 passengers and crew, including a congressman from Georgia, Larry McDonald.

* Luther Badger ( 1785 – 1869 ), US congressman from New York

David Wilmot, a Democratic congressman from Pennsylvania, and a group of other Barnburner Democrats including Preston King of New York, Hannibal Hamlin of Maine, Gideon Welles of Connecticut, and Jacob Brinkerhoff of Ohio, had already been meeting in early August strategy meetings.

* John P. Leedom, ( 1847-1895 ), born in Adams County, United States congressman from Ohio and Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives.

" Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., a congressman from Harlem, branded the film an " insult to American minorities " and " everything that America as a whole stands for.

* Charles Pelham ( congressman ) ( 1835 – 1908 ), U. S. Representative from Alabama

* Brad Sherman ( born 1954 ), U. S. congressman from California

Mizell was elected as a three-term Republican congressman from North Carolina, serving from 1969-1975.

In late March 2011 freshman Minnesota congressman Chip Cravaack urged the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States to exercise " extreme caution " over allowing the sale of Cirrus to the Chinese government, indicating that he was concerned that company technology would be used for Chinese military programs.

Many Democratic congressman from the south ( known as " boll weevils ") frequently took conservative stances on issues, allowing Republicans to have a working ideological majority for some of President Reagan's proposals during his first two years in office.

Herrick won the Republican nomination after the popular incumbent Republican congressman, Dick T. Morgan, died unexpectedly on the last day of filing, allowing Herrick to take the nomination unopposed.

Few things are more perilous for the State Department than a displeased congressman.

One of Kemp's more trying times as a congressman came in 1982 when Reagan decided to reverse the tax cuts and promote tax increases.

After being re-elected numerous times in the legislature, Hewes was now focused on a new and more ambitious job as a continental congressman.

" One leader of the FSM, Jackie Goldberg, reflecting back on 1964 years later decried Glazer and his ilk for espousing " an armchair intellectual liberalism " and viewing " protesting " as nothing more than sending a letter to one's congressman.

The St. John the Baptist Parish, more commonly known as the " Pinaglabanan Church ", is where the city's patron saint is enshrined and is where the city's incumbent congressman J. V. Ejercito was married.

A Democratic redistricting plan after the 1980 Census carved up the 4th District, with only about 15 % of its territory being retained and added to various territory from other districts ; Derwinski and fellow Republican congressman George M. O ' Brien were placed in the same district, and O ' Brien won the 1982 primary on the strength of having more of his previous district included in the new configuration.

At the end of the elections in the 2005, he was the fourth most voted congressman in the general elections ; getting more than 200, 000 votes.