" Lincoln, however, did support the Corwin Amendment to the Constitution, which had passed in Congress and protected slavery in those states where it already existed.

McClellan's repeated delays frustrated Lincoln and Congress, as did his position that no troops were needed to defend Washington.

The Republicans did maintain their majorities in Congress and in the major states, except New York.

After implementing the Emancipation Proclamation, which did not apply to every state, Lincoln increased pressure on Congress to outlaw slavery throughout the entire nation with a constitutional amendment.

By warning that free blacks would flood the North, Democrats made gains in the 1862 elections, but they did not gain control of Congress.

Though his final session in Congress was uneventful, he did reintroduce seven resolutions, which failed, providing for rotation of federal appointees.

When Tennessee seceded, though the vote did not win a majority in East Tennessee, Johnson was forced to flee from the state with armed security ; he was in fact the only Senator from the seceded states to continue participation in Congress.

Johnson's mood did not change ; he continued to criticize the Congress for refusing to allow the Southern states to take their seats.

It was, however, an unusual regime in presidentialist Latin America, for Congress really did overshadow the rather ceremonial office of the president and exerted authority over the chief executive's cabinet appointees.

NATO did not initially have strong bipartisan support in Congress at the time he assumed his command ; Eisenhower unhesitatingly advised the participating European nations that it would be incumbent upon them to demonstrate their own commitment of troops and equipment to the NATO force before it would come from a war weary United States.

The President of Congress was a mostly ceremonial position with no real authority, but the office did require him to handle a good deal of correspondence and sign official documents.

From 1938 until 1995, the U. S. Supreme Court did not invalidate any federal statute as exceeding Congress ' power under the Commerce Clause.

During the Cold War arms race, the nuclear threat to the existence of the United States was the one need that did justify this cost in the view of the United States Congress.

He did not abandon mathematics completely, however, lecturing on the paradoxes of set theory ( Burali-Forti paradox, Cantor's paradox, and Russell's paradox ) to a meeting of the Deutsche Mathematiker – Vereinigung in 1903, and attending the International Congress of Mathematicians at Heidelberg in 1904.

Bass did not spend much time at the firm, being elected to Congress in 1873, but Cleveland and Bissell soon found themselves at the top of Buffalo's legal community.

The Congress of Vienna accepted that all old secular electorates were entitled to be kingdoms, but generally did not want to accept kingship for new, Napoleon-era electorates.

Though he certainly did not support it ( which he made clear at the time ), he was purposely trying to antagonize the pro-slavery faction of Congress into an open fight on the matter.

Congress also passed the Force Bill which authorized President Andrew Jackson to use military force if Adams ' compromise bill did not force the belligerent states to capitulate.

Madison led the unsuccessful attempt in Congress to block Hamilton's proposal, arguing that the new Constitution did not explicitly allow the federal government to form a bank.

When war finally did break out, the war effort was led by the War Hawks in Congress under Clay at least as much as it was by Madison ; this accorded with the president's preference for checks and balances.

This was typical of other slaveholders, as Congress did not provide for domestic staff of the presidents at that time.

After Bush won and Kemp left Congress for the Cabinet, the two did not really cross paths again until 1996, when Kemp endorsed Dole's opponent Forbes on the eve of the New York Primary in March.

In the rift that formed within the Congress following the sudden closure of the non-cooperation movement after the Chauri Chaura incident, Nehru remained loyal to Gandhi and did not join the Swaraj Party formed by his father Motilal Nehru and CR Das.

But the real importance, to my mind, lay in the effect they had on our own people, and especially the village masses .... Non-cooperation dragged them out of the mire and gave them self-respect and self-reliance .... They acted courageously and did not submit so easily to unjust oppression ; their outlook widened and they began to think a little in terms of India as a whole .... It was a remarkable transformation and the Congress, under Gandhi's leadership, must have the credit for it.

Under the Articles of Confederation, the United States had no executive branch ; the President of Congress was a mostly ceremonial position within the Confederation Congress, but the office did require Hanson to handle a good deal of correspondence and sign official documents.

Pointing to the overwhelming dominance of the aircraft carrier in the Pacific Theater, they asked the United States Congress to fund a large fleet of " supercarriers " and their supporting battle groups, beginning with the USS United States ( CVA-58 ).

Two years into his presidency, he asked Congress to fund an expedition through the Louisiana Purchase, and to the Pacific Ocean.

To date the U. S. Congress has refused to fund many of these policies.

In the morning hours of September 21, the Congress approved a bill to prop up the airline industry and establish a federal fund for victims.

* In the morning hours, the Congress approves a bill to prop up the airline industry and establish a federal fund for victims.

To raise revenue to fund the Civil War, Congress introduced the income tax through the Revenue Act of 1861.

Congress refused however to fund the Tariff Board which the President included in the Payne – Aldrich Bill, which would have removed the setting of rates from direct continual Congressional manipulation.

Funding may also reflect who or what the institution wants to influence ; in the United States, for example, " Some donors want to influence votes in Congress or shape public opinion, others want to position themselves or the experts they fund for future government jobs, while others want to push specific areas of research or education.

However, the decision by Congress to fund the ILC at only a quarter of the requested $ 60 million significantly reduces the chances that Fermilab or any other U. S. research facility will host the ILC.

After the arrival of Smithson's remains, the Board of Regents asked Congress to fund a memorial.

Congress decided not to fund the memorial.

Congress did not fund the Save America ’ s Treasures program in 2011 and has no plans to fund it in the future.

On April 23, 2009, Lindsey Graham ( R-South Carolina ) and eight other senators introduced legislation to provide " rebates " from a $ 30 billion federally managed fund into which nuclear power plants had been paying, so as to refund all collected funds if the project was in fact cancelled by Congress.

In 1977, President Jimmy Carter and the 95th Congress increased the FICA tax to fund Social Security, phased in gradually into the 1980s.

When Congress forbid the Military from using government money to fund artists in the field, Life privatized much of the programs hiring some of the same artists who were fired by the Military.

About his exit from Congress, Fish said in his election-night concession speech that " my defeat should be largely credited to Communistic and Red forces from New York City backed by a large slush fund probably exceeding $ 250, 000.

In 1943, he joined the Communist Party USA and in 1950 he was called before the House Committee on Un-American Activities ; in his testimony, he refused to disclose the names of contributors to a fund for a home for orphans of American veterans of the Spanish Civil War ( one of the contributors was Eleanor Roosevelt ), and was given a three-month prison sentence for contempt of Congress.

In 1976, Congress refused to fund MX using a silo-based system on grounds of vulnerability, and the project was halted.

In an effort to help fund their goals, Ahmed Chalabi an Iraqi-born businessman and founder of the Iraqi National Congress, helped Perle secure millions of dollars from the U. S. government in 1990.

The Texas Congress refused to fund the expedition in 1839 and 1840.

In that case, how would the Congress like to fund a project, which seems to be another HST?

The citizen group's first accomplishment was to persuade Congress to fund the Zoo's budget entirely through the Smithsonian ; previously, the Zoo's budget was divided between appropriations for the Smithsonian and the District of Columbia.

In 1996, Congress cut the NEA funding to $ 99. 5 million as a result of pressure from conservative groups, including the American Family Association, who criticized the agency for using tax dollars to fund highly controversial artists such as Robert Clark Young, Barbara Degenevieve, Andres Serrano, Robert Mapplethorpe, and the performance artists known as the " NEA Four ".