Victor Berger, the panjandrum of Wisconsin Socialism and member of Congress, had asked Paula Steichen to translate some of his German editorials into English.

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.

The publication last July of the party's Draft Program -- that blueprint for the `` transition to communism '' -- had led the uninitiated to suppose that this Twenty-second Congress would be a sort of apotheosis of the Khrushchev regime, a solemn consecration of ideas which had, in fact, been current over the last three or four years ( i.e., since the defeat of the `` anti-party group '' ) in all theoretical party journals.

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.

He had an outstanding record as a legislator since the start of his career in the House in 1913, the 63d Congress.

Congress reacted with a series of measures modifying in various ways what it had granted in 1875.

The Court held that Congress had intended the federal judiciary to `` fashion '' an appropriate law of labor-management contracts.

Congress had already appropriated money, and plans were well along to tear down the buildings flanking Lafayette Square and replace them with what one critic calls the `` marble monumentality '' of government office buildings.

The result is that the State Department's perpetual position before Congress is the resigned pose of the whipping boy who expects to be kicked whenever the master has had a dyspeptic outing with his wife.

In 1957 Nixon delivered a significant opinion that a majority of Senators had the power to adopt new rules at the beginning of each new Congress, and that any rules laid down by previous Congresses were not binding.

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

Douglas ' provision, which Lincoln opposed, specified settlers had the right to determine locally whether to allow slavery in new U. S. territory, rather than have such a decision restricted by the national Congress.

" 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.

Testifying before Congress, Greyhound Bus Lines stated that the Act had the potential to " deprive millions of people of affordable intercity public transportation and thousands of rural communities of their only link to the outside world ".

The two projects which Johnson had most at heart were the speedy admission of the Southern senators and representatives to Congress and the relegation of the question of negro suffrage to the States themselves.

According to D. C. Congressional Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, Hill's treatment by the panel also contributed to the large number of women elected to Congress in 1992, " women clearly went to the polls with the notion in mind that you had to have more women in Congress ", she said.

" Clinton himself stated that DOMA was something " which the Republicans put on the ballot to try to get the base vote for President Bush up, I think it ’ s obvious that something had to be done to try to keep the Republican Congress from presenting that.

The Library of Congress said that in 1994 Belarus had ground forces of 52, 500.

When Congress overrode his veto, the project had its green light and ground was first broken in 1991.

( The latter prohibition took effect 1 January 1808, the earliest date on which Congress had the power to do so under Article I, Section 9 of the United States Constitution.

He believed that because the popular Library of Congress system had been designed for a specific library ( the Library of Congress ) it had no use as a standard system outside that library.

Congress never enacted the resolution or even debated it, the national papers ignored it, and it resulted in a loss of political support for Lincoln in his district.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991 the status of the treaty became unclear, debated by members of Congress and professors of law.

Congress also debated whether the federal government had the authority to accept the gift, though with Adams leading the initiative, Congress decided to accept the legacy bequeathed to the nation and pledged the faith of the United States to the charitable trust on July 1, 1836.

Railroad proposals were debated in all subsequent sessions of Congress with cities such as Chicago, St. Louis, Quincy, Memphis and New Orleans competing to be the jumping-off point for the construction.

Recently, the Congress of the Union approved important tax, pension and judicial reforms, and reform to the oil industry is currently being debated.

After the Panic of 1873, Congress debated an inflationary policy to stimulate the economy and passed the Legal Tender Act ( known as the " Inflation Bill ") on April 14, 1874 to increase the nation's tight money supply.

Legislation is usually proposed by a member of the legislature ( e. g. a member of Congress or Parliament ), or by the executive, whereupon it is debated by members of the legislature and is often amended before passage.

The United States Congress has debated legislation that would outlaw the practice.

In 1871, the Spanish Congress debated abandoning the peñón, since by that time it had lost its military interest, but in the end the proposal was dropped.

For instance, in May 1948, Richard B. Russell, Democratic Senator from Georgia, attached an amendment to the Selective Services bill then being debated in Congress.

:: Example: In the aftermath of the Civil War, there was an outpouring of discussion of the Second Amendment in Congress and in public discourse, as people debated whether ** 2810 and how to secure constitutional rights for newly free slaves.

Malatesta then took part in the International Anarchist Congress of Amsterdam ( 1907 ), where he debated in particular with Pierre Monatte on the relation between anarchism and syndicalism ( or trade-unionism ).

In 1890, when the provisions for Swiss national citizen lawmaking were being debated by civil society and government, the Swiss adopted the idea of double majorities from the United States Congress, in which House votes were to represent the people and Senate votes were to represent the states ( Kobach, 1993 ).

However, construction was stalled throughout mid-1969, as Congress debated the merits of BMD.

Economist and author Jude Wanniski later correlated these swings with the prospects for passage of the Smoot – Hawley Tariff Act, which was then being debated in Congress.

Banking regulators and commentators debated whether “ firewalls ” could truly separate a bank from its affiliate in a crisis and often cited the early 1980s ’ statement by then Citicorp CEO Walter Wriston that “ it is inconceivable that any major bank would walk away from any subsidiary of its holding company .” Alan Greenspan and Paul Volcker testified to Congress that firewalls so strong that they truly separated different businesses would eliminate the benefits of combining the two activities.

Baldwin returned to the United States in the summer of 1957 while the Civil Rights Act of that year was being debated in Congress.

During the Investiture proceedings the nominee presents his political agenda in an Investiture Speech to be debated and submitted for a Vote of Confidence ( Cuestión de confianza ) by the Congress, effecting an indirect election of the head of government.

In 2006, the Federal Marriage Amendment, which would prohibit states from recognizing same-sex marriages, was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee on a party-line vote and was debated by the full United States Senate, but was ultimately defeated in both Houses of Congress.

In reaction to the seizure of the American vessels, Congress debated and approved the Naval Act of 1794, which authorized the building of six frigates, four of 44 guns and two of 36 guns.

Governor Barbachano sought allies anywhere he could find them, in Cuba ( for Spain ), Jamaica ( for England ) and the United States, but none of these foreign powers would intervene, although the matter was taken seriously enough in the United States to be debated in Congress.

The bill was debated and negotiated for nearly six months in Congress, and finally passed amid unusual circumstances.

From 1955 to 1958, the idea was debated in Congress, amidst much controversy.