Congress meets twice a year, and the president has the power to call it into special session when needed.

Theoretically, the party's highest body is the National Congress of the Communist Party of China, which meets at least once every five years.

* 1789 – In New York City, the first Congress of the United States meets, putting the United States Constitution into effect.

The Provincial People's Congress in turn elects members to the National People's Congress that meets each year in March in Beijing.

The SPSG meets in conjunction with the International Astronautical Congress ( IAC ) held annually at different locations around the world, and sponsors two SETI Symposia at each IAC.

He also takes a strong interest in the pequeninos, and eventually ( in direct violation of Starways Congress law ) meets with them in person.

By voluntary agreement, archaeologists respect the decisions of the Pan-African Congress of Prehistory, which meets every four years to resolve archaeological business brought before it.

Since the Central Committee only meets twice a year, the Politburo implements the policies of the National Congress.

After that, Versailles was never again the seat of the capital of France, but the presence of the French Parliament there in the 1870s left a vast hall built in one aisle of the palace which is still used by the French Parliament when it meets in Congress to amend the French Constitution, as well as when the French president addresses the two chambers of the French Parliament.

* The World Meteorological Congress determines the policy of WMO and meets every four years.

* The Executive Council implements Congress decisions and meets once a year.

* March 4 – At Federal Hall in New York City, the 1st United States Congress meets and declares the new United States Constitution to be in effect.

** American Revolution: The Second Continental Congress meets, elects John Hancock president, raises the Continental Army under George Washington as commander and authorizes the colonies to adopt their own constitutions.

Prewitt and Maggio spend their liberty time at the New Congress Club, a gentlemen's club where Prewitt meets and falls for Lorene ( Donna Reed ).

The Chilean Congress meets in a modern building in the Almendral section of Valparaíso, after relocation from Santiago during the last years of the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.

It is technically the " International Stratigraphy Committee " ( ISC ), which has limited executive committee powers to impanel other subcommittees ( also called commissions ) to resolve certain matters involving the Geologic time scale — its deliberations and those of its subcommittees must be adopted by the IUGS which meets in a committee-of-the-whole or Congress, every four years or so to deliberate on the subcommittee recommendations and officially adopt or not-adopt such.

Following the General Election of the Cortes Generales ( Cortes ), and other circumstances provided for in the constitution, the king meets with and interviews the political party leaders represented in the Cortes, and then consults with the Speaker of the Congress ( who, in this instance, represents the whole of the Cortes Generalas ).

* Chile: Santiago is the capital even though the National Congress of Chile meets in Valparaíso.

Following the General Election of the Cortes Generales ( Cortes ), and other circumstances provided for in the constitution, the king meets with and interviews the political party leaders represented in the Congress of Deputies, and then consults with the Speaker of the Congress of Deputies ( officially, Presidente de Congreso de los Diputados de España, who, in this instance, represents the whole of the Cortes Generales ) before nominating his candidate for the presidency, according to Section 99 of Title IV.

Following the general election of the Cortes Generales ( Cortes ), and other circumstances provided for in the constitution, the king meets with and interviews the political party leaders represented in the Congress of Deputies, and then consults with the Speaker of the Congress of Deputies ( officially, Presidente de Congreso de los Diputados de España, who, in this instance, represents the whole of the Cortes Generales and was himself elected from within the Congress to be the Speaker ) before nominating his candidate for the presidency, according to Section 99 of Title IV.

Following the second vote, if confidence by the Congress is still unreached, then the monarch again meets with political leaders and the Speaker, and submits a new nominee for a vote of confidence.

* Paul W. Drake, and others., Chile: A Country Study, Library of Congress, 1994

** Reinterpreted after the 1891 Civil War augmenting the power of the National Congress of Chile

* Text of Chilean constitutions-Library of Congress of Chile ( Spanish original )

Monroe informed Congress in March 1822 that permanent stable governments had been established in the United Provinces of La Plata ( present-day Argentina ), Chile, Peru, Colombia and Mexico.

* The National Congress of Chile ( Spanish: Congreso Nacional ) is the legislative branch of the government of Chile.

The Nixon administration began exerting economic pressure on Chile via multilateral organizations, and continued to back Allende's opponents in the Chilean Congress.

Although Santiago is Chile's official capital, the National Congress of Chile was established in Valparaíso in 1990.

Its capital is Valparaíso, which is the site for the National Congress of Chile and an important commercial port.

Regional flags in the Access Hall of the National Congress of Chile.

The regional flags can be found in the Access Hall of the National Congress of Chile in the city of Valparaíso.

As an indirect result of undercover operations in Chile, he was the only DCI to be convicted of lying to Congress.

In 1961, he was elected President of the First World Christian Democratic Party Congress, held in Santiago, Chile.

It was soon backed by International Ski Federation ( FIS ) president Marc Hodler during the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1966 at Portillo, Chile, and became an official FIS event in the spring of 1967 after the FIS Congress at Beirut, Lebanon.

The new Chilean government rejected American protests, but after United States President Benjamin Harrison sent a strong message to the United States Congress Chile apologized and paid $ 75, 000 in gold.

On March 24, Peru responded to Chile and Bolivia by proposing that the Peruvian Congress debate both Chile's neutrality proposal and the Bolivian request for military action under the alliance on April 24.

Despite the Bolivian tax crisis of 1879, Chile voted in a new Congress on schedule.

After the parliamentary elections of March 1957 the " Congress of Unit " was carried to power, formed from the Popular Socialist Party directed by Rául Ampuero and the Socialist Party of Chile of Salvador, directed by Allende Gossens.

* National Congress of Chile

One of Bello's most famous accomplishments was his promulgation of the 1852 Civil Code of Chile, passed by Chilean Congress in 1855.

When the Peruvian Congress refused to recognize Prado's government, Cándamo traveled to Chile as part of the Peruvian diplomatic mission.

The Congress is organized by the Gastronomic Corporation of Popayán, which has presented seven events which have also featured the participation of various countries as special guests: Peru, Brazil, Spain, Chile, Mexico, Italy and France.

The Senate of the Republic of Chile is the upper house of Chile's bicameral National Congress, as established in the current Constitution of Chile.