In 1981, the fourth session of the Fifth National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China adopted the " Resolution on the unfolding of a nationwide voluntary tree-planting campaign ".

That year, the Congress of Angostura established the Republic of Gran Colombia, which included all territories under jurisdiction of the former Viceroyalty of New Granada.

* Congress for the Republic, a Tunisian political party

" Several delegates to the Congress were quite specific in the criticism, one of them accusing Lenin and his associates of making the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic a place of exile for opponents.

In its original permanent dispositions, it gave the President of the Republic a large amount of power ; however, some of these dispositions, such as the power of dissolving the Lower Chamber of Congress and serving eight year terms with possibility of reelection, were modified or eliminated after 1990, when the country regained its democracy and the Congress was reestablished.

On 5 September 2005, the Congress of the Dominican Republic ratified a free trade agreement with the U. S. and five Central American countries, the Dominican Republic – Central America Free Trade Agreement ( CAFTA-DR ).

The Ecuadorean Congress then met in an emergency session in Guayaquil on the same day, January 22, and ratified Noboa as President of the Republic in constitutional succession to Mahuad.

Seven people were killed in the coup, although Ríos Montt survived to found a political party ( the Guatemalan Republic Front ) and to be elected President of Congress in 1995 and again in 2000.

Legislative power is vested in both the government and the Congress of the Republic.

When Congress, pressured by the Grand Army of the Republic, passed a bill granting pensions for disabilities not caused by military service, Cleveland also vetoed that.

::: The President of the People's Republic of China receives foreign diplomatic representatives on behalf of the People's Republic of China and, in pursuance of decisions of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, appoints and recalls plenipotentiary representatives abroad, and ratifies and abrogates treaties and important agreements concluded with foreign states.

During the Cultural Revolution, following the downfall of Liu Shaoqi, who was Chairman of the People's Republic of China, no successor was named, so the duties of the head of state were transferred collectively to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.

* Heidler, David S. " The Politics of National Aggression: Congress and the First Seminole War ," Journal of the Early Republic 1993 13 ( 4 ): 501 – 530.

The basic labour laws are the Labour Law of People's Republic of China ( promulgated on 5 July 1994 ) and the Law of the People's Republic of China on Employment Contracts ( Adopted at the 28th Session of the Standing Committee of the 10th National People's Congress on June 29, 2007, Effective from January 1, 2008 ).

Mali is an active contributor to peacekeeping forces in West and Central Africa ; the Library of Congress said that in 2004 Mali was participating in United Nations operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo ( MONUC, 28 personnel including 27 observers ), Liberia ( UNMIL, 252 personnel, including 4 observers ), and Sierra Leone ( 3 observers ).

The current president of the government elected by the Congress is Harold Martin, from the loyalist ( i. e. anti-independence ) " Future Together " party ( l ' Avenir Ensemble ), which toppled the long-time ruling Rally for Caledonia in the Republic ( RPCR ) in May 2004.

* 1845 – A majority of voters in the Republic of Texas approve a proposed constitution, that if accepted by the U. S. Congress, will make Texas a U. S. state.

It was incorporated by the Congress of the Republic of Texas on February 3, 1845.

* National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China

The first Congress of the Republic of Texas convened in October 1836 at Columbia ( now West Columbia ).

The Texas Congress admonished Houston for the incident, and this episode in Texas history would solidify Austin as Texas's seat of government for the Republic and the future state.

Marshall Formby of Plainview, former chairman of the Texas Highway Commission, suggested a plan to fill by appointment future vacancies in the Legislature and Congress, eliminating the need for costly special elections.

After a drought had ruined crops in several Texas counties, Congress appropriated $ 10, 000 to purchase seed grain for farmers there.

* John Salmon Ford ( 1815 – 1897 ), American political figure in Texas ; best known as " Rip " Ford ; served in state Congress and Senate ; veteran of Mexican War and Civil War

Upon hearing of Polk's election to office, Tyler urged Congress to pass a joint resolution admitting Texas to the Union ; Congress complied on February 28, 1845.

Nonetheless, just days after the resolution passed Congress, Polk declared in his inaugural address that only Texas and the United States would decide whether to annex.

She campaigned during her husband's unsuccessful 1978 run for the United States Congress and later his successful Texas gubernatorial campaign.

CMD's executive director, Lisa Graves ( a former Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the U. S. Department of Justice ), has testified several times before Congress on national security, homeland security, and civil liberties issues, joined in legal briefs on such issues, and her analysis has been published by the Texas Law Review and in numerous other articles.

The Texas Congress even passed a resolution over Houston's veto claiming the Californias for Texas.

After gaining their independence, the Texas voters had elected a Congress of 14 senators and 29 representatives in September 1836.

The first Congress of the Republic of Texas convened in October 1836 at Columbia ( now West Columbia ).

* 1966 – U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.

Instead, by entering the Union, Texas was found to have surrendered control over the water and the soil under it to Congress.

President Grant successfully worked with Congress to readmit the last four Confederate states Virginia, Mississippi, Texas, and Georgia into the Union, while ensuring their constitutions protected every citizen's voting rights through the use of the military.

** The Congressional Hispanic Caucus is established by the 5 Latinos in the United States Congress: Herman Badillo of the Bronx, E. de la Garza and Henry B. Gonzalez of Texas, Edward R. Roybal of California, and the nonvoting Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, Baltasar Corrada del Rio.

* February 28 – The United States Congress approves the annexation of Texas.

* October 13 – A majority of voters in the Republic of Texas approve a proposed constitution, that if accepted by the United States Congress, will make Texas a U. S. state.

Despite the relative ease of executive agreements, the President still often chooses to pursue the formal treaty process over an executive agreement in order to gain congressional support on matters that require the Congress to pass implementing legislation or appropriate funds, and those agreements that impose long-term, complex legal obligations on the U. S.

Each state chooses as many Electors as it has Representatives and Senators representing it in Congress.

Section 7 of the Constitution, when the president chooses, if he does not approve, he must return the bill, unsigned, within ten days, excluding Sundays, to the house of the United States Congress in which it originated, while the Congress is in session.

* In re Heff, 197 U. S. 488 ( 1905 ) ( holding that Congress has the power to place the Indians under state law if it chooses, and the ban on selling liquor does not apply to Indians subject to the Allotment acts )

Over and above these stood the “ All-Russian Soviet Congress ,” which appointed an “ All-Russian Central Executive Committee ” of not more than 200 members, which in turn chooses the “ Soviet of People's Commissaries ” — the Ministry.

Coleman v. Miller, is a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court which clarified that if the Congress of the United States — when proposing for ratification an amendment to the United States Constitution, pursuant to Article V thereof — chooses not to specify a deadline within which the state legislatures ( or conventions held in the states ) must act upon the proposed amendment, then the proposed amendment remains pending business before the state legislatures ( or conventions ).

Article 18 states, further, that national laws, from the People's Republic of China do not apply, except for a specific list in Annex III to the Basic Law, to which the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress can add or delete what it chooses.