In spite of powerful opposition the Draft Act finally passed Congress on May 17, 1917.

The widespread purge that has taken place the past twelve months or so among Communist leaders in the provinces gives assurance that the party officials who will dominate the Congress, and the Central Committee it will elect, will all have passed the tightest possible Khrushchev screening, both for loyalty to him and for competence and performance on the job.

In accordance with legislation passed at the last session of Congress, each Representative is authorized to deliver to the Post Office in bulk newsletters, speeches and other literature to be dropped in every letter box in his district.

Recognizing the limitations of such a program, the 78th Congress in 1943 passed P. L. 113, which broadened the concept of rehabilitation to include the provision of physical restoration services to remove or reduce disabilities, and which revised the financing structure.

The President noted that Congress last year passed a law providing grants to states to help pay medical bills of the needy aged.

A measure passed by Congress just before adjourning softened the ruling's impact, on prior-year returns still under review, for clay-mining companies that make brick and tile products.

" 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.

On June 19, 1862, endorsed by Lincoln, Congress passed an act banning slavery on all federal territory.

After a long debate in the House, a second attempt passed Congress on January 13, 1865, and was sent to the state legislatures for ratification.

Lincoln only vetoed four bills passed by Congress ; the only important one was the Wade-Davis Bill with its harsh program of Reconstruction.

In early March Congress, led in part by Radical Republicans, passed the first in a series of four Reconstruction Acts, initially providing for the recognition of provisional governments to be established thereunder by the Southern states, on the condition that each state ratify the Fourteenth Amendment and assure suffrage for freedmen.

Congress passed a third Reconstruction Act to invalidate these opinions, and took two votes to defeat the President's obstruction.

In March 1969, during a Congress of International Federation of Airline Pilots ’ Associations in Amsterdam with the presence of representatives of civil pilots from 41 countries, a resolution was unanimously passed, which guaranteed the pilots the right to 12 or 24-hours

Shortly after the Thomas confirmation hearings, President George H. W. Bush dropped his opposition to a bill giving harassment victims the right to seek federal damage awards, back pay and reinstatement, and the law was passed by Congress.

The Alien and Sedition Acts were four bills passed in 1798 by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress in the aftermath of the French Revolution and during an undeclared naval war with Britain and France, later known as the Quasi-War.

In 1980, the U. S. Congress passed an Acid Deposition Act.

Meanwhile, in 1989, the US Congress passed a series of amendments to the Clean Air Act.

Clinton signed the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 in August of that year, which passed Congress without a Republican vote.

After years of extensive lobbying for federal dollars, a 1987 public works bill appropriating funding for the Big Dig was passed by U. S. Congress, but it was subsequently vetoed by President Ronald Reagan as being too expensive.

In September 2005, President Ricardo Lagos signed into law several constitutional amendments passed by Congress.

In 1996 the US Congress passed the Communications Decency Act, banning indecency on the Internet.

The preamble to the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005, passed by the United States Congress, found:

The Boland Amendment had first been passed by Congress in December 1982.

Two federal agencies, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Food and Drug Administration, determine which substances are added to or removed from the various schedules, though the statute passed by Congress created the initial listing, and Congress has sometimes scheduled other substances through legislation such as the Hillory J. Farias and Samantha Reid Date-Rape Prevention Act of 2000, which placed gamma hydroxybutyrate in Schedule I.

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 ".

Over three days of debate, Congress made changes and deleted nearly a fourth of the text, most notably a passage critical of the slave trade.

Over several days of debate, Congress made a few changes in wording and deleted nearly a fourth of the text, most notably a passage critical of the slave trade, changes that Jefferson resented.

Li Peng ( born 20 October 1928 ) served as the fourth Premier of the People's Republic of China, between 1987 and 1998, and the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislative body, from 1998 to 2003.

This was only the fourth time that the U. S. Congress issued an apology to a group of people.

The third class physically hazed the fourth class so ruthlessly, that Congress passed an anti-hazing law in 1874.

The new city quickly emerged as the fourth largest urban centers of Congress Poland ; larger were only the cities of Warsaw, Lublin, and Kalisz.

In February 2005, he gave the fourth annual Kissinger Lecture on Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Library of Congress, Washington DC on " Dependency and Development in Latin America.

Quincy is the birthplace of former U. S. Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams, as well as statesman John Hancock, fourth and longest serving President of the Continental Congress.

* Louise Bogan, fourth Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress ( 1945 )

During this period, on 15 March 1984, he was also invited to address a joint session of the U. S. Congress, the fourth Irish leader to do so.

In September 2010, on being re-elected for the fourth time, she became the longest serving president in the 125-year history of the Congress party.

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* John Hancock, signer of the U. S. Declaration of Independence, fourth President of the Continental Congress, American diplomat and statesman.

The 2nd United States Congress, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives, met at Congress Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from March 4, 1791 to March 3, 1793, during the third and fourth years of George Washington's Presidency.

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Under the 1987 Philippine Constitution, “ Congress shall convene once every year on the fourth Monday of July for its regular session ...”.

718 Jackson Place NW, Washington, D. C., ( red building with white steps ) the fourth and final headquarters for the Congress of Industrial Organizations.

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The court's finding of Constitutionality for the phrase, as well as the justifications noted above, have made it more difficult for US separationists to challenge other constitutionally questionable practices, such as tax exemption of churches, legislative and military chaplaincies, national holidays based on religious commemorations, the " Pray for Peace " postmark, and, in classrooms, required singing of the fourth stanza of America and the Star-Spangled Banner, both of which include religious phrases, and the required recitation at government events of the US Pledge of Allegiance, modified by an Act of Congress of June 14, 1954, to include the words " under God ", especially since each of these instances are regularly used by accommodationists to justify the other instances.

Congress, having made a few changes in wording, deleted nearly a fourth of the draft before publication, removing a passage critical of the slave trade, and many members of Congress, Jefferson included, owned slaves.

The Convention meets three times a year-a Winter Board Meeting, generally held the week after the fourth Sunday in February ; the Summer Board Meeting, a one-day session held during the week of the National Baptist Sunday Church School and Baptist Training Union Congress, sponsored by the R. H. Boyd Publishing Corporation of Nashville, TN, and in September.