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.

Congress passed a fourth Reconstruction Act ( again over a veto ) to provide for ratification of each state's constitution by a majority of those voting ( rather than requiring the vote to be all those registered ).

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.

Two primary authorities granted to the Army Corps of Engineers by Congress fall under Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act and Section 404 of the Clean Water Act.

The 55 delegates also elected three unofficial representatives – all Democrats – as unofficial delegates to Congress: Ernest Gruening and William Egan as U. S. Senators and Ralph Rivers as U. S. representative.

With the help of Washington's Senators, Wesley Jones and Clarence Dill, Congress ordered $ 600, 000 in further studies to be carried out by the Army Corps and Federal Power Commission on the Columbia River Basin and Snake Rivers.

In response to these environmental problems, Congress passed in 1992 the Central Valley Project Improvement Act ( CVPIA ), Title 34 of Public Law 102-575, to change water management practices in the CVP in order to lessen the ecological impact on the San Joaquin and Sacramento Rivers.

Congress first addressed water pollution issues in the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899, giving the Corps the authority to regulate most kinds of obstructions to navigation, including hazards resulting from effluents.

Speaking to the 1911 National Rivers and Harbors Congress, the chief of the Corps, Brigadier General William H. Bixby, suggested that modern treatment facilities and prohibitions on dumping " should either be made compulsory or at least encouraged everywhere in the United States.

In 1993, the Congress of the United States designated of the river and its tributaries as the Maurice National Scenic and Recreational River, as part of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers program.

* Rivers and Harbors Act, any number of various acts of legislation of the United States Congress

On September 29, 1939, McMillan died and Rivers immediately made plans to run for Congress.

Once in Congress, Rivers sought a seat on the Agriculture committee, but it was full and he was instead placed on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries committee.

In 1948, a stretch of highway from the crossing of U. S. Route 78 over Meeting Street ( known as the Five-Mile Viaduct ) to where U. S. Route 52 meets the Berkeley County line was named as Rivers Avenue because Rivers was key in getting funds from Congress to pave it as the first four-lane road in North Charleston.

The first federal legislation broadly dealing with hydroelectric development regarded its competition with navigation usage ; with the passage of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 Congress made it illegal to dam navigable streams without a license ( or permit ) from them.

He persuaded the legislature to apply a $ 100, 000 allocation from the U. S. Congress to the improvement of navigation along the Kentucky River and gave concurrent jurisdiction over the Big Sandy and Licking Rivers to the federal government so they could be improved as well.

It is because of these distinctions that Congress created the Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage Corridor which comprises much of the region.

Authorization for the MRGO was formally provided by the Congress of the United States in the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1956.

The following year Hayden and his work Geological Report of the Exploration of the Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers in 1859-1860 was instrumental in convincing Congress to establish Yellowstone as the first U. S. National Park, aided by Jackson's stunning large-format photographs and Moran's dramatic paintings.

The United States Congress passed the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1945, which called for additional construction in the Trinity River basin.

In 1968, the Rio Grande was among the first eight rivers the US Congress designated into the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System to protect outstanding resources values.

After the U. S. House of Representatives Committee on Rivers and Harbors reviewed the state plans, Congress enacted the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1935, giving the U. S. federal government control over the Central Valley Project ( CVP ).

Alaskans therefore elected to Congress Senators Ernest Gruening and William Egan and Representative to the House Ralph J. Rivers.

Gruening, Egan, and Rivers attended Congress and were politely received, though they were not officially seated or recognized in any way.

In response to the Great Depression and drought conditions in California during the early 20th century, the United States Congress passed the 1935 Rivers and Harbors Act, which authorized the Central Valley Project ( CVP ) – a system of dams and canals to provide a stable supply of irrigation water to California's Central Valley.