What I want is to have this evidence come before Congress and if the Attorney General does not report it, as I am very sure he won't, as he has refused to do anything of the kind, I then wish that a committee of seven Representatives be appointed with power to take the evidence.

The Senate refused to meet to hold an impeachment trial before the end of the old term, so the trial was held over until the next Congress.

A US-funded airlift of ammunition and rice ended when Congress refused additional aid for Cambodia.

Congress decided to depose Balmaceda, who refused to step down.

Congress refused on the pretext that many people were involved in the flag's design, and that Hopkinson was already paid as a public servant.

Adams so ably justified Jackson's conduct that he silenced protests from either Spain or Britain ; Congress refused to punish Jackson.

Madison faced formidable obstacles – a divided cabinet, a factious party, a recalcitrant Congress, obstructionist governors, and incompetent generals, together with militia who refused to fight outside their states.

The election of his daughter Indira as Congress President in 1959 aroused criticism for alleged nepotism, although actually Nehru had disapproved of her election, partly because he considered it smacked of " dynastism "; he said, indeed it was " wholly undemocratic and an undesirable thing ", and refused her a position in his cabinet.

After being refused recognition as official representative of the Bolshevik regime, Radek alongside other delegates ( Adolph Joffe, Nikolai Bukharin, Christian Rakovsky and Ignatov ) to the German Congress of Soviets.

In 1804 Haiti declared independence but, fearing a slave revolt at home, Jefferson and the US Congress refused to recognize the new republic, the second in the Western Hemisphere, and imposed a trade embargo against it.

However, when the ruling Basotho National Party ( BNP ) lost the first post-independence general elections to the Basotho Congress Party ( BCP ), Leabua Jonathan refused to cede and declared himself Tona Kholo ( Sesotho translation of prime minister ).

Under the leadership of Prime Minister Chief Leabua Jonathan, the ruling Basotho National Party ( BNP ) refused to cede power to the rival Basotholand Congress Party ( BCP ), although the BCP was widely believed to have won the elections.

To date the U. S. Congress has refused to fund many of these policies.

The strong ties to Somoza decreased the potential to gain domestic support for the FDN, and prevented the U. S. guided unification operation, UNO: “ The contra war had to be sold to Congress and the public as the struggle of an opposition united against the regime in Managua .” The revolutionary hero and commander of the contra force of southern Nicaragua ARDE ( Nicaraguan Democratic Revolutionary Alliance ), Eden Pastora, refused to cooperate with the FDN.

Because of the dispute, however, Congress refused to accept his credentials and seated him instead as a non-voting delegate.

Twelve nuns and employees of the Temple refused to answer questions by pleading the Fifth Amendment when they were subpoenaed to testify before Congress in 1997.

Congress refused however to fund the Tariff Board which the President included in the Payne – Aldrich Bill, which would have removed the setting of rates from direct continual Congressional manipulation.

Wilson tried to bring labor and management together, but when management refused, he had Congress pass the Adamson Act in September 1916, which avoided the strike by imposing an 8-hour workday in the industry ( at the same pay as before ).

While Marshall enjoyed considerable success in working with Congress and President Franklin D. Roosevelt, he refused to lobby for the position.

Saxony refused to agree to territorial adjustments that were designed to benefit Bavaria, Prussia, Württemberg, and Baden at the Congress of Rastatt and in 1803 at the issuance of the Final Report of the Empire Delegation law of the Holy Roman Empire that laid out the new order of the Empire.

Republicans in Congress refused to accept Johnson's terms, rejected the new members of Congress elected by the South, and in 1865 / 66 broke with the president.

However, Congress refused to count any of the votes from Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee, in essence rejecting Lincoln's moderate Reconstruction plan.

Indeed, Congress had already, a few days before, put into effect a nonimportation act, originally passed in April 1806, which refused entry to many British goods.

Congress refused.

In the 2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, held in Brussels and London during August 1903, Lenin and Julius Martov disagreed over the membership rules.

When the Congress party under Nehru chose to contest elections and accept power under the Federation scheme, Gandhi resigned from party membership.

For his actions on board Flight 93, Homer received many awards and citations posthumously, including honorary membership in the historic Tuskegee Airmen ; the Congress of Racial Equality's Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Award ; the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Drum Major for Justice Award ; and the Westchester County Trailblazer Award.

In 1934 Gandhi resigned from Congress party membership.

The March 1989 election of the Congress of People's Deputies marked the first time that voters of the Soviet Union ever chose the membership of a national legislative body.

Gorbachev was elected without opposition to the chairmanship of the new Supreme Soviet ; then the Congress of People's Deputies elected a large majority of old-style party apparatchiks to fill the membership of its new legislative body.

The only way for a General Secretary to alter the Politburo membership in any specific way was through the Party Congress.

When the Republican Party won control of Congress in the 1994 midterm elections, the freshman Republican class awarded Limbaugh an honorary membership in their caucus.

" This means two-thirds of those members present — assuming that a quorum exists at the time that the vote is cast — and not necessarily a two-thirds vote of the entire membership elected and serving in the two houses of Congress.

After the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act in 1946 by Congress, which called for the removal of Communist union leadership, the IWW experienced a loss of membership as differences of opinion occurred over how to respond to the challenge.

In February, he began working with the National Negro Congress, and in April he chaired the South Side Writers ' Group, whose membership included Arna Bontemps and Margaret Walker.

The Congress declared Opposition views incompatible with membership in the Communist Party and expelled Kamenev and dozens of leading oppositionists from the Party, which paved the way for mass expulsions of rank and file oppositionists as well as internal exile of opposition leaders in early 1928.

ALEC By-Laws specify that, "... full membership shall be open to persons dedicated to the preservation of individual liberty, basic American values and institutions, productive free enterprise, and limited representative government, who support the purposes of ALEC, and who serve, or formerly serve, as members of a state or territorial legislature, the United States Congress, or similar bodies outside the United States.

The Congress approved a new party program and a new party membership statute.

Unlike many of his colleagues, Hu was able to keep his membership within the Party Central Committee until the 9th Party Congress in April, 1969.

In October 1987 Hu retained his membership of CCP's Central Committee at the 13th Party Congress, and was subsequently elected a member of the new Politburo by the first plenary session of the Central Committee.

Truman directed the Secretary of the Treasury, John W. Snyder to attend all meetings and Congress amended the National Security Act of 1947 to eliminate the three service secretaries from Council membership and add the Vice President ( who assumed second rank from the Secretary of State ) and the Joint Chiefs of Staff who became permanent advisers to the Council.

The number of electors is equal to the total voting membership of the United States Congress, 435 Representatives and 100 Senators, plus three electors from the District of Columbia.

The United States Congress has not provided a specific reason for failing to pay membership.

On July 23, 1888, with increasing membership amongst the six National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers ( NHDVS ) National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Congress established the seventh of ten National Homes in Grant County, Indiana to be known as the Marion Branch.

:" May Congress make it a criminal offense against the United States -- as by the tenth section of the act of 1898 it does -- for an agent or officer of an interstate carrier, having full authority in the premises from the carrier, to discharge an employee from service simply because of his membership in a labor organization?

Having found that the Fifth Amendment barred against limiting the right of an employer to fire an employee due to membership in a labor union, Harlan concluded that Congress could not criminalize such action.

Harlan concluded that Congress ' control over interstate commerce did not extend to membership in labor unions:

:"(...) e hold that there is no such connection between interstate commerce and membership in a labor organization as to authorize Congress to make it a crime against the United States for an agent of an interstate carrier to discharge an employee because of such membership on his part.