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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.
In all probability, the council will screen and endorse candidates for the Assembly and for Congress, and then strive to put its full weight behind these pre-primary favorites.
Congress should then be asked to give the Peace Corps a firm legislative foundation for the next fiscal year.
One day last week, Nixon faced a painful constitutional chore that required him to officiate at a joint session of Congress to hear the official tally of the Electoral College vote, and then to make `` sufficient declaration '' of the election of the man who defeated him in the tight 1960 presidential election.
He went on to plan and execute a major foundational programme for rebuilding the foundations of algebraic geometry, which were then in a state of flux and under discussion in Claude Chevalley's seminar ; he outlined his programme in his talk at the 1958 International Congress of Mathematicians.
It is the more remarkable that no incidents are recorded in the period between Marathon and Salamis, since at the time of the Isthmian Congress the war was described as the most important one then being waged in Greece,
" When Congress, in the summer of 1973, legislated an end to U. S. military action in, over, or off the shores of Indochina, the only U. S. military activity then going on was air support of a friendly Cambodian government and army desperately defending their country against a North Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge onslaught ... What destabilized Cambodia was North Vietnam's occupation of chunks of Cambodian territory from 1965 onwards for use as military bases from which to launch attacks on U. S. and South Vietnamese forces in South Vietnam.
The 1925 4th Congress had 20 delegates representing 994 members ; then real growth kicked in.
Roosevelt made his request to Congress on March 21, 1933 ; the legislation was submitted to Congress the same day ; Congress passed it by voice vote on the 31st ; Roosevelt signed it the same day, then issued an executive order on April 5 creating the agency, appointing its director ( Fechner ), and assigning War Department corps area commanders the task to commence enrollment.
Nineteen days after his election, Obama's advisers announced that plans to repeal the policy might be delayed until 2010, because Obama " first wants to confer with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and his new political appointees at the Pentagon to reach a consensus, and then present legislation to Congress.
In the 19th century, the Congress of Vienna reasserted the rights of diplomats ; and they have been largely respected since then, as the European model has spread throughout the world.
Congress, for its part, at first not really wanting any part of the affair, effectively voted to strip and then abandon the forts.
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.
The Library of Congress had Gumby as a spokescharacter from 1994 to 1995, due to a common sequence in his shows where Gumby walks into a book, and then experiences the world inside the book as a tangible place.
The Honduran Congress assumed authority for setting electric prices beginning in 1986 but then became reluctant to increase rates.
Searches of the Library of Congress have failed to find any evidence that these copyrights were then renewed after the 28-year period and, hence, it is likely that these works are now in the public domain.
Peter Schweizer points out several examples of insider trading by members of Congress, including action taken by Spencer Bachus following a private, behind-the-doors meeting on the evening of September 18, 2008 when Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke informed members of Congress about the imminent financial crisis, Bachus then shorted stocks the next morning and cashed in his profits within a week.
As a member of Congress, Madison had doubtless met the widow Todd at social functions in Philadelphia, then the nation's capital.
He had met her while serving with the Continental Congress, which then met in New York, the temporary capital of the new nation.
Polk then made this the casus belli, and in a message to Congress on May 11, 1846, he stated that Mexico had " invaded our territory and shed American blood upon the American soil.
Nehru nominated Gandhi to succeed him as Congress President during his absence in jail, but Gandhi declined, and Nehru then nominated his father as his successor.

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How can judges exercise jurisdiction to enforce national rights when Congress has created none??
The Articles were created by delegates from the states in the Second Continental Congress out of a need to have " a plan of confederacy for securing the freedom, sovereignty, and independence of the United States.
Turkey's First Geography Congress in 1941 created two regions to the east of the Gulf of Iskenderun-Black Sea line named the Eastern Anatolia Region and the Southeastern Anatolia Region, the former largely corresponding to the western part of the Armenian Highland, the latter to the northern part of the Mesopotamian plain.
The many important independent agencies of the United States government created by statutes enacted by Congress exist outside of the federal executive departments but are still part of the executive branch.
Congress has also created some special judicial bodies known as Article I tribunals to handle some areas of administrative law.
The US Federal Reserve was created by the U. S. Congress through the passing of The Federal Reserve Act in the Senate and its signing by President Woodrow Wilson on the same day, December 23, 1913.
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 1999, the United States Congress created the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission, to create an enduring national memorial in Washington, D. C ..
Along with several smaller programs, major surviving programs include the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which was created in 1933, and Social Security, which Congress passed in 1935.
The German Confederation, a loose association of Central European states was created by the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to organize the surviving states of the Holy Roman Empire.
Congress created the Continental Army on June 14, 1775.
The German Confederation was created by an act of the Congress of Vienna on 8 June 1815 as a result of the Napoleonic Wars, after being alluded to in Article 6 of the 1814 Treaty of Paris.
Others were created as sovereign states after the Congress of Vienna in 1815.
The aim is for this data to be analyzed and shared among regulators – including the newly created Financial Stability Oversight Council – and for the SEC to report to Congress on how the data is being used to protect both investors and market integrity.
* 1870 – United States Department of Justice US Congress created the Department of Justice
On March 3, just before his term was to end, Adams, in an attempt to stymie the incoming Democratic-Republican Congress and administration, appointed 16 Federalist circuit judges and 42 Federalist justices of the peace to offices created by the Judiciary Act of 1801.
Following the Congress, the institutions created there began to be formalised into the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ), with Demetrius Vikelas as its first President.
The interim report of the Jain Commission created a storm when it accused Karunanidhi of a role in the assassination, leading to Congress withdrawing its support for the I. K. Gujral government and fresh elections in 1998.
In 1903, the U. S. Congress created the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice ( NBPRP ), an advisory board to the Secretary of the Army, with a nearly identical charter to the NRA.
This painting created a sensation among critics and artists when it was exhibited that year at the Artistic Congress in Antwerp.
* In 1999, Renee Moore created Solomon Northup Day and approached Mayor Michael J. O ' Connell ( R ) who erected a historical marker at the corner of Congress and Broadway, to commemorate Solomon Northup's life.
In 1787, the Congress of the Confederation enacted the Northwest Ordinance, which created the Northwest Territory in what is now the upper Midwestern United States.
When Congress created the Michigan Territory in 1805, it used the Northwest Ordinance's language to define the southern boundary, which therefore differed from that in Ohio's state constitution.

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