Congressional members have tried repeatedly to relocate the Congress back to Santiago, where it operated until the Chilean Coup of 1973, but have not been successful.

After U. S. support was banned by Congress, the Reagan administration tried to covertly continue contra aid.

On May 25, 1993, Serrano illegally dissolved Congress and the Supreme Court and tried to restrict civil freedoms, allegedly to fight corruption.

He was alarmed by the Spanish diplomat Don Diego de Gardoqui, who in 1785 tried to convince Congress to allow Spain to close the Mississippi River to American traffic for 30 years.

Although he was not tried, he was stripped of his eligibility to run for public office ; Congress posthumously lifted this restriction in 1978, 89 years after his death.

Martinez decided to make it about the Cúcuta Congress, and painted Bolívar in front of Santander, making liberals upset ; so, due to the murder of Jorge Elieser Gaitan the mobs of el bogotazo tried to burn the capitol, but the Colombian Army stopped them.

As de facto ruler of the USSR, he tried to reform the stagnating Party and the state economy by introducing glasnost (" openness "), perestroika (" restructuring "), demokratizatsiya (" democratization "), and uskoreniye (" acceleration " of economic development ), which were launched at the 27th Congress of the CPSU in February 1986.

When Richard Nixon tried to use executive privilege as a reason for not turning over subpoenaed evidence to Congress during the Watergate scandal, the Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Nixon,, that executive privilege did not apply in cases where a president was attempting to avoid criminal prosecution.

They demanded that he be tried by the ' Congress of Greeks ', rather than in Athens, although it seems that in the end he was actually summoned to Athens to stand trial.

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 ).

The Second Congress renamed the party, and tried to revitalise it by admitting to past mistakes and evolving ideologically.

Lee tried to get Congress to overturn the court-martial's verdict, and when this failed, he resorted to open attacks on Washington's character.

The citizens of Indian Territory tried, in 1905, to gain admission to the union as the State of Sequoyah, but were rebuffed by Congress and an Administration which did not want two new Western states, Sequoyah and Oklahoma.

In June 1950 when the Selective Services Law came up for renewal, Russell tried again to attach his segregation amendment, and again Congress defeated it.

In the early 1990s the city tried to force a woman to take down a yard sign stating " Say No to the War in the Persian Gulf, Call Congress Now " as it violated a city law.

Congress addressed these issues in the Military Commissions Act of 2006, so that enemy combatants and unlawful enemy combatants might be tried under military commissions ; however, on 12 June 2008, the Supreme Court ruled, in Boumediene v. Bush, that Guantanamo Bay captives were entitled to access the US justice system, and that the military commissions as constituted under the Military Commissions Act of 2006 fell short of what was required of a court under the United States constitution ( see the section below for more details ).

Using the authorization granted to him by Congress, on 13 November 2001, President Bush issued a Presidential Military Order: " Detention, Treatment, and Trial of Certain Non-Citizens in the War Against Terrorism " which allowed " individuals ... to be detained, and, when tried, to be tried for violations of the laws of war and other applicable laws by military tribunals ", where such individuals are a member of the organization known as al Qa ' ida ; or has conspired or committed acts of international terrorism, or have as their aim to cause, injury to or adverse effects on the United States, its citizens, national security, foreign policy, or economy.

The term in its legislative sense was first used in 1854 when opponents tried to delay the Kansas-Nebraska Act in the U. S. Congress.

Galvez had relinquished power, Congress tried to restore some life to the Federal Government by transferring control of their custom revenues.

The Rivonia Trial was a trial that took place in South Africa between 1963 and 1964, in which ten leaders of the African National Congress were tried for 221 acts of sabotage designed to overthrow the apartheid system.

Some members of Congress have tried to create a federal usury statute that would limit the maximum allowable interest rate, but the measures have not progressed.

For many years the ACS tried to persuade the US Congress to appropriate funds to send colonists to Liberia.

Roosevelt tried unsuccessfully to impose a 100 % tax on incomes over $ 25, 000 ( equal to $ today ), while Congress enlarged the base downward.

The moderate senators and representatives ( who constituted a majority of the Union party ) asked him for only a slight compromise ; their action was really an entreaty that he would unite with them to preserve Congress and the country from the policy of the radicals.

Though Congress wanted to use the money for other purposes, Adams successfully persuaded Congress to preserve the money for an institution of science and learning.

* 1861 – American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Crittenden-Johnson Resolution, stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery.

* July 25 – American Civil War: The Crittenden-Johnson Resolution is passed by the U. S. Congress, stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery.

* In Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series, the Starways Congress established the law that no alien culture found is to be provided with superior technology or any information about the human society in order to preserve the natural development of the culture.

J. Horace McFarland, the Sierra Club, and the Appalachian Mountain Club persuaded the United States Congress in 1906 to enact legislation to preserve the falls by regulating the waters of Niagara River.

In 2006, the US Congress established the east coast Gullah-Geeche Cultural Heritage Corridor to help preserve and educated the public on the importance of this culture in our history.

Congress possesses many means of preserving it by conciliation, but the sword was not placed in their hand to preserve it by force.

The company lobbied the United States Congress, and in 1897, the park was designated as a forest preserve.

In 2010, the Museum and the Library of Congress announced a multi-year joint collaboration to digitally preserve and make available at both institutions these recordings, which the Library of Congress called, " a remarkably rich history of the ideas and perspectives of both common and influential people living in the second half of the 20th century.

It was only in June 1878, however, that Congress finally approved a salary of $ 10, 000 a year for the park's superintendent, as well as minimal funds " to protect, preserve, and improve the Park.

The preserve was established October 31, 1994 with the passage of the California Desert Protection Act by the US Congress.

Muir, based in California, in 1889 started organizing support to preserve the sequoias in the Yosemite Valley ; Congress did pass the Yosemite National Park bill ( 1890 ).

After his 1907-1908 visit, he petitioned the people of Alaska and Congress to create a preserve for the sheep.

Many belong to the International Congress of Maritime Museums ( ICMM ), which coordinates members ' efforts to acquire, preserve, and display their material.

The Pea Ridge National Military Park was created by an act of Congress in 1956 to preserve the battlefield of the 1862 Battle of Pea Ridge.

Money from the United States Congress has been allocated to protect and preserve the Meadowlands and establish organizations to research the unique animals and their interaction with the ecosystem.

While in Washington D. C. Crawford Seeger worked closely with John and Alan Lomax at the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress to preserve and teach American folk music.

Independence National Historical Park was established by the 80th U. S. Congress later that year to preserve historical sites associated with the American Revolution.

The Congress established the Concert of Europe as an attempt to preserve peace after the years of Napoleonic Wars.

In 1957, Congress established the Golden Spike National Historic Site to preserve the area around Promontory Summit as closely as possible to its appearance in 1869.

Also, Congress passed a law barring the removal of water from the Niagara River, to preserve Niagara Falls.