In March 2006, following a bomb blast at one of the holiest Hindu shrines at Varanasi, Advani undertook a " Bharat Suraksha Yatra " ( Sojourn for National Security ), to highlight the alleged failure of the ruling United Progressive Alliance ( a Congress led coalition ) in combating terrorism.

It undertook a major effort to support left-wing Democratic members of Congress in 1946, but this effort was an overwhelming failure.

After the American Civil War during the Reconstruction Era of the United States 1863 to 1869, Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson undertook policies designed to bring the South back to normal as soon as possible, while the Radical Republicans used Congress to block the president, impose harsh terms, and upgrade the rights of the Freedmen ( the ex-slaves ).

German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, who led the Congress, undertook to stabilize the Balkans, recognize the reduced power of the Ottoman Empire, and balance the distinct interests of Britain, Russia and Austria-Hungary ; at the same time he tried to diminish Russian gains in the region and to prevent the rise of a big Bulgaria.

In 1887, Congress undertook a significant change in reservation policy by the passage of the Dawes Act, or General Allotment ( Severalty ) Act.

During the 1970s, under the leadership of Sanjay Gandhi, the Youth Congress undertook activities such as tree plantation, family planning, and fought against domestic violence and dowry deaths.

Scarbrough and Hicks department store, founded on the southwest corner of 6th and Congress in 1893, decided to remain in this same location in 1909 when it undertook the construction of Austin's first modern skyscraper ; the Scarborough Building is an eight-story brick building in the Commercial style.

Other duties that he undertook during his time in India included special duty in connection with Burma-Manipur Boundary Commission as Medical Officer, 1882 ; Scientific Assistant Secretary, Government of India, 1881 ; in charge of the India Section of the Calcutta International Exhibition, 1884 ; Commissioner, Colonial and Indian Exhibition, London, 1885 – 86 ; Reporter to Government of India on Economic Products, 1887 – 1903 ; Governor of Imperial Institute, 1892 ; Editor, The Agricultural Ledger, 1892 – 1903 ; President, Pharmacological Section of the Indian Medical Congress, 1894 ; in charge of Calcutta Industrial Museum, 1894-03 ; Honorary Secretary, Indigenous Drug Committee of India, 1901 ; Director, Indian Art Exhibition, Delhi, 1903.

With Carl Fleischhauer, he undertook a three-year project to research, record, and photograph the history and traditions of a single Appalachian family, from which came the 1973 Library of Congress double record album The Hammons Family: A Study of a West Virginia Family's Traditions.

After ratification of the Constitution in 1789, the First Congress undertook legislative action to provide for the government and regulation of the armed forces.

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.

In 1987, the Library of Congress Country Study said that the Air Force's official name, Ivoirian Air Transport and Liaison Group ( Groupement Aérien de Transport et de Liaison -- GATL ), ' reflects an original mission focused more on logistics and transport rather than a combat force.

FBI records show that 85 % of COINTELPRO resources targeted groups and individuals that the FBI deemed " subversive ," including communist and socialist organizations ; organizations and individuals associated with the civil rights movement, including Martin Luther King, Jr. and others associated with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Congress of Racial Equality and other civil rights organizations ; black nationalist groups ; the American Indian Movement ; a broad range of organizations labeled " New Left ", including Students for a Democratic Society and the Weathermen ; almost all groups protesting the Vietnam War, as well as individual student demonstrators with no group affiliation ; the National Lawyers Guild ; organizations and individuals associated with the women's rights movement ; nationalist groups such as those seeking independence for Puerto Rico, United Ireland, and Cuban exile movements including Orlando Bosch's Cuban Power and the Cuban Nationalist Movement ; and additional notable Americans — even Albert Einstein, who was a member of several civil rights groups, came under FBI surveillance during the years just prior to COINTELPRO's official inauguration .< ref >

It remained the residence of the CNO until 1974, when Congress authorized its transformation to an official residence for the Vice President.

After the Great War, there was a proposal for the League of Nations to accept Esperanto as their working language, following a report by Nitobe Inazō, an official delegate of League of Nations during the 13th World Congress of Esperanto in Prague.

The President of Congress was a mostly ceremonial position with no real authority, but the office did require him to handle a good deal of correspondence and sign official documents.

Hopkinson claimed to have designed the official " first flag " of the United States and sought compensation from Congress.

Five NNP parliamentary members, including two cabinet ministers, left the party in 1986-87 and formed the National Democratic Congress ( NDC ) which became the official opposition.

After the Uprising Congress Poland, downgraded in official usage from the Kingdom of Poland to the Vistula Land, was more fully integrated into Russia proper, but not entirely obliterated.

The Official Languages Act was eventually amended in 1967 by the Congress Government headed by Indira Gandhi to guarantee the indefinite use of Hindi and English as official languages.

Under the Articles of Confederation, the United States had no executive branch ; the President of Congress was a mostly ceremonial position within the Confederation Congress, but the office did require Hanson to handle a good deal of correspondence and sign official documents.

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.

It received international sanction in 1960, when it was adopted as an official period of the Paleozoic Era by the International Geological Congress.

This led to the U. S. Congress to enact the Public Law 81-600 which led to the Congressional approval of a local constitution drafted by a constitutional assembly elected by Puerto Rico and the renaming of the United States unincorporated territory of Puerto Rico as the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, using the same official name as the commonwealths of the U. S. states of Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Virginia, as well as that of other sovereign nation countries such as Australia.

In 1812, Congress approved a request for an official survey of the line.

The troy ounce in use today is essentially the same as the British Imperial troy ounce ( 1824-1971 ), adopted as an official weight standard for coinage by Act of Congress on May 19, 1828.

Marshall informed the cabinet that the only cases in which he would assume the presidency were a joint resolution of Congress calling on him to do so, or an official communication from Wilson or his staff asserting his inability to perform his duties.

Accommodationists, on the other hand, read the Establishment Clause as prohibiting the Congress or any state from declaring an official religion or preferring one to another, but hold that laws do not have to be shorn of morality and history to be declared constitutional.

The official text of an Act of Congress is that of the " enrolled bill " ( traditionally printed on parchment ) presented to the President for his signature or disapproval.

Early efforts at codifying the Acts of Congress were undertaken by private publishers ; these were useful shortcuts for research purposes, but had no official status.

The Confederate Congress had promoted Colonel Patton to brigadier general ; however, at the time, he had already died of battle wounds, so that promotion was never official.

They also issue Statements of Administration Policy that let Congress know the White House ’ s official position on proposed legislation.

The Congress solidified the role of Maoism within the party psyche, re-introducing Mao Zedong Thought as an official guiding ideology of the party in the party constitution, and officially designating Lin as Mao's successor.

During the 1920s, some members of Congress revived the codification project, resulting in the approval of the United States Code by Congress in 1926.

Not every law adopted by Congress is codified, because some of them just aren't appropriate for codification.

" Selig has been called to Congress several times to testify on performance enhancing drug use.

The lines between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks hardened in April 1905 when the Bolsheviks held a Bolsheviks-only meeting in London, which they called the Third Party Congress.

The group which supported the establishment of a Central Committee at the 2nd Congress called themselves the Bolsheviks, and the losers ( the minority ) were given the Mensheviks by their own leader, Julius Martov.

Clinton called for legislation to overturn the ban, but encountered intense opposition from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, members of Congress, and portions of the public.

Hence, in 1878, Bismarck called an international conference ( the Congress of Berlin ) in order to sort out the problem.

A bare majority of Congress, acting in a special session called by former President Lucio Gutiérrez in December, 2004, ousted 27 of the 31 justices and replaced them with new members chosen by Congress, notwithstanding the lack of any provisions permitting impeachment of Supreme Court justices by Congress and the specific provisions giving the Court the power to select new members.

After Nikita Khrushchev's " secret speech " to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1956, which revealed that the Soviet party leadership had long been aware of Stalin's crimes, Thompson ( with John Saville and others ) started a dissident publication inside the CP, called The Reasoner.

The Permet National Congress held during that time called for a " new democratic Albania for the people.

" In 1937, speaking before the Women's Division of the American Jewish Congress, LaGuardia called for the creation of a special pavilion at the upcoming New York World's Fair, " a chamber of horrors " for " that brown-shirted fanatic ".

In July 1774, he chaired the meeting at which the " Fairfax Resolves " were adopted, which called for the convening of a Continental Congress, among other things.

The FIDE Congress in Vienna in 1957 adopted new regulations, called the FAV system, in recognition of the work done by International Judge Giovanni Ferrantes ( Italy ), Alexander ( probably Conel Hugh O ' Donel Alexander ), and Giancarlo Dal Verme ( Italy ).

In a BBC interview in 1975, Groucho called his greatest achievement having a book selected for cultural preservation in the American Library of Congress.

With the American Civil War raging, Congress passed the Conscription Act of 1863, requiring able-bodied men to serve in the army if called upon, or else to hire a substitute.

The universal health care proposal pending in the U. S. Congress is called the United States National Health Care Act ( H. R.

Hurriedly Madison called on Congress to put the country “ into an armor and an attitude demanded by the crisis ,” specifically recommending enlarging the army, preparing the militia, finishing the military academy, stockpiling munitions, and expanding the navy.

Monroe formally announced in his message to Congress on December 2, 1823, what was later called the Monroe Doctrine.

On 23 October 1939, the Congress condemned the Viceroy ’ s attitude and called upon the Congress ministries in the various provinces to resign in protest.

Rather than purporting to nullify the Alien and Sedition Acts, the 1798 Resolutions called on the other states to join Kentucky " in declaring these acts void and of no force " and " in requesting their repeal at the next session of Congress ".

This jamahiriya, as he called it, was supposedly a form of direct democracy in which power was balanced between a General People's Congress, consisting of 2, 700 representatives of Basic People's Congresses, and an executive General People's Committee, headed by a General Secretary, who reported to the Prime Minister and the President.

Concerning the partition of India to create Pakistan, while the Indian National Congress and Gandhi called for the British to quit India, the Muslim League passed a resolution for them to divide and quit, in 1943.

In the years since the bombing, scientists, security experts, and the ATF have called on Congress to develop legislation that would require customers to produce identification when purchasing ammonium nitrate fertilizer, and for sellers to maintain records of its sale.

Users and supporters included dissidents in totalitarian countries ( some affecting letters to Zimmermann have been published, some of which have been included in testimony before the US Congress ), civil libertarians in other parts of the world ( see Zimmermann's published testimony in various hearings ), and the ' free communications ' activists who called themselves cypherpunks ( who provided both publicity and distribution ), and, decades later, CryptoParty, who did much the same via Twitter.