There are only two men remaining in Congress who, with Rayburn, voted for the declaration of war against Germany in 1917.

In a lame-duck session of Congress after the 1998 elections, the House voted to impeach Clinton, based on the results of the Lewinsky scandal.

The anti-communist feelings that had just begun to hatch in the U. S. were given a great boost, and a silenced Congress voted overwhelmingly in approval of aid.

On 23 January 1990 at its 14th Congress the Communist League of Yugoslavia voted to remove its monopoly on political power, but the same day effectively ceased to exist as a national party when the League of Communists of Slovenia walked out after Serbia's Slobodan Milošević blocked all their reformist proposals – the League of Communists of Croatia walked out soon after.

By 1942, with the war industries booming and the draft in operation, need declined and Congress voted to close the program.

Congress, for its part, at first not really wanting any part of the affair, effectively voted to strip and then abandon the forts.

The 1st United States Congress voted to pay Washington a salary of $ 25, 000 a year — a large sum in 1789.

Congress voted in 2010 to extend the legislation until 2020 under the Haitian Economic Lift Act ( HELP ); the apparel sector accounts for about 90 % of Haitian exports and nearly one-tenth of GDP.

* Congress voted to honor Hoover's memory by publishing a memorial book.

* In 1998, the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee voted to cite Reno for contempt of Congress for not turning over documents during the impeachment of President Bill Clinton.

Military policy and legislation had previously entirely prohibited gay individuals from serving, and subsequently from serving openly, but these prohibitions were ended in September 2011 after the U. S. Congress voted to repeal the policy.

Lee had returned to Virginia by the time Congress voted on and adopted the Declaration of Independence, but he signed the document when he returned to Congress

* 1787 – The newly completed United States Constitution is voted on by the U. S. Congress to be sent to the state legislatures for approval.

The Declaration was ultimately a formal explanation of why Congress had voted on July 2 to declare independence from Great Britain, more than a year after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War.

Congress passed the preamble on May 15 after several days of debate, but four of the middle colonies voted against it, and the Maryland delegation walked out in protest.

Congress therefore voted on June 10 to postpone further discussion of Lee's resolution for three weeks.

The next step was for the resolution to be voted upon by the Congress itself.

Garfield voted with the Radical Republicans in passing the Wade – Davis Bill, designed to give Congress more authority over Reconstruction, but the bill was defeated by Lincoln's pocket veto.

Congress quickly passed the Civil Rights bill ; the Senate on February 2 voted 33 – 12 ; the House on March 13 voted 111 – 38.

The last Congressional appropriation was made May 25, 1838, and in 1840 Congress voted against completing the unfinished portion of the road, with the deciding vote cast by Henry Clay.

Subsequently, the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association voted to submit to Congress a bill to remove the limit on the amount of whiskey that could be prescribed and questioning the ability of a legislature to determine the therapeutic value of any substance.

Congress nonetheless voted to extend the Act for twenty-five years with its original enforcement provisions left intact.

Members of Congress commonly entered in informal quid pro quo agreements where they voted for other members ’ preferred tariffs in order to secure support for their own.

However, since the contras failed to win widespread popular support or military victories within Nicaragua, since opinion polls indicated that a majority of the U. S. public was not supportive of the contras, since the Reagan administration lost much of its support regarding its contra policy within Congress after disclosure of CIA mining of Nicaraguan ports, and since a report of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research commissioned by the State Department found Reagan's allegations about Soviet influence in Nicaragua " exaggerated ", Congress cut off all funds for the contras in 1985 by the third Boland Amendment.

Truman cut this to $ 17 billion in the bill he put to Congress.

Congress cut off funding for the Braille magazine translation in 1985, but U. S. District Court Judge Thomas Hogan reversed the decision on First Amendment grounds.

In 1977 the United States Congress sharply cut military assistance to Paraguay.

On the economic front, Harding urged Congress to create a Bureau of the Budget ; cut expenditures ; and revise federal tax laws.

United States aid specifically earmarked for the Netherlands ' Indonesia efforts was immediately cancelled and pressure mounted within the U. S. Congress for all United States aid to be cut off.

Recognizing the congressional determination, with wide public support, to cut defense costs ( including winding down the Vietnam War ), Laird worked hard to prune budgetary requests before they went to Congress, and acceded to additional cuts when they could be absorbed without serious harm to national security.

The lack of interest by Congress, and subsequent lack of funding, cut out most of the proposed activities – such as Manned Venus Flyby – but an orbital workshop remained of interest.

Ultimately Congress provided $ 253. 9 billion TOA, about $ 2 billion more than in FY 1994, but actually a 1. 2 % cut in real growth.

When Congress and the administration finally settled on a budget compromise midway through FY 1996, DoD received $ 254. 4 billion TOA, slightly more than in FY 1995, but in terms of real growth a 2 % cut.

After the massacre, the US Congress voted to cut off funding for IMET training of Indonesian military personnel.

After 1942, when Congress cut off the Library of Congress's funding for folk song collecting, Lomax continued to collect independently in Britain, Ireland, the Caribbean, Italy, and Spain, as well as the United States, using the latest recording technology, assembling a treasure trove of American and international culture.

U. S. election results on November 8, however, cut McKinley's Republican majority in Congress less than had been anticipated.

Attorney James Bopp Jr, who first stated “ No one that matters cares ”, has subsequently stated members of Congress may realize " they have cut their own throats.

Coleman told Congress Daily that he would not vote for a bill that cut sugar beet funding but " Karl Rove called me and asked what I wanted.

He declares he will send the controversial environmental bill to Congress with a massive 20 % cut in fossil fuels-far more than the 10 % originally envisaged-and that he is withdrawing his support for the weak crime bill, promising to write a stronger one in due time.

At the same time that President Johnson persuaded Congress to accept a tax cut in 1964, he was rapidly increasing spending for both domestic programs and for the war in Vietnam.

Even so, by the end of 1985, funding for domestic programs had been cut nearly as far as Congress could tolerate.

In 1996, Congress cut the NEA funding to $ 99. 5 million as a result of pressure from conservative groups, including the American Family Association, who criticized the agency for using tax dollars to fund highly controversial artists such as Robert Clark Young, Barbara Degenevieve, Andres Serrano, Robert Mapplethorpe, and the performance artists known as the " NEA Four ".

Due to the unpopularity of the war in the nation and in Congress, Worth had to cut back.

On February 17, 2011, the House of Representatives for the 112th U. S. Congress voted to eliminate all funding to USIP in FY 2011 as part of a broader effort to cut federal spending.

In recent decades, most " supply-siders " in the United States have been Republicans ( though a significant individual tax cut was proposed by President John F. Kennedy from the Democratic Party and passed by a Democratic Congress under another Democratic president, Lyndon B. Johnson ) with the belief that cutting the tax rate would stimulate investment and spending, with overall beneficial effects ( including replenishment of some lost tax revenues ).

Also displayed were the source books from which Jefferson cut his selected passages, and the 1904 edition of the Jefferson Bible requested and distributed by the United States Congress.