The " 90 Day Study " as it came to be known, evoked a hostile Congressional reaction towards SEI given that it would have required the largest single government expenditure since the Second World War.

Congressional action denied PNTR status to the reconstituted Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( Serbia and Montenegro ) in reaction to the armed conflict in the region and human rights abuses committed after the breakup of the old Yugoslavia.

On September 10, 1973, he released a message stating that the pipeline was his priority for the remainder of the Congressional session that year.

After the American Civil War, he vigorously opposed the Congressional Plan for Reconstruction and drafted President Johnson's message vetoing the Reconstruction Act passed on March 2, 1867 ; his veto was overridden.

When The Beauty of the Ghetto was on view in 1974 at the Museum of African Art in Washington, DC, Rep. John Conyers stressed the important positive message of the exhibit in the Congressional Record.

Sergeant Mike Donaldson, Congressional Medal of Honor soldier, was one of them.

The 1857 Congressional rejection of the pro-slavery Lecompton Constitution was the first multi-party solid-North vote, and that solid vote was anti-slavery to support the anti-slavery majority in Kansas Territory.

The amendment was submitted to the states for ratification by Congressional joint resolution, and therefore was not subject to Presidential veto, though Johnson vigorously opposed it, again because so many southern states were not represented in the Congress.

Chronicles was formerly presumed to represent the source-material whence Samuel and Kings were composed ; that is, the kings ' official Day-Books, much like the U. S. Congressional Record of modern times.

Following two minor heart attacks he had to undergo an emergency quadruple heart bypass in 1983, after which he was extremely weak, but he still managed to attend a 1988 Congressional hearing with old colleagues such as Jimmy Stewart and Ginger Rogers to protest media magnate Ted Turner's plan to colorize various black-and-white films from the 1930s and 1940s.

Leveraging the Supreme Court's establishment of Congressional supremacy over commerce, the Interstate Commerce Commission was established in 1887 with the intent of regulating railroad " robber barons ".

The census of the Philippines is enumerated every 5 years ( beginning on 1960, except in 2005 where it was moved to 2007 due to budgetary constraints ) and the results are used to allocate Congressional seats ( congressional apportionment ) and government program funding.

An influential report on Contra atrocities was issued by lawyer Reed Brody shortly before the 1985 U. S. Congressional vote on Contra aid.

The System does not require public funding, and derives its authority and purpose from the Federal Reserve Act, which was passed by Congress in 1913 and is subject to Congressional modification or repeal.

Sinatra was honored at the Kennedy Center Honors in 1983 and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Ronald Reagan in 1985 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 1997.

1932 was not a good year for Republican candidates like LaGuardia, and the 20th Congressional district was shifting from a Jewish and Italian-American population to a Puerto Rican population.

The command structure of the armed forces was a hodgepodge of Congressional appointees ( and Congress sometimes made those appointments without Washington's input ) with state-appointments filling the lower ranks and of all of the militia-officers.

With the initial peace treaty articles ratified in April, a recently formed Congressional committee under Hamilton, was considering needs and plans for a peacetime army.

In November, at a joint hearing of Congressional Subcommittee, it was told that Grenada could be used as a staging area for subversion of the nearby countries, for intersection of shipping lanes, and for the transit of troops and supplies from Cuba to Africa, and from Eastern Europe and Libya to Central America.

On Tuesday, August 4, 1970, the 91st Congress of the United States acknowledged the Glorification of St Herman of Alaska with a speech in the Senate, and his biography was formally entered into the Congressional Record, Vol.

In May 2007, a bill entitled the " Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, or STOCK Act " was introduced that would hold congressional and federal employees liable for stock trades they made using information they gained through their jobs and also regulate analysts or " Political Intelligence " firms that research government activities.

His original interment was temporary, in the public vault at the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D. C. Later, he was interred in the family burial ground in Quincy across from the First Parish Church, called Hancock Cemetery.

" Hoover was buried in the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D. C., next to the graves of his parents and a sister who died in infancy.

In recognition of his achievements on and off the field, Robinson was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal.

On February 13, 2008, Clemens appeared before a Congressional committee, along with Brian McNamee, and swore under oath that he did not take steroids ; that he did not discuss HGH with McNamee ; that he was not at a party at José Canseco's where steroids were the topic of conversation ; that he was only injected with B-12 and lidocaine ; and that he never told Pettitte that he had taken HGH.

In both of those decisions, Rehnquist, along with four of the Court's more conservative justices, held Congressional legislation unconstitutional, because said legislation exceeded the limits of the Constitution's Commerce clause.

In 1997, several Republican Congressional leaders tried to force Speaker Newt Gingrich to resign ; however Gingrich refused since that would have required a new election for Speaker, which could led to the possibility that Democrats — along with dissenting Republicans — would vote for the Democrat Dick Gephardt ( then Minority Leader ) as Speaker.

Calhoun was one of the " Great Triumvirate " or the " Immortal Trio " of Congressional leaders, along with his Congressional colleagues Daniel Webster and Henry Clay.

In February 2006, Sanchez withdrew from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus's political action committee, along with 5 other members, because the caucus chairman, Joe Baca, authorized political contributions to members of his family who were running for state and local offices in California.

Two days after the storm, US president Barack Obama and Alabama governor Robert Bentley, and their spouses, Michelle Obama and Diane Bentley, respectively, accompanied Mayor Maddox on a tour of the damage and the recovery efforts, along with FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate and several Congressional dignitaries.

Most of Marlboro Township is in the 12th Congressional district along with a small sliver of the Township in the 6th Congressional district and is part of New Jersey's 13th state legislative district.

Smith was posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 2004, along with all astronauts lost in the Challenger and Columbia accidents.

Members will receive a " slate card " with a list of union endorsements matched to the member's Congressional district, along with a " personalized " letter from President Trumka emphasizing the importance of voting.

Abernathy testified, along with his executive associate, James Peterson of Berkeley, California, before the Congressional Hearings calling for the Extension of the Voting Rights Act, which has and continues to serve as the only legal method to ensure equal and fair voting practices in the Southern States, guaranteeing that everyone born in the United States of America, regardless of race, is entitled to full citizenship and the right to vote.

The HRT came under increased public and Congressional scrutiny, along with federal law enforcement in general, due to what some saw as heavy-handed tactics used at Waco and Ruby Ridge.

The Center holds the archive of Albert's Congressional papers along with those of Robert S. Kerr, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Millicent Fenwick, Ernest Istook, Fred R. Harris, Percy Gassaway, and many others.

George W. Bush | President George W. Bush along with House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi congratulate Borlaug during the Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony on July 17, 2007

As co-chair with Jared Polis ( D-CO ) of the U. S .- Mexico Friendship Caucus, Nunes along with members of the Congressional Hispanic Conference of the House of Representatives met with President Felipe Calderón of Mexico on April 24, 2012, in what is believed to be Calderón's final trip to Washington, D. C, as President of Mexico.

* March 1-It is proposed, in Congress, to treat Vermont as hostile, failing submission to the terms of 20 August 1781, and to divide it between New York and New Hampshire, along the ridge of the Green Mountains ; and that the Commander-in-chief employ the Congressional forces to further this resolution.

Oberstar was the co-chairman of the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus, along with Republican Chris Smith of New Jersey.

On 13 May 2010 Sailhac, along with other chefs from The French Culinary Institute, Jacques Pepin, Jacques Torres and André Soltner, prepared a $ 30, 000-per-couple dinner for President Barack Obama ’ s fund-raiser for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee at Manhattan ’ s St. Regis Hotel.

Robles fell back along the railway, called up troops from Iquique, and beat the invaders at Huara on 17 February, but Iquique in the meanwhile fell to the Congressional fleet on 16 February.

A Congressional Gold Medal is an award bestowed by the United States Congress and is, along with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States.

He served as U. S. Representative from the 39th Congressional District of California from 1979 to 1993, during which time he, along with friend and fellow Republican U. S. Rep. Robert K. Dornan, came to personify Orange County conservatism.

Texas District 4 of the United States House of Representatives is a Congressional district that serves an area that includes some counties along the Red River north of the Dallas / Fort Worth Metroplex, including semi-rural Rockwall County and the large non-urbanized portion of Collin County.

After GenderPAC visited Congressional offices in preparation for a Lobby Days event, with an HRC lobbyist along, allegations were offered by some transgender activists that Human Rights Campaign might have persuaded GenderPAC to shift its support to hate crime laws, saying that this would be more politically efficacious ..