Congressman Herger supports legislation to bolster free and fair trade in an effort to support his constituency.

* U. S. Congressman Wally Herger official U. S. House site

Some reports say he was rescued from timely retirement by his friend, Congressman Walter of Pennsylvania, at a moment when the Kennedy Administration was diligently searching for all the House votes it could get.

Under leave to extend my remarks, I include the relevant portion of my newsletter, together with the text of the article from the U.S. News & World Report: `` your Congressman, Samuel S. Stratton, reports from Washington, May 1, 1961

The senior policy officer may be moved to think hard about a problem by any of an infinite variety of stimuli: an idea in his own head, the suggestions of a colleague, a question from the Secretary or the President, a proposal by another department, a communication from a foreign government or an American ambassador abroad, the filing of an item for the agenda of the United Nations or of any other of dozens of international bodies, a news item read at the breakfast table, a question to the President or the Secretary at a news conference, a speech by a Senator or Congressman, an article in a periodical, a resolution from a national organization, a request for assistance from some private American interests abroad, et cetera, ad infinitum.

They arrived in Washington about the same time during the early postwar years: Kennedy as the young Congressman from Massachusetts ; ;

They range from the Soviet Embassy on Sixteenth Street, a gray shuttered pile suggesting a funeral-accessories display house, to what Congressman Rooney has called `` that monstrosity on Thirty-fourth Street '', the modern cement-and-glass chancery of the Belgians.

With eyes focused on the third congressional district, the historic Delta district, and Congressman Frank E. Smith as the one most likely to go, the redistricting battle will put to a test the longstanding power which lawmakers from the Delta have held in the Legislature.

Neither has Congressman Martin nor Senator McClellan been heard from on the matter ; ;

Additionally, Rumsfeld was a four-term U. S. Congressman from Illinois ( 1962 – 1969 ), Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity ( 1969 – 1970 ), Counsellor

Elias Boudinot ( ; May 2, 1740 – October 24, 1821 ) was a lawyer and statesman from Elizabeth, New Jersey who was a delegate to the Continental Congress and was elected as a U. S. Congressman for New Jersey following the American Revolutionary War.

* 1845 – Isidor Straus, co-owner of Macy's department store and former Congressman from New York ( d. 1912 )

* Joseph L. Fisher, U. S. Congressman from Virginia

* Thomas M. Davis, former U. S. Congressman from Virginia

Former U. S. Congressman W. Sterling Cole served as the IAEA's first Director General from 1957 to 1961.

This appointment ( by the ILO's British Director-General, C. Wilfred Jenks ) drew particular criticism from AFL-CIO president George Meany and from Congressman John E. Rooney.

* 1986 – Space Shuttle program: Congressman Bill Nelson lifts off from Kennedy Space Center aboard Columbia on mission STS-61-C as a Mission Specialist.

In 2004, gay rights activist Michael Rogers outed Edward Schrock, a Republican Congressman from Virginia.

* 1864 – T. Frank Appleby, United States Congressman from New Jersey ( d. 1924 )

* 3-Frank McCloskey, 64, Indiana Congressman from 1983 – 1995, bladder cancer.

* 30-Barber B. Conable, 81, New York Congressman, president of the World Bank from 1986 – 1991.

* William Francis Rhea ( 1858 – 1931 ), U. S. Congressman from Virginia

At the age of 17, with the help of his father, Grant was nominated by Congressman Thomas L. Hamer for a position at the United States Military Academy ( USMA ) at West Point, New York.

The Congressman expected his new term would bring an appointment as Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, but this was not to be, due largely to his emphatic position in favor of hard money, which did not reflect the House consensus.

After political campaign work, including a position as an aide to Congressman Ron Dellums, Medved worked in advertising, and coordinated a campaign to recruit more African Americans and Hispanics to the police departments of the California cities of San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley.

Openly gay Democratic Congressman Barney Frank, when asked whether Dreier was passed over for the position because of his " moderate " views, told a crowd of reporters " Yes, in the sense that I marched in the moderate pride parade last summer and went to a moderate bar .”

He acted as campaign manager for Lyndon B. Johnson during his rise to the position of Congressman and then Senator.

Standing in her way is Republican Congressman Shelley Runyon ( Gary Oldman ) of Illinois, who believes she is unqualified for the position, and backs Hathaway for the nod.

Congressman Orr was an advocate of states ' rights who used his position of power to assist those persons who promoted the continuation of slavery.

In 1988, Nunn unsuccessfully challenged Congressman Jim Bunning in his bid to retain his position as Kentucky's Republican national committeeman.

Josh leaves his position at the White House to run the dark horse Presidential campaign of Congressman Matt Santos of Texas ; leaving his legislate portfolio to be taken up by Clifford Calley.

Her new position placed her in direct conflict with Josh, who had convinced US Congressman Matt Santos to also run for the Democratic nomination, with himself as campaign manager.

His success and popularity enabled him in 1895 to become United States Congressman ( as a Democrat ), a position he held until resigning to become Mayor in late 1903.

Davis in 2003, she refused to take a position on tough federal legislation to punish states that do so introduced by Congressman Tom Tancredo the same year.

Owen and Oliver, bursting into Drawing Room ' A ', discover Congressman Grover Lockwood in a compromising position with his secretary Anita.

He was sworn into his position as the Congressman from the 3rd district of New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives on January 6, 2009, the first Democrat to represent this district in 123 years.

Bayani A. Dato, for the position of Congressman to represent the first district of Northern Samar in the House of Representatives, automatically resigning from office in accordance with the election rules in force at that time ; thus, leaving their respective positions vacant, Ballesta promptly took his oath of office as a Governor of the Provincial Government of Northern Samar, and served from late March, 1998 to June 30, 1998, being the highest ranked and most qualified provincial official to succeed, pursuant to the rules of succession provided for in the Local Government Code of 1991, thus technically becoming the third provincial governor coming from this Municipality.

However, U. S. Congressman Otter had announced his candidacy for the position in December 2004, and had gained a significant headstart in campaigning and fundraising.

Congressman Wilbur D. Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, asked the Department of Justice for its views on these legislative proposals as they related to anti-trust law enforcement.

Compare this statement of a nineteenth-century judge with how Congressman Martin, according to the Daily Labor Report of Sept. 19, 1961, defends the necessity of enacting anti-trust legislation in the field of labor `` if we wish to prevent monopolistic fixing of wages, production or prices and if we wish to preserve the freedom of the employer and his employees to contract on wages, hours and conditions of employment ''.

Lincoln, in collaboration with abolitionist Congressman Joshua R. Giddings, wrote a bill to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia with compensation for the owners, enforcement to capture fugitive slaves, and a popular vote on the matter.

The film follows two juxtaposed families: the Northern Stonemans, consisting of the abolitionist Congressman Austin Stoneman ( based on the Reconstruction-era Congressman Thaddeus Stevens

" Following the release of the Mitchell Report, Congressman Cliff Stearns called publicly for Selig to step down as commissioner, citing his " glacial response " to the " growing stain on baseball.

Reformers were led by Democratic Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts, who favored modification ( but ultimately voted for the defense authorization bill with the gay ban language ), and Barry Goldwater, a former Republican Senator and a retired Major General, who argued on behalf of allowing service by open gays and lesbians.

* 1859 – Daniel E. Sickles, a New York Congressman, is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity.

Within five years the Rainey Committee, a Special Committee on Investigation appointed by Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo and led by Congressman T. Rainey, reported in June, 1919 that drugs were being smuggled into the country by sea, and across the Mexican and Canadian borders by nationally established organisations and that the United States consumed 470, 000 pounds of opium annually, compared to 17, 000 pounds in both France and Germany.

The first known use of the term was by Congressman Davy Crockett, who said on the floor ( of the U. S. House of Representatives ) in 1835, " my people don't like me to log-roll in their business, and vote away pre-emption rights to fellows in other states that never kindle a fire on their own land.

All 269 on board die, including Congressman Lawrence McDonald.

They also sponsored a letter-writing campaign to Mayor Lindsay in which the Greenwich Village Democratic Party and Congressman Ed Koch sent pleas to end raids on gay bars in the city.

Marshall's opponent in the general election was Republican Congressman James E. Watson, and the campaign focused on temperance and prohibition.

Harding supported Congressman Leonidas Dyer's federal anti-lynching bill, known as the Dyer Bill, which passed the House of Representatives on January 26, 1922.

Lincoln asked Massachusetts Congressman Oakes Ames, who was on the railroad committee, to clean things up and get the railroad moving.

Then, in testimony before the House Rules Committee on May 7-8, Post proved " a convincing speaker with a caustic tongue " and defended himself so successfully that Congressman Edward W. Pou, a Democrat presumed to be an enthusiastic supporter of Palmer, congratulated him: " I feel that you have followed your sense of duty absolutely.

U. S. Congressman Ron Paul has continually argued for the reinstatement of the gold standard, but is no longer a strict advocate, instead supporting a basket of commodities that emerges on the free markets.

Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire, a former Congressman and Senator, did not get on the board until the 35th ballot, when the Virginia delegation brought him forward as a compromise choice.

Humphrey won the nomination, defeated Republican Congressman Clark MacGregor, and returned to the U. S. Senate on January 3, 1971.