We believe that the list of vital things left undone to date by the Eighty-seventh Congress should have included repeal by the Senate of the Connally amendment.

Meanwhile, after 24 years in the Senate, Rhode Island's durable Democrat Theodore Francis Greene -- having walked, swum and cerebrated himself to the hearty age of 93 -- left that august body ( voluntarily, because he could surely have been re-elected had he chosen to run again last November ), as the oldest man ever to serve in the Senate.

* 1911 – United States Senate leaders agree to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the Senate among leading candidates to fill the vacancy left by William P. Frye's death.

In October 1843, Atchison was appointed to the U. S. Senate to fill the vacancy left by the death of Lewis F. Linn.

Although the election was boycotted by the Mujahideen, the government left 50 of the 234 seats in the House of Representatives, as well as a small number of seats in the Senate, vacant in the hope that the guerillas would end their armed struggle and participate in the government.

He served in the Maine Senate in 1870 but left to serve as the state's Attorney General 1870 – 72.

Willkie left the selection of the candidate for Vice President to convention chairman Joseph W. Martin, Jr., who suggested Senate Minority Leader Charles L. McNary of Oregon.

* February 26 – U. S. politician John Glenn slips on a bathroom rug in his Columbus, Ohio apartment and hits his head on the bathtub, injuring his left inner ear, and prompting him ( later that week ) to withdraw from the race for the Democratic Party Senate nomination.

His colleagues selected him as majority whip in 1961, a position he held until he left the Senate on December 29, 1964 to assume the vice presidency.

Thurmond left the Senate in January 2003 as the United States ' longest-serving senator ( a record later surpassed by Senator Byrd ).

The periods of 2001-2002 and 2003-2007 were the first times since 1953-1955 that there was single-party Republican leadership in Washington, interrupted from 2001-2003 as Senator Jim Jeffords of Vermont left the Republicans to become independent and caucused with the Democrats to give them the 51-49 Senate majority.

This left only Octavius and the Senate to defend the causes of Sulla in Rome.

Clay left the Senate to recuperate in Newport, Rhode Island.

Although the election was boycotted by the Mujahideen, the government left 50 of the 234 seats in the House of Representatives, as well as a small number of seats in the Senate, vacant in the hope that the guerillas would end their armed struggle and participate in the government.

From left: President Harry S. Truman, Vice Presidential nominee Alabama United States Senate | Senator John J. Sparkman and Presidential nominee, Governor of Illinois | Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson.

During the Second World War, the colleges of the university ( with the exception of Birkbeck ) and their students left London for safer parts of the UK, while Senate House was used by the Ministry of Information, with its roof becoming an observation point for the Royal Observer Corps.

Smaller, provincial parties were left with 4 seats in all ( losing 3 ); Justicialists ( pro or against the current Administration ) maintained the control over the Senate they've enjoyed since 1983.

The choice was left to the Senate, who unanimously selected Valerian ( the future emperor ).

Sulla left Rome and traveled to the army waiting in Nola, the army the Senate had asked him to lead against Mithridates.

In October 1901, Dawes left the Department of the Treasury in order to pursue a U. S. Senate seat from Illinois.

After Dawes left the Senate, however, all but one of the scheduled speakers decided against making formal remarks, and a vote was taken.

The Senate, thinking it was a compromise, approved the bill as amended ; by the time Senator Craighead returned, the bill had already left the Senate, and he took no further action.

William A. Martinelli, chairman of the Citizens Group of Johnston, transferred the petitions from his left hand to his right hand after the council voted to accept them at the suggestion of Council President Raymond Fortin Sr..

In 1765 he was unanimously elected associate member of the Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts of Rouen, but there is no evidence that he left Paris to accept the honor.

As documented in her 1994 autobiography, initially, much of Wagoner's audience was unhappy, that Norma Jean, the performer whom Parton had replaced, had left the show, and was reluctant to accept Parton ( sometimes chanting loudly for Norma Jean from the audience ).

This time, Bobby had enough and left after telling his father that he should just accept the fact that he is a mutant and he would never fit the definition he has of normal.

Beria's bodyguards reported that their orders included handing each girl a flower bouquet as she left Beria's house, with the implication being that to accept his parting gift made her his consensual mistress ; those who refused risked being arrested.

The water repels the greasy ink but the hydrophobic areas left by the original drawing material accept it.

Their credit card failed to authorize, and after being told the agency did not accept personal cheques, the pair left to withdraw cash.

However, it was left to him to decide what issues, if any, were brought before them and he was free to accept or reject their advice as he saw fit.

Other commentators do not accept this position and maintain that although Moses did not write those eight verses it was nonetheless dictated to him and that Joshua wrote it based on instructions left by Moses, and that the Torah often describes future events, some of which have yet to occur.

Following the IWC's 1991 refusal to accept its Scientific Committee's recommendation to allow sustainable commercial whaling, Iceland left the IWC in 1992.

He left the Franciscans for the Lutheran Church in order to accept an appointment at the Reformed Church-dominated University of Basel in 1529.

Roosevelt's efforts to reform New York politics-including Republican politics-led Platt and other state GOP leaders to pressure President McKinley to accept Roosevelt as his new vice-presidential candidate, thus filling the spot left open when Vice-President Garret Hobart died in 1899.

Foster left the NFL to accept a position in the USFL.

To work reliably, both of the left-side cranks must be tandem-or left-drive specific to accept the left-hand threading used on left pedals.

* If the dealer accept when there are not sufficient cards left in the stock to enable the players to exchange as many cards as they wish, the non-dealer is entitled to exchange as many as he asked for, or, if there are not enough, at many as there are left, and the dealer must play his hand ; the dealer is at liberty to accept, conditionally, on there being cards enough in the stock.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that Mirkin had been " forced off the show ," due to the negative reaction of Spelling and others, though in 2012, Mirkin stated that he left the series after refusing to accept a substantially reduced budget.

Those monks and clergy unable to accept the Whitby decision left Northumbria, some going to Ireland and others to Iona.

Updates were broadcast to enable firmware changes, but in some cases the receiver must be left on and receiving broadcasts to accept the updates ; not everyone was aware of this.

Greg Upchurch, formerly of Puddle of Mudd, replaced Daniel Adair in 2005, when Adair left to accept the position as drummer and contributing member of Nickelback .< ref name =" website ">

After the 2002 season, Van Horn left to accept a position at his alma mater, Arkansas ; assistant coach Mike Anderson became head coach.

Healey was elected to the House of Commons as MP for Leeds East at a by-election in February 1952 with a majority of 7, 000 votes, after the incumbent MP Major James Milner left the Commons to accept a peerage.