On May 5, 2010, Obey announced that he would not seek reelection to Congress in November 2010.

Before serving in Congress, Obey worked as a real estate broker.

Obey was the longest-serving member of either house of Congress in Wisconsin's history.

Obey had risen to the position of fifth ranking House Democrat since his party retook control of Congress.

Obey, only 30 when he was elected, became the youngest member of Congress upon taking his seat, as well as the first Democrat ever to represent the district.

The 11th Party Congress would prove to be the last congress chaired by Lenin, he suffered one stroke in May 1922, was paralysed by a second in December later that year, was removed from public life in March 1923 and died on 21 January 1924.

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.

He chaired the Committee on the Judiciary ( Forty-seventh Congress ) and chaired the Rules Committee ( Fifty-first, Fifty-fourth, and Fifty-fifth Congresses ).

In February, he began working with the National Negro Congress, and in April he chaired the South Side Writers ' Group, whose membership included Arna Bontemps and Margaret Walker.

The Congress of Vienna ( German: Wiener Kongress ) was a conference of ambassadors of European states chaired by Austrian statesman Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, and held in Vienna from September 1814 to June 1815.

He chaired the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation during the 109th Congress, becoming the committee's ranking member after the Democrats regained control of the Senate for the 110th Congress.

He chaired the Federal Quality Institute in 1991, and was chairman of the Commission on Servicemembers and Veterans Transition Assistance established by Congress in 1996.

All Congress meetings are chaired by FINA's president.

" But on November 2, 1959, he admitted to the House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight, a United States Congress subcommittee, chaired by Arkansas Democrat Oren Harris, that he had been given questions and answers in advance of the show.

For several years he was the ranking Republican on the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, and chaired the committee during the 109th Congress ( 2005 – 2007 ).

While he chaired the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support ( called the Subcommittee on Human Resources during his watch ) beginning with the 107th Congress, he played a leading role in the reauthorization and expansion of the 1996 welfare reform law.

He chaired the Ethics Committee for the duration of the 109th Congress and switched to ranking member when the Democrats won the majority for the 110th Congress.

During the 103rd Congress ( 1993 – 94 ) he chaired the House Budget Committee.

When Rozelle, now NFL Commissioner, and other professional football executives appeared before the Congress ' Subcommittee on Antitrust, chaired by New York congressman Emanuel Celler, two points were repeatedly made:

Of the 20 standing committees of the House in the 111th Congress, 10 were chaired by members of the CPC.

The Ways and Means Committee in the 111th Congress was chaired by Charlie Rangel, who had taken a leave of absence as chairman until House ethics violations were resolved.

( His predecessor Blatnik had chaired the committee during his last two terms in Congress when it was known as the Public Works Committee, with Oberstar as staff administrator ).

Deng chaired the ( 11th ) National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China's de jure legislative body, and stressed the importance of the Four Modernizations, a series of advances in various fields aimed at strengthening the country by adapting to modern standards.

In the Sixty-second United States Congress he chaired the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Salvador chaired the ways and means committee of this second Congress, at the same time serving on a select committee authorized to issue bills of credit as payment to members of the militia.

He served in the 15th Congress from 1817 to 1819, when he chaired the Committee on Public Lands.

Upon completion of his Presidential term, his commission was reactivated by Congress and Eisenhower again was commissioned a five-star general in the United States Army.

* 1983 – A special commission of the U. S. Congress releases a report that condemns the practice of Japanese internment during World War II.

In December 1989, the commission concluded that the protocol had existed and revealed its findings to the Soviet Congress of People's Deputies.

The commission heard reports of human rights violations and considered amnesty applications from all sides, from the apartheid state to the liberation forces, including the African National Congress.

He resigned his commission — by then, as a major general — but Congress continued to ask his advice even though he was against slavery.

** A special commission of the Congress of the United States releases a report critical of the practice of Japanese internment during World War II.

A reward that Stark likely valued the highest was a message of thanks from John Hancock, president of the Continental Congress, which included a commission as " brigadier in the army of the United States ".

Although his desire was to continue his Army service, Garfield reluctantly took his seat in Congress upon resigning his military commission in December 1863.

Project MKUltra was first brought to wide public attention in 1975 by the U. S. Congress, through investigations by the Church Committee, and by a presidential commission known as the Rockefeller Commission.

That report prompted investigations by the U. S. Congress, in the form of the Church Committee, and by a presidential commission known as the Rockefeller Commission that looked into domestic activities of the CIA, the FBI, and intelligence-related agencies of the military.

Demands for a fitting national memorial had been voiced since the time of Lincoln's death, and in 1867, the Congress passed the first of many bills incorporating a commission to erect a monument for the sixteenth president.

The matter lay dormant until the turn of the century, when, under the leadership of Senator Shelby M. Cullom of Illinois, six separate bills were introduced in Congress for the incorporation of a new memorial commission.

Various accounts refer to airships Resolute and Volunteer as operating under a " privateer status ", but Congress never authorized a commission, nor did the President sign one.

Subsequently, when Vermont petitioned for statehood, Congress ordered a joint commission to settle the border between New York and Vermont.

In 1891, the United States Congress appointed a commission to meet with the tribal leaders and come to an agreement allowing white settlement in the region.

The Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill as it appeared in 1922 stated: " To assure to persons within the jurisdiction of every State the equal protection of the laws, and to punish the crime of lynching .... Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the phrase ' mob or riotous assemblage ,' when used in this act, shall mean an assemblage composed of three or more persons acting in concert for the purpose of depriving any person of his life without authority of law as a punishment for or to prevent the commission of some actual or supposed public offense.

The crash made national headlines and prompted Congress to commission the Copeland Committee report on air traffic safety.

In 1891, the United States Congress appointed a commission to meet with the tribal leaders and come to an agreement allowing white settlement.

The Continental Congress delayed Lafayette's commission, as they had tired of " French glory seekers ".

Congress regarded his commission as honorary, while he considered himself a full-fledged commander who would be given control of a division when Washington deemed him prepared.

Although he rejected this scholarship, Martin Mayer wrote in 1997 that since the late 1980s it had been “ clear ” that continuing the Glass-Steagall prohibitions was only “ permitting a handful of large investment houses and hedge funds to charge monopoly rents for their services without protecting corporate America, investors, or the banks .” Hyman Minsky, who disputed the benefits of “ universal banking ,” wrote in 1995 testimony prepared for Congress that “ repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, in itself, would neither benefit nor harm the economy of the United States to any significant extent .” In 1974 Mayer had quoted Minsky as stating a 1971 presidential commission ( the “ Hunt Commission ”) was repeating the errors of history when it proposed relaxing Glass-Steagall and other legislation from the 1930s.

On 23 December he appeared in Congress, then sitting at Annapolis, and returned his commission as Commander-in-Chief: " Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action ; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my Commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.

He found encouragement in a number of bills before Congress proposing a Department of Aeronautics that included an air force separate from either the Army and Navy, primarily legislation introduced in August 1919 by Senator Harry New ( Rep-Indiana ), influenced by the recommendations of a fact-finding commission sent to Europe under the direction of Assistant Secretary of War Benedict Crowell in early 1919 that contradicted the findings of Army boards and advocated an independent air force.

The commission proposed that funding come from the United States Congress and that a new organization, the Board for International Broadcasting ( BIB ) would simultaneously link the stations and the federal government, and serve as an editorial buffer between them.

Legislation was introduced in both houses of Congress early in January 1913 to approve the commission, but when it came to a vote, the legislation was defeated.