After complimenting Morgan and the riflemen and saying he was praising them to Congress, too, the ardent Frenchman added he felt that Congress should make some financial restitution to the widow and family of Morris, but that he knew Morgan realized how long such action usually required, if it was done at all.

Mr. Truman has only to recall the `` hopeless '' campaign of 1948 to remember what a loyal partisan he was and the first experience of Mr. Kennedy with Congress would have been sadder than it was had not Mr. Sam been there.

That breach was healed 20 years later by merger of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations.

The Twenty-second Soviet Communist Party Congress opens in Moscow today in a situation contrasting sharply with the script prepared many months ago when this meeting was first announced.

He was delighted to learn that the Post Office Department is now going to expand this service to deliver mail from Representatives in Congress to their constituents without the use of stamps, names, addresses or even zone numbers.

Mr. Dwyer said that although it was obvious that Mr. Rayburn was not well he stopped, gave the youngster his autograph, asked where he was from and expressed the hope that he would enjoy his visit to Congress.

The program was instituted in 1940, and releases are available only from the Recording Laboratory of the Library of Congress, Washington 25, D.C..

It seems that Khrushchev himself took a very special pride in having made a world-shaking contribution to Marxist doctrine with his Draft Program ( a large part of his twelve-hour speech at the recent Congress was, in fact, very largely a rehash of that interminable document ).

The news of battle on Breed's Hill had already seeped through, and New York itself was now left in the hands of the local Provincial Congress.

The Congress of Vienna is a convenient starting point because it both epitomized and symbolized what was to follow.

Thus the Congress marks a formal recognition of the political system that was central to world politics for a century.

It was defeated in Congress last year.

But with the convening of the new Congress, he was the public man again, presiding over the Senate until John Kennedy's Inauguration.

The American Constitution was historic at this point in providing that `` Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ''.

The departure of the Southerners gave Lincoln's party firm control of Congress, but no formula for compromise or reconciliation was found, and the war came.

Lincoln demanded that Polk show Congress the exact spot on which blood had been shed and prove that the spot was on American soil.

Lincoln was supported by Congress and the northern public for these actions.

By December 1863 a proposed constitutional amendment that would outlaw slavery absolutely was brought to Congress for passage.

After a long debate in the House, a second attempt passed Congress on January 13, 1865, and was sent to the state legislatures for ratification.

" I must go into the Presidential chair the inflexible and uncompromising opponent of every attempt on the part of Congress to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia against the wishes of the slaveholding States, and also with a determination equally decided to resist the slightest interference with it in the States where it exists.

Until 1891, the president pro tempore only served until the return of the vice president to the chair or the adjournment of a session of Congress.

Johnson wielded considerable influence over defense policy as chair of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War during the Fifteenth Congress.

A year later, the band came under fire again, this time as part of a campaign by conservative activist William Bennett, Senator Joe Lieberman, then-Senator Sam Nunn, and National Congress of Black Women chair C. Delores Tucker to get major record labels — including Time Warner, Sony, Thorn-EMI, PolyGram and Bertelsmann — to " dump 20 recording groups ... responsible for the most offensive lyrics.

He was elected as a representative to Congress, serving from 1865 to 1873, when he held the positions of chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee and sometimes as chair of the Republican caucus.

In 1994, during his tenure as RNC chair, Republicans captured both houses of the United States Congress, taking the House of Representatives for the first time in forty years.

Dean was appointed by President Harry S. Truman as one of the original Commissioners of the AEC in May 1949, by which time McMahon had become Senator ( in 1944 ), author of the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, and chair of the Joint Atomic Energy Committee of Congress.

In his capacity as NPCSC chair, Wu delivers an annual address each year at the National People's Congress sessions in March.

As a member of 13th Congress of the Philippines with the Anakpawis or the ' Toiling Masses Partylist ' and former chair of Kilusang Mayo Uno ( KMU ) ( a militant and progressive labour movement ), he was a major figure in contemporary Filipino history.

One of these was Gareth Thomas MP, chair of the Co-operative Party since 2001 and of the Co-operative Congress in 2003, who was invited to join the parliamentary group in 2003.

She is the most senior of the 12 black women currently serving in the United States Congress, and is a member and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus.

* Member of Congressional Black Caucus ( CBC ); past chair of CBC ( 105th United States Congress )

Membership is exclusive to African-Americans, and its chair in the 112th Congress is Representative Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri.

Two months before resigning as chair of the committee which oversees the drug industry, Tauzin had played a key role in shepherding through Congress the Medicare Prescription Drug Bill, a bill which had been criticized by opponents for being too generous to the pharmaceutical industry.

Dave Camp became the committee chair for the 112th Congress, after the Republicans won control of the House in the 2010 election.

Following the 1994 Republican takeover of Congress, Clay Shaw was named as chair of this important House committee.

During his tenure in Congress, Gutknecht served as chair of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Operations Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry, vice chair of the Science Committee, and as a member of the Government Reform Committee.

He was also committee chair, when Congress authorized the procurement of the first nuclear-powered aircraft carriers starting with in the late 1950s.

In the 112th Congress, the chair is Jeb Hensarling of Texas, Vice Chair is Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington, and Secretary is John Carter of Texas.

Re-elected to Congress, Carrió earned growing publicity as the chair of the Congressional Committee on Corruption and Money Laundering after 1999, particularly during a series of exchanged accusations in 2001 between herself and Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo.

During the 13th Congress he was chair of the United States House Committee on Pensions and Revolutionary War Claims, during the 14th, 15th, 19th and 20th Congresses, he was chair of the House Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and was also chair of the House Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department during the 15th Congress.

The widespread purge that has taken place the past twelve months or so among Communist leaders in the provinces gives assurance that the party officials who will dominate the Congress, and the Central Committee it will elect, will all have passed the tightest possible Khrushchev screening, both for loyalty to him and for competence and performance on the job.

it would certainly violate the intention of Congress as expressed in the Committee Report ; ;

As the 87th Congress began its sessions last week, liberal Democrats were ready for a finish fight to open the sluice gates controlled by the House Rules Committee and permit the free flow of liberal legislation to the floor.

Also while in Washington, Doubleday testified against George Meade at the United States Congress Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, criticizing him harshly over his conduct of the Battle of Gettysburg.

Although at first the disagreement appeared to be minor and inspired by personal conflicts, for example, Lenin's insistence on dropping less active editorial board members from Iskra or Martov's support for the Organizing Committee of the Congress which Lenin opposed, the differences quickly grew and the split became irreparable.

* The Central Discipline Inspection Commission, which is directly under the National Congress and on the same level with the Central Committee, charged with rooting out corruption and malfeasance among party cadres.

Formally, the Congress serves two functions: to approve changes to the Party constitution regarding policy and to elect a Central Committee, about 300 strong.

In practice, positions within the Central Committee and Politburo are determined before a Party Congress, and the main purpose of the Congress is to announce the party policies and vision for the direction of China in the following few years.

The process for selecting Standing Committee members, as well as Politburo members, occurs behind the scenes in a process parallel to the National Congress.

The Committee was expanded to nine at the 16th Party National Congress in 2009.

# Wu Bangguo: Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress

In 1929, Gini founded the Italian Committee for the Study of Population Problems ( Comitato italiano per lo studio dei problemi della popolazione ) which, two years later, organised the first Population Congress in Rome.

According to Party rules, the Central Committee directed all Party and government activities between each Party Congress.

The group which supported the establishment of a Central Committee at the 2nd Congress called themselves the Bolsheviks, and the losers ( the minority ) were given the Mensheviks by their own leader, Julius Martov.

At the 9th Party Congress the Democratic Centralists, an opposition faction within the party, accused Lenin and his associates, of creating a Central Committee in which a " small handful of party oligarchs ... was banning those who hold deviant views.

Despite the ban on factionalism, the Workers ' Opposition continued its open agitation against the policies of the Central Committee, and before the 11th Party Congress ( March 1922 ) the Workers ' Opposition made an ill-conceived bid to win support for their position in the Comintern.

During the 11th Party Congress Alexander Shliapnikov, the leader of the Workers ' Opposition, claimed that certain individuals from the Central Committee had threatened him.

At the 15th Party Congress ( 2 – 19 December 1927 ) the Left Opposition was crushed ; none of its members were elected to the Central Committee.

The Central Committee which was elected at the 16th Party Congress ( 26 June – 13 July 1930 ) removed Tomsky and Rykov.

The tone of the 17th Party Congress was different than its predecessors ; several old oppositionists became delegates, and were re-elected to the Central Committee.

The majority of the Central Committee members elected at the 17th Party Congress were killed during, or shortly after, the Great Purge when Nikolai Yezhov and Lavrentiy Beria headed the NKVD Grigory Kaminsky, at a Central Committee meeting, spoke against the Great Purge, and shortly after was arrested and killed.

Of the 139 members elected to the Central Committee at the 17th Congress, 98 people were killed in the period 1936 – 40.

By the 18th Congress there were only 31 members of the Central Committee, and of these only two were reelected.