He is most effective in the ordinary business of the House, and in the legislative accomplishments of this session, he easily rose to great occasion -- even at the height of unpleasantness and exciting legislative struggle -- and as the Nation witnessed these contests, he rose, even as admitted by those who differed with him, to the proportions of a hero and a noble partisan.

Certainly nobody will predict that the next time the lawmakers come back together Barnett will be able to enjoy a re-enactment of the strange but successful `` honeymoon '' he had in the 1960 legislative session.

`` Do you feel you can stand up to the next legislative session and defend this contract ''??

In the 1835 – 1836 legislative session, he voted to expand suffrage to white males, whether landowners or not.

The 1841 – 42 legislative session, with Whigs having a majority in the House chamber and the Democrats a smaller majority in the Senate, was marked by an impasse over the election of Tennessee's two United States senators.

A standing committee known as the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly and elected by the Assembly performs legislative functions when the Assembly is not in session.

In the U. S., the use of postage stamps caught on quickly and became more widespread when on March 3, 1851, the last day of its legislative session, Congress passed the Act of March 3, 1851 ( An Act to reduce and modify the Rates of Postage in the United States ).

The president may summon, suspend, or end a legislative session and dissolve Parliament any time after it has served for one year.

This bill passed both houses of the Oregon legislature during the 2009 legislative session.

During a legislative session, the legislature considers matters introduced by its members or submitted by the governor.

If an agreement is never reached in conference prior to the end of the legislative session, the bill is lost.

The Tunisian legal system is based on French civil law system and Islamic law ; some judicial review of legislative acts in the Supreme Court in joint session.

The Provincial Council of New Munster had only one legislative session, in 1849, before it succumbed to the virulent attacks of settlers from Wellington.

The educational sales tax as well as the county's limited ability to self-govern has been the subject of an attempted repeal by the Alabama State Legislature during the 2005 regular legislative session though the repeal of either ( particularly self-government ) is highly unlikely.

The Missouri state legislature defined the boundaries of the county from Chariton County during the 1842 – 1843 legislative session, and first named it Highland County.

When the state of Georgia seceded from the Union in January 1861 during a legislative session held in Milledgeville, Baldwin County became a target for Union forces.

During the 2005 legislative session, Vilsack signed into law greater restrictions that require products containing the active ingredient pseudoephedrine to be sold behind pharmacy counters, as opposed to open-access at open-shelf level.

In the 1930 legislative session, Long proposed another major road-building initiative as well as the construction of a new capitol building in Baton Rouge.

In every legislative session, state legislators representing the area introduced a bill in the Georgia General Assembly to authorize a referendum on incorporation.

The chairman of the Territorial Council's Enrolled Bills Committee, Joseph J. Rolette of Pembina, took the bill and hid in a St. Paul Hotel, drinking and playing cards with some friends as the City Police looked fruitlessly for him, until the end of the legislative session, too late for the bill to be signed.

On October 21, Missouri Governor Claiborne Jackson and the pro-Southern members of the Missouri General Assembly who had been forced to flee from Jefferson City on the approach of the Union Army, held next to their last legislative session at Neosho.

The Missouri General Assembly, in the 2008 legislative session, enacted legislation, to take effect in August 2009, which included language similar to Valley Park's unlawful employment ordinance, to be enforced by the Missouri Attorney General.

Disagreement between legislators and governors resulted in three appropriation vetoes for the normal school in the next 25 years, but in each case, the citizens of Cheney somehow raised the funds to keep the college going until the next legislative session.

She became ill and spent the winter of 1846 in Springfield, Illinois recovering, but her report was ready for the January 1847 legislative session, which promptly adopted legislation establishing Illinois ' first state mental hospital.

* 1999 – The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II on the day that legislative powers are officially transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh.

Noted legislative achievements during this phase of the Civil Rights Movement were passage of Civil Rights Act of 1964, that banned discrimination based on " race, color, religion, or national origin " in employment practices and public accommodations ; the Voting Rights Act of 1965, that restored and protected voting rights ; the Immigration and Nationality Services Act of 1965, that dramatically opened entry to the U. S. to immigrants other than traditional European groups ; and the Fair Housing Act of 1968, that banned discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.

The school was established as a women's college by legislative enactment on February 18, 1891 as the State Normal and Industrial School and opened October 5, 1892.

Similarly, in Sweden, since the mid 1970s, the monarch, at the request of the Speaker of the Riksdag, gives a short symbolic address ending with the monarch declaring the annual session of the Riksdag () to be opened, and is immediately followed by the prime minister's statement of government agenda () for the forthcoming legislative year.

While Allegheny County and the City of Pittsburgh approved the pacts swiftly, due to plans already being in place at the time of legislative approval, debate within Philadelphia's city leadership carried on as Pittsburgh opened their stadiums ( PNC Park for the Pirates and Heinz Field for the Steelers ) in 2001.

Determined to bring a higher degree of decorum to the chamber's proceedings, Carroll opened the 1968 legislative session with a single, powerful whack of his gavel.

After a series of speculative land transactions and a legislative scandal, inmates who were housed on the Waban constructed San Quentin which " opened in 1852 with 68 inmates.

It was created by legislative action in 1849 and opened in Ypsilanti, Michigan in 1853.

Spurred on by Amory L. Haskell, who led the legislative charge to once again permit wagering on horse racing in New Jersey and Philip H. Iselin, a New York City textile magnate, along with the backing of Reeve Schley, Joseph M. Roebling, John M. MacDonald, Townsend B. Martin, and James Cox Brady, Jr., the new Monmouth Park ( organized as the Monmouth Park Jockey Club ) opened on June 19, 1946 after a 53-year hiatus with 18, 724 in attendance.

There, on 4 October, the Queen opened and addressed the new legislative assembly, stating in her speech: " I am proud to be the first member of the Canadian Royal Family to be greeted in Canada's newest territory.

" In 1884, the organization's founders, Herbert Welsh and Henry Pancoast, opened an additional office in Washington D. C. to act as a legislative lobby and liaison with the Board of Indian Commissioners and the Board of Indian Affairs in 1884.

In 1884, the organization's founders, Herbert Welsh and Henry Spackman Pancoast, opened an additional office in Washington D. C. to act as a legislative lobby and liaison with the Board of Indian Commissioners and the Board of Indian Affairs.

Guatemala held presidential, legislative, and municipal elections on November 7, 1999, and a runoff presidential election on December 26.

Presidential and legislative elections were held on November 4, 2001, the country's fourth free and fair election since 1990.

In November 2011, Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani announced the first legislative election to take place in 2013.

In August 2009 as part of its third legislative term in the Scottish Parliament, the Government proposes to debate the Scottish referendum bill 2010, which would set out a planned referendum for 30th November 2010 on the issue of Scottish independence.

* November 17 – November 22 – The North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) passes the legislative houses in the United States, Canada and Mexico.

The declaration of a State of Palestine () took place in Algiers on November 15, 1988, by the Palestinian National Council, the legislative body of the Palestinian Liberation Organization ( PLO ).

The textbook issue was raised in November 2004, when a group of lawmakers, legislative candidates and supporters of the pro-independence Taiwan Solidarity Union ( TSU ) urged the ROC Ministry of Education to publish Taiwan-centric history and geography textbooks for school children as part of the Taiwanization campaign.

On 7 November, the legislative branch overrode Nixon's veto of the War Powers Act.

Because of an urgent demand, Phelps County was created by legislative action on November 13, 1857 from portions of Pulaski, Maries and Crawford counties.

Prior to the 2011 reapportionment following the 2010 Census, Chesterfield Township had been in state legislative district 30. Based on the results of the 2010 Census, the New Jersey Redistricting Commission has shifted Chesterfield into the, a change that will take effect in January 2013, based on the results of the November 2012 general elections.

Prior to the 2011 reapportionment following the 2010 Census, Fieldsboro had been in state legislative district 30. Based on the results of the 2010 Census, the New Jersey Redistricting Commission has shifted Fieldsboro into the, a change that will take effect in January 2013, based on the results of the November 2012 general elections.

Prior to the 2011 reapportionment following the 2010 Census, Oceanport Boro had been in state legislative district 12. Based on the results of the 2010 Census, the New Jersey Redistricting Commission has shifted Oceanport into the, a change that will take effect in January 2013, based on the results of the November 2012 general elections.

Prior to the 2011 reapportionment following the 2010 Census, Shrewsbury Boro had been in state legislative district 12. Based on the results of the 2010 Census, the New Jersey Redistricting Commission has shifted Shrewsbury into the, a change that will take effect in January 2013, based on the results of the November 2012 general elections.

Prior to the 2011 reapportionment following the 2010 Census, Bloomingdale Boro had been in state legislative district 26. Based on the results of the 2010 Census, the New Jersey Redistricting Commission has placed Bloomingdale entirely within the 11th Congressional District, a change that will take effect in January 2013, based on the results of the November 2012 general elections.

Prior to the 2011 reapportionment following the 2010 Census, Bridgewater Township had been in state legislative district 16. Based on the results of the 2010 Census, the New Jersey Redistricting Commission has shifted boundaries so that Bridgewater will no longer be split between districts and will be entirely within the 7th district, a change that will take effect in January 2013, based on the results of the November 2012 general elections.

In November 2002, the 2002 legislative election resulted in a landslide victory ( 42. 27 % of the vote ) for the People's Party under the leadership of Federal Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel.

Raab co-founded the Austrian People's Party ( ÖVP ), which denounced the dark legacy of the 1930s, and assumed leadership of ÖVP parliamentary group after the legislative elections held in November 1945.

On 16 November, Clodius took office as tribune of the plebs and began preparations for his destruction of Cicero and an extensive populist legislative program in order to bind as much of the community as possible to his policies as beneficiaries.

The National Viewers ' and Listeners ' Association ( now known as Mediawatch-UK ) was formally launched to succeed the CUTV campaign in November 1965, replacing what they themselves perceived as CUTV's negativity with an active campaign for legislative change.

Another constitutional amendment, passed in November 2000, called for a 30-day legislative session to be held in odd-numbered years between the longer 60-day sessions held in even-numbered years.

On 16 November 1988, the legislative body of Estonia issued the Estonian Sovereignty Declaration.

He also opposed the proposed Equal Rights Amendment and refused to include the issue in a call for a special legislative session in November 1981 to consider the measure.

In the legislative election, held on 9 November 2003, the party won 4. 2 % of the popular vote and 2 out of 158 seats in Congress.