In accordance with legislation passed at the last session of Congress, each Representative is authorized to deliver to the Post Office in bulk newsletters, speeches and other literature to be dropped in every letter box in his district.

Representative cricket teams were selected to tour each other, resulting in bilateral competition.

As a colony or other dependent state or territory lacks the authority to vest in a true head of state of its own, it either has no comparable office, simply receiving those roles exercised by the paramount powers ( in person or, most of the time, through an appointed representative, often styled governor or lieutenant-governor, but also various other titles, on the Cook Islands even simply King / Queen's Representative ) or has one, such as a formerly sovereign dynasty, but under a form of metropolitan guardianship, such as protection, vassal or tributary status.

U. S. Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen ( R-FL ) said that the report " underscores the need for democratic change in Burma, whose military regime arbitrarily arrests, tortures, rapes and executes its own people, ruthlessly persecutes ethnic minorities, and bizarrely builds itself a new capital city while failing to address the increasingly urgent challenges of refugee flows, illicit narcotics and human trafficking, and the spread of HIV / AIDS and other communicable diseases.

Representative money and the gold standard protect citizens from hyperinflation and other abuses of monetary policy, as were seen in some countries during the Great Depression.

In response to the Occupy Wall Street protests and the worldwide occupy movement calling for U. S. campaign finance reform eliminating corporate influence in politics, among other reforms, Representative Ted Deutch introduced the " Outlawing Corporate Cash Undermining the Public Interest in our Elections and Democracy " ( OCCUPIED ) constitutional amendment on November 18, 2011.

This met with little enthusiasm by two of the other Directors François Ermerins and Jan Hendrik van Swinden, and by the Representative Assembly, that rejected the project on June 11, 1801, by fifty votes to twelve.

Some Congress members expressed concern that the Office of the United States Trade Representative would lose focus if it were included in a larger bureaucracy, especially given its status as an " honest broker " between other agencies, which tend to advocate for specific points of view.

On the other hand, he was twice elected as the chairman and then once elected as the vice-chairman of the China Literary Arts Representative Assembly.

In 2007, Ischinger was the European Union Representative in the Troika negotiations on the future of Kosovo which led to the declaration of independence of Kosovo and to the recognition of Kosovo by most EU member countries, by the United States, and a number of other countries, in February, 2008.

In attendance were hundreds of citizens, U. S. Representative Deborah Pryce, and many other political and civic leaders.

The leader of a number of the resident deserters, Newton Knight, shot McLemore in the back as McLemore and other officers and friends sat around the fireplace of state Representative Amos Deason's house in Ellisville.

The attempted assassination of Representative Gabrielle Giffords, and the murders of chief judge for the U. S. District Court for Arizona, John Roll, and five other people on January 8, 2011, occurred at a Safeway supermarket in Casas Adobes.

The town government consists of the three-member Board of Selectmen, a Representative Town Meeting ( RTM ), a Board of Finance, a Board of Education, a Planning and Zoning Commission ( TPZ ), and many other politically appointed commissions, boards, and committees.

In attendance were hundreds of citizens, U. S. Representative Deborah Pryce, and many other political and civic leaders.

The FMA's Republican co-sponsors, Senator Wayne Allard ( R-CO ) and Representative Marilyn Musgrave ( R-CO ), announced new language for the proposed amendment on March 23, 2004, replacing the second sentence of the amendment with " Neither this Constitution, nor the constitution of any State, shall be construed to require that marriage or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon any union other than the union of a man and a woman.

* As with the other dominions, the British monarch would be the head of state of the Irish Free State ( Saorstát Éireann ) and would be represented by a Governor General ( See Representative of the Crown ).

The cat in front of the barn is the only other living creature besides the Corwood Representative to appear on a record cover to date.

1935 ), an attorney in Jackson, Mississippi, ran unsuccessfully in 1978 for the United States House of Representatives, having been defeated by the Republican Jon C. Hinson, then the aide to U. S. Representative Thad Cochran, who ran successfully to succeed James O. Eastland for the other Mississippi seat in the U. S. Senate.

* Two Representative Computer Go Games, an article about two computer Go games played in 1999, one with two computers players, and the other a 29-stone handicap human-computer game

Article I, Section 6 of the United States Constitution provides that " for any Speech or Debate in either House, Senator or Representative shall not be questioned in any other Place ", thus the Senator could not be prosecuted for anything said on the Senate floor, and, by extension, for anything entered to the Congressional Record, allowing the Papers to be publicly read without threat of a treason trial and conviction.

In the House of Representatives in particular, the influence of a single member individually is relatively small and therefore depends a great deal on the Representative's seniority — that is, in most cases, on the length of time he has held office ( which usually depends on how well the Representative pleases his constituents, rather than on how well he pleases the other members of his party ).

* Students ' Representative Council, a council that represents student interests in the government of a university, school or other educational institution

In 1997, she was the winning contestant on an episode of Celebrity Jeopardy !, beating Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr. Myers has also appeared as a guest on other television programs, including The Today Show, Charlie Rose, and ABC's Nightline.

The 695-member MPR includes all 550 members of the People's Representative Council ( DPR ) ( the House of Representatives ) plus 130 " regional representatives " elected by the twenty-six provincial parliaments and sixty-five appointed members from societal groups

Membership of the Senate comprises all Professors of the University, as well as elected academic members, representatives of the Student's Representative Council, the Secretary of Court and directors of University services ( e. g. Library ).

In addition to the Students ' Representative Council, students are commonly members of one of the University's two students ' unions, the Glasgow University Union ( GUU ) and the Queen Margaret Union ( QMU ).

Very few EOP ( Executive Office of the President ) officials are required to be confirmed by the Senate, although there are a handful of exceptions to this rule ( e. g., the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the Chair and members of the Council of Economic Advisers, and the United States Trade Representative ).

Oldfield claimed in his Representative History of Great Britain and Ireland that, out of the 514 members representing England and Wales, about 370 were selected by nearly 180 patrons.

On July 21, 2011, Terry Gross interviewed Louisiana Representative Noble Ellington, then the national chairman of ALEC, about the role of the group's corporate members in drafting legislation and ALEC policy ( prior to the leaking of its internal bill library ) of not revealing the names of its members or of the legislators who attend its conferences.

The members of the Representative Assembly were arrested in session.

Like most of the Southern members of Congress, neither Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson nor Representative James Madison had any particular interest in two of Hamilton's tripartite recommendations: the establishing of an official government Mint, and the chartering of the Bank of the United States.

Democrats skeptical of reducing tariffs during the Depression included Representative Henry Rainey ( D-IL ) and members of Roosevelt ’ s own administration – Rexford Tugwell, Raymond Moley and Adolf Berle.

A " no-action " motion, presented by the Sudanese Representative to counter Belgium's request for a vote, passed with nine Committee members voting in favour ( Burundi, China, Morocco, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Russian Federation, Senegal, Sudan and Venezuela ), seven voting against ( Belgium, Bulgaria, India, Israel, Turkey, Peru and United States ), with Kyrgyzstan abstaining and Mozambique and Cuba not present.

All are members of the Representative Party.

In 1999, he was appointed as one of the United Kingdom's two members to the European Commission as Commissioner for External Relations where he was responsible for the Union's development and co-operation programmes, as well as liaison with Javier Solana, the High Representative of the Common Foreign and Security Policy.

# Current Representatives ( by seniority ; see List of current members of the United States House of Representatives by seniority ; note that the Speaker of the House ( currently Representative John Boehner ) appears above.

Kent Hance, a Texas Tech graduate who had served as United States Representative and as one of the three elected members of the Texas Board which regulates the oil-and-gas industry, assumed the duties of chancellor on December 1, 2006.

1948 saw the replacement of the Governor by a Speaker, who also sat ex officio, and the introduction of two members nominated on the advice of the African Representative Council.

An Order-in-Council coming into effect on 31 December 1953 provided for a new Legislative Council to consist of a Speaker ex officio, eight nominated officials, twelve elected unofficials, four African unofficial members nominated by the Governor on the advice the African Representative Council, and two nominated unofficial members representing the interests of Africans.

He was killed in the Canal Hotel Bombing in Iraq along with 20 other members of his staff on 19 August 2003 while working as the Secretary-General's Special Representative in Iraq.

The legislature, the Kampuchean People's Representative Assembly ( KPRA ), contained 250 members " representing workers, peasants, and other working people and the Kampuchean Revolutionary army.

The president's role is largely political, preparing the work of the European Council, organising and chairing its meetings, seeking to find consensus among its members and reporting to the European Parliament after each meeting ; the president will also " at his level and in that capacity, ensure the external representation of the Union on issues concerning its common foreign and security policy, without prejudice to the powers of the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security ".

Nonetheless, Representative Nathaniel Macon of North Carolina is recorded to have said, when voting on the amendment, that " he considered the vote on this question as deciding whether or not we were to have members of the Legion of Honor in this country.