What I want is to have this evidence come before Congress and if the Attorney General does not report it, as I am very sure he won't, as he has refused to do anything of the kind, I then wish that a committee of seven Representatives be appointed with power to take the evidence.

Sam Rayburn is one of the greatest American public figures in the history of our country and I consider that I have been singly honored in the privilege of knowing Sam Rayburn and sharing with him the rights and obligations of a Member of the House of Representatives in the Congress of the United States.

Over 164 Dartmouth graduates have served in the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives, such as Massachusetts statesman Daniel Webster.

::: Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States ; If he approves he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated ...

In 1988, if Kemp had won his campaign for the United States Presidency, it would have made him the first person to move from the United States House of Representatives to the White House since James Garfield.

Martin Van Buren's only competitors in the 1836 election were the Whigs, who ran several regional candidates in hopes of sending the election to the House of Representatives, where each state delegation would have one vote.

Similar to other U. S. territories, the islands do not have representation in the U. S. Senate, but are represented in the U. S. House of Representatives by a delegate ( beginning January 2009 for the CNMI ) who may vote in committee but not on the House floor .< ref >

The prime minister's party will normally have a majority in the House of Representatives and party discipline is exceptionally strong in Australian politics, so passage of the government's legislation through the House of Representatives is mostly a formality.

Four years earlier, Georgia Rep. Elliott Levitas and 91 co-sponsors introduced a resolution in the U. S. House of Representatives " the sense of the Congress that the American Broadcasting Company, the Department of State, and the U. S. Information Agency should work to have the television movie ' The Day After ' aired to the Soviet public.

However, the Supreme Court has interpreted the provision of Clause One that Representatives shall be elected " by the People " to mean that, in those states with more than one member of the House of Representatives, each congressional election district within the state must have nearly identical populations.

The Constitution provides three requirements for Representatives: A Representative must be at least 25 years old, must be an inhabitant of the state in which he or she is elected, and must have been a citizen of the United States for the previous seven years.

" The Supreme Court, as well as other federal courts, have repeatedly barred states from additional restrictions, such as imposing term limits on members of Congress, allowing members of Congress to be subject to recall elections, or requiring that Representatives live in the congressional district in which they represent.

The Constitution does not fix the size of the House of Representatives ; instead, this clause empowers Congress to determine the size of the House as part of the apportionment process, so long as the size of the House does not exceed 1 member for every 30, 000 of the country's total population and the size of the state's delegation does not exceed 1 for every 30, 000 of the state's population ( although these limits have not been approached since the Founding ).

Unlike Senators, Representatives do not have assigned seats.

Except for Nebraska, which has unicameral legislature, all states have a bicameral legislature, with the upper house usually called the Senate and the lower house called the House of Representatives, the House of Delegates, Assembly or something similar.

Several variants of the oath have been used since 1789 ; the current form, which is also recited by Senators, Representatives and other government officers, has been used since 1884:

" Some of the high honors ZZ Top have achieved include induction into Hollywood's RockWalk in 1994, the Texas House of Representatives naming them " Official Heroes for the State of Texas ", a declaration of " ZZ Top Day " in Texas by then-governor Ann Richards on May 4, 1991, and induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004.

This may have had some unintended consequences in Massachusetts, where the makeup of the delegation to the House of Representatives changed from 12 Federalists and 2 Republicans to 8 Federalists and 6 Republicans, perhaps the result of backlash on the part of the electorate.

The presidential election of 1824 is notable for being the only election since the passage of the Twelfth Amendment to have been decided by the House of Representatives in accordance with its provision to turn over the choice of the president to the House when no candidate secures a majority of the electoral vote.

The election produced a very fragmented political landscape, with 11 parties elected to the Chamber of Representatives, none of which have more than 20 % of the seats.

He was considered indeed by many Americans to have become too partial to English ways ; and, for the expression of some criticisms regarded as unfavorable to his own countrymen, the House of Representatives went so far as to pass, on the November 7, 1895 a vote of censure on him.

To initiate a citizens-initiated referendum on a particular issue, proponents of the referendum apply to the Clerk of the House of Representatives, and once the question wording is determined, proponets have twelve months to compile a petition containing signatures from at least ten percent of all registered voters.

In a letter dated February 23, 2011 to the Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives, the Attorney General of the United States stated " while sexual orientation carries no visible badge, a growing scientific consensus accepts that sexual orientation is a characteristic that is immutable ".

" As previously stated, the Constitution requires the concurrence of at least two-thirds of the members present of both the House of Representatives and the Senate to a joint resolution which proposes a constitutional amendment.

The Opposition stated that they would continue to do so unless Whitlam called an election for the House of Representatives and urged Kerr to dismiss Whitlam unless he agreed to their demand.

In an April 14, 2005 speech before the U. S. House of Representatives, Paul stated, " These regulations are damaging American capital markets by providing an incentive for small US firms and foreign firms to deregister from US stock exchanges.

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 Richmond, Virginia Dispatch stated, " The House of Representatives being in Committee of the Whole, on appropriations and expenditures, and having under consideration the bill to remove the charge of desertion standing against Patrick Kelleher, late private, Company C, Thirty-eighth Illinois Volunteers, Mr. Wheeler, of Alabama, as a member of the Committee on Military Affairs, made a speech.

Susan Hogarth, leader of LPRadicals and candidate for North Carolina House of Representatives, does not include a copyright notice on the caucus website or on her campaign website, and has stated in posts to the lpradicals Yahoo group that she does not believe in intellectual property.

The only exception is that stated in the Twelfth Amendment, which provides that in cases in which no candidate for President of the United States receives a majority in the Electoral College, the election is decided by the House of Representatives, in which case " a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states ," and in cases in which no candidate for Vice President of the United States has been elected, the election is decided by the Senate, in which case " a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators.

" as stated by M. Rupert Cutler, in a briefing before the Subcommittee on Public Lands of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, U. S. House of Representatives on July 24.

Representatives of the Council of Jews and the World Jewish Congress stated that mostly Jews were killed at Auschwitz and demanded that religious symbols be kept away from the site.

Representatives from the Alliance government also met with leaders of the MCP in an attempt to resolve the conflict peacefully, as their manifesto in the election stated.

On the issue of comfort women, in 2007 Honda proposed United States House of Representatives House Resolution 121, which stated that Japan should formally acknowledge, apologize, and accept historical responsibility in a clear and unequivocal manner, refute any claims that the issue of comfort women never occurred, and educate current and future generations " about this horrible crime while following the recommendations of the international community with respect to the ' comfort women '.

In speaking before the House of Representatives after his death, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stated that Lantos " devoted his public life to shining a bright light on the dark corners of oppression ...

David Satter stated, during his testimony in the United States House of Representatives,

Rep. Anne Gannon, Democratic leader pro tempore of the Florida House of Representatives, stated: " We tell our candidates not to do it.

* The use of the American flag flown on the RMS Lusitania during a crossing of the Irish Sea to avoid attack by German submarines was criticized in debate in the United States House of Representatives by Republican Eben Martin of South Dakota, who stated that " the United States cannot be made a party to a ruse of war where the national colors are involved ".

Larry McDonald, the 2nd president of the John Birch Society and a conservative Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives who represented the 7th congressional district of Georgia, wrote a forward for Allen's 1976 book The Rockefeller File, wherein he stated:

In his last speech to his colleagues in the US House of Representatives on December 7, 1970, delivered just before he departed for Birmingham, Alabama to have heart surgery, he stated, " While we debate the question of maintaining our military capability, the Soviet Union forges ahead.

Committee member Alex Hawke MP stated, " There is in my view serious and compelling evidence that some form of redress should be given all these years later to those men executed by the British "( Hansard Transcript, House of Representatives Grievance Debate, 15 March 2010 ).

Representatives stated that Stewart was seeking to “ honor the town ” and the new furniture line was “... paying homage to this beautiful region .” The pending trademark was contested by the Katonah Village Improvement Society, and Katonah Architectural Hardware along with support from the Ramapough Mountain Indians who foresaw legal conflict should Stewart succeed in trademarking the name for her furniture line.

Representatives of the Stanley family expressed their " bitter disappointment " and stated the case was a failure of the criminal justice system.

In 2009, Fedor stated that she would be a candidate for the Ohio House of Representatives in 2010, to replace the term limited Peter Ujvagi.

( 10 ) Because the action of the House of Representatives was legislative, but did not conform to the mode of action specifically stated by the Constitution for legislative action, it is therefore invalid, unenforceable, and not binding.

Cyprus Airways stated Eurocypria should shut down as " a small island cannot withstand two state-owned airlines and if they're not shut down, we might both go bust ", but the government declined this prospect and the House of Representatives went ahead with the bailout.