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Opposition in the Senate, particularly from Republican politicians Henry Cabot Lodge and William Borah and especially in regard to Article X of the Covenant, ensured that the United States would not ratify the agreement.

An attempt to change the classification ratings such that some of the material in the " X " category would be banned and the remainder would be available under the new category " NVE " ( an abbreviation for Non-Violent Erotica ), failed in the Senate, partly due to the belief of some senators that the new categories were less restrictive than the old.

The version of the treaty ratified by the United States Senate eliminated Article X, which stated that the U. S. government would honor and guarantee all land grants awarded in lands ceded to the U. S. to citizens of Spain and Mexico by those respective governments.

( House Rule X, Senate Rule XXV.

Standing committees are permanent panels identified as such in chamber rules ( House Rule X, Senate Rule XXV ).

U. S. officials then simply forged Charlot's X onto the official copy of the agreement that was sent to the Senate for ratification.

Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto, afterwards Pius X, succeeded in 1893 ; he was refused recognition by the Italian Government, which claimed the right of nomination formerly employed by the Habsburg Emperor of Austria and in earlier times by the Venetian Senate, but after eleven months this pretension was abandoned.

X: served in the Senate of the First Congress ( i. e. reelected or continued in office for this Second Congress ).

In March 1990, he was chosen by district Democrats to fill the Senate seat left vacant by the death of Frank X. Graves, Jr., and was sworn into the Senate on April 5, 1990.

This year's Senate measure would provide each state and the District of Columbia with $1,000,000 to be used in support of private, state, or municipal ETV efforts.

In 1999 the Australian Senate Joint Standing Committee on Treaties was told by Professor Desmond Ball that the Pine Gap facility was used as a ground station for a satellite-based interception network.

Wooden U-2 model-one of two used by Powers when he testified to the Senate Committee.

Thus, he could hold censorial powers, while technically not subjecting himself to the same checks that the ordinary censors were subject to, and he used these powers to fill the Senate with his own partisans.

When Caesar returned to Rome in 47 BC, the ranks of the Senate had been severely depleted, and so he used his censorial powers to appoint many new senators, which eventually raised the Senate's membership to 900.

This system is used in the Upper House in India, Australia ( Senate, Tasmanian and Australian Capital Territory Houses of Assembly and the Legislative Councils in New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia and Victoria ), Ireland, Northern Ireland ( assembly, local government and European elections, but not national ), Malta, local government elections in Scotland and selected ( optional ) local governments in New Zealand.

It was suggested that the two houses first adopt a resolution indicating that they deem an amendment necessary, but this procedure has never been used — the U. S. Senate and the U. S. House of Representatives instead directly proceed to the adoption of a joint resolution, thereby proposing the amendment with the implication that both bodies " deem " the amendment to be " necessary.

From 1800 to 1806, this room served as the Senate Chamber and from 1806 until 1860, the room was used as the Supreme Court Chamber.

On April 20, 1921, the Thomson – Urrutia Treaty with Colombia was ratified by the Senate and signed by Harding ; that awarded $ 25, 000, 000 as indemnity payment for land used to make the Panama Canal.

In 1977, during a hearing held by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, to look further into MKUltra, Admiral Stansfield Turner, then Director of Central Intelligence, revealed that the CIA had found a set of records, consisting of about 20, 000 pages, that had survived the 1973 destruction orders because they had been stored at a records center not usually used for such documents.

The term arose following a reorganization of many U. S. government agencies in 2003 to form the United States Department of Homeland Security after the September 11 attacks, and may be used to refer to the actions of that department, the United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, or the United States House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security.

Wizards of the Coast explains that the " Super class " label was used to hide the ship's " true nature from the Imperial Senate "; this bureaucratic fiction became the source of the type's nickname.

Odoacer, attempting to bypass Nepos, used the Roman Senate to petition the Eastern Emperor, Zeno ; he requested the rank of Patrician for himself, and sought to end the separate line of Western Emperors.

In October 1975, the Opposition used its control of the Senate to defer passage of appropriation bills, or supply, which finance governmental operations and which had been passed by the House of Representatives.

During the financial crisis of 2007 – 2010, a poster of a Hello Kitty pre-paid debit card expanded to roughly 1 meter in length was displayed on the floor of the US Senate by Senator Byron Dorgan as a demonstration of extreme methods used by credit companies to attract " children 10 to 14 years of age ".

Johnson used his political influence in the Senate to receive broadcast licenses from the Federal Communications Commission in his wife's name.

On November 8, Cicero called for a meeting of the Senate in the Temple of Jupiter Stator near the forum, which was used for this purpose only when great danger was imminent.

During the Second World War, the colleges of the university ( with the exception of Birkbeck ) and their students left London for safer parts of the UK, while Senate House was used by the Ministry of Information, with its roof becoming an observation point for the Royal Observer Corps.

The Big Five is an informal term used to describe the legislative leadership role in the institution of California government, consisting of the governor, the Assembly speaker, the Assembly minority leader, the Senate president pro tempore, and the Senate minority leader.

The Senate had the power to decide whether there were extreme conditions that justified the demolition of an old building, and in the case it decided for the demolition, the Emperor had still the right to order that the resulting materials should be used to decorate other public buildings.

Legates ( legati ) were originally simply envoys sent by the Senate, but men appointed as legates by the Senate were used by generals as subordinate commanders, usually becoming the general's most trusted lieutenant.

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.

Other communities -- the ones to be aided most by the Senate bill -- have had difficulty starting such stations because of the high initial cost of equipment.

We believe that the list of vital things left undone to date by the Eighty-seventh Congress should have included repeal by the Senate of the Connally amendment.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act of July 3, 1952 ( 66 Stat. 328 ) as amended ( 42 U.S.C. 1952-1958 ), is further amended to read as follows: Section 1.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to make or cause to be made a study covering -- ( 1 )

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to establish and maintain a program of stabilization payments to small domestic producers of lead and zinc ores and concentrates in order to stabilize the mining of lead and zinc by small domestic producers on public, Indian, and other lands as provided in this Act.

The Senate Subcommittee on Reorganization and International Organizations was provided samples of visual aids on first aid and personal health produced by the Medical Illustration Service.

Further, and as an evidence of legislative intent only, the Senate of the United States recently defeated by a substantial majority the `` Holland Amendment '' to the Fair Labor Standards Act, which would have specifically limited the regulatory authority of the Secretary in these matters.

The prevailing view in the industry was summed up in 1912 by a group of auto makers who told a Senate committee: `` The exceedingly unsatisfactory and uselessly expensive conditions, including delays surrounding legal disputes, particularly in patent litigation, are items of industrial burden which must be written large in figures of many millions of dollars of industrial waste ''.

With its power to investigate, the Senate can paralyze the Secretary by keeping him in a state of perpetual testimony before committees, as it did with Dean Acheson.

John Foster Dulles escaped by keeping his personal show on the road and because Lyndon Johnson, who was then operating the Senate, refused to let it become an Inquisition.

In any event, the example of Acheson's trampling by the Senate did not encourage Dulles to provoke it.

A similar resolution passed in the Senate by a vote of 29-5.

When the shouting ended, the bill passed, 114 to 4, sending it to the Senate, where a similar proposal is being sponsored by Sen. George Parkhouse of Dallas.

The $6,100,000,000 measure, which was passed last Monday by the Senate, provides for forty-year mortgages at low down-payments for moderate-income families.

At a reception for new members of Congress, Oregon Democrat Maurine Neuberger, taking the Senate seat held by her husband Richard until his death last March, got a brotherly buss from Democratic Elder Statesman Adlai Stevenson, U.S. Ambassador-designate to the U.N..

In all, the Senate signed a check for $46.7 billion, which not only included the extra $3.5 billion requested the week before by President Kennedy, but tacked on $754 million more than the President had asked for.

The Senate ( by voice vote ) and the House ( by 224-170 ) passed and sent to the White House the compromise farm bill which the President is expected to sign, not too unhappily.

The bicameral Parliament consists of the Senate ( seventeen-member body appointed by the Governor General ) and the House of Representatives ( seventeen seats ; members are elected by proportional representation to serve five-year terms ).

The Senate also has 18 members, elected for a four year term by and from the chiefs of the islands.

He acquired the name Pius after his accession to the throne, either because he compelled the Senate to deify his adoptive father Hadrian, or because he had saved senators sentenced to death by Hadrian in his later years.

By law, Augustus held a collection of powers granted to him for life by the Senate, including supreme military command, and those of tribune and censor.