Colombia's bicameral Congress consists of a 102-member Senate of Colombia and a 161-member Chamber of Representatives of Colombia.

That year, the Congress of Angostura established the Republic of Gran Colombia, which included all territories under jurisdiction of the former Viceroyalty of New Granada.

, two years after its implementation began, the security situation of inside Colombia has shown some measure of an improvement and the economy, while still fragile, has also shown some positive signs according to observers, but relatively little has yet to have been accomplished in structurally solving most of the country's other grave problems, possibly in part due to legislative and political conflicts between the administration and the Colombian Congress ( including those over the controversial project to eventually re-elect Uribe ), and a relative lack of freely allocated funds and credits.

Monroe informed Congress in March 1822 that permanent stable governments had been established in the United Provinces of La Plata ( present-day Argentina ), Chile, Peru, Colombia and Mexico.

* 1967 – The Congress of Colombia, in commemoration of the 150 years of the death of Policarpa Salavarrieta, declares this day as " Day of the Colombian Woman ".

U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt convinced U. S. Congress to take on the abandoned works in 1902, while Colombia was in the midst of the Thousand Days War.

On January 5, 1909 the government of Rafael Reyes in Colombia signed and presented to its Congress a treaty that would officially recognize the loss of its former province, but the matter was dropped due to popular and legislative opposition, without any ratification being achieved.

* November 14 – The Congress of Colombia in commemoration of the 150-year anniversary of the death of Policarpa Salavarrieta, declares this day as the " Day of the Colombian Woman ".

In 1813 he was given a military command in Tunja, New Granada ( modern day Colombia ), under the direction of the Congress of United Provinces of New Granada, which had formed out of the juntas established in 1810.

This process culminated in the Congress of Angostura, but shortly thereafter the Congress declared Venezuela to be part of a larger Gran Colombia.

The office of president was established upon the ratification of the Constitution of 1819, by the Congress of Angostura, convened in December 1819, when Colombia was part of " la Gran Colombia ".

Reelection in Colombia was not allowed until 24 November 2005 when the Colombian Congress approved it by introducing the Electoral Guarantees Law ( Ley de Garantias Electorales ) which modified Article 152, of the Colombian Constitution of 1991.

In 2000, the Congress of the United States approved use of Fusarium as a biological control agent to kill coca crops in Colombia ( and another fungus to kill opium poppies in Afghanistan ), but these plans were canceled by then-President Clinton, who was concerned that the unilateral use of a biological agent would be perceived by the rest of the world as biological warfare.

DynCorp also argued that the plaintiffs ' claims of violations of international law were based on actions by DynCorp that were expressly authorized by the US Congress under Plan Colombia.

As a result of a decree of the Congress of Gran Colombia, Bolívar turned over command of the rebel troops to Sucre on October 7, 1824.

In 1902, with the French efforts moribund, US President Theodore Roosevelt backed the Panama route, and Congress passed legislation authorizing him to purchase the French assets on the condition that an agreement was reached with Colombia.

According to reports and testimony of Thomas Constantine to the United States Congress, " Cali would be the dominant group in trafficking South American heroin due to their access to the opium growing areas of Colombia.

Then in 1826, after the Congress in Santa Fe de Bogotá under Santander found a Venezuelan hero from the independence war guilty of assassinating the French Colonel Emanuel Roergas Serviez in Colombia, Páez initiated and led a movement that became known as " La Cosiata " ( a word that has never existed in Spanish language and that at the time was made up to refer to this movement and meaning something along the lines of " that weird thing without a name ").

During a trip in 2007, Farr spoke in front of the Colombian Congress and was awarded the Orden del Congreso de Colombia.

The city is home to one of the most important folk and cultural festivals of Colombia, the Carnival of Barranquilla, which was declared a National Cultural Heritage by the Congress of Colombia in 2001 and recognized by UNESCO in 2003.

In that Congress they founded the Great Council of the Muisca People, affiliated to the National Indigenous Organization of Colombia ( ONIC ).

furthermore, Congress could not be presumed to have intended to obstruct mergers approved by the states.

Its drafting by the Continental Congress began in mid 1776, and an approved version was sent to the states for ratification in late 1777.

The final draft of the Articles was prepared in the summer of 1777 and the Second Continental Congress approved them for ratification by the individual states on November 15, 1777, after a year of debate.

The Northwest Ordinance, which was approved by the Congress of the Confederation in 1787, guaranteed " judicial proceedings according to the course of the common law.

The Cuban leadership was further upset when in September the United States Congress approved US Joint Resolution 230, which expressed Congress's resolve to prevent the creation of an externally-supported military establishment.

The first door-to-door census was conducted in 1903 to fulfill Public Act 467 which was approved by the U. S. Congress in July 1902.

Responding to favorable public opinion to alleviate unemployment Congress approved the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, on 8 April 1935, which included continued funding for the CCC program through 31 March 1937.

* 1899 – Voting machines are approved by the U. S. Congress for use in federal elections.

The Basic Law, Hong Kong's constitutional document, was approved in March 1990 by National People's Congress of the PRC.

In June 1930, over the objection of many economists, Congress approved and Hoover signed into law the Smoot – Hawley Tariff Act.

However, faced with a tide of poverty, Hoover and the Congress approved the Federal Home Loan Bank Act, to spur new home construction and reduce foreclosures.

Although Middleton's term was only for a length of 4 days, a Petition of Congress to King George III, drafted by John Jay was approved, and sent to Great Britain during his term.

* 1776 – The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with the Kingdom of Great Britain although the wording of the formal Declaration of Independence is not approved until July 4.

* 1952 – The Constitution of Puerto Rico is approved by the Congress of the United States.

In 1846, Congress approved the Walker Tariff ( named after Robert J. Walker, the Secretary of the Treasury ), which represented a substantial reduction of the high Whig-backed Tariff of 1842.

Some Whigs, such as Abraham Lincoln, challenged Polk's version of events, but Congress overwhelmingly approved the declaration of war.

Recently, the Congress of the Union approved important tax, pension and judicial reforms, and reform to the oil industry is currently being debated.

State Department officials, however, knew that Stalin would almost certainly not participate, and that any plan that would send large amounts of aid to the Soviets was unlikely to be approved by Congress.

* 1789 – A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as recommended by President George Washington and approved by Congress.

While officials in Washington, D. C. thought the project had merit, and Secretary of State Henry Clay formally presented it to the Congress of the United States in 1826, the plan was not approved.

The Luxembourg Congress approved the first Statue of the Confederation of Socialist Parties in 1980.

In December 1988, the Supreme Soviet approved formation of a Congress of People's Deputies, which constitutional amendments had established as the Soviet Union's new legislative body.

The Central Intelligence Agency supported a variety of covert actions designed to depose Saddam Hussein, while Congress approved the Iraq Liberation Act in 1998 aimed at providing Iraqi opposition groups with increased financial assistance.

However, the Truman and Eisenhower administrations considered it a national security threat for Canada to alone control the deep waterway, and used various means-such as delaying and stalling the Federal Power Commission license for the power aspect-until Congress in early 1954 approved an American seaway role via the Wiley-Dondero act.

In the morning hours of September 21, the Congress approved a bill to prop up the airline industry and establish a federal fund for victims.