recommend to the Congress from time to time authorization for construction and operation, or for participation in the construction and operation, of a demonstration plant for any process which he determines, on the basis of subsections ( A ) and ( B ) above, has great promise of accomplishing the purposes of this Act, such recommendation to be accompanied by a report on the size, location, and cost of the proposed plant and the engineering and economic details with respect thereto ; ;

Obviously, the goal here proposed is the guiding principle in Mr. Justice Frankfurter's opinions -- to the extent that Congress leaves the problem to judicial discretion.

By December 1863 a proposed constitutional amendment that would outlaw slavery absolutely was brought to Congress for passage.

The political push to increase cooperation among the then-loyal colonies began with the Albany Congress in 1754 and Benjamin Franklin's proposed intercolonial collaboration to help solve mutual local problems themselves ; the Articles of Confederation would bear some resemblance to it.

First conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of " landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth " by the end of the 1960s, which he proposed in a May 25, 1961 address to Congress.

On May 25, 1961, twenty days after the first US manned spaceflight Freedom 7, Kennedy proposed the Apollo program to Congress in a special address to a joint session:

To implement this doctrine, which the Air Force and its supporters regarded as the highest national priority, the Air Force proposed that it should be funded by the Congress to build a large fleet of U. S. based long-range strategic heavy bombers.

Now, as president, he proposed to Congress a much larger national program on 21 March 1933:

He proposed to Congress the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960 and signed those acts into law.

In this capacity, Davis gave Congress four annual reports ( in December of each year ), as well as an elaborate one ( submitted on February 22, 1855 ) on various routes for the proposed Transcontinental Railroad.

During Nehru's second term as general secretary of the Congress, he proposed certain resolutions concerning the foreign policy of India.

Instead, they challenged it in court, appealed to Congress for its repeal, and proposed several constitutional amendments.

Rather, it made an appeal to Congress to provide for the defense of New England and proposed several constitutional amendments.

His first action as president was to take a proposed moratorium on fossil-based fuels to the U. S. Congress.

* 1845 – A majority of voters in the Republic of Texas approve a proposed constitution, that if accepted by the U. S. Congress, will make Texas a U. S. state.

Later that month, before the Supreme Soviet, he proposed the creation of a new office of President of the Soviet Union, for himself to be elected by the Congress of People's Deputies rather than the popular elections.

It consists of 12 members, appointed by the King, 4 of which are proposed by the Congress of Deputies by three-fifths of its members, 4 of which are proposed by the Senate by three-fifths of its members as well, 2 proposed by the executive and 2 proposed by the General Council of the Judiciary.

During the summer of 1836, Congress proposed a compromise whereby Michigan gave up its claim to the strip in exchange for its statehood and approximately three-quarters of the Upper Peninsula.

The draft constitution with this proviso was accepted by the United States Congress, but before Ohio's admission to the Union in February 1803, the proposed constitution was referred to a Congressional committee.

McKean proposed the voting procedure that the Continental Congress later adopted: that each colony, regardless of size or population, have one vote.

To permit the levying of such an income tax, Congress proposed and the states ratified the Sixteenth Amendment, which superseded this requirement by specifically providing that Congress could levy a tax on income " from whatever source derived " without it being apportioned among the States or otherwise based on a State's share of the national population.

The Twenty-second Soviet Communist Party Congress opens in Moscow today in a situation contrasting sharply with the script prepared many months ago when this meeting was first announced.

The most surprising thing about the Twenty-second Congress of the Soviet Communist Party is that it is surprising -- perhaps quite as much, in its own way, as the Twentieth Congress of 1956, which ended with that famous `` secret '' report on Stalin.

The publication last July of the party's Draft Program -- that blueprint for the `` transition to communism '' -- had led the uninitiated to suppose that this Twenty-second Congress would be a sort of apotheosis of the Khrushchev regime, a solemn consecration of ideas which had, in fact, been current over the last three or four years ( i.e., since the defeat of the `` anti-party group '' ) in all theoretical party journals.

* H. J. RES. 5 — The latest bill introduced in Congress proposing to repeal the Twenty-second Amendment.

The Twenty-second United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.

He was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian U. S. Representative from Massachusetts 10th District to the Twenty-second Congress ( 1831 – 1833 ).

He was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Congresses ( March 4, 1819-March 3, 1823 ), and reelected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-second Congress ( March 4, 1831-March 3, 1833 ).

An ally of Andrew Jackson, Hall later served in the U. S. House of Representatives for one term ( 1831 – 1833 ) ( Twenty-second Congress ) and then retired from public life.

While in the Senate, he was President pro tempore of the Senate during the Twenty-second United States Congress and chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.

He was elected to the Twenty-first and Twenty-second United States Congress, serving from March 4, 1829 to March 3, 1833.

Southard was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-second United States Congress, and began his term on March 4, 1831.

He resumed his law practice in Snow Hill after a failed nomination to the Twenty-second Congress and continued his practice until his death in Snow Hill on January 2, 1834.

He was unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1828, but was elected two years later in 1830 to the Twenty-second Congress, and served one term from March 4, 1831 to March 3, 1833.

In Congress, Kerr served as chairman of the Committee on Territories ( Twenty-second Congress ).

He was again elected as an Anti-Jacksonian in 1830 to the Twenty-second Congress, and served from March 4, 1831 to March 3, 1833.

His efforts toward the abolition of slavery include issuing his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, encouraging the border states to outlaw slavery, and helping push through Congress the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which finally freed all the black slaves nationwide in December 1865.

" Lincoln, however, did support the Corwin Amendment to the Constitution, which had passed in Congress and protected slavery in those states where it already existed.

" On July 27, 1868, the day before the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted, U. S. Congress declared in the preamble of the Expatriation Act that " the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent right of all people, indispensable to the enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness ," and ( Section I ) one of " the fundamental principles of this government " ( United States Revised Statutes, sec.

In early March Congress, led in part by Radical Republicans, passed the first in a series of four Reconstruction Acts, initially providing for the recognition of provisional governments to be established thereunder by the Southern states, on the condition that each state ratify the Fourteenth Amendment and assure suffrage for freedmen.

To consider but one example, the First Amendment to the United States Constitution states " Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof "— but interpretation ( that is, determining the fine boundaries, and resolving the tension between the " establishment " and " free exercise " clauses ) of each of the important terms was delegated by Article III of the Constitution to the judicial branch, so that the current legal boundaries of the Constitutional text can only be determined by consulting the common law.

However, since the contras failed to win widespread popular support or military victories within Nicaragua, since opinion polls indicated that a majority of the U. S. public was not supportive of the contras, since the Reagan administration lost much of its support regarding its contra policy within Congress after disclosure of CIA mining of Nicaraguan ports, and since a report of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research commissioned by the State Department found Reagan's allegations about Soviet influence in Nicaragua " exaggerated ", Congress cut off all funds for the contras in 1985 by the third Boland Amendment.

The Boland Amendment had first been passed by Congress in December 1982.

* 1917 – The resolution containing the language of the Eighteenth Amendment to enact Prohibition is passed by the United States Congress.

* 1933 – The Congress of the United States proposes the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution that will end Prohibition in the United States.

Under the Boland Amendment, further funding of the Contras by the government had been prohibited by Congress.

* 1865 – American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, abolishing slavery, submitting it to the states for ratification.

* Cannon signed the Sixteenth Amendment which established Congress ' right to impose a Federal income tax.

* 1901 – The U. S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition of the withdrawal of American troops.

* 1972 – The United States Congress sends the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification.

* 1794 – The 11th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution is passed by the U. S. Congress.

Congress cut off funding for the Braille magazine translation in 1985, but U. S. District Court Judge Thomas Hogan reversed the decision on First Amendment grounds.

Prohibition was instituted with ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution on January 16, 1919, which prohibited the "... manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States ..." Congress passed the " Volstead Act " on October 28, 1919, to enforce the law, but most large cities were uninterested in enforcing the legislation, leaving an understaffed federal service to go after bootleggers.

* 1789 – The U. S. Congress passes twelve amendments to the United States Constitution: the Congressional Apportionment Amendment ( which was never ratified ), the Congressional Compensation Amendment, and the ten that are known as the Bill of Rights.

In 1982, the Congress, passed the Boland Amendment.

The section also provides that Congress shall assemble " at least once in every year " and sets a default date for the initial assembly, later modified by the Twentieth Amendment.

Congress eventually proposed that elected officials take office in January, instead of March ; since this required cutting short ( by a couple of months ) the terms of the elected federal officials at the time of the proposal, Congress proposed the Twentieth Amendment, which established the present dates for when federal officials take office.