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 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.

Harding's general election opponent, Timothy Hogan, fell victim to fervid anti-Catholic sentiment ( which Harding did not voice ) and Harding was elected to the U. S. Senate, becoming Ohio's first senator elected by popular vote.

The Senate passed the bill with two amendments by a vote of 36-35, and the House approved the Senate's first amendment by voice vote but rejected the second amendment ; the Senate receded that amendment by voice vote.

Although the Senate advised against it with one voice, Maurice assisted Khosrau to regain his throne with an army of 35, 000 men.

Jim Warren suggests PGP's wide dissemination was in response to Senate Bill 266, authored by Senators Biden and DeConcini, which demanded that "... communications systems permit the government to obtain the plain text contents of voice, data, and other communications ...".

5661 ( in a voice vote ) after substituting the language of S. 1631 ( amended to shorten to one year the time within which banks needed to eliminate securities affiliates ) and requested a House and Senate conference to reconcile differences between the two versions of H. R.

Wyden was the first politician in Congress to stand against the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act ( SOPA ) ( in the House ) and the PROTECT IP Act ( PIPA ) ( in the Senate ) on the grounds that it would " step towards an Internet in which those with money and lawyers and access to power have a greater voice than those who don ’ t.

He was confirmed by the Democratic-controlled U. S. Senate on March 29, 2007 by a unanimous voice vote.

On June 22, 2010, a voice vote in the Senate confirmed Pearce to a full term, allowing him to serve until August 27, 2013.

The same day, the Senate confirmed Republican nominee Brian Hayes of Massachusetts by voice vote.

The removal of privacy screens in the Galactic Senate, which allow senators to discuss issues before the Senate in private, resulted in many senators afraid to voice their response to a vote because of the installed surveillance hovercams listening in on every word and reporting to the Senate Security Chief.

A fellow tribune of Gaius, Livius Drusus, was backed by the Senate as an alternate voice to Gaius '.

On December 13, 2004, Leavitt was nominated by Bush to succeed Tommy Thompson as Secretary of Health and Human Services, and was confirmed by the Senate by voice vote on January 26, 2005.

In 2005, he became a leading voice within the Senate in calling for an investigation into the Bush administration payment of columnists.

The bill to enable the Act was approved by a voice vote in the Senate and added to a Department of Defense Authorization bill, but was removed following a veto threat by President George W. Bush, opposition by the House Republican leadership, and opposition to unrelated provisions of the bill regarding the Iraq War.

From 1947 to 1949, when the Republicans controlled the Senate, Taft was his party's leading voice in domestic policy.

However Vasquez cleared the United States Senate Foreign Relations committee by a vote of 14-4, and was accepted in the full Senate on a voice vote.

Companion Senate bill S. 219 passed by voice vote, 5 / 17 / 95, but the two bills never emerged from conference.

On January 13, 2009, Meek announced he will run for the seat in the United States Senate that will be vacated upon the retirement of Republican Mel Martinez in 2010, saying, " I want to be a fighter for Florida with a strong voice that won ’ t let the special interests stand in the way of what ’ s right.

Question at issue: How big a vote should be necessary to restrict Senate debate -- and thereby cut off legislation-delaying filibusters??

The Radicals in the House of Representatives impeached him in 1868 ( a first for a U. S. president ), charging him with violating the Tenure of Office Act, when he sought to remove his Secretary of War without Senate approval ; his trial in the Senate ended in an acquittal by a single vote.

The Radicals in the House of Representatives impeached him in 1868 ( a first for a U. S. president ), charging him with violating the Tenure of Office Act, when he sought to remove his Secretary of War without Senate approval ; nevertheless, his trial in the Senate ended in an acquittal by a single vote.

Sen. Ross, who was the deciding vote in the Senate, reportedly received a bribe of $ 20, 000 to acquit Johnson.

* 1867 – Alaska purchase: Passing by a single vote, the United States Senate ratifies a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska.

After extensive debate, the U. S. Senate confirmed Thomas to the Supreme Court by a vote of 52 – 48 ; the narrowest margin since the 19th century.

Associate Justices, like the Chief Justice, are nominated by the President of the United States and are confirmed by the United States Senate by majority vote.

In the 2006 general election, the final election to which the party participated with its own list, AN won 12. 3 % of the vote, securing 71 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 41 in the Senate.

The Senate finished a twenty-one-day trial on February 12, 1999, with the vote ( 55 Not Guilty / 45 Guilty ) on both counts falling short of the Constitutional two-thirds majority requirement to convict and remove an officeholder.

The president makes a treaty with foreign powers, but then the proposed treaty must be ratified by a two-thirds vote in the Senate.

The Chief of Naval Operations is nominated by the President for appointment and must be confirmed via majority vote by the Senate.

In the election he also brought with him a Republican majority in the House ( by eight votes ) and in the Senate ( actually a tie, with Nixon providing the majority vote ).

Eisenhower had a Republican Congress for only his first two years in office ; in the Senate, the Republican majority was by a one vote margin.

However, Republican Dino Rossi narrowly carried the city over Democratic Senator Patty Murray in the 2010 Senate race with 50. 7 percent of the vote to Murray's 49. 3 percent.

His resignation was, however, rejected on 2007 by a vote of the Senate.

The NAACP was successful in gaining Senator Borah's support and the nomination was defeated by one vote in the Senate.

In November 1967 the government suffered a serious setback in the Senate elections, winning just 42. 8 per cent of the vote against Labor's 45 per cent.

On 31 October 2007 the Foreign Relations Committee of the United States Senate, by a vote of 17 to 4, recommended ratification, and President George W. Bush publicly supported U. S. accession to the Convention ; no date has yet been set for action by the full Senate.

Following conviction, the Senate may vote to further punish the individual by barring him from holding future federal office, elected or appointed.

President Johnson was acquitted by the Senate, falling one vote short of the necessary 2 / 3 needed to remove him from office, voting 35-19 to remove him.