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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.
One of his first acts as Emperor was to persuade the Senate to grant divine honours to Hadrian, which they had at first refused ; his efforts to persuade the Senate to grant these honours is the most likely reason given for his title of Pius ( dutiful in affection ; compare pietas ).
Seward also negotiated to purchase the Danish West Indies, but the Senate refused to approve the purchase in 1867 ( it eventually was accomplished in 1917 ).
Conservative Porfirians in the Senate refused to pass the reforms he advocated.
The Senate refused to ransom Hannibal's Roman captives: instead, they made drastic preparations:
The US Senate refused to ratify the Covenant of the League of Nations.
At the same time, he was offered to run for Senate but refused.
When the Senate refused to grant Caesar's veterans lands and a further governorship of Gaul, he turned to the tribunes with his demands and got them.
The United States Senate refused to ratify the treaty, and consequently Turkey annulled the concession.
Reformers included William Jennings Bryan, while opponents counted respected figures such as Elihu Root and George Frisbie Hoar amongst their number ; Root cared so strongly about the issue that, after the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment, he refused to stand for re-election to the Senate.
This was known as the Knox – Porter Resolution ; subsequent Peace treaties were signed with both countries and Ratified by the Senate and signed by Harding on July 21, 1921 ; that officially ended World War I for the U. S. The Senate had refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles in both 1919 and 1920 because it required the U. S. to endorse the League of Nations.
The rural-dominated legislature refused to redistrict state House and Senate seats from 1901 to the 1960s.
With Catania's amendment, the bill passed the House, but the Senate refused to accept the amendment.
Special Prosecutor Cox immediately subpoenaed the tapes, as did the Senate, but Nixon refused to release them, citing his executive privilege as President of the United States, and ordered Cox to drop his subpoena.
When this was refused, the Pope threatened an interdict on account of the property laws and the imprisonment of ecclesiastics, which threat was presented to the Senate on Christmas 1605.
Milo Minderbinder ’ s maxim “ What ’ s good for M & M Enterprises is good for the country ” alludes to former president of General Motors Charles Erwin Wilson ’ s statement before the Senate “ What ’ s good for General Motors is good for the country .” The question of “ Who promoted Major Major ?” alludes to Joseph McCarthy ’ s questioning of the promotion of Major Peress, an army dentist who refused to sign loyalty oaths.
However, when the Senate convened on January 4, 1868, it refused to ratify the removal by a vote of 35-16.
The Roman Senate wanted Messalina to have the title of " Augusta ", but Claudius refused.
This was in case the U. S. Senate refused to ratify the treaty of guarantee, thereby making null and void the British guarantee as well as that was dependent on the Americans being part of it.
Shortly after, in October 2000 Álvarez resigned after a scandal related to presidential bribes in the Senate ( the President's party refused to support or investigate the accusations ), so the Alliance ( and even the FrePaSo ) effectively broke down.
The plan was foiled by the Senate, which ripped into Fortas's record and refused to confirm him.
Eventually the Senate got Caepio's reluctant agreement to co-operate, but even when he crossed the river to help the threatened Mallius, he refused to join forces and kept his own at a fair distance.

Senate and meet
Even before news of the defeat at Ticinus had reached Rome, the Senate had ordered the Consul Sempronius Longus to bring his army back from Sicily to meet Scipio and face Hannibal.
Both consuls, Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and Gaius Sosius, and a third of the Senate abandoned Rome to meet Antony and Cleopatra in Greece.
In 1972, he headed a Soviet delegation to Belgium, and three years later he led a delegation to West Germany ; in 1983 he headed a delegation to Canada to meet with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and members of the Commons and Senate.
Under the kings, the Senate and Curiate Assembly had very little power and authority ; they were not independent bodies in that they didn't possess the right to meet together and discuss questions of state at their own will.
Later that day, the Senate and the House of Representatives meet in joint session for the first time, and the electoral votes of the first U. S. Presidential election are counted.
In the film Logan's Run Logan and Jessica meet an old man in the Senate Chamber during their search for Sanctuary.
For example, the Senate might wish to meet with an individual, such as a foreign ambassador, whom they did not wish to allow inside the city.
The Senate was only allowed to meet in a building of religious significance, such as the Curia Hostilia.
" He delivered a farewell address in the Senate ( January 7, 1861 ) in which he said: “ We want no negro equality, no negro citizenship ; we want no negro race to degrade our own ; and as one man would meet you upon the border with the sword in one hand and the torch in the other .” He returned to Georgia, and with Governor Joseph E. Brown led the fight for secession against Stephens and Herschel V. Johnson ( 1812 – 1880 ).
USG and GAPSA come together twice a semester to meet as the ASB Senate, where issues pertaining to the entire Tulane student body are discussed.
The House Appropriations Committee conducted an unseemly squabble with the Senate all through 1962 over where to meet, and Appropriations Committee Chairman Clarence Cannon closed the session with a speech blasting the House leadership as the worst he had seen in 40 years.
Leavitt ’ s office maintains that the use of the aircraft was necessary and legal since the Senate Appropriations Committee approved his use of the aircraft, and commercial services could not meet the deadlines required by his engagements.
Pompey's Theatre, where Julius Caesar was murdered, was also outside the pomerium and included a chamber where the Senate could meet allowing the attendance of any senators who were forbidden to cross the pomerium and thus would not have been able to meet in the Curia Hostilia.
Legislators meet in committees and in the House and Senate chambers to debate legislation.
On this trip, students visit the White House, the U. S. Capitol and tour the US Senate and US House of Representatives, meet with Members of Congress, tour selected federal agencies and meet with ranking government officials.
* Same-sex marriage in Massachusetts: The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the state supreme court of Massachusetts, issues a response to a Massachusetts Senate question about instituting civil unions, such as the civil unions on Vermont, would meet the requirements of the 4 – 3 decision in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health issued in November 2003.
Committee members meet at a later time in executive session to review the public testimony and discuss the merits of each bill before making their recommendations to the full membership of the House or Senate.
During the first half of session, the House and Senate typically meet on Wednesdays only, though by the end of the session, they meet daily due to increased workload and deadlines.
Neither the House nor the Senate can adjourn during a regular session for longer than three days or meet in any place other than the state capitol without the other house's consent.
From 1897 until 1899 he served as journal clerk of the New Jersey Senate, a position that enabled him to meet state political figures and learn parliamentary procedures.
** As both houses of the Texas Legislature are controlled by the GOP ( 77-73 in the Texas House of Representatives and 19-12 in the Texas Senate ) and both chambers are presided over by a Republican ( Joe Straus as the Speaker of the House and David Dewhurst as Lieutenant Governor, which presides over the Senate ), two additional delegates ( one for having any chamber meeting the criteria, and one additional for having both chambers meet the criteria ).

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