The House communications subcommittee is expected to report out a good bill calling for the states to match federal funds.

Although Lincoln believed it was not within Congress's power to free the slaves within the states, he approved the bill in deference to the legislature.

It became apparent that, as the slavery issue took center stage, the slaveholding states were more reluctant to agree with the bill, with the primary antagonists being the senators in Virginia, Texas, North Carolina and Alabama.

His veto message objected to the measure because it conferred citizenship on the freedmen at a time when eleven out of thirty-six states were unrepresented in the Congress, and the bill also attempted to fix, by federal law, " a perfect equality of the white and black races in every State of the Union.

* 1889 – President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U. S. states.

They may have authority to veto a bill until the houses of the legislature have reconsidered it, and approved it a second time ; reserve a bill to be signed later, or suspend it indefinitely ( generally in states with royal prerogative ; this power is rarely used ); refer a bill to the courts to test its constitutionality ; refer a bill to the people in a referendum.

Congress also passed the Force Bill which authorized President Andrew Jackson to use military force if Adams ' compromise bill did not force the belligerent states to capitulate.

Though no state conditioned ratification of the constitution on a bill of rights, several states came close, and the issue almost prevented the constitution from being ratified.

In the new bill the territory of Nebraska was extended north all the way to the 49th parallel, and any decisions on slavery were to be made " when admitted as a state or states, the said territory, or any portion of the same, shall be received into the Union, with or without slavery, as their constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission.

He expressed himself plainly on the questions of slavery and the bank at the same time voting, perhaps with a touch of bravado, for a bill offered in 1836 to subject abolition literature in the mails to the laws of the several states.

In 2007, US Congressman Alce Hastings introduced a bill to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the first use of the name " America " with the support of the Congressional Black Caucus, the Organizing Committee and mayors in fifty states to champion the national strategy " Bring Home The Spirit of History in your town ".

Property rights are protected in the current laws of most states, usually in their constitution or in a bill of rights.

In Pennoyer v. Neff, the Supreme Court discussed that though each state ceded certain powers ( e. g. foreign relations ) to the Federal Government or to no entity at all ( e. g. the powers that are eliminated by the protections of the bill of rights ), the states retained all the other powers of sovereignty, including the exclusive power to regulate the affairs of individuals and property within its territory.

Anti-federalists objected to the shift of power from the states to the federal government, but as adoption of the Constitution became more and more likely, they shifted their strategy to establishing a bill of rights that would put some limits on federal power.

* February 22 – President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U. S. states.

* April 5 – United States President George Washington vetoes a bill designed to apportion representatives among U. S. states.

Many contemporary states have a constitution, a bill of rights, or similar constitutional documents that enumerate and seek to guarantee civil liberties.

Thus, for example, the Great Seal of the United States, among other uses, appears on the reverse of the one-dollar bill ; and several of the seals of the U. S. states appear on their respective state flags.

* In Family Guy, after holding an exploding bomb from Adam West, Meg has Daffy Duck's bill on the wrong side of her head, moves it to its proper position, and then states, “ Of course, you realize this means war !” This scene was supposedly deleted after the contract between MacFarlane and Warner Bros.

The Senate debated its bill until March 1930, with many Senators trading votes based on their states ' industries.

In an elaborate scheme to prevent passage of still higher tariffs, while at the same time appealing to Andrew Jackson ’ s supporters in the North, John C. Calhoun and other southerners joined them in crafting a tariff bill that would also weigh heavily on materials imported by the New England states.

The bill which passed the Assembly last May and is now pending in the Senate should be given careful scrutiny.

If you file Form 1040A and the District Director computes your tax, you will be sent a bill if additional tax is due.

Cox argued that the bill is `` probably unconstitutional '' since, he said, it would impair contracts.

The bill is designed to provide special schooling for more deaf students in the scholastic age at a reduced cost to the state.

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.

Statements by other legislators that Dallas is paying for all its water program by local bonds, and that less populous places would benefit most by the pending bill, did not sway Cotten's attack.

`` This is a poor boy's bill '', said Chapman.

In the House, the Southern-Republican coalition is expected to make another major stand in opposition to the Administration's housing bill, while more jockeying is expected in an attempt to advance the aid-to-education bill.

The housing bill is now in the House Rules Committee.

The housing bill is expected to encounter strong opposition by the coalition of Southern Democrats and conservative Republicans.

In addition, disclosures that missile workers were earning sums far in excess of what is paid for equivalent work elsewhere provoked his indignation on behalf of the American taxpayer who was footing the bill.

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.

Also on the bill at the Fifty-fifth Street is a nice ten-minute color film called `` Sunday In Greenwich Village '', a tour of the haunts and joints.

It is not simply giving a repetition of the program it gave during its New York engagement earlier this season, but has brought back many of the numbers that were on the bill when it paid us its first visit and won everybody's heart.

* 1998 – Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the " Qur ' an and Sunnah " the " supreme law " but the bill is defeated in the Senate.

* 1792 – U. S. President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States.

) In the sense used here it is first defined in 1704 by Mathieu de la Porte in his treatise "" as a consideration of different exchange rates to recognize the most profitable places of issuance and settlement for a bill of exchange ("".

The amount of each starch source in a beer recipe is collectively called the grain bill.

The amount of each starch source in a beer recipe is collectively called the grain bill.

The bill is ochre to grayish, with a pink tinge.

The bill is short, curved and brown-black in color.