They had been fed a hunting breakfast, so called because a kedgeree, the dish identified with fox hunting, was on the bill.

After an unspeakable siege, lasting the better part of two months, it was announced that the studio `` owed '' the government a tax debt in excess of eight million dollars while I, who had always remained aloof from such iniquitous practices as paying taxes on the salary I had earned and the little I legally inherited as Morris' helpless relict, was `` stung '' with a personal bill of such astronomical proportions as to `` wipe out '' all but a fraction of my poor, hard-come-by savings.

He also complained that not enough notice was given on the hearing, since the bill was introduced only last Monday.

There was no debate as the Senate passed the bill on to the House.

Rep. James Cotten of Weatherford insisted that a water development bill passed by the Texas House of Representatives was an effort by big cities like Dallas and Fort Worth to cover up places like Paradise, a Wise County hamlet of 250 people.

But the tardiness of the administration in making the dedication has caused legislators to suspect the tax bill was related more directly to an over-all shortage of cash than to segregation.

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.

Official reasoning: the bill was a `` wanton invasion of basic property rights ''.

Perhaps he had known then where that hundred dollar bill had come from and where it was taking his wife.

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.

The only mistakes she makes within the series are a typing error during the events of Hickory Dickory Dock and the mis-mailing of an electricity bill, although she was worried about strange events surrounding her sister at the time.

As of May 2012 a private member's bill was before the House of Lords which would grant Turing a statutory pardon if enacted.

The campaign included fierce debates ; Johnson's primary issue was the passage of the Homestead bill, which Haynes contended would facilitate abolition.

When King Amadeus finally had the bill in his desk, which would extend the 1837 Abolition Act to the Antilles, he was put on notice of a coup financed by Cuban plantationers and industrialists if he signed.

A private member's bill — the Succession to the Crown Bill — was introduced in the House of Lords in December 2004.

Shortly after the Thomas confirmation hearings, President George H. W. Bush dropped his opposition to a bill giving harassment victims the right to seek federal damage awards, back pay and reinstatement, and the law was passed by Congress.

This gave the cloner, through the Oki phone, the ability to use the mobile phone service of the legitimate subscriber whose phone was cloned just as if that phone had been physically stolen instead, except that the subscriber was not without his or her phone and was not aware that the phone had been cloned — at least until that subscriber received his or her next bill.

" While Disraeli did not argue that the Jews did the Christians a favour by killing Christ, as he had in Tancred and would in Lord George Bentinck, his speech was badly received by his own party, which along with the Anglican establishment was hostile to the bill.

Bentinck, then still Conservative leader in the Commons, joined Disraeli in speaking and voting for the bill, although his own speech was a standard one of toleration.

The bill, however, was riddled with complexities and had to be withdrawn.

In Parliament, the bill was adopted with the support of the Social Democrats, the Agrarian League, and some rightist activists and other non-socialists eager for Finnish sovereignty.

The House rejected the idea of placing the amendements in the body of the Constitution and instead adopted 17 Amendments to be attached separately and sent this bill to the Senate.

; Signs bills into law: The President cannot veto a bill that the Dáil and the Seanad have adopted.

A European Constitution bill is rejected by French and Dutch voters in 2005, but a similar text, the Treaty of Lisbon, is drafted in 2007 and finally adopted by the 27 members countries.

However, Clay's specific proposals for achieving a compromise, including his idea for Texas ' boundary, were not adopted in a single bill.

Regardless of how a bill is placed on the calendar, once the bill is considered and adopted, this is called the third reading.

On February 8, 1853, the Illinois Legislature adopted a resolution, drafted by Turner, calling for the Illinois congressional delegation to work to enact a land-grant bill to fund a system of industrial colleges, one in each state.

Article 1, Section 7 of the Confederate States Constitution, adopted March 11, 1861, allowed the president of the Confederacy the ability to " approve any appropriation and disapprove any other appropriation in the same bill ," with such disapprovals returned to the houses of congress for reconsideration and potentially for override.

During those years, Strayer played a role in writing the bill that was ultimately adopted.

The bill was adopted by ten votes to eight.

The bill was adopted by the National Assembly of Quebec on June 3, 2009.

This bill largely adopted provisions of the new Glass bill.

Following a successful movement led by Kate Sheppard, the women's suffrage bill was adopted mere weeks before the general election of that year.

Asserting that medical care " must be rendered under conditions that are acceptable to both patient and physician ", the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons adopted a list of ' patient freedoms ' in 1990 which was modified and adopted as a ' patients ' bill of rights ' in 1995:

On June 19, the substitute ( compromise ) bill passed the Senate by a vote of 71 – 29, and quickly passed through the House-Senate conference committee, which adopted the Senate version of the bill.

After the union of Germany as one empire in 1871, the Reichstag adopted a bill initiated by Chancellor Otto von Bismarck as the " Civil Marriage Law " in 1875 ; since then, only civil marriages have been recognised in Germany.

The Jamaican Blackbird uses its bill to pry amongst tree bark and epiphytes, and has adopted the evolutionary niche filled elsewhere in the Neotropics by woodcreepers.

To become law, these bills must be adopted by an MP and passed in the same way as a Commons originated bill.

Britt's version was adopted and passed by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, but Dianne Feinstein, mayor of San Francisco at the time, came under intense pressure from the Catholic Church and vetoed the bill.

Lindbergh adopted an anti-war stance even before the Battle of Britain and before the advent of the lend-lease bill.

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.

Otherwise, you may be saddled with a good-size milk bill by milk drinkers.

For Mrs. Shaefer -- who had been given a clean bill of health by her own physician at the time she visited Lee -- and her friend were agents for the California Pure Food and Drug Inspection Bureau.

Without dissent, senators passed a bill by Sen. A. R. Schwartz of Galveston authorizing establishment in the future of a school for the mentally retarded in the Gulf Coast district.

The other bill, by Sen. A. M. Aikin Jr. of Paris, would relieve real estate brokers, who pay their own annual licensing fee, from the $12 annual occupation license on brokers in such as stocks and bonds.

Natural gas public utility companies would be given the right of eminent domain, under a bill by Sen. Frank Owen 3, of El Paso, to acquire sites for underground storage reservoirs for gas.

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.

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

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.

When Lincoln vetoed the bill, the Radicals retaliated by refusing to seat representatives elected from Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee.

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.

Conservative Oklahoma state legislators reacted by demanding Hill's resignation from the university, then introducing a bill to prohibit the university from accepting donations from out-of-state residents, and finally attempting to pass legislation to close down the law school.

However, passage of a bill by the state assembly alone does not change the law and the state senate and governor had not yet endorsed the bill.

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