The US Federal Reserve was created by the U. S. Congress through the passing of The Federal Reserve Act in the Senate and its signing by President Woodrow Wilson on the same day, December 23, 1913.

In passing the 2002 Sarbanes – Oxley Act, the Senate Judiciary Committee found that whistleblower protections were dependent on the " patchwork and vagaries " of varying state statutes.

After passing the Senate, it must also receive a majority vote in the House.

The Senate and its conservative elements were strongly against the Sempronian agrarian reforms, with most of their hostility due to Tiberius ’ highly unorthodox method of passing the reforms.

This, the Court held, amounted to the House of Representatives passing legislation without the concurrence of the Senate, and without presenting the legislation to the President for consideration and approval ( or veto ).

After 202 BC, the Senate responded to emergencies by passing the senatus consultum ultimum (" Ultimate Decree of the Senate "), which suspended civil government declared something analogous to martial law.

In 1987, however, the Senate ( with a new Democratic Party majority ) joined with the House in passing the Competitive Equality Banking Act of 1987 ( CEBA ).

The Senate does not originate most legislation ( although a small fraction of government bills are introduced in the Senate and Senators may introduce private members ' bills in the same way as MPs ) but acts as a chamber of revision almost always passing legislation approved by the House of Commons, made up of Members of Parliament ( MPs ) who are elected.

The Republic Senate deliberates passing the Military Creation Act, which calls for the formation of an army to serve the Republic to keep order across Republic Star Systems and prevent further secession.

If both the Senate and the House of Representatives have not approved a rescission proposal ( by passing legislation ) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.

As a member of the Senate, Douglas soon earned a reputation as an unconventional liberal, concerned as much with fiscal discipline as with passing the Fair Deal.

In 1817, the Kentucky Senate drafted a resolution that proposed opening a dialogue between the newly installed governor of Kentucky, Gabriel Slaughter, and the governors of Ohio and Indiana for the purpose of passing laws in those states calling for the capture and return of runaway slaves from Kentucky.

After successfully passing both the U. S. Senate and the U. S. House, it received U. S. President George W. Bush ’ s first presidential veto in July 2006.

After passing the Senate, it must also receive a majority vote in the House.

The House of Representatives may override a Senatorial veto by passing the bill a second time in the parliamentary session immediately following the one in which it was rejected by the Senate, after a minimum period of six months.

Except in the case of amendments to the Constitution, over which a veto of the Senate is absolute, the House of Representatives may override a Senatorial veto by passing the same bill a second time, in the parliamentary session immediately following the one in which it was rejected by the Senate, after a minimum period of six months.

It enjoyed widespread support, passing the House 375-5 and the Senate by voice vote before conference, and unanimously in both chambers after conference.

In current practice, the mere threat of a filibuster prevents passing almost any measure that has less than three-fifths agreement in the Senate, 60 of the 100 senators if every seat is filled and voting.

The bill was again reintroduced in the 37th Parliament, 3rd Session, passing both the House and Senate.

The House of Representatives may override a Senatorial veto by passing the bill a second time in the parliamentary session immediately following the one in which it was rejected by the Senate, after a minimum period of six months.

Reuther and his wife died in a plane crash on May 9, 1970, and the next year the Michigan Legislature approved the naming by passing Senate Concurrent Resolution 57.

If the administration does not succeed in passing the sales tax bill, or any other tax bill, it could very well be faced this spring at the fiscal session of the Legislature with an interesting dilemma.

To prevent this bill from passing into law, Charles had dissolved parliament in July 1679, and in the following October had prorogued its successor, which became known as the Exclusion Bill Parliament, without allowing it to meet.

With the encouragement of the " F Street Mess ", Douglas met with them and Phillips to ensure that the momentum for passing the bill remained with the Democratic Party.

In 1775 Lord North, who was Chancellor of the University of Oxford, succeeded in passing a bill that reiterated the legal deposit provisions and granted the universities perpetual copyright on their works.

* July 17 – Voting in federal elections becomes compulsory in Australia, after a private member's bill proposed by Tasmanian Nationalist senator Herbert Payne results in the passing of the Commonwealth Electoral ( Compulsory Voting ) Act 1924.

Garfield voted with the Radical Republicans in passing the Wade – Davis Bill, designed to give Congress more authority over Reconstruction, but the bill was defeated by Lincoln's pocket veto.

The fact that the parliamentary bill authorising the drowning went through without support from any Welsh MPs showed that the MPs ' votes in Westminster were not enough to prevent such bills from passing.

By 1915, tobacco exports from the Philippines to America had annually increased as a result of the bill passing.

During the same session another bill proposed barring adoption from any unmarried and cohabitating couple, and activist groups stated that passing the first bill would effectively stop unmarried people from using IVF.

With the help of the Simpsons and an influential doorman, however, Krusty succeeded in passing his bill.

A tribune's veto did not prevent the senate from passing a bill, but meant that it was denied the force of law.

In Spain, article 115 of the Constitution provides that the King shall give his assent to laws passed by the General Courts within 15 days after their final passing by them ; the absence of the royal assent, although not constitutionally provided, would mean the bill did not become law.

Although Caesar could hardly have expected the bill to pass, the aristocratic party would be saddled with the odium of rejecting a popular measure, and the people themselves would be more ready to welcome a proposal by Caesar himself, an expectation fulfilled by the passing of the lex Julia and the lex Campania in 59 BC, whereby Caesar at least partly succeeded where Rullus had failed.

Evanston was formally incorporated as a town on December 29, 1863, but declined in 1869 to become a city despite the Illinois legislature passing a bill for that purpose.

Weller said that " jealous citizens of nearby Humble, Conroe and Cut and Shoot " had pressured Texas state legislators into passing the bill.

The 103 NDP MPs had been taking it in turn to deliver 20 minute speeches-plus 10 minutes of questions and comments-in order to delay the passing of the bill.

As the absence of some pro-Establishment legislators prohibited them from passing the bill, they filibustered along with Michael Suen, the then-Secretary for Constitutional Affairs, so that the absentees could cast their vote when the meeting was resumed on the next day.

Pro-democracy legislators filibustered against the financing for the constructions of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link by raising many questions on very specific issues, delaying the passing of the bill from 18 December 2009 to 16 January 2010.

This led to the creation and passing of a new bill known as Tydings-McDuffie Act, or Philippine Independence Act, which allowed the establishment of the Commonwealth of the Philippines with a ten year period of peaceful transition to full independence-the date of which was to be on the 4th July following the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the Commonwealth.

In the House, nearly one-third of the Representatives signed a pledge not to adjourn without passing a bill providing federal deposit insurance.

Commentators describe the April 6, 1998, merger announcement between Travelers and Citicorp as the catalyst for the House passing that bill by a single vote ( 214-213 ) on May 13, 1998.

The royalist bias given to the pupils in the religious seminaries was undoubtedly a principal cause of the passing of this bill ; and the government took strong measures to secure the presence of officers of undoubted fidelity to the republic in the higher positions on the staff.