As Chairman of the Investigative Subcommittee of the United States House Committee on Ethics, Hastings was tasked with reviewing the file from Traficant's trial and other material to determine if there had been a violation of House rules.

Hastings said on the floor of the House, " After considering all of the evidence, I concluded that Mr. Traficant's offenses were so serious and so purposeful that expulsion from the House is the only appropriate sanction.

Following Hastings ' work that led to Traficant's removal from the House, he was named to the Chairmanship of what was then a dysfunctional United States House Committee on Ethics.

Publicity from the RICO trial increased Traficant's local visibility.

Author Michael Collins Piper, who initially helped circulate Traficant's letter, said that " There's stuff I've written about Traficant that's showing up in places I don't even know.

Traficant's former protégé Tim Ryan also ran for the seat.

It was the first major legislative defeat of Clinton's administration.

The Combo law was supported by both major parties at the time ( PLN and PUSC ) as well as by President Rodriguez, but the first of three required legislative votes to approve it provoked the largest protest demonstrations the country had seen since 1970.

The PDG won a landslide victory in the legislative election, but several major cities, including Libreville, elected opposition mayors during the 1997 local election.

The PDG won a landslide victory in the legislative election, but several major cities, including Libreville, elected opposition mayors during the 1997 local election.

His government's major legislative objective was political reform, consisting of a package of new political financing restrictions and major changes in the electoral system.

The uprising was put down, but the government was forced to concede major reforms, including granting the freedoms of speech and assembly, the legalization of political parties, and the creation of an elected legislative body, the State Duma of the Russian Empire.

According to the constitution, the three major independent authorities holding the balance of power are executive, legislative, and judicial.

The Jay Treaty passed, and indeed the Federalists won most of the major legislative battles in the 1790s.

* May 17 – The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Repeal of Act for Securing Dependence of Ireland Act, a major component of the reforms collectively known as the ' Constitution of 1782 ' which restore legislative independence to the Parliament of Ireland.

In 1983 he was called upon by Democratic Governor Mark White to help improve the quality of the state's public education, and ended up leading the effort (" Select Committee on Public Education ") to reform the school system, which resulted in major legislative changes.

However, the legislative elections were a major disappointment: with just 4. 51 % of votes cast nationally, the Greens ’ representation fell from six to just three deputies ( out of a total of 577 ) in the National Assembly.

By the end of the Johnson Administration, 226 out of 252 major legislative requests ( over a four-year period ) had been met, federal Aid to the poor had risen from $ 9. 9 billion in 1960 to $ 30 billion by 1968, one million Americans had been retrained under previously non-existent federal programs, and two million children had benefited from the Head Start program.

These guides include various recommended design criteria and standards, some of which are cited within the UK building regulations, and therefore form a legislative requirement for major building services works.

The most important function of the county legislative body is the annual adoption of a budget to allocate expenditures within the three major funds of county government-general, school, and highway-and any other funds ( such as debt service ) that may be in existence in that particular county.

The Auditorium in Independence, Missouri, houses the Children's Peace Pavilion and is the site of the major legislative assembly of the Community of Christ, known as the World Conference.

In the 1930 legislative session, Long proposed another major road-building initiative as well as the construction of a new capitol building in Baton Rouge.

These were the major deregulation acts in transportation that set the general conceptual and legislative framework, which replaced the regulatory systems put in place between the 1880s and the 1930s.

Another of Senator Bush's major legislative interests was flood and hurricane protection.

Before this amendment was passed, a Senate President who became governor or acting governor as a result of a permanent vacancy in the Office of Governor was even more powerful than an elected governor, as he simultaneously served as president of the New Jersey Senate, thus having a major hand in one half of the legislative process and being the executive process.

In 1782, following agitation by major parliamentary figures, but most notably Henry Grattan, the severe restrictions such as Poynings ' Law that effectively controlled the Irish Parliament's ability to control its own legislative agenda were removed, producing what was known as the Constitution of 1782.

Reynolds v. Sims ( 1964 ) was another major case of the Warren Court era involving state legislative districts.

Local Governments have their own executive and legislative branches and the checks and balances between these two major branches, along with their separation, are more pronounced than that of the national government.

However, the ministry was frustrated in its attempts to make peace with France, and despite one major legislative success ( banning the slave trade in Britain ), it ultimately fell apart in 1807 over the question of Catholic Emancipation and was replaced by a partisan Tory ministry led by the Duke of Portland.

Notwithstanding, the Nationalist Party survived and in its first major electoral test, the legislative elections of 1947, it managed to stay ahead of various splinters that had formed from people who did not want to be associated with the main party.

The public was given free access on three days per week, which was " perceived as a major accomplishment and was generally appreciated ".

Harding's creation of the Budget Bureau was a major economic accomplishment that reformed and streamlined wasteful federal spending.

The strengthening of the Federal Reserve was later a major accomplishment of the New Deal.

Washington's major congressional accomplishment involved legislation to extend the Voting Rights Act, legislation that opponents had argued was only necessary in an emergency.

A major accomplishment of Albert's was his modernization of the teaching of astronomy by introducing the most up-to-date texts.

His major accomplishment was learning drawing and map making from American artist Robert W. Weir.

In a unique ( if incidental ) accomplishment, Brock was the first player ever to bat in a major league regular season game in Canada.

Washington believed that the blending of persons from every colony into " one patriotic band of Brothers " had been a major accomplishment, and he urged the veterans to continue this devotion in civilian life.

His major accomplishment was the building of the campanile.

The papers of 1946 and 1947, were the first systems of quantified modal logic, which extended some propositional modal systems of Clarence Irving Lewis to first and second order ; a major accomplishment in the development of 20th century logic.

It was not completed until 1835 and was the last major civil engineering accomplishment of Thomas Telford.

* The Housing Act of 1949 was a major legislative accomplishment stemming from the collaboration of the Fair Deal and conservative leader Senator Taft.

To manage these simultaneous projects was in itself a major accomplishment for any nation.

One major accomplishment of Macdonald's first government was the creation of the Canadian Pacific Railway which also led to the Pacific Scandal that brought down the government in 1873.

Another accomplishment for feminism in 1963 was that feminist activist Gloria Steinem published her article I Was a Playboy Bunny, a behind the scenes look at the sexist treatment of Playboy bunnies, which was one of her first major assignments in investigative journalism.

With that accomplishment Cranbrook became the major centre of the region, while Fort Steele declined ; however, the latter is today a preserved heritage town.

The battle was the Duke of Wellington's first major victory and one he later described as his finest accomplishment on the battlefield.

The acquisition of this territory, nearly fifty-eight percent Romanian in 1945, was hailed as a major accomplishment within the formative stages of the Groza regime.

His major accomplishment during this period was to have the Otowa stationed permanently at Shanghai, from which it helped support a large network of intelligence agents posing as exchange students in all corners of China.

His edition of Homer, dedicated to Lorenzo, Piero de ' Medici's son, is his major accomplishment.

The First Violin Concerto is not only a major individual accomplishment from Shostakovich but it is also a major contributor to the form of the violin concerto in its four-movement form.

The addition of 0 to the natural numbers was a major intellectual accomplishment in its time.

Barker's most notable accomplishment as a major league pitcher occurred on May 15, 1981 as a member of the Cleveland Indians.