While ceremonial, these offices no doubt gained Domitian valuable experience in the Roman Senate, and may have contributed to his later reservations about its relevance.

While there are 73 positions available within the Senate, one position is currently unoccupied.

While the Senate mustered their willing slaves, Hannibal offered his dishonoured Roman captives a chance for honourable death, in what Livy describes as something very like the Roman munus.

While there was a Carthaginian Senate, the real power was with the inner " Council of 30 Nobles " and the board of judges from ruling families known as the " Hundred and Four ".

While the Senate passed the petition on January 29, it was defeated in House of Representatives on February 18.

While a member of the Senate, Adams also served as a professor of logic at Brown University.

While he was still campaigning in Spain, the Senate began bestowing honors on Caesar.

While in Constantinople therefore it was not strange to see Julian frequently active in the Senate, participating in debates and making speeches, placing himself at the level of the other members of the Senate.

While the U. S. Senate did not add any reservation to the treaty, it did pass a measure " interpreting " the treaty which included the statement that the treaty must not infringe upon America's right of self defense and that the United States was not obliged to enforce the treaty by taking action against those who violated it.

While the Academic Senate is an independent body, it is required to make recommendations to the university Council in relation to matters outside its delegated authority.

While the PDP Democratic faction controls the Democratic party chapter under the state chairmanship of former senator Roberto Prats, two of the five DNC members residing in Puerto Rico, Senate president Kenneth McClintock and Francisco Domenech are statehooders.

While Henry in the south cooperated with the rebel Senate of Rome, Frederick I in the north blocked the passes of the Alps and cut off all communication between the Pope, then living in Verona, and his German adherents.

While Zeno told the Senate that Nepos was their lawful sovereign, he did not press the point, and accepted the imperial insignia brought to him by the senate.

While the Curiate Assembly did have the power to pass laws that had been submitted by the king, the Senate was effectively an honorary council.

While he was president in the United States Senate, a small number of anti-war senators kept it deadlocked by refusing to end debate.

While he presided in the Senate, emotions sometimes ran high, including during a debate on the Mexican border crisis in 1916.

While the Senate did pass the amendment on April 8, 1864, by a vote of 38 to 6, the House declined to do so.

While Senate customs have created supermajority rules that have diminished this Constitutional power, the Vice President still retains the ability to influence legislation ( e. g. the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 ).

While the Vice President's only constitutionally prescribed functions aside from Presidential succession relate to his role as President of the Senate, the office is commonly viewed as a component of the executive branch of the federal government.

While in the Senate, Allen was one of a group of Western Democrat expansionists who asserted that the U. S. had a valid claim to the entire Oregon Country, which was an issue during the 1844 U. S. presidential election.

While many urged him to run for the Senate seat held by Adlai Stevenson III ( even after Stevenson dropped out of the race ), Anderson had higher sights: the Republican presidential nomination.

While the Speaker is the functioning head of the House majority party, the same is not true of the President pro tempore of the Senate, whose office is primarily ceremonial and honorary.

While the title was not official, he is considered to be the first Senate Majority leader ( and in turn, the first Senate Democratic Leader ), while serving concurrently as Chairman of the Senate Democratic Caucus.

While in this position he supervised development of the M1903 Springfield rifle and chaired the ordnance board that approved the M1911 pistol.

While he chaired the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support ( called the Subcommittee on Human Resources during his watch ) beginning with the 107th Congress, he played a leading role in the reauthorization and expansion of the 1996 welfare reform law.

While in that position she chaired the Minner Commission on Government Reorganization and Effectiveness.

While leader of the Atlantic branch, Figueroa chaired an organizing committee that signed up 800 part-time seasonal professors and teaching assistants at Dalhousie University, ultimately leading to membership in the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

While a member of the Seattle City Council, Drago chaired the Council ’ s Transportation Committee which has jurisdiction over city-wide and regional transportation policies, planning and coordination of transportation issues.

While a student, he chaired the group, faculty and institute Komsomol committee.

While serving on the panel, he chaired the learning processes task group.

While in the State Assembly, Walker took a special interest in criminal justice matters, and chaired the Committees on Correctional Facilities, and Corrections and the Courts.

While serving as the official photographer for the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, he also chaired its Development Committee and its Highway Committee for years.

While president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Archbishop Keeler chaired the 1993 World Youth Day held in Denver, Colorado.

While in Congress, he chaired the Committee on the Judiciary and was one of the managers for the impeachment proceedings against U. S. Commerce Court Judge Robert W. Archbald.

While on Ottawa city council, Munter chaired the city's health committee and, along with Medical Officer of Health Robert Cushman, led the battle to bring Ottawa's no-smoking by-law.

While retired from politics, he chaired a regional forestry marketing board for eight years before he sought re-election in the new, though largely unchanged, riding of Nepisiguit in 2003, where he defeated incumbent Progressive Conservative Joel Bernard by a margin of nearly 2-to-1.

While serving in the Confederate Provisional Congress, Miles chaired the " Committee on the Flag and Seal ," which adopted the " Stars and Bars " flag as the national flag of the Confederacy.

While in the House, Bingham served on the Foreign Affairs Committee, the Interior and Insular Affairs Committee and chaired the Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade.

While there, he chaired the Committee on Revolutionary Claims ( regarding claims from the U. S. Revolutionary War ).

While in Congress, White chaired the currently-defunct Irrigation committee, and also was a member of the Committee on Coins, Weights and Measures.

While Assistant General Secretary of the union and a member of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party, he chaired the Labour Party policy group on Industrial Democracy.