While emphasizing that technical details were not fully worked out, Pelham said his resolution would seek to set aside the privilege resolution which the House voted through 87-31.

While teaching at MIT, Aalto also designed the student dormitory, Baker House, completed in 1948.

While the House Judiciary Committee hearings ended in a straight party-line vote, there was lively debate on the House floor.

While obtaining his master's degree, Alston was the boys ’ work director at the Utopia Children's House, started by James Lesesne Wells.

While living at the Cecil House, Edward's daily studies consisted of dancing instruction, French, Latin, cosmography, writing exercises, drawing, and common prayers.

While the Whigs were still part of the Opposition under the minority government of the Earl of Derby, John Russell had said, in January 1852, that he intended to introduce a new Reform bill into the House of Commons which would equalize the populations of the districts from which members of Parliament were elected.

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

While his lieutenants and the House sergeant-at-arms left the chamber to collect absent members in an attempt to rally enough votes for Cannon, the Speaker's allies initiated a legislative block in the form of a point of order debate.

While the Liberals lost several seats, they still had 111 more seats than the Tories, enabling them to dominate the Canadian House of Commons.

While the wealthy capitalists who controlled the House of Commons benefited from these monopolies, Parliament found it difficult to implement them because of the high cost of group decision making.

While Spain was fighting in France, Portugal — which had been under personal union with Spain for 60 years — acclaimed John IV of Braganza as king in 1640, and the House of Braganza became the new dynasty of Portugal ( see Portuguese Restoration War, for further information ).

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 being empowered to legislate on matters, the Universal House of Justice has, since its inception, limited its exercise of this function.

While both ` Abdu ' l-Bahá and Shoghi Effendi, heads of the religion after Bahá ' u ' lláh, considered establishing the Universal House of Justice, they both declined to do so.

While the Universal House of Justice is authorized to change or repeal its own legislation as conditions change, it cannot dissolve or change any of the laws which are explicitly written in the sacred texts.

While being empowered to legislate on matters, the Universal House of Justice has, since its inception in 1963, been limited in its exercise of this function.

While Shoghi Effendi, the Guardian of the Bahá ' í Faith stated that a purely vegetarian diet would be preferable since it avoided killing animals, both he and the Universal House of Justice, the governing body of the Bahá ' ís have stated that these teachings do not constitute a Bahá ' í practice and that Bahá ' ís can choose to eat whatever they wish but should be respectful of others ' beliefs.

While on a fund-raising tour of the United States in October 1979 on behalf of the Royal Opera House, Margaret became embroiled in a controversy following the assassination of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma.

While Garfield had by then established himself as a superb orator while managing legislation on the floor of the House, he demonstrated little feel for the mood of the members or ability to control debate on items he brought forward.

While performers who use concert sound subwoofers for onstage monitoring may like the powerful sub-bass sound that they get onstage, sound engineers may find the use of large subwoofers ( e. g., two 18 " drivers ) for onstage instrument monitoring to be problematic, because it may interfere with the " Front of House " sub-bass sound.

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 Prince of Wales, he had to be dissuaded from breaking with constitutional precedent by openly voting for Gladstone's Representation of the People Bill ( 1884 ) in the House of Lords.

While broadly popular among the general public, Chamberlain's policy towards Hitler was the subject of some opposition in the House of Commons, which led historian John Grigg to describe the King's behaviour in associating himself so prominently with a politician as " the most unconstitutional act by a British sovereign in the present century ".

While broadly popular among the general public, Chamberlain's policy towards Hitler was the subject of some opposition in the House of Commons, which led historian John Grigg to describe the King's behaviour in associating himself so prominently with a politician as " the most unconstitutional act by a British sovereign in the present century ".

While the Representatives existed in a two-year direct election cycle, the senators could afford to "... take a more detached view of issues coming before Congress.

While a representative to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1883, Parker was instrumental in introducing legislation for the establishment of Hubbard County and making Park Rapids its county seat.

While he may never have used the term himself, the origin of the " muckraker " is attributed to President Theodore Roosevelt, who, during a speech delivered on April 14, 1906, and on the occasion of dedicating the U. S. House of Representatives office building, drew on a character from John Bunyan ’ s 1678 classic, Pilgrim ’ s Progress, saying:

While in law school, he won a seat in the Mississippi House of Representatives, in which he served until 1932.

* While members of the United States House of Representatives are only required to live in the state they represent, it has long been expected that they live in the district they represent as well.

While the shape of the chamber was not replicated, some of its decorative motifs were, with the ceiling structure in the Old Senate Chamber and old House of Representatives chamber ( now the Statuary Hall ) holding a striking resemblance to the original Pearce-designed ceiling in the original Irish House of Commons.

While serving in the United State House of Representatives, John Lindsay was a strong supporter of African-American civil rights.

While the Marcoses fled, and the former president died in exile in Hawaii, his wife Imelda later won a seat in the House of Representatives and his son Ferdinand Jr. was elected senator in 2010.

While JYIG is only a mock legislature, high school delegates have the opportunity to participate in one of five program areas: a Legislative Program into first year ( Bowen House and Senate ), second year ( Sullivan House of Representatives ), and third year ( Williams Senate ) chambers, a Judicial Program ( Split into District and Supreme Court ), a Press Corps, a Lobbyist Program, and an elected Executive Cabinet.

While a sophomore in high school, Owens was appointed a Page in the U. S. House of Representatives by Congressman ( and later, Speaker of the House ) Jim Wright.

While the Republican Party held the majority in the U. S. House of Representatives, Simpson often served as the Speaker Pro Tempore of the House, particularly during debates concerning controversial legislation, due to his command of House procedure.

While the United States House of Representatives does not vote on it at all, the requirement for Senate advice and consent to ratification makes it considerably more difficult in the US than in other democratic republics to rally enough political support for international treaties.

While serving in the legislature, Harrell founded a summer program to teach high school students about government and politics, named the James A. Harrell Jr. School of Government, after his father, a Surry County commissioner and candidate for the U. S. House of Representatives in 2004.

While debating the act at the House of Representatives in a session attended by Shepard's mother, she called the murder a " very unfortunate incident " but claimed " we know that that young man was killed in the commitment of a robbery.

While in college, Moscone befriended John L. Burton, who would later become a member of the U. S. House of Representatives.

While serving in the United States House of Representatives he distinguished himself as a fiscal expert.

While in the House he was one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1804 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against John Pickering, judge of the United States District Court for New Hampshire.

While in town for the AIDS Memorial Quilt display the Sisters led an exorcism of homophobia, classism and racism on the steps of the United States House of Representatives, and assisted with the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power ( ACT-UP ) death march and protest, to the gates of the White House where ashes of people who had died from AIDS were illegally spread on the lawn.

While attending law school he was elected to the Missouri House of Representatives in 1950 and served until 1961.

While still serving in the House of Representatives, Egan was elected as Mayor of Valdez in 1946.

While in the House of Representatives, Smith was chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the State Department in the 56th Congress, the Committee on Pacific Railroads in the 57th and 58th Congresses.

While in the United States House of Representatives he was Chairman of the U. S. House Committee on War Claims for the 79th Congress and Chairman of the U. S. House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs for the 84th Congress and the 85th Congress.

While in the House of Representatives, Molinari was among the more moderate and liberal members of the Republican party.