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

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 the House of Representatives always votes publicly, often by orders, the House of Bishops has tended to vote in private, coming to a decision before matters reach the floor of the synod.

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.

While intervention has been practiced since the international system has existed, its nature changed substantially.

While, on the whole, the news was encouraging, it also showed that important misunderstandings existed concerning Paul's teaching of Christianity.

While the form has existed for at least two hundred years, the focused study of it is fairly recent.

While gun safety in different forms has existed since the creation of firearms, Jeff Cooper ( 1920 – 2006 ), an influential figure in modern firearms training, formalized and popularized the above-listed " Four Rules " of safe firearm handling.

E. W. Gilbert's version ( 1958 ) of John Snow ( physician ) | John Snow's 1855 map of the Soho cholera outbreak showing the clusters of cholera cases in the London epidemic of 1854 While the basic elements of topography and theme existed previously in cartography, the John Snow map was unique, using cartographic methods not only to depict but also to analyze clusters of geographically dependent phenomena.

While the tactics of modern guerrilla warfare originate in the 20th century, irregular warfare, using elements later characteristic of modern guerrilla warfare, has existed throughout the battles of many ancient civilizations but in a smaller scale.

While small test programs existed since the development of programmable computers, the tradition of using the phrase " Hello, world!

While treaties, alliances, and multilateral conferences had existed for centuries, IGOs only began to be established in the 19th century.

While initial talk existed of a race to Berlin by the Allies, after Stalin successfully lobbied for Eastern Germany to fall within the Soviet " sphere of influence " at Yalta, no plans were made by the Western Allies to seize the city by a ground operation.

While many phantom islands appear never to have existed, a few ( such as, perhaps, Thompson Island or Bermeja ) may have been actual islands subsequently destroyed by volcanic explosions, earthquakes or submarine landslides, or low-lying lands such as sand banks that are no longer above water.

While satire of everyday life in the USSR was allowed, the most prominent satirist being Arkady Raikin, political satire existed in the form of anecdotes that made fun of Soviet political leaders, especially Brezhnev, famous for his narrow-mindness and love for awards and decorations.

While the Act had been in force only one official newspaper existed ; the London Gazette, published by the government.

While scattered movements and organizations dedicated to women's rights existed previously, the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention in New York is traditionally held as the start of the American women's rights movement.

While an " underground railroad " running south toward Florida, then a Spanish possession, existed from the late 17th century until shortly after the American Revolution, the network now generally known as the Underground Railroad was formed in the early 19th century, and reached its height between 1850 and 1860.

While a degree of democracy still existed in some of the remaining independent Greek cities, many scholars see this age as marking the end of classical Greece.

While ethnic distinctions still existed in the Roman Empire, they became secondary to religious considerations and the renewed empire used Christianity as a tool to support its cohesion and promoted a robust Roman national identity.

While female monastic ( bhikkhuni ) lineages existed in most Buddhist countries at one time, the Theravada lineages of Southeast Asia died out during the 14th-15th Century AD.

While both the Labour and Liberal parties of the early 20th century had accommodated demands for Welsh home rule, no political party existed for the purpose of establishing a Welsh government.

While the veracity of this comic account is open to doubt, at least one modern author considers it significant that in Classical Athens, three hundred or so years after the death of Solon, there existed a discourse that associated his reforms with an increased availability of heterosexual pleasure.

While it is clear that much of this rewriting of Hatshepsut's history occurred only during the close of Thutmose III's reign, it is not clear why it happened, other than the typical pattern of self-promotion that existed among the pharaohs and their administrators, or perhaps saving money by not building new monuments for the burial of Thutmose III and instead, using the grand structures built by Hatshepsut.

While some local populations are aware that the species once existed, its history in the region is poorly documented.

While opinion on the early SD vary, it is generally agreed ( including by the Swedish Committee Against Antisemitism and Expo ), that the SD has never been a Nazi party, although various " connections " have existed by members.

While Indo-European peoples mainly were patriarchal and patrilineal, certain ancient myths have been argued to expose ancient traces of matrilineal customs that existed before historical records.

While the AOC system has origins in the 15th century, the Languedoc-Roussillon has some appellations like the Cabardès which have existed by law only since 1999 ( Joseph 2005: 190 ).