On September 15, 2009, Carter called the 111th Congress a " house of hypocrisy " after the House of Representatives voted to rebuke South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson for his outburst, but would not go after New York Representative and House Ways and Means Chair Charlie Rangel, who has been the subject of numerous ethical problems involving taxes and property.

Richard Wilson Riley ( born January 2, 1933 ), American politician, was United States Secretary of Education under President Bill Clinton and the 111th Governor of South Carolina.

* 1917 – World War I: President Woodrow Wilson asks the U. S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.

But in 1952, when General Motors president Charles E. Wilson, nominated for a cabinet post, told Congress "... what was good for the country was good for General Motors and vice versa ," he inspired one of Capp's greatest satires — the introduction of General Bullmoose, the robust, ruthless, and ageless business tycoon.

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.

* 1919 – President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of the U. S. Congress establishing most of the Grand Canyon as a United States National Park ( see Grand Canyon National Park ).

In early January 1918, Wilson summoned House to Washington and the two began hammering out, in complete secrecy, the president ’ s first address on the League of Nations, which was delivered to Congress on 8 January 1918.

Lane invited Mather to come to Washington, DC to work with him to draft and see passage of the National Park Service Organic Act, which the 64th United States Congress enacted and which President Woodrow Wilson signed into law on August 25, 1916.

Several by Thomas Wilson are in the US Library of Congress online collection.

Roosevelt's attacks on Wilson helped the Republicans win control of Congress in the off-year elections of 1918.

Marshall informed the cabinet that the only cases in which he would assume the presidency were a joint resolution of Congress calling on him to do so, or an official communication from Wilson or his staff asserting his inability to perform his duties.

Jefferson's procedure was followed by future Presidents until Woodrow Wilson reverted to the former procedure of personally addressing Congress, which has continued.

When Harding joined the U. S. Congress, both houses were controlled by the Democrats, and Woodrow Wilson, a progressive Democrat, was in the White House ; therefore, the legislative agenda was dominated by the opposition.

Generally, there was a lack of strong leadership in the Congress and, unlike his predecessors Roosevelt and Wilson, Harding was not inclined to fill that void.

In his first term as President, Wilson persuaded a Democratic Congress to pass major progressive reforms.

In April 1917, Wilson asked Congress to declare war.

Wilson addressing the U. S. Congress, April 8, 1913

The Democrats lowered tariffs with the Underwood Tariff in 1913, though its effects were soon overwhelmed by the changes in trade caused by World War I. Wilson proved especially effective in mobilizing public opinion behind tariff changes by denouncing corporate lobbyists, addressing Congress in person in highly dramatic fashion, and staging an elaborate ceremony when he signed the bill into law.

Wilson tried to bring labor and management together, but when management refused, he had Congress pass the Adamson Act in September 1916, which avoided the strike by imposing an 8-hour workday in the industry ( at the same pay as before ).

President Woodrow Wilson of the United States announces to Congress the breaking of diplomatic relations with Germany

* April 2 – WWI: U. S. President Woodrow Wilson asks the U. S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.

While not required to deliver a speech, every president since Woodrow Wilson has made the State of the Union report as a speech delivered before a joint session of Congress.

Since Wilson, the State of the Union is given typically each January before a joint session of the United States Congress and is held in the House of Representatives chamber of the United States Capitol.

Instead, the address was written and then sent to Congress to be read by a clerk until 1913 when Woodrow Wilson re-established the practice despite some initial controversy.

Only once before — when Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to order the U. S. into World War I — had a sitting president addressed Congress at night.

In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson went to Spokane to speak in a Father's Day celebration and wanted to make it official, but Congress resisted, fearing that it would become commercialized.

Before this, presidents used the vice president ( who serves as president of the senate ) as a go-between ; Wilson used the opportunity to show that he did not trust Marshall with delicate business.

Wilson serves as CEO of the AMC.

The Garnet A. Wilson Public Library serves area communities from its main branch in Waverly, Ohio and from its branches in Beaver, Piketon, and Western Pike County.

Wilson Creek Elementary School serves grades K through 2, Anna McDonald School serves grades 3 through 5, and Manhattan Junior High School serves grades 6 through 8.

The ZIP code of 49744 serves most of western Wilson Township as well as small portions of Green Township to the west and Ossineke Township to the south.

This book serves as a biography for the train robber, Charlie Wilson.

Another daughter, Christy Wilson Hofmann, currently serves as a consultant in the area of merchandising.

Wilson currently serves as the President of the International Boys School Coalition ( IBSC ), a world-wide organization for all-boys schools.

Wilson serves as a guest speaker and panelist in conferences and other programs devoted to African business policies and political affairs as well as on the matters pertaining to the CIA leak scandal.

Hope Gardens Multi Service Center is a building located on Wilson and Linden, it serves as an elderly bingo game building, an after school program for children from kindergarten to fifth grade, a karate class host, and a summer day camp for the neighborhood children.

He reveals the backstory of the Wilson family to Rosie, and serves as a narrator at the beginning and end of Nick's quest.

Irony serves the same function in the ballet, for example in the moment when Lord Wilson, the quintessence of Englishness, impassively attempts to sketch the scene of the desert disturbed by the simoom, or when Aspicia, after rising from the sarcophagus, looks into a mirror and is pleased to find herself as pretty as she was a few millennia before.

Wilson serves on the Committee on Armed Services, for which he also serves on the Subcommittee on Air and Land Forces and the Chairman for the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.

As a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Wilson serves on the Subcommittee on Europe and Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia.

Douglas Wilson serves as editor, Douglas Jones as senior editor, and N. D. Wilson as managing editor.

Chris Wilson serves as Deputy Secretary and Jackie McClaskey and Jim Riemann are Assistants to the Secretary.

In total, Vol State serves 12 counties in northern Middle Tennessee: Clay, northeast Davidson, Jackson, Macon, Overton, Pickett, Putnam, Robertson, Smith, Sumner, Trousdale, and Wilson.

It also serves as an entrance to the Wilson Trail.

The Reverend Elder Nancy L. Wilson ( born 1950 ) is an American cleric who serves as the current Moderator of the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches ( MCC or Metropolitan Community Churches ).