• But in the Senate, Democrats and Republicans alike prefer a package deal and generally favor continuing to arm and supply Ukraine. (kiplinger.com)
  • Ironically, the same people who generally favor this kind of legislation also oppose building any, let alone a lot of, new nuclear power plants. (crcna.org)
  • House Republicans want the Israel and Ukraine funds voted on separately since many GOP members oppose more money for Kyiv. (kiplinger.com)
  • Presidents George Washington and John Adams were identified with the Federalist Party, which tended toward a dominant federal government, but their party lost the Presidency and majorities in both houses of Congress to the Democratic-Republicans, who favored states' rights, in the election of 1800. (annenbergclassroom.org)
  • Rather than reopening the House rules for this Congress, Republicans plan to implement the new procedure through an "order of the House," a rarely used tactic that has the same force as a rule. (rollcall.com)
  • Five Republicans voted with all 44 Democrats and one Democratic-leaning independent. (rollcall.com)
  • Are the Republicans Losing the Kook Vote? (sadlyno.com)
  • 79 removing the arbitrary timeline on the ERA by a vote of 232-183, with five Republicans voting in favor of the resolution. (feminist.org)
  • In Florida, where both Republicans and Democrats alleged fraud, the governor certified Hayes electors, but a court ruled in favor of Tilden electors. (jurist.org)
  • Congress eventually settled the dispute only by creating an electoral commission composed of eight Republicans and seven Democrats who voted on strict party lines, making Hayes the winner by the margin of one vote, even though he had lost the popular vote. (jurist.org)
  • Republicans had strong black support in the state, but their white support was largely limited to hill and mountain areas, as racist white voters in much of the state would not vote for a party supported by blacks. (harvardlawreview.org)
  • In April 1900 Congress approved the Hawaiian Organic Act which organized the territory. (wikipedia.org)
  • The year was not 2008 - when African American voters helped North Carolina's electoral votes go to Democrat Barack Obama before a new Republican legislature (in 2013) passed a tough set of voting rules - but 1900, and the party doing the disenfranchising was not the Republican Party but the Democratic Party. (harvardlawreview.org)
  • The authors describe a history of surgical congresses in the Russian Empire, the USSR and the Russian Federation from the I Congress of Russian Surgeons held on December 28-30, 1900 in Moscow in the building of the Moscow Meeting of Doctors to the XLVIII (XIV) Congress of Surgeons of Russia held on November 25-27, 2022 in Moscow in the hotel «Cosmos¼. (bvsalud.org)
  • Scientific issues of congresses between 1900 and 1986 are summarized in tables. (bvsalud.org)
  • After hearing the President's defense, Congress debated and approved the removal of Vizcarra due to moral incapacity with 105 votes in favor, surpassing the 87 out of 130 vote supermajority threshold required to convict a political official. (wikipedia.org)
  • He did so preemptively, three hours before the start of the congressional session in which a motion to dismiss him for "permanent moral incapacity" was to be debated and voted on due to allegations of corruption that are under investigation. (intrepidreport.com)
  • When the date arrived, impeachment was initiated with 60 votes in favor, 40 against and 18 abstentions. (wikipedia.org)
  • He was replaced by his vice president, Dina Boluarte, who was sworn in after Congress impeached Castillo with 101 votes in favor, six against, and ten abstentions. (intrepidreport.com)
  • Tuberville finally advanced a vote Thursday on Gen. Eric Smith to be the Marine commandant and the Senate voted 96-0 in favor. (minnpost.com)
  • The Senate is expected to vote today in favor of a bill that preserves the requirement that students take annual standardized tests. (vox.com)
  • Glad the Senate finally passed the USA Freedom Act. (npr.org)
  • The vote comes two days after controversial provisions of the Patriot Act expired because the Senate was unable to "overcome parliamentary maneuvers by Sen. Rand Paul," as Eyder reported Sunday night , "and let three controversial provisions of the Patriot Act expire at midnight. (npr.org)
  • On the sixth ballot, Dr. Madison Marsh changed his vote and Edward Hannegan was elected to the United States Senate by one vote. (delgazette.com)
  • Meanwhile, in the Senate, debate on a proposal by Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Ore.) to eliminate $14 billion in cuts to Medicaid began last night, but at press time Senate GOP aides predicted that a vote on the proposal would not occur until today. (rollcall.com)
  • White House operatives and Senate Republican leaders were scrambling Wednesday to find the votes to defeat the amendment, which would gut President Bush's desire for Congress to stem the rising cost of entitlement programs. (rollcall.com)
  • Votes today and Friday are expected before the Senate considers final passage of the budget resolution. (rollcall.com)
  • The Senate, though, did not vote to convict him. (sunjournal.com)
  • I will vote to support the proposed agreement concerning Iran's nuclear program and against the resolution of disapproval before the Senate. (peacenow.org)
  • In this way, it was established that the qualified vote necessary to be able to vacate the office of president of the republic, must reach a minimum of 87 votes, which corresponds to two-thirds of the legal number of congressmen, considering that in the Peruvian congress the number of members is 130. (wikipedia.org)
  • 478 congressmen voted in favor, 10 against. (katsap.info)
  • Senators who vote against the civil and human rights of these students will be undoing the 50 years of progress we've made since this law first passed. (vox.com)
  • In the final tally of the vote, 67 senators were in favor of the measure and 32 against. (npr.org)
  • Party bosses polled their Senators in private and found that the vote was likely to be deadlocked. (delgazette.com)
  • If it becomes clear that Smith's amendment will succeed, other Senators may end up switching their votes, giving Smith a much larger victory. (rollcall.com)
  • And despite the polls heavily favoring Ms. Turner, the large turnout among the most heavily populated Jewish cities located to the east of Cleveland turned the tide of the race. (dansdeals.com)
  • North Carolina had "perhaps the most democratic" 2 political system in the late-nineteenth century South, with very high turnout among adult males, with black men voting in large numbers, and without the extensive ballot-box stuffing and election fraud that had been occurring in most other Southern states. (harvardlawreview.org)
  • This memo essentially states that if Democrats want to impeach President Trump, it will take up floor time during the first moments of Joe Biden's presidency, and a Democratic Congress. (nbcnews.com)
  • for a long time, Democrats favored trade agreements, which I explained in one of my previous books, Trade for Peace. (bjreview.com.cn)
  • Even though I've been optimistic about the Democrats' chances in the midterm elections this fall, there's one thing that's kept me worried: the virtual army of illiterate nuts that Karl Rove turned out in 2004 to vote for Bush. (sadlyno.com)
  • One of the few Democrats in the U.S. House who hasn't taken sides on the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, U.S. Rep. Jared Golden of Maine's 2nd Congressional District, said Wednesday he will vote in favor of the proposed rules to govern the process. (sunjournal.com)
  • Also voting against the bill Tuesday was independent Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination. (npr.org)
  • Nina Turner, who was the national co-chair for Bernie Sanders' 2020 campaign, was heavily favored to win the district, with polls just 2 months ago showing her up by some 35% . (dansdeals.com)
  • The proposed Constitutional amendment would say Congress and the states may regulate and set reasonable limits on the raising and spending of money by candidates and others seeking to influence elections. (vop.org)
  • Pedro Castillo Terrones, a rural schoolteacher who had never before been elected to office, won the second round of the presidential election with just over 50.13% of the vote. (intrepidreport.com)
  • I too am a little concerned about Congresses dependence on the Nehru/Gandhi dynasty, which elected its 4th generation in this election, at some juncture Congress will have to deal with cutting away from that dependence. (thedemocraticstrategist.org)
  • Though Shoemaker nearly forgot it was Election Day, he left the fields early, rode his horse to his polling place and attempted to vote. (delgazette.com)
  • Because the vote was not on an official form, the election inspector set it aside and the race between Marsh and his opponent ended in a tie. (delgazette.com)
  • They demonstrate that every election, be it a landslide or a nail biter, is made up of individual votes. (delgazette.com)
  • Yesterday, Ohio's heavily gerrymandered 11th district voted in a special primary election to nominate a replacement in the House of Representatives for HUD secretary Marcia Fudge. (dansdeals.com)
  • The amendment retained, however, the curious procedure for election by the House of Representatives (voting by states) when no candidate receives a majority of the electoral vote. (jurist.org)
  • In four more elections during the next half century (1836, 1856, 1860), the shift of a relatively small number votes in a few states would have thrown the election into the House of Representatives. (jurist.org)
  • In six other elections (1828, 1840, 1844, 1848, 1864, and 1868), the shift of a small number of votes in a few states - fewer than 20,000 in the first four - would have resulted in the election of the other candidate. (jurist.org)
  • Rumors of Republican vote fraud in New York were rampant during the days following the election, and the chairman of the Democratic National Committee and the leader of Tammany Hall seriously considered contesting the election. (jurist.org)
  • Vote-dilution claims involve issues like districting and at-large election systems and focus on communities of color being able to cast "a 'meaningful' vote for someone who could get elected," [9] thus they "necessarily turn on election results. (acslaw.org)
  • But Congressman White would be the last African American member of Congress from the South until 1972 and the last from North Carolina until 1992 (with the election of Mel Watt and Eva Clayton). (harvardlawreview.org)
  • The Raleigh News and Observer editorialized in favor of reversing the election reforms, stating that the legislature should "make it impossible for any element of white voters to appeal to the Negro voters upon any public question. (harvardlawreview.org)
  • Finally," Kousser explains, "the law provided that any ballot placed in the wrong box - there were six - whether by election officers or the voter himself, would be void. (harvardlawreview.org)
  • 7 Former Member of Congress Alfred Moore Waddell told a crowd the day before the election: "You are Anglo-Saxons. (harvardlawreview.org)
  • Vizcarra was removed from office on 9 November 2020 in a 105-16 vote. (wikipedia.org)
  • About 42% of votes in these precincts were for Trump in 2020, but only 17 people voted for the Republican primary ticket yesterday. (dansdeals.com)
  • In 2020, finally after 401 years, the speaker of the Virginia House, the Majority Leader, and the co-sponsors of the ERA are all feminist women," Smeal continued. (feminist.org)
  • In 2020-2021, this situation changed in favor of emergency abdominal procedures. (bvsalud.org)
  • With little bipartisan agreement in Congress, it's hard to know what legislation, if any, stands a chance at passage. (kiplinger.com)
  • The debt ceiling bill that averted a default by the Treasury this spring calls for 1% reductions to both defense and nondefense spending if Congress doesn't pass legislation funding the federal government for all of fiscal year, 2024 by Jan. 1, 2024, although there is a catch. (kiplinger.com)
  • Enactment of this legislation will strengthen civil liberty safeguards and provide greater public confidence in these programs," Obama said in a statement after the vote. (npr.org)
  • I am gratified that Congress has finally moved forward with this sensible reform legislation. (npr.org)
  • Should the CRCNA Lobby in Favor of Federal Carbon Tax Legislation? (crcna.org)
  • The remaining six judges voted on Thursday and ruled that both forms of discrimination should be treated like racism (which the country criminalized in 1989) until the country's Congress approves legislation that specifically addresses LGBTQ discrimination. (globalcitizen.org)
  • Congress has not passed a piece of major progressive social legislation for many years. (nybooks.com)
  • Originally, the group was asking for a rule allowing points of order on both authorizing and appropriations bills that could be overturned only by a supermajority vote. (rollcall.com)
  • WASHINGTON D.C., Sep 18, 2019 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) - An Assembly of 600 citizen-delegates is being established by NewUnity.Org and it is expected to eventually become a third-chamber of Congress via constitutional amendment, creating a tri-cameral legislature. (californianewswire.com)
  • Another huge win for nature took place on Sept. 10, 2021, when the IUCN World Conservation Congress voted in favor of an Indigenous-lead measure that will protect 80% of the entire Amazon Basin by 2025. (nexamp.com)
  • More than 8.8 million people voted for Castillo's program of profound social reforms and the promise of a new constitution against the far-right's candidate, Keiko Fujimori. (intrepidreport.com)
  • Democratic leaders in Congress will move on newly drafted articles of impeachment as soon as next week against President Donald Trump if he doesn't first resign, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said. (nbcnews.com)
  • The gravity of the committees' findings should be aired in open hearings so that Americans can hear the sworn testimony of witnesses and fully understand the evidence upon which the articles of impeachment would be drafted," she said Wednesday, adding that she will also vote "for the clear and transparent impeachment procedures" called for in the resolution. (sunjournal.com)
  • I have not predetermined any kind of vote for articles of impeachment," he said, adding that it's possible there won't be any. (sunjournal.com)
  • Before the vote, a displeased Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell criticized the policies of President Obama and said that the Freedom Act weakens America's ability to protect itself. (npr.org)
  • Furthermore, the Assembly's demographic composition will closely mirror America's whereas Congress' composition is very different. (californianewswire.com)
  • Article 113, Section 1 of the Constitution of Peru establishes five possible reasons under which the President of the Republic can leave office: Death of the President, Permanent moral or physical incapacity, as declared by Congress, Resignation, Leaving national territory without permission from Congress or not returning within the approved period, or Dismissal, after having been sanctioned for any of the offenses mentioned in Article 117 of the Constitution. (wikipedia.org)
  • for dissolving Congress, except in the cases provided for in Article 134 of the Constitution, and for preventing its meeting or operation, or those of the National Elections Jury and other bodies of the electoral system. (wikipedia.org)
  • And in the first Congress under the Constitution they opposed bitterly every proposal to limit slavery. (fullbooks.com)
  • Tuesday's vote on the Freedom Act comes less than a month after a federal appeals court ruled that the National Security Agency's practice of collecting bulk data about Americans' phone calls violates the Constitution. (npr.org)
  • I understand the power of Congress to exercise oversight and political control, however, these mechanisms cannot be exercised by mediating the abuse of the right, proscribed in the constitution, ignoring the popular will expressed at the polls," he stressed. (intrepidreport.com)
  • Finally, they did achieve the goal of total Prohibition of alcohol, and in 1919 the 18th Amendment to the constitution was ratified. (youthrights.org)
  • Constitutional law consists of the applications and legal interpretations of the Constitution, as distinguished from statutory law (the acts of Congress) and common law (the precedents established by lower court rulings). (annenbergclassroom.org)
  • To address this concern, Members of the 115th Congress introduced House Joint Resolution 113, which would effectively reverse the Citizens United decision through a Constitutional amendment which would give Congress the power to place regulations on campaign donations. (vop.org)
  • That concern was only magnified by the petitioners' arguments, which sought restrictive standards that would, among other things, limit Section 2 vote-denial challenges only to laws concerning voter qualifications rather than time, place, and manner restrictions, and allow challenges only to laws that call for differential treatment based on race. (acslaw.org)
  • Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities external link and the Library of Congress. (loc.gov)
  • Or are these political dispensations smelling a rat that the Indian Muslims may be finally veering away from being captive vote-banks as the last Gujarat Assembly elections illustrate. (boloji.com)
  • This would allow Congress to restrict or even prohibit corporations and other organizations from spending money to influence elections. (vop.org)
  • Finally, the Obama administration dropped its weak-kneed rhetorical stance when the assistant secretary for Latin American affairs, Thomas Shannon, indicated that the administration would recognize elections in Honduras, with or without Zelaya's restitution. (nplusonemag.com)
  • In three of these elections (1836,1844, and 1860), the final outcome was determined by the electoral votes of only one state, New York. (jurist.org)
  • From his cell, Humala reportedly orchestrated the impeachment process with members of congress and his UPP supporters. (wikipedia.org)
  • Tuberville continued to insist he has support from thousands of military members across the country, but the VFW says its members have voted overwhelming that the holds harm soldiers. (minnpost.com)
  • We urge Americans to write their members of Congress and say they stand behind the VFW. (minnpost.com)
  • Members of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC), which represents more than 25,000 professors and staff at CUNY, voted overwhelmingly-94 percent-in favor of a new contract. (workplacefairness.org)
  • Fabricant cited benefits, such as a three-year appointment for adjunct professors, as reasons why members favored the contract. (workplacefairness.org)
  • In May, 92 percent of members voted to authorize a strike. (workplacefairness.org)
  • banning stock-trading by Members of Congress. (vop.org)
  • A few members of Congress who had voted against the line-item veto brought suit in the federal courts on the grounds that their legislative "power of the purse" had been diminished. (annenbergclassroom.org)
  • Farmers Union members then hit the halls of Congress to talk about COOL and the RFS. (rmfu.org)
  • In addition to COOL, Farmers Union members spoke in favor of keeping the Renewable Fuel Standards in place. (rmfu.org)
  • After 20 years of discussion, the Peruvian government has finally established a long-awaited reserve for Indigenous peoples . (nexamp.com)
  • Rejecting a Republican-led challenge, the SCOTUS justices voted 8-1 - with Associate Justice Samuel Alito the sole dissenter - to allow Biden's policy to finally take effect after it had been blocked. (brooklyneagle.com)
  • At 1:00 p.m., we will march to the Capitol building and call on Congress to stop the steal," said the voice on the recording, which was obtained by NBC News. (nbcnews.com)
  • He was summoned to the Capitol and cast his vote in favor of war, bringing the United States into a war with Mexico by one vote. (delgazette.com)
  • Pragmatically speaking whether it is Nitish Kumar, Mulayam Singh or Mayawati, they all are captives of Indian Muslims vote-banks and their electoral arithmetic may be upset. (boloji.com)
  • Thomas Jefferson and Delaware's own Rutherford B. Hayes were elected by single vote margins through the 1800 Electoral College and the 1876 Electoral Commission. (delgazette.com)
  • When no candidate received a majority of electors in 1824, the House elected John Quincy Adams even though Andrew Jackson had received a plurality of both the popular and electoral votes. (jurist.org)
  • Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 "to banish the blight of racial discrimination in voting," which had "infected the electoral process in parts of our country for nearly a century. (acslaw.org)
  • Such action would favor the meat industry and harm family-sized ranches. (rmfu.org)
  • Weakened by months of corruption allegations, left infighting, and multiple attempts to criminalize him, Castillo was finally overthrown and imprisoned. (intrepidreport.com)
  • Maine's 2nd Congressional District representative remains unsure whether the president should be impeached, but favors a fair process to figure out what Donald Trump has done. (sunjournal.com)
  • This article was invoked by President Kuczynski's attorney during his defense plea before Congress when facing the first vacancy request in 2017. (wikipedia.org)
  • Congress has an important oversight role over all aspects of our government, its actions, and its international commitments. (peacenow.org)
  • The world is looking like a more dangerous place these days, but Congress is far from united on a response. (kiplinger.com)
  • Reforming Congress is clearly the place to start. (californianewswire.com)
  • The second event took place two years later when Furtseva returned Khrushchev's favor. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The time and place of congresses, as well as chairmen are named. (bvsalud.org)
  • The North Carolina legislature then changes hands, and the new party in power, which has few, if any, African American supporters, passes new voting restrictions that make it very difficult for African Americans to vote. (harvardlawreview.org)
  • The vote to establish rules is on tap for a House vote Thursday and would mark the first time that lawmakers have explicitly endorsed the inquiry into Trump's alleged effort to squeeze Ukraine to investigate the son of one of his Democratic rivals. (sunjournal.com)
  • Let us begin with the Congress Party. (boloji.com)
  • The Congress Party is a party where Prime Ministers emerge from dynastic succession and that places Rahul Gandhi as its Prime Minister in 2014. (boloji.com)
  • Now the challenge for the Obama White House is to convince his own party to vote for it. (bjreview.com.cn)
  • Those who favor a limited national government and more states'rights have gravitated toward one party, while those favoring a stronger, more active federal government tended toward another. (annenbergclassroom.org)
  • His actions quickly began to reveal that he had discarded anything resembling principle in favor of vacuous bipartisanship (the kind in which only one party gains). (nplusonemag.com)
  • The farmhand and the Democratic candidate hit it off and Shoemaker promised Marsh that he would vote for him. (delgazette.com)
  • Residents got the word out with in-person fundraisers with the candidate and signs everywhere to coalesce and vote for Shontel Brown, who was proving Nina Turner's strongest competition among the field of 13 Democratic candidates. (dansdeals.com)
  • Ohio has open primaries, so you can decide at the polls if you want to vote for the Democratic or Republican primary. (dansdeals.com)
  • When the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee , voting-rights advocates anticipated the worst. (acslaw.org)
  • If Congress can pass full-year appropriations before April 30, the spending cuts would be turned off. (kiplinger.com)
  • An example of the question of "standing" occurred in 1995, when Congress enacted a "line-item veto" that enabled Presidents to veto a single fund-ing item within a larger appropriations bill without having to veto the whole bill. (annenbergclassroom.org)
  • They settled for points of order, subject to a simple majority vote, that would apply only to appropriations bills. (rollcall.com)
  • However, the Congress would not reveal its cards till proxy wars and machinations stand played out. (boloji.com)
  • Initially, the vote to start impeachment proceedings was scheduled for 31 October, but it was later extended to the first week of November. (wikipedia.org)
  • Nixon resigned in 1974 shortly before a near-certain vote for impeachment while Clinton was impeached in 1998. (sunjournal.com)
  • On July 4, 1898, the U.S. Congress passed a joint resolution to provide for annexing of Hawaii to the United States. (wikipedia.org)
  • A final vote on the bill came late Tuesday afternoon, after amendments to the bill failed. (npr.org)
  • Whereas Bill and Hillary Clinton presented a plan to Congress that gave the key legislators comparatively little opportunity to collaborate on health policy or to take credit for it, Obama did the opposite to a fault. (nybooks.com)
  • The administration finally announced its own reform principles on February 22, long after both houses of Congress had passed different versions of a bill. (nybooks.com)
  • What impresses me about the Congress success at the polls was the strong commitment to a Secular India, distinct from the Hindu Nationalist themes BJP has used over time, though somewhat behind the curtain during this campaign. (thedemocraticstrategist.org)
  • It appears the Congress winners this time are quite new personalities, not re-treads from ten years ago. (thedemocraticstrategist.org)
  • It also was an indication that Furtseva, who at the time was a candidate or non-voting member of the Party's Central Committee and first secretary of the powerful Moscow Committee, was a rising political star. (encyclopedia.com)
  • By the time she finally finished speaking, a sufficient number of Khrushchev's supporters had arrived to overturn an earlier decision of the party's Presidium to remove him from office. (encyclopedia.com)
  • As President Obama seeks fast-track authority for a 12-country Pacific trade deal and Congress inches toward giving it to him, Clinton is hedging on a deal she once strongly backed. (wmfe.org)
  • In response to this, by means of Legislative Resolution of Congress No. 030-2003-CR, article 89-A was introduced in the Congress Regulations. (wikipedia.org)
  • Some in Congress have suggested "reforming" COOL, which would effectively weaken the law. (rmfu.org)
  • Through its composition and its voting rules, the Assembly will be unique in reflecting the will of the people. (californianewswire.com)
  • There are no special interests, no political parties and no big money donors involved in selection of delegates and therefore none of the conflicts of interests or compromises that afflict many who are elected to Congress. (californianewswire.com)
  • [4] But beyond its wholesale abandonment of the VRA's broad remedial purpose and flexible text, it is worth examining how the Court's new guideposts and their application will severely limit Section 2's reach as a tool to combat racial discrimination in voting. (acslaw.org)
  • [7] Section 2 was aimed at voting discrimination nationwide and "broadly prohibits the use of voting rules to abridge exercise of the franchise on racial grounds. (acslaw.org)
  • That kind of apparent contradiction has been especially glaring during the rollout of her second presidential campaign, as she has tried to pacify the liberal base with talk of constitutional amendments to get undisclosed money out of politics and has launched with a video that noted how "the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top. (wmfe.org)
  • Finally, to explain how such institutionalization of sub-regional partnership can be instrumental for fostering Europeanization, this thesis examines what kind of institutional formations Associated Trio and Visegrad Four are. (lu.se)
  • In April 2008, before the Pennsylvania primary, where she was trying to woo white working-class men, she said of a Colombia deal that she "will do everything I can to urge the Congress to reject the Colombia Free Trade Agreement. (wmfe.org)
  • The proposal, which failed on a 50-50 tie vote, would have required that Congress offset any tax cuts and mandatory spending increases. (rollcall.com)
  • When it finally came to a vote, Faneuil's proposal ultimately carried. (nps.gov)
  • voted against the measure today, as he did last fall. (npr.org)
  • Six Supreme Federal Tribunal judges voted on May 23 in favor of a measure to treat homophobia and transphobia as crimes. (globalcitizen.org)
  • This post was updated on June 14 to reflect the Supreme Court's final vote on the measure. (globalcitizen.org)
  • The first order of business for Congress was avoiding a government shutdown which was achieved with a large bipartisan vote for short-term funding to keep federal agencies open until early next year. (kiplinger.com)
  • Presented with an argument in favor of this part of the amendment, a large bipartisan majority found it convincing. (vop.org)
  • On July 4, 1898, the United States Congress passed the Newlands Resolution authorizing the U.S. annexation of the Republic of Hawaii, and five weeks later, on August 12, Hawaii became a U.S. territory. (wikipedia.org)
  • 61 -the vehicle for a resolution of disapproval of the JCPOA - to a vote. (peacenow.org)
  • Respondents were first introduced to this topic, by being told that in order for Congress to limit all forms of campaign‐related donations, a new Constitutional amendment would be required to override the Supreme Court's past decisions on this subject, including "Citizens United", and prevent the courts from striking down campaign finance laws in the future. (vop.org)
  • in writing campaign finance laws, Congress would have the right to treat corporations and other organizations differently from 'natural persons. (vop.org)
  • Go to the polls to-morrow, and if you find the negro out voting, tell him to leave the polls, and if he refuses, kill him. (harvardlawreview.org)
  • Finally it was decided that the vote and debate would be held on 2 November. (wikipedia.org)
  • The commission's final report was submitted to Congress for a debate which lasted over a year. (wikipedia.org)
  • The debate is getting more intense as Congress wrangles with the future of No Child Left Behind, the landmark law that's become nearly synonymous with standardized testing. (vox.com)
  • The negro's name was 'Dred Scott,' which name now designates the decision finally made in the case. (historyplace.com)
  • The die was finally cast on July 1, when the decision arrived. (acslaw.org)
  • Before analyzing the decision and what the future holds, a discussion of the development of Section 2 of the VRA and vote-denial claims will help set the stage. (acslaw.org)
  • They also put a heavy thumb on the scale in favor of an evidence-free voter fraud justification, the primary rationale used to suppress participation by voters of color. (acslaw.org)
  • Finally, in June 1776 Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, as well as many others composed the Declaration of Independence. (worldhistory.us)
  • After six years without a contract, City University of New York professors and staff will finally get a raise. (workplacefairness.org)
  • But curiously if Modi finally emerges as BJP Prime Ministerial candidate then all these regional political worthies and the Congress should be extremely happy because logically Indian Muslim vote-banks should predominantly go in their favor with all the demonization of Modi that they have indulged for years now. (boloji.com)
  • Two years into Hannegan's term, Congress debated whether to allow the Republic of Texas to join the Union as a state. (delgazette.com)
  • The amendment had been trapped in committee for 48 years without a floor vote. (feminist.org)
  • Then it took 49 years of feminist activism for the Congress to act. (feminist.org)
  • Finally, the authors came to conclusion that 55 surgical forums have been held in Russia for more than 120 years. (bvsalud.org)
  • Undeterred, Shoemaker reportedly used pieces from other ballots and a paper bag to make his own ballot and cast his vote for Marsh. (delgazette.com)
  • Meanwhile, backers of an amendment to establish stringent "pay as you go" budget enforcement mechanisms fell one vote short on Wednesday. (rollcall.com)
  • Eventually a bi-partisan vote called for a "hands off" policy in regards to internal events in Hawaii. (wikipedia.org)
  • 1803) and other cases had taken upon itself the power to declare acts of Congress unconstitutional. (annenbergclassroom.org)
  • Second, after the administration negotiated an accord that demanded a power-sharing government and called for the Honduran Congress to vote on Zelaya's restitution, it failed to lodge a protest when coup leader Roberto Micheletti went ahead and formed a government without Zelaya. (nplusonemag.com)
  • As a senator, she voted in favor of free trade agreements with Singapore, Chile, Australia, Morocco and Oman. (wmfe.org)
  • But she also voted against the Central American Free Trade Agreement, or CAFTA. (wmfe.org)
  • Traditionally speaking, the chances are that there is a greater likelihood that the Republican-led Congress will support a trade agreement. (bjreview.com.cn)
  • Similarly, an amendment from Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) to prevent oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge failed on a 49-51 vote. (rollcall.com)
  • Surgical forums of the 21st century are considered in detail (Congresses of Surgeons of Russia, National Surgical Congresses, All-Russian Surgical Forums). (bvsalud.org)
  • Shortly after this meeting, she was made a full or voting member of the Presidium-the first and only woman ever to sit on this, the most powerful body in the Soviet Union. (encyclopedia.com)