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1. The president gives his message to Congress and the country – it is a short summary of everything that happened and an idea of what is going to happen the following year

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2. Andrew Holmes had been in Beijing since March 6th 2014 covering China’s “war on pollution” presented by Premier Li Keqiang at the annual gathering of the National People’s Congress

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3. The persons who now govern the resolutions of what they call their continental congress, feel in themselves at this moment a degree of importance which, perhaps, the greatest subjects in Europe scarce feel

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4. Five hundred different people, perhaps, who, in different ways, act immediately under the continental congress, and five hundred thousand, perhaps, who act under those five hundred, all feel, in the same manner, a proportionable rise in their own importance

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5. That was when Congress tried to enact voting rule changes that would have denied voting for new citizens

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6. Euphrates, George Howland, and Congress

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7. And all thanks to the machinations of Jimmy Carter and his Democrat-controlled Congress which in 1975 made into law the Community Reinvestment Act, the most asinine piece of federal legislation ever made into law

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8. All too often describes the activities of the Liberals in Congress and the Administration in attempting to jettison the Constitution

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9. The clause means what it says, which is that Congress, and by extension the other branches of the National Government, shall do absolutely nothing either pro or con a religion, nor prohibiting the free exercise of religion

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10. This means that, just as the Congress can pass no law on religion, the President can neither issue an Executive Order nor sign a treaty that would have any effect on religion, and the Judiciary can issue no decisions respecting religion

11. If the Congress can"t touch the free exercise of religion, neither can the courts

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12. Furthermore, I refuse to believe that his „Report on Manufactures" to the first Congress was meant as a precursor to John Kenneth Galbraith"s „The New Industrial State

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13. And yet Congress keeps on expanding into more and more fields

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14. Martin wrote the majority opinion, asserting that Congress has the authority under the Commerce Clause to regulate the non-commerce (My comment: How can the Constitution support the Congress in regulating non-commerce behavior?) of someone who chooses not to buy health insurance

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15. Troup, Mount Wollaston, Brunswick, Camilla, Congress, and Cleone

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16. Read the fine print, which all too many of our so-called representatives in the United States Congress failed to do before voting this abomination into law

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17. Congress now routinely passes laws that violate Constitutional provisions, which our current Constitution-hating Chief Executive is only too happy to sign into law

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18. And of course, when the Congress does not act quickly enough to embrace his designs, he simply signs another Executive Order by which to bypass that august body

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19. Obama, however, who professes to care so deeply for the poor, merely sat back while the Democrat Congress defunded the program in 2009

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20. The rapid consensus amongst congress, the joint chiefs, was dismaying

21. Pray tell me where in our Constitution the President is authorized to present a plan, a budget, or anything else excepting an annual State of the Union Speech, to the Congress

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22. The rejoinder of Benjamin Franklin to a lady who questioned him on his exit from the convention of the Continental Congress charged with modifying the Articles of Confederation

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23. Administration, and the Library of Congress

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24. It opened the door for Congress to take whatever they deem expedient from us

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25. My question therefore is: Are we getting close once again? Are we, as American citizens, subjects to a sovereign, truly represented by our Representatives in Congress, and the overbearing Chief Executive? I think not

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26. There are several serious things wrong with „The City by the Bay," among the most serious is the fact that the denizens thereof just keep on electing her to the Congress

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27. land in Congress or the poor-farm before many years!"

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28. This bill, ushered by Republicans and Democrats from both houses of Congress, promises to reduce the nation‘s deficit by $56 billion over the next seven years, not to mention increasing revenues that, everything being equal, will further reduce deficits over that period

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29. History must one day hold this generation, along with our feckless Congress, accountable for the transgressions of the present (Clinton) Administration

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30. The Republican Congress, in its infinite wisdom, has recently proposed a measure that would allow the Commonwealth of Puerto

31. What‘s next on the agenda, proposed Statehood for The District of Columbia that will further increase the number of Democratic seats in both houses of Congress on the chance of attracting potential African American voters? This bill is without question a lose/lose proposition for the Republican Party which would better serve its (own) political interests and the interests of the nation by attracting party support on the quality of its (own) party principles rather than its transparent pandering for problematical votes

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32. Their southern neighbour South Africa got involved when it recognised that exiled ANC (African National Congress - South Africans) assisted the above terrorists

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33. Question: What strategies should the Republican Party adopt in order to retain its majority in both Houses of Congress in the

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34. History will not look favorably upon certain members of this shameless Congress who have (deliberately) placed (political) expediency ahead of National Security!

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35. ) His sole role in California was in supporting its immediate admission as a state to make certain Congress would have no say over its status as slave or free

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36. California's elected representatives successfully pushed Congress into rejecting all treaties in a secret vote, and then ordered documents related to the treaties kept secret for 50 years

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37. In 1778, in the Virginia Congress he led efforts to successfully ban importing slaves into Virginia

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38. The US international slave trade was abolished by Jefferson and Congress in 1807, though an internal slave trade continued until abolition

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39. The Constitution protected the slave trade for twenty years and gave slave owning states greater representation in Congress

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40. During the Civil War he joined the Confederacy and was elected to the Confederate Congress, dying shortly before taking office

41. Obviously, if democracy were the true reason for US conquest, the country would have become independent shortly after 1916, when Filipinos first elected their own congress

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42. How else does one explain his abysmal record on Immigration, lack of Social Security and Energy reform, reckless spending, expanding deficits (despite enjoying majorities in both Houses of Congress) while engaging the nation in a politically correct war that has clearly lost its momentum?

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43. The next US President, Tyler, put a bill before Congress to take Texas

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44. Both Tyler and Congress accepted the legal fiction that Texas was independent to make it easier to take the territory over

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45. The US Congress, which was informed of the attacks from the beginning

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46. In his own words, he wanted to “scare the hell out” of Congress and the American people

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47. Ahmed Chalabi and the Iraqi National Congress, set up and sponsored by the CIA, was intended to take over Iraq after Hussein's overthrow

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48. Bush was quite adept at outmaneuvering his political opponents in Congress, and in manipulating the media

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49. They burned down the White House, the Capital building, and the Library of Congress

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50. Colombia’s Congress refused the treaty, since Herran had negotiated without consulting them and the treaty price was very low

51. I am not convinced, however, that the party‘s (so-called) failure was due entirely to an absence of Will, although some Republicans have arguably abandoned the good fight over ―divisive‖ issues that many perceive might otherwise jeopardize their political standing among moderate or left-leaning voters, but rather to a concentration of judicial/political power vested in our nation‘s courts and among its political supporters who, until quite recently, enjoyed large majorities in both Houses of Congress

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52. Three years later he pushed Congress to allow building chemical weapons again

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53. A member of the Kuwaiti royal family, posing as a nurse, told the tearful lie on the floor of the US Congress

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54. Congress, and most of the public, finally had enough

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55. Congress passed the Tenure of Office Act

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56. Johnson defied Congress and fired Secretary of War Stanton, who had been appointed by Lincoln and was a dedicated abolitionist

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57. Congress moved to impeach Johnson

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58. In spite of Johnson, Congress, Union generals, abolitionists, the Freedmen's Bureau, and newly freed Blacks exercising their civil rights could point to some accomplishments

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59. Sixteen Blacks were elected to US Congress, some of them former slaves who had taught themselves to read only a few years before

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60. 6% unemployment, low interest rates and the Dow Jones Industrial Average hovering around 12,000?), I must confess some disappointment, however, over this Administration‘s failure to encourage a (―friendly‖) Republican Congress to follow its tax cuts with concomitant reductions in federal spending

61. Bush had a wonderful opportunity to present such arguments before the American People while (still) enjoying the majority support of both Houses of Congress, notwithstanding his (own) overriding ―mandate‖ following the 2004

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62. Fillmore also pushed for New Mexico Territory to be open to slavery, even sending federal troops to the territory to pressure abolitionists in Congress

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63. The Church Committee of the US Congress concluded the CIA was not directly involved in the coup itself

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64. But Congress was only looking at if the CIA gave direct orders to the military, not the fact of years of efforts to weaken the government and openly hoping for an overthrow

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65. A Native Hawaiian counterrevolution failed, and their petition to the US Congress failed to get US troops to restore the Queen

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66. The island was set up with a Congress, one house US appointed, the other elected

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67. We did what we could with limited funds and Congress fought us every step of the way

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68. Obama has publicly vowed to sign the Akaka Bill if Congress passes it, which would grant Native Hawaiians status similar to an American Indian tribe, a reservation and government to government relations with the US

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69. Congress passed the Espionage Act

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70. In 1794, Congress banned any US ship, ship owner, or ship captain from taking part in the international slave trade

71. Congress, again led by Jefferson, tried so only shortly after the American Revolution

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72. He called on Congress "

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73. Congress not only passed the ban

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74. The Whig Party led opposition in Congress to slavery and war with Mexico

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75. Yet by a mixture of eloquence, political skill, and canny coalition building, Lincoln united Congress and elements of the US public, from Abolitionist churches to German free thinking radicals to free Blacks to working class southern whites

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76. ” In his address to Congress in 1872, he spoke of “wars of extermination” as “wicked and demoralizing” and wanted to limit violence

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77. The magnitude of that triumph amounts to a sweep if one considers that the president has carried along with him other Republican candidates in the Senate and the House of Representatives, so that since 1900 when republican McKinley was president, neither party had succeeded in reelecting simultaneously the Presidency, the Congress and the Senate, while at the same time adding seats in both chambers of congress

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78. In addition, in time of war, many did not believe that it is logical to elect a senator who in 1971 vilified, with unfounded allegations before Congress, the armed forces of the country he was now aspiring to govern as commander-in-chief

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79. They explained that financing the resistance in Nicaragua required a great deal of money, much more than would be forthcoming from a reluctant US Congress

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80. Huge profits, sufficient to fill the financial gaps left by Congress, can be earned for the cause by transporting cocaine

81. Roosevelt had comfortable majorities in Congress most of his time in office and huge popularity

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82. Obama's party had control of Congress only a few months, while his support was almost never higher than slightly over half

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83. As of this writing, the treaty is still being debated, with a strong pro war and pro Israel faction in Congress hoping the treaty will fail, looking for an excuse to target Iran with US or Israeli bombing

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84. Congress refused to ratify it, but Carter agreed to observe its terms anyway

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85. ) One of Tyler's last major acts as president was to push through Congress an annexation bill to take over Texas

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86. The US would have seen a Congress and president united in their intent to rebuild, united in their efforts for Black equality, and united to punish Confederate traitors and terrorists

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87. He would continue the war, but remain very handicapped by divisions in Congress and public perception that he would give in to the treason of the Confederacy

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88. The Confederate Congress usually met in secret and often imposed gag orders on issues

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89. He could not by himself reverse Emancipation, not even with the help of Democrats in Congress and a war weary US public

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90. He agreed to keep their report secret as long as Congress passed his act

91. But whatever the merits of these proposals he would have been enormously handicapped with no party in Congress to back him, a hostile and undiplomatic temper, and a tendency to imagine dark plots

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92. Romney went one step further and said he would not need the approval of Congress to go to war

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93. Congress repeatedly approved the schools, and the Supreme Court repeatedly restricted the rights of Natives over many decades

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94. Into that vacuum stepped Congress, Friends of the Indian, and above all, the operators of the boarding schools, like Pratt

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95. For over 40 years, Hoover was unchallenged, beyond the control of any president or congress

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96. Congress dropped those charges

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97. Mitigated by: Carrying out the Trail of Tears, the forced removal of the Cherokee planned and put into place by Jackson and narrowly passed by Congress

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98. Tyler became part of the Confederate government after being elected to the Confederate Congress, though he died before he could take office

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99. Now I consider myself a very capable liar, and as such I’m pretty adept at separating the wheat from the chaff; I can tell when a person is lying out flat, when he’s just telling a small lie, and when he’s lying like only a man in congress can

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100. There was some discussion about the proposed educational funding for veterans that was being debated in Congress