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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


    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


    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


    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


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


    6. Euphrates, George Howland, and Congress


    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


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


    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


    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


    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


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


    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


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


    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


    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


    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


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


    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


    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


    23. Administration, and the Library of Congress


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


    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


    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


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


    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


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


    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


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


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


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


    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


    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


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


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


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


    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


    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?


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


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


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


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


    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


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


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


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














































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    Synonyms for "congress"

    coming together congress meeting u.s. congress united states congress us congress senate parliament caucus assembly convocation convention council

    "congress" definitions

    the legislature of the United States government


    a meeting of elected or appointed representatives


    a national legislative assembly


    the social act of assembling for some common purpose