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  Encyclopedia: United States Democratic Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
State legislatures are the lawmaking bodies of the 50 states in the United States of America.
In the early 20th century, the traditional symbol of the Democratic Party in Midwestern states such as Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio was the rooster, as opposed to the Republican eagle.
The American Civil War was fought in the United States from 1861 until 1865 between the northern states, popularly referred to as the U.S., the Union, the North, or the Yankees; and the seceding southern states, commonly referred to as the Confederate States of America, the CSA, the Confederacy...
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 Introduction to Kansas - The United States of America
The Squatter State: Kansas was referred to as the "Squatter State" because of the new settlers that flocked into the new territory establishing claims to the land.
At this time, states were either admitted to the Union as slave states of free states in an effort to maintain a balance of power between the two in the United States Congress.
The fourth quarter to be released in 2005 commemorates the State of Kansas.
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 Kansas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Known as the "Sunflower State," Kansas became the 34th state in 1861.
The state's name comes from the Kansa or Kaw Indians and is a Sioux Indian term meaning "south wind people." Within Kansas's borders is the magnetic center mark for all of North America.
The native sunflower is the state flower and the capital is Topeka.
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 Human Rights Watch: United States:
As Congress considers new legislation reinforcing the ban on cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, a new book illuminates the practice of torture around the world and examines how recent policy shifts in the United States have undermined the global ban on torture.
We write to urge that you and the United States government immediately press the Chinese government at the highest levels regarding the vicious beating of Lu Banglie on October 8, 2005 in Taishi village, Guangdong province, and to prosecute those responsible.
The United States is one of the few countries where a crime committed by a juvenile regularly results in a life sentence without any possibility of parole.
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 Univ. of Haifa Library - Electronic Texts List - Index by Authors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Proceedings of the United States Senate : on the fugitive slave bill--the abolition of the slave-trade in the District of Columbia--and the imprisonment of free colored seamen in the southern ports
The seventh census of the United States: 1850
The case of the United States, to be laid before the Tribunal of arbitration, to be convened at Geneva under the provisions of the treaty between the United States of America and Her Majesty the queen of Great Britain, concluded at Washington May 8, 1871
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 Antique Map, Print, Chart & Atlas Auction - Maps of the United States
United States (Map of the United States of America), Lloyd, Lampton County Atlas, Toronto, ca.
Southwestern United States (Map of That Portion of the Boundary Between the United States and from the Pacific Coast to the Junction of the Gila and Colorado Rivers Surveyed Under the Direction of Hon.
It is full of interesting detail between the 30th and 34th parallels, stretching from the Pacific Ocean to Texas, and includes as an inset a sketch of the port of San Diego.
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 United States Timeline
Rhode Island is the 13th state admitted to the Union.
6, 1899 - The United States annexes Guam, the Phillipines, and Puerto Rico.
20, 1953 - Dwight Eisenhower is sworn in as the 34th President of the United States.
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 United States House of Representatives, 109th Congress, 1st Session: Homepage
Oversight plans based on the jurisdiction of the committee and the hearing schedules for the 109th Congress.
Current operating status of the United States House of Representatives.
Search the Thomas website maintained by the Library of Congress for bill and other information related to the U.S. Congress and the legislative process.
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 U.S Colored Troops Organized in South Carolina
South Carolina was a state that was steeped in the practice of slavery, whose very existence and wherewithal were built on and dependent upon one man's involuntary servitude to another.
Indeed, South Carolina, perhaps more so than the other southern states, was synonymous with the slave trade, the plantation system and the inequality of the races.
From Columbia to Charleston to Hilton Head, South Carolina, the first state to secede from the Union, was the essence of Dixie.
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 President pro tempore of the United States Senate - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The United States Senate, according to the United States Constitution, (Article I), is required to choose a President Pro Tempore (or, "president for a time," often shortened to President Pro Tem), who presides over the Senate in the absence of the Vice President.
In 1945, the 79th Congress instituted the custom of giving the position to the longest-serving Senator from the majority party, which has prevailed since.
Prior to the shift of James Jeffords from Republican to Independent in May 2001, which shifted control of the Senate from the Republican to the Democratic Party, the office was held by J.
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 U.S. Congressional Delegations from Washington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
These are tables of congressional delegations from Washington to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives.
Note: * designates those Congresses in which representatives were elected from the state at large, rather than by district.
Previous and Current Delegations to the United States Congress by State
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The Congress (V2) and Chamber (V3) variables are useful filters for one wishing to obtain frequencies in just the House or Senate over a particular span of time.
Beginning with the 101st Congress, members who changed their political party affiliation after being seated in a given Congress are assigned a separate data record for each party that they represented in that seat in the Congress of record.
For members who leave Congress after completing the term, the value for this variable is the year prior to that in which the Congress of Record ended.
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 United States Presidents and The Illuminati / Masonic Power Structure Pt3
The State Dept. was going to arrest William P. at the dock as he was trying to escape on the Queen Mary, but Alien Dulles was able to get the State Dept. to call off the arrest, and William P. Bundy sailed.
Nominated by President Ford as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court on December 1, 1975; confirmed by the United States Senate on December 17, 1975; and took oath of office on December 19, 1975.
The President of the United States of America, under the ‘Emigration Control Act of 1986’, Section 100, has the authority to deem whatever type of identification is necessary — whether it be an invisible tattoo or electronic media under the skin.
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 Legislative Search -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Clay 37th SR 761 A resolution urging the United States Congress to pass and submit to the state legislatures an amendment to the United States constitution to allow the freedom of religion in public places.
SR 761 LC 24 1196 A RESOLUTION 1 Urging the United States Congress to pass and submit to the 2 state legislatures an amendment to the United States 3 Constitution to allow the freedom of religion in public 4 places; and for other purposes.
6 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Senate is 7 authorized and directed to transmit appropriate copies of 8 this resolution to the President of the United States 9 Senate, the Speaker of the United States House of 10 Representatives, and the members of the Georgia 11 congressional delegation.
www.state.ga.us /services/leg/ShowBillPre.cgi?year=1997&filename=1997/SR761   (212 words)

  
 United States Air Force Academy
United States Air Force Academy, CO In 1948, the Air Force appointed a board of leading civilian and military educators to plan the curriculum for an Air Force academy.
The board recommended that an Air Force academy be established without delay and proposed that, in peacetime, not less than 40 percent of the regular officers taken into each service should be academy graduates.
The state of Colorado contributed $1 million toward the purchase of the property.
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 Organizations Browse for Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania Catalog
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. -- Pittsburgh Pre sbytery.
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. -- Pennsylvania.
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. -- Synod of Ohio.
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 Cretaceous Fossils: References Ci to Cp
New and Little-Known Ammonites from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian and Turonian) of the Western Interior of the United States.
The Upper Cretaceous Ammonite Eubostrychoceras Matsumoto in the Western Interior of the United States.
COBBAN, W. Occurrence of the Free-Swimming Upper Cretaceous Crinoids Uintacrinus and Marsupites in the Western Interior of the United States.
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SR 255 Congress - urge resist efforts to assign military forces to U.N. Glanton 34th 2.
Day 48th SR 255 A resolution urging the United States Congress to resist efforts to assign United States military forces to the United Nations; to cease to appropriate funds for any military activity not authorized by Congress; to resist any attempts to merge America into a global government.
43 S. 1 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Senate is 2 authorized and directed to transmit an appropriate copy of 3 this resolution to the President of the United States Senate 4 and the Speaker of the United States House of 5 Representatives.
www.state.ga.us /services/leg/ShowBillPre.cgi?year=1995&filename=1995/SR255   (137 words)

  
 United States: Congress Should Protect Workers’ Rights (Human Rights Watch, 10-12-2003)
On this International Human Rights Day, thousands of workers are rallying across the United States because they cannot exercise a basic human right: the right to freedom of association.
The Employee Free Choice Act of 2003, introduced in both houses of Congress on November 21, would remedy some of the major shortcomings in existing law.
“It’s high time the United States showed the world that its professed support for workers’ human rights is not empty rhetoric but official policy,” said Pier.
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 U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Origins & Development > Party Division
The actual number of senators representing a particular party often changes during a congress, due to the death or resignation of a senator, or as a consequence of a member changing parties.
Note: As the 106th Congress began, the division was 55 Republican seats and 45 Democratic seats, but this changed to 54-45 on July 13, 1999 when Senator Bob Smith of New Hampshire switched from the Republican party to Independent status.
The United States Senate: An Institutional Bibliography includes more than six hundred citations to books, articles and government documents printed since 1789.
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 January 29   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
1850 - Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress.
2002 - In his State of the Union Address, United States President George W. Bush describes "regimes that sponsor terror" as an Axis of Evil.
History of the World History of the United States History of Europe Ancient History History Military History
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 Contact your Senators and State Representatives! Web sites for the United States Congress and House of Representatives.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
If you're fed up with the United States Government's "War on Some Drugs," then now's your chance to do something about it.
Here's all the individual web sites for every member of Congress and the United States Senate to prime your engines.
Then, when you are ready to intelligently discuss their political agendas with them, be respectful, and keep sending emails.
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 Ohio State State Symbols Capital Constitution Flags Maps Song
The 13 stars grouped about the circle represent the original states of the union; the 4 stars added to the peak of the triangle symbolize that Ohio was the 17th state admitted to the union.
The white circle with its red center not only represents the "O" in Ohio, but also suggests Ohio's famous nickname, "The Buckeye State."   Get this Flag
Generally rolling plain; Allegheny plateau located in the east; Lake Erie plains extend southward; central plains in the west.
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 Political Science Resources/United States Politics
Presidential and state candidates are usually chosen by primaries, caucuses or state conventions
Presidential by county: 1920+, presidential primary by state: 1916-24, 1972+; Congressional district by district: 1832+; gubernatorial by county: 1970+
Personal Finance Disclosure Reports on Congress and presidential candidates are in pdf format and may be over 3 MB
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 Dwight D. Eisenhower - 33rd President of the United States
Dwight D. Eisenhower - 33rd President of the United States
Pictures of Mamie Eisenhower from the Library of Congress
Inaugural Addresses, State of the Union speeches, and other documents
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 Congressional Directory: Browse 106th Congress (1999-2000)
DELEGATES, REPRESENTATIVES, AND SENATORS SERVING IN THE 1st-106th CONGRESSES
POLITICAL DIVISIONS OF THE U.S. SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FROM 1855 (34th CONGRESS) TO 1999 (106th CONGRESS)
THE VIRGIN ISLANDS OF THE UNITED STATES--(1 Delegate At Large)
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 John F. Kennedy - 34th President of the United States
John F. Kennedy - 34th President of the United States
Pictures of Jacqueline Kennedy from the Library of Congress
Select a name below for resources about another President.
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