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	Encyclopedia: Congress of the United States
		The Congress of the United States is the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States.
		The enumerated powers of Congress include the authority to regulate interstate and foreign commerce, to levy taxes, to establish federal courts inferior to the Supreme Court, to maintain the armed forces, and to declare war.
		On 4 July 1776, the Second Continental Congress declared thirteen former colonies independent states, referring to them as the "united States of America." Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress was a unicameral body in which each state was equally represented, and in which each state had a veto over most action.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Congress-of-the-United-States (11191 words)

	ipedia.com: House Un-American Activities Committee Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Under the mandate of Public Law 601, passed by the 79th Congress, the committee of nine representatives investigated suspected threats of subversion or propaganda that "attacks the form of government guaranteed by our Constitution." In 1969, the House changed the committee's name to the Committee on Internal Security.
		The House abolished the committee in 1975 and its functions were transferred to the House Judiciary Committee.
		Conservative voices in Congress tended to be extremely suspicious of such people, believing that these Communists had dual loyalty, and were either legal or ideological agents of the Soviet Union and Joseph Stalin.
	www.ipedia.com /house_un_american_activities_committee.html (605 words)

	President pro tempore of the United States Senate - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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.
		Since 1947, the President Pro Tempore of the Senate has been third in line to succeed to the US presidency in the case of death or resignation, after the Vice-President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
		For the remainder of the 62nd Congress (1911-1913), the position alternated among:
	open-encyclopedia.com /President_pro_tempore_of_the_United_States_Senate (2080 words)

	Bibliography and Bookstore Holocaust
		Senate Document No. 47: Report of the Committee requested by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower through the Chief of Staff.
		George C. Marshall to the Congress of the United States Relative to Atrocities and Other Conditions in Concentration Camps in Germany.
		Plunder and Restitution: The United States and Holocaust Victims' Assets, Findings and Recommendations and Staff Report.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/bibholo.html (2712 words)

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