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  United States v. O'Brien (1968)
United States, 195 U.S. This fundamental principle of constitutional adjudication was reaffirmed and the many cases were collected by Mr.
The Court states that the constitutional power of Congress to raise and support armies is "broad and sweeping" and that Congress' power "to classify and conscript manpower for military service is 'beyond question.'" This is undoubtedly true in times when, by declaration of Congress, the Nation is in a state of war.
United States, 362 U.S. 217, the petitioner had conceded that an administrative deportation arrest warrant would be valid for its limited purpose even though not supported by a sworn affidavit stating probable cause; but the Court ordered reargument on the question whether the warrant had been validly issued in petitioner's case.
www.bc.edu /bc_org/avp/cas/comm/free_speech/obrien.html   (6034 words)

  
 89th United States Congress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The first session of this Congress took place in Washington, DC from January 4, 1965 to October 23, 1965.
This is the Congress that was elected in the liberal landslide of 1964.
This very liberal Congress passed Medicare, Medicaid, the Voting Rights Act, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and created the U.S. Department of Transportation.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eighty-ninth_United_States_Congress   (499 words)

  
 2006 Days of Remembrance
The United States Congress established the Days of Remembrance as our nation’s annual commemoration of the victims of the Holocaust, and created the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a permanent living memorial to those victims.
Convened by the Allied powers — the United States, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union — IMT prosecutors based their case primarily on documents written by the Germans themselves.
Advance units of the U.S. 4th Armored and 89th Infantry Divisions liberate Ohrdruf, a subcamp of Buchenwald.
www.ushmm.org /remembrance/dor/years/2006   (2271 words)

  
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Notwithstanding any other provisions of the law, whenever a state or local agency discloses a public record which is otherwise exempt from this chapter, to any member of the public, this disclosure shall constitute a waiver of the exemptions specified in Sections 6254, 6254.7, or other similar provisions of law.
(a) Hospitals found by the state department to have committed or to be responsible for a violation of this article or the regulations adopted pursuant thereto shall be subject to a civil penalty by the state department in an amount not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for each hospital violation.
(e) It is the intent of the Legislature that the state department has primary responsibility for regulating the conduct of hospital emergency departments and that fines imposed under this section should not be duplicated by additional fines imposed by the federal government as a result of the conduct which constituted a violation of this section.
info.sen.ca.gov /pub/99-00/statute/ch_0501-0550/ch_525_st_1999_ab_78   (13280 words)

  
 Voting Rights Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
One group of lawmakers led by Georgia congressman Lynn Westmoreland, come from some pre-clearance states, and claim that it is no longer fair to target their states given the passage of time since 1967.
The burden of proof under current Section 5 jurisprudence is on the state governmental body to establish that the proposed change does not have a retrogressive purpose.
Those states which had less than 50% of the voting population voting in 1960 and/or 1964 were originaly covered.
www.higiena-system.com /wiki/link-Voting_Rights_Act   (808 words)

  
 U.S. Copyright Office: Vessel Hull Design Protection Act of 1997
The Court reasoned that Congress’ decision to leave the subject matter in the public domain under federal intellectual property law precluded states from enacting such a prohibition.
It states that “[i]t shall not be an infringement.
Section 1206 states that the design shall be marked with the notice, although it is presumably intended that the notice appear on any vessel hull embodying the design.
www.copyright.gov /docs/hr2696.html   (4753 words)

  
 AsianWeek.com: Feature: Asian American Democrats in Congress   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
She was first elected to House in the 89th Congress and served from 1965 to 1977.
Matsunaga was elected to the House for the 88th-94th Congresses and served from Jan. 3, 1963 to Jan. 3, 1977.
Won Pat was elected to the 93rd-98th Congresses and served from Jan. 3, 1973 to Jan. 3, 1985.
www.asianweek.com /2000_08_10/feature2_demsincongress.html   (619 words)

  
 Guide to Microforms
Consist of journals of the Congress; reports of its committees; memorials and petitions; and correspondence of its presidents and other officers with diplomatic representatives of the United States abroad, officers in the Continental Army, State officials, and private persons.
Fifth census of the United States, 1830, Illinois.
United States — Census, 5th, 1830/ Virginia — Census, 1830/ Virginia — Population.
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 List of United States federal legislation: Information from Answers.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
"statutes" or "statutory law") consists exclusively of Acts passed by the Congress of the United States (and its predecessor, the Continental Congress), that were either signed into law by the President or subsequently passed by Congress after a presidential veto.
Acts of Congress are published in the United States Statutes at Large.
Today, Acts of Congress are designated in the form: Public Law X-Y where X is the number of the ordinal Congress and Y is the number of the chronological order of the Act in that Congress.
www.answers.com.cob-web.org:8888 /topic/list-of-united-states-federal-legislation   (1405 words)

  
 United States v. Estate of RomaniI, 523 U.S. 517 (1998)
The Constitution sets forth the only manner in which the Members of Congress have the power to impose their will upon the country: by a bill that passes both Houses and is either signed by the President or repassed by a supermajority after his veto.
Second, even if Congress could express its will by not legislating, the will of a later Congress that a law enacted by an earlier Congress should bear a particular meaning is of no effect whatever.
United States, 523 U.S.___ (1998) (slip op., at 12); id., at ___ (Scalia, J., dissenting) (“This later amendment can of course not cause [the statute] to have meant, at the time of petitioner’s conviction, something different from what it then said”) (slip op., at 23).
supct.law.cornell.edu /supct/html/96-1613.ZC.html   (565 words)

  
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Every health care service plan that offers any contract that primarily or solely supplements medicare, or is advertised or represented as a supplement to medicare, shall, in addition to complying with this chapter and rules of the commissioner, comply with this article.
The audits shall be conducted in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards and the rules and regulations of the commissioner.
However, financial statements from public entities or political subdivisions of the state need not include a report, certificate, or opinion by an independent certified public accountant or an independent public accountant, and the audit shall be conducted in accordance with governmental auditing standards.
info.sen.ca.gov /pub/93-94/statute/ch_0701-0750/ch_735_st_1993_ab_2079   (1789 words)

  
 House of Representatives Papers Brief Biography
Dole's collarbone was crushed and his body paralyzed from the neck down, and he lay wounded on the ground for ten hours before he was evacuated to a field hospital in Pistoia, Italy and underwent emergency surgery.
Taking his seat in the 87th Congress two weeks before John F. Kennedy's inauguration, Dole became known as the highly visible freshman member of the House Agriculture Committee, serving as a member during all of his eight years in the House.
He traveled to Rome as an advisor to the United States delegation at the 20th anniversary session of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
www.doleinstitute.org /archives/houseBiography.html   (1291 words)

  
 89th US Congress
There was so much of a financial desire on the, part of football's owners to merge the leagues and save money in the bidding for players that all kinds of sweet, romantic words were cunningly cooed to the press and public.
The first point Rozelle made, quoting from the official text of the pro football merger, as put before the Anti-Trust Subcommittee of the 89th Congress, second session, dealt specifically with where the teams would play.
The revelation of Rozelle's remarks before Congress were made by Angelo Coniglio, a 34-year-old hydraulic engineer who lives in Amherst, N. Y., and the same freedom-fighter who also is bringing a lawsuit against those National Football League clubs that make the buying of exhibition games a mandatory obligation for regular season ticket holders.
www.conigliofamily.com /89thCongress.htm   (1419 words)

  
 United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1996
The units of analysis in each part are the individual members of Congress.
Materials for the House from the 1st through the 75th Congresses and for the Senate from the 1st through the 73rd Congresses were keypunched from the Congressional Vote Analysis Collection originally prepared by Clifford Lord under Works Progress Administration auspices.
Data for the House from the 76th through the 78th Congresses, and for both chambers of the 79th Congress through the 101st Congresses, were prepared by ICPSR staff utilizing the DAILY CONGRESSIONAL RECORD.
webapp.icpsr.umich.edu /cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/00004.xml   (636 words)

  
 Schedule of Volumes of the U.S. Serial Set (part of LLSDC's Legislative Source Book)
Between 1964 and 1978 (second session of the 88th Congress through the 95th Congress) each publication series within a congressional session was assigned a single session volume number with perhaps multiple parts and this pattern was also followed by the Serial Set volume number series.
The serial numbering sequence gave the set its popular name, but it was not until the Serial Set was published for the 97th Congress (1981-1982) that the series was given the official title United States Congressional Serial Set and since that time all volumes of the Serial Set have that name on their title pages.
The selections include selected maps, correspondence on the emigration of Indians, pension rolls of the United States, a statistical view of U.S. population from 1790 to 1830, Indian land cessions, journals of the Confederate Congress, and selected other documents and reports.
www.llsdc.org /sourcebook/sch-v.htm   (4157 words)

  
 Voting Rights Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The prohibition of voting rights discrimination on the basis of race was first codified by the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1870.
Soon after the failure of Reconstruction, however, southern states moved to impose racially motivated restrictions on voting through a variety of means, including violence and intimidation, literacy tests, and poll taxes.
One group of lawmakers led by Georgia congressman Lynn Westmoreland, came from some pre-clearance states, and claimed that it is no longer fair to target their states given the passage of time since 1965 and the changes that have taken place since then.
en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Voting_Rights_Act   (1801 words)

  
 OHS - Fight for the Colors - Online Relic Room: Flags by Heroes Bourne
The United States remained neutral until the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941.
By the end of the day, the United States had declared war on Japan.
On May 7, 1945, the Allies (United States, Great Britain, France, and Russia) accepted the unconditional surrender of all German forces.
www.ohiohistory.org /etcetera/exhibits/fftc/relicroom/index.cfm?war=5   (315 words)

  
 GoArmy.com > Celebrating Hispanic Heritage > Medal of Honor Recipients > World War I
In 1917, Congress stated that the United States needed "to make the world safe for democracy" and then declared war against Germany on April 6.
By May of the same year, Congress had passed the Selective Service Act, eventually leading to over 24 million men registering for the draft.
On March 21, 1918, Germany launched their first offensive against the Americans, officially beginning the United States ' international fight for democracy.
www.goarmy.com /hhm/moh_wwi.jsp   (279 words)

  
 CIS Congressional Masterfile (CM1 and CM2) and GPO Database on the Library CD-ROM Network provide electronic indexing ...
The work of Congress is initiated by the introduction of a proposal in one of four forms: the bill, the joint resolution, the concurrent resolution, and the simple resolution.
Full text of House and Senate Reports from the 101st Congress to date (1989-) can be searched and obtained via Lexis-Nexis Congressional and from the 104th Congress to date (1995-) via THOMAS.
The United States Congressional Record and its predecessor titles comprise the published account of the debates, proceedings, and activities of the United States Congress.
www.princeton.edu /~docs/USPriRut.old   (2031 words)

  
 H-DC Discussion Network
Home rule amendments and transfer of various agencies to the D.C. government : hearings before the Committee on the District of Columbia, House of Representatives and the Committee on the District of Columbia, United States Senate, Ninety-third Congress, second session, on H.R. June 26 and July 2, 1974.
Congress and the governance of the Nation's Capital : the conflict of Federal and local interests.
President (1963-1969 : Johnson) Home rule for the District of Columbia; communication from the President of the United States transmitting additional recommendations relative to home rule for the District of Columbia.
www.h-net.org /~dclist/homerule.html   (762 words)

  
 The Origins of Memorial Day in the U.S.
644), U.S. Congress allows the day of each year which is celebrated as "Memorial" or "Decoration" Day to be a holiday for all per diem employees of the Government, on duty at Washington or elsewhere in the United States.
Joint Resolution, 19 June 1926, U.S. Congress, authorizes and directs Secretary of War to accept a tablet commemorating the designation of 30 May as Memorial Day by General Orders 11, 5 May 1868, Headquarters of the Grand Army of the Republic, Signed by General John A. Logan, Commander-in-Chief.
It further states that while "Memorial Day has since become a national holiday, observed from one end of the land to the other on May 30", the President is requested to issue a proclamation calling attention to the centennial anniversary of the first observance of Memorial Day.
www.army.mil /cmh-pg/faq/memday/MD-Dev.htm   (896 words)

  
 Congressional Documents: H. Doc. 108-222, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774-2005
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Purchase a print copy of House Document No. 108-222 Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774–2005 from the U.S. Government Online Bookstore.
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www.gpoaccess.gov /serialset/cdocuments/hd108-222/index.html   (167 words)

  
 Arizona politicians (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
United States Senators by state, Members of the U.S. House of Representatives by state, Arizona politicians
These are tables of Congress of the United States delegations from Arizona to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives.
(2005-2007) Note: designates those Congresses in which representatives were elected from the state at large, rather than by district.
read-and-go.hopto.org.cob-web.org:8888 /Arizona-politicians   (225 words)

  
 Historical Congressional Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Journals of the House of Representatives of the United States.
Each volume of the Journals corresponds to a session of Congress and has its own index at the back of the volume.
Participation by the United States in, 19th annual report, 274.
www.library.uiuc.edu /doc/newpages/historical_docs/housjour.htm   (269 words)

  
 William Edward Miller, First Lieutenant, United States Army & Member of Congress
Born at Lockport, New York, March 22, 1914, he was a long-time Member of the House of Representatives from New York State.
He was not a candidate for re-election in the 89th Congress.
He had left the Congress in order to become a candidate for Vice President of the United States on the Republican ticket headed by Senator Barry M. Goldwater in 1964.
www.arlingtoncemetery.net /wemiller.htm   (145 words)

  
 Membership of the 89th Congress of the United States (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Membership of the 89th Congress of the United States (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu)
Membership of the 89th Congress of the United States
(resigned February 2, 1966 to become United States district judge for the Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas)
borzoiblog.com.cob-web.org:8888 /89th.htm   (254 words)

  
 Party Divisions - Office of the Clerk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Before the first day of Congress, 19 representatives-elect died.
In 14 cases, party control of the seat changed with the special election, and the Democrats ended up with a majority of House seats.
Sources: Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, Congressional Research Service, The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress 1789-1989 (New York: Mcmillan, 1989), Kenneth C. Martis
clerk.house.gov /histHigh/Congressional_History/partyDiv.html   (120 words)

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