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	Jefferson, Correspondence and Misc. Writings 1780: The Online Library of Liberty
		TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS (SAMUEL HUNTINGTON): June 15, 1780.
		TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS (SAMUEL HUNTINGTON): June 28, 1780, 9 o’clock p.m.
		TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS (SAMUEL HUNTINGTON): July 2, 1780.
	oll.libertyfund.org /Texts/Jefferson0136/Works/Vol03/HTMLs/0054-03_Pt02_1780.html (16319 words)

	Foreign Policy Roles of the President and Congress
		These actions were taken by the President in the absence of express congressional approval, and despite continuing disputes between the Congress and the President over the proper course of action for the U.S. in the Bosnian conflict.
		Since Congress could not amend the final legislation, a practice developed over the years whereby informal committee markup sessions were held on the draft implementing bills to indicate to the President key areas of Congressional concern regarding the specific trade legislation.
		Congress sometimes initiates a foreign policy by using legislation to establish a new program, set objectives and guidelines, authorize and direct the executive branch to undertake specified activities, and by earmarking appropriations to be used in a specified way.
	fpc.state.gov /6172.htm (9508 words)

	Inept President, Craven Congress - by Charley Reese
		President George Bush is an affable man. He was probably fine as a governor in a state where governors don't have that much power.
		The president does the American people no greater disservice than when he says the terrorists hate us because we are rich and free.
		This is despite their acceptance of the president's so-called road map to peace, which calls for a freeze on settlements.
	www.antiwar.com /reese?articleid=3501 (814 words)

	NewsHour Online: Congress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		January 30, 2002 -- "Axis of Evil" Ray Suarez analyzes the president's warning to states harboring terrorists with R. James Woosley, director of the CIA during the Clinton administration, and Charles William Maynes, assistant secretary of state during the Carter administration.
		Congress debates withdrawing funds for the peacekeeping mission in Kosovo.
		April 24, 2000 -- Congress Reacts to Latest Developments Democrat Patrick Leahy from Vermont and Republican Arlen Specter from Pennsylvania debate the lawfulness of the seizure of Elian Gonzalez, and discuss the possibility of congressional hearings on the actions of the Justice Department.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/congress/congress.html (15072 words)

	Congress Sandesh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		She vigorously campaigned for Congress on the eve of 1998 Parliamentary elections and was thus elected Party President in April, 1998.
		She is the Chairperson of Indian Council for Child Welfare, in addition to presiding over the activities of Nehru Trust for Cambridge University.
		She also presided over the Plenary Session of the Indian National Congress held on March, 17 and 18, 2001 at Bangalore.
	www.congresssandesh.com /aicc_directory/president.html (257 words)

	The Avalon Project : The Tonkin Gulf Incident; 1964
		After consultation with the leaders of both parties in the Congress, I further announced a decision to ask the Congress for a resolution expressing the unity and determination of the United States in supporting freedom and in protecting peace in southeast Asia.
		That the Congress approves and supports the determination of the President, as Commander in Chief, to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression.
		This resolution shall expire when the President shall determine that the peace and security of the area is reasonably assured by international conditions created by action of the United Nations or otherwise, except that it may be terminated earlier by concurrent resolution of the Congress.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/tonkin-g.htm (668 words)

	Annual Report to the President and Congress Year Four
		Congress concluded that with the proper supports, many of these individuals would attempt to work, but that the appropriate services and supports were not available to help them make the transition.
		Congress should direct the Commissioner to test two or three creative approaches that place more of the up-front financial risk on SSA, but that, if successful, could significantly increase Ticket Program participation by both ENs and beneficiaries, thus increasing long-term savings to the SSDI Trust Fund and decreasing General Fund expenditures.
		Congress should designate the additional funds needed for training and technical assistance to support the successful implementation of all work incentives and employment support programs and projects authorized by the Act and other relevant legislation.
	www.ssa.gov /work/panel/panel_documents/annual_report2004.html (17662 words)

	ACHP \| Report to the President and Congress, 1998-1999
		The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation describes its continuing contributions to protecting and enhancing the Nation's cultural heritage in Report to the President and Congress, 1998-1999.
		The report surveys achievements during those two years in the context of ACHP's membership meetings, and provides an overview of activities in the areas of preservation policy, Federal historic preservation program improvement, protection of historic properties, and public outreach.
		Report to the President and Congress, 1998-1999 is available at no charge, except shipping and handling.
	www.achp.gov /pubs-report98-99.html (179 words)

	U.S. Presidency Links - Russell D. Renka
		U.S. Presidency and Supreme Court Data from Richard Timpone, Jeffrey Segal and Robert Howard has rank-ordered ratings of social liberalism, economic liberalism, social salience, and economic salience of the modern presidents.
		Presidents of the United States from CB Presidential Research Services has alphabetically organized topics, followed at file's bottom by a tabular list of all individual presidents by chronology from Washington through Bush.
		See When the President is the Patient cosponsored by the AMA and the Center for the Study of the Presidency together with several others.
	cstl-cla.semo.edu /renka/PresidencyLinks.htm (12365 words)

	Friends and Foes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Congress is increasingly polarized along ideological lines, while traditional internationalist foreign policy spans a truncated political center.
		In this complex environment, scholars, pundits, and policymakers look to the public and high-profile battles between Congress and the president as a bellwether of the future of U.S. foreign policy.
		Countering the conventional wisdom that a president and a Congress of the same political party are best able to “get things done,” Friends and Foes sheds new light on the institutional dynamics, conflicts, and issue loyalties that affect the development of U.S. foreign policy.
	www.brook.edu /press/books/friends_foes.htm (350 words)

	Congress vs. The President (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		For example, if Congress passes a law requiring the president to order all military personnel home for the holidays and the president signs it into law (for some reason) or if the President vetoes the law but Congress overrides it, is that law constitutional if the president does not comply with it?
		While it is certainly within Congress’s powers to create laws and policies, this power has never been understood to permit Congress to create legal duties on the part of the President (whether in military/foreign affairs OR in domestic matters).
		For practical reasons, the Take Care clause has never been viewed as a constitutional obligation, otherwise the President could technically be in violation of the Constitution in every instance in which the administration did not enforce a particular law.
	www.law.du.edu /chen/ConLawIDiscussionF2003/_disc5/00000026.htm (277 words)

	President and Congress
		Much of our work will involve discussing contemporary case studies and classic writings on the relationships between the President and Congress, the two major policymaking institutions of American government.
		Abshire, David M. Triumphs and Tragedies of the Modern Presidency: Seventy-Six Case Studies in Presidential Leadership.
		Congress as Public Enemy: Public Attitudes Toward American Political Institutions.
	www.humboldt.edu /~jae1/emen350.html (522 words)

	Contacting the Congress: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
		When mailing members of Congress (electronically or otherwise), keep in mind to be formal and to the point or your letter may be ignored.
		Congress Merge licenses both this database and sells a Congressional Grass Roots Manager package which is what I use as the backend of this site (since I helped write it).
		As of 2003, the backend of Contacting the Congress is essentially a slightly modified version of the Congress Merge online database package which I helped write.
	www.visi.com /juan/congress/about.html (1567 words)

	Congress and the President: 2004
		To a large extent Congress is an on-going body that remains unchanged from election to election.
		The presidency, on the other hand, undergoes fundamental change with each new administration (with the large exception of the executive bureaucracy), and each administration undergoes its own developmental process.
		You should understand the different institutional responsibilities attached to Congress and the presidency and the basic ways in which the presidency has developed and been organized.
	dwardmac.pitzer.edu /dward/classes/congpres/congpres04.html (2973 words)

	SPACE.com -- Space Leaders Urge Next U.S. President and Congress to Make Changes in Space Policy a High Priority
		WASHINGTON A number of American government and industry officials are seeking basic changes in the way Congress, the Pentagon and the White House oversee U.S. space activity.
		And they want these changes to be a high priority when the new American president and Congress take office in January.
		Meanwhile, the next administration and Congress will have to wrestle with issues such as patents, licensing and intellectual property resulting from research derived from the space station, Garver said.
	www.space.com /businesstechnology/business/aerospace_urges_changes_001213.html (977 words)

	Samuel Huntington, President of congress LONGER THAN EXPECTED (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Samuel Huntington, President of Congress LONGER THAN EXPECTED from 1779-1781, is a narrative essay on the letters of Samuel Huntington.
		Issues were the beginnings of the federal judicial branch, the creation of the first executive departments, currency reform and the devaluation of the Continental paper money, negotiation of a peace treaty with Great Britain and final ratification of the Articles of Confederation and the formal start of the Union.
		"While I have attended in Congress, I have observed that the members were quite as strenuous advocates for the rights of their respective states, as for those of the union.
	www.georgedreher.com /Sam_Huntington.html (926 words)

	Politics
		Topics included are: Federalism; the President; Congress; the role of the Supreme Court; elections in America; voting patterns in elections; political parties at a state and local level; pressure groups in America and public attitude towards politics in America.
		There is a transcript of the documentary, a timeline, photo gallery and an essay on President Carter's many contributions to humankind in the twenty years since he left the presidency.
		If you are angered that President Bush went to Dr. Martin Luther King's grave, laid a wreath, pretended to have respect for this former civil rights campaigner, then the next day appointing a white supremacist judge, then this is the website for you.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /REVpolitics.htm (9607 words)

	Congress Merge: Contacting Mike Waters
		This form is designed to allow you to send an email to Mike Waters, the president of Congress Merge.
		We have resorted to using this web form for the same reason many members of Congress do, we are overloaded with unsolicited commercial email (a.k.a.
		If you wish to review our privacy policy before filling out this form, you will find it here.
	www.congressmerge.com /mailmike.htm (78 words)

	FASEB President Urges Congress to Increase Funding for NIH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), on behalf of it's 19 societies and their 66,000 member scientists, urges that you support bi-partisan and bi-cameral efforts to significantly increase funding for the National Institutes of Health when the Appropriations Committees take up the critical L-HHS-Ed appropriations bills in September.
		The initiation by Congress last year of a multi-year effort to double funding for the NIH has given great hope to patients and their families that the burdens of disease, disability and premature death may be ameliorated by breakthroughs in biomedical research.
		It is essential that the Appropriations Committees be given the resources to fund key investments in NIH, and that this investment not come at the expense of other priorities also supported by the Congress and the American public.
	www.faseb.org /opa/letters/1999/congress.html (164 words)

	Campaigns & Elections
		The Center for Responsive Politics is a non-partisan, non-profit research group based in Washington, D.C. that specializes in the study of Congress and particularly the role that money plays in its elections and actions.
		From the American voter, to major and minor political parties, to actual races for Congress, the presidency, and governorships, the collection provides context-driven intelligence on the state of elections in America.
		Voting records for members of Congress, and ratings of members of Congress based on their votes on legislation supported or opposed by over 20 special interest/lobbying groups
	www.columbia.edu /cu/lweb/indiv/usgd/campaign.html (2825 words)

	NPR : Congress, President Will Lead Katrina Probes
		Morning Edition, September 7, 2005 · Congress reconvenes after a month-long recess to face criticism of the government's slow reaction to relief efforts.
		The White House and Congress say they will probe the federal government's response to Katrina.
		Leaders from various religions share what their faith tells them about the shaping of life.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4835827&ft=1&f=3 (124 words)

	Congress.org -- Write To Congress, the President and State Legislators (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Congress.org is a service of Capitol Advantage, a private, non-partisan company that specializes in facilitating civic participation.
		Have letters printed and hand-delivered to Congress (there is a fee for this Extra Impact service)
		Elected officials and candidates who wish to update their information on Congress.org, please contact our Research Department.
	www.congress.org /congressorg/info/about.html (220 words)

	Project Vote Smart - American Government, Elections, Candidates and Voting
		This includes the President, Vice President, and all fifteen members of the President's Cabinet.
		The President calls on Cabinet Members to advise him on subjects related to their departments.
		Check out what these top-level advisors to the President have to say about the issues you care about.
	www.vote-smart.org (542 words)

	ACHP \| Report to the President and Congress, 1996-1997
		Report to the President and Congress, 1996-1997 examines ACHP's broad statutory charge in the context of four major program areas:
		The report also features a compendium of noteworthy Section 106 cases conducted during 1996-1997.
		Report to the President and Congress, 1996-1997 is available at no charge, except shipping and handling.
	www.achp.gov /pubs-report96-97.html (134 words)

	Ship of Gold (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Even the local newspaper was forced to close down for lack of help and no readers.
		On December 5, 1848, in his annual message to Congress, President James Knox Polk stated that gold had been found in California, and in large quantities.
		Specimens were sent to the Philadelphia Mint for analysis, where the assayers found the metal to be of unbelievable quality.
	www.shipofgold.com /goldrush.html (1340 words)

	Elections 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Personal Finance Disclosure Reports on Congress and presidential candidates are in pdf format and may be over 3 MB
		Political profiles of individual Members of Congress with brief election data, lobby group ratings, key votes in the 105th Congress, and campaign finances
		Personal Finance Disclosure Reports on Congress and presidential candidates are in pdf format and may be over 3 MB Debates
	www.lib.umich.edu /govdocs/elec2000.html (7044 words)

	Annual Defense Report
		The Annual Report to the President and the Congress, commonly referred to as the Annual Defense Report, details how the Department of Defense built its capabilities and is working to maintain them in the future.
		In addition to fulfilling a statutory requirement, specifically U.S.C. Title 10, the Secretary of Defense's Annual Defense Report is widely distributed and serves as a basic reference document for those interested in national defense issues and programs.
		If you require a hard copy of the 1995 - 2003 reports, they are available through the:
	www.defenselink.mil /execsec/adr_intro.html (113 words)

	VOTE.COM - Homepage
		Click here to hear what President Bush thinks about e-mailing your lawmakers.
		Do You Approve Or Disapprove Of President Bush’s Performance In Office?
		President Bush Says An Immediate Withdrawal Of Troops From Iraq Would Be A Mistake: Do You Agree?
	www.vote.com (279 words)

	Pioneer Library System - Internet Resources - Reference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Frequently asked questions and research topics related to The Smithsonian’s museums, collections and exhibits.
		Find Your Elected Representatives President, Congress, Governors and State Legislators.
		SearchEdu.com contains a multitude of useful reference links including: Online Dictionaries, Librarians' Index to the Internet, CIA World Factbook, Census, Library of Congress, Library of Congress Online Catalog, Calculators and Converters, Index of Calculators, Constants and Equations, Currency Converter, Measurement Converter, Current Time and SearchMil.com, SearchGov.com, SearchEdu.com, SearcheBooks.com.
	www.pls-net.org /template/subjects/ref.htm (585 words)

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