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	LRL Legislative Information Special session topics
		The subject as contained in the conference committee report for House Bill No. 3 relating to the composition of the districts for the election of members of the United States House of Representatives from the State of Texas, as reported from the conference committee on Thursday, October 9, 2003.
		The subject as contained in the conference committee report for House Bill No. 1 relating to the dates of certain elections, the procedures for canvassing the ballots for an election, and the counting of certain ballots voted by mail, as reported from conference committee on Thursday, October 9, 2003.
		The subject as contained in the conference committee report from House Bill No. 7 relating to the organization, board membership, and functions of certain governmental agencies and to the transfer of certain functions to other governmental agencies, as reported from conference committee on Thursday, October 9, 2003.
	www.lrl.state.tx.us /legis/specialSessions/specialSessionTopics.cfm?legSessionID=78-3 (473 words)

	National Political Index: Contacting Federal Elected Officials
		The United States House of Representatives Member Directory information is presented in 3 formats:
		This evolving service also provides general background information about U.S. Senate legislative procedures, Senate facilities in the Capitol Building, and the history of the Senate.
		The United States Senate's World Wide Web server provides information from and about the members of the Senate, Senate Committees, and Senate leadership and support offices.
	www.politicalindex.com /sect2.htm (339 words)

	Withdrawing from the United Nations
		The United States must become a docile member of the collective, willingly accepting direction from the consensus of the other nations, until it is perfectly trained to defer to the planning committees now deciding how to redistribute the world’s wealth on an equitable basis.
		In 1985, the United States announced that it was permanently terminating in whole its acceptance of the compulsory jurisdiction of the International Court, effective April 1, 1986.
		Meanwhile, the President has announced that the United States would abide by the terms of the treaty until it is ratified.
	www.conservativeusa.org /UN100ways.htm (16399 words)

	National Political Index: Contacting Federal Elected Officials
		The United States Senate's World Wide Web server provides information from and about the members of the Senate, Senate Committees, and Senate leadership and support offices.
		This evolving service also provides general background information about U.S. Senate legislative procedures, Senate facilities in the Capitol Building, and the history of the Senate.
		The representative for Puerto Rico is called the Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico.
	www.politicalindex.com /sect2.htm (339 words)

	National Political Index: Contacting Federal Elected Officials
		The United States Senate's World Wide Web server provides information from and about the members of the Senate, Senate Committees, and Senate leadership and support offices.
		This evolving service also provides general background information about U.S. Senate legislative procedures, Senate facilities in the Capitol Building, and the history of the Senate.
		The representative for Puerto Rico is called the Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico.
	www.politicalindex.com /sect2.htm (339 words)

	National Political Index: Contacting Federal Elected Officials
		The United States Senate's World Wide Web server provides information from and about the members of the Senate, Senate Committees, and Senate leadership and support offices.
		This evolving service also provides general background information about U.S. Senate legislative procedures, Senate facilities in the Capitol Building, and the history of the Senate.
		The representative for Puerto Rico is called the Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico.
	www.politicalindex.com /sect2.htm (339 words)

	National Political Index: Contacting Federal Elected Officials
		The United States Senate's World Wide Web server provides information from and about the members of the Senate, Senate Committees, and Senate leadership and support offices.
		This evolving service also provides general background information about U.S. Senate legislative procedures, Senate facilities in the Capitol Building, and the history of the Senate.
		The representative for Puerto Rico is called the Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico.
	www.politicalindex.com /sect2.htm (339 words)

	Twenty fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution
		House Joint Resolution 1 was proposed by Representative Emanuel Celler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, on January 4, 1965, and Senate Joint Resolution 1 was proposed by Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana on January 6, 1965.
		The House passed a modified form of the amendment on April 13 by a 368-29 margin, and after a conference committee ironed out differences between the versions, on July 6, 1965 the final version of the amendment was passed by the United States Senate and presented to the states for ratification.
		Amendment XXV (the Twenty-fifth Amendment) of the United States Constitution clarifies an ambiguous provision of the Constitution regarding succession to the Presidency, and established procedures both for filling a vacancy in the office of the Vice President as well as responding to Presidential disabilities.
	read-and-go.hopto.org /US-Constitution/Twenty-fifth-Amendment-to-the-United-States-Constitution.html (2282 words)

	National Political Index: Contacting Federal Elected Officials
		The United States Senate's World Wide Web server provides information from and about the members of the Senate, Senate Committees, and Senate leadership and support offices.
		This evolving service also provides general background information about U.S. Senate legislative procedures, Senate facilities in the Capitol Building, and the history of the Senate.
		The representative for Puerto Rico is called the Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico.
	www.politicalindex.com /sect2.htm (339 words)

	Legislative Documents
		Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives:
		Whereas, the complex procedures required for obtaining a visa to enter the United States, especially since September 11, 2001, have proven to be a major impediment for upstanding Polish citizens to either celebrate with or provide consolation to family members during some of life’s most pivotal moments, including those occurring in Vermont, and
		Whereas, missing from this list of nations is Poland, a country which has been a staunch ally of the United States during the hostilities in Iraq and whose soldiers have fought bravely in military missions under United States command, and
	www.leg.state.vt.us /docs/legdoc.cfm?URL=/docs/2006/acts/ACTR045.HTM (428 words)

	Committee on International Relations, U.S. House of Representatives
		On behalf of the men and women of the United States Pacific Command, I thank you for this opportunity to testify on security in the Asia-Pacific region.
		Since the Asia-Pacific region does not have a regional NATO-like organization, the MPAT and MNF SOP efforts represent the major regional program aimed at developing multinational procedures and maintaining a cadre of multinational military planners using common planning and operating procedures for coalition operations.
		The support of the Congress and the American people is greatly appreciated.
	wwwa.house.gov /international_relations/108/far0626.htm (428 words)

	Department of Commerce v. United States House of Representatives, 525 U.S. 316 (1999)
		The House sought a declaration that the Bureau’s proposed use of sampling to determine the population for purposes of apportioning Members of the House of Representatives among the several States violates the Census Act and the Constitution.
		It further requires that “[t]he tabulation of total population by States … as required for the apportionment of Representatives in Congress among the several States shall be completed within 9 months after the census date and reported by the Secretary to the President of the United States.” §141(b).
		The District Court held that the House had Article III standing, the suit was ripe for review, equitable concerns did not warrant dismissal, the suit did not violate separation of powers principles, and the Census Act does not permit the use of the challenged sampling procedures in counting the population for apportionment.
	supct.law.cornell.edu /supct/html/98-404.ZO.html (428 words)

	United States House of Representatives
		This document is sponsored by the U.S. House of Representatives on the United States Government Printing Office web site.
		Cannon's Precedents of the House of Representatives of the United States
		House Practice: A Guide to the Rules, Precedents, and Procedures of the House
	www.access.gpo.gov /congress/house (428 words)

	Golden Gate University Law Library - New Acquisitions
		Apportionment population and state representation [microform] : communication from the President of the United States transmitting his report on the apportionment population for each state as of April 1, 2000, and the number of representatives to which each state would be entitled, pursuant to 2 U.S.C. 2a(a) and 13 U.S.C. 141(b).
		State of competition in the airline industry [microform] : hearings before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session, June 14 and June 23, 2000.
		The United States' war on AIDS [microform] : hearing before the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, first session, June 7, 2001.
	internet.ggu.edu /law_library/newacq0204.html (428 words)

	Congressional Committee Materials Online via GPO Access
		Cannon's Precedents of the House of Representatives of the United States
		Deschler's Precedents of the United States House of Representatives
		Hinds' Precedents of the House of Representatives of the United States
	www.gpoaccess.gov /congress (135 words)

	Congressional Committee Materials Online via GPO Access
		Cannon's Precedents of the House of Representatives of the United States
		Deschler's Precedents of the United States House of Representatives
		Hinds' Precedents of the House of Representatives of the United States
	www.gpoaccess.gov /congress/index.html (126 words)

	United States. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
		The new Western states, linked in outlook to the North, had long since caused the South to lose hold of the House of Representatives, and Southern parity in the Senate was threatened by the prospective addition of more free states than slaveholding ones.
		level, progressivism triumphed in the states in legislation beneficial to labor, in the furthering of education, and in the democratization of electoral procedures.
		The Congress of the U.S., the legislative branch, is bicameral and consists of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
	www.bartleby.com /69/54/U00854.html (10854 words)

	United States Army, The -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		On August 7, at the urging of President Lyndon B. Johnson, the United States Congress responded by passing the Tonkin Gulf resolution, which authorized the use of American military force in Vietnam.
		It consists of two houses, the Senate (q.v.), in which each state, regardless of its size, is represented by two senators, and the House of Representatives (see Representatives, House of), to which...
		the legislature of the United States of America, established under the Constitution of 1789 and separated structurally from the executive and judicial branches of government.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9074326&ref=news0205 (850 words)

	HOW OUR LAWS ARE MADE - By Charles W. Johnson, Parliamentarian, U.S. House of Representatives
		Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all, etc. The resolving clause is identical in both House and Senate joint resolutions as prescribed by statute in 1871.
		Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, etc. The enacting clause was prescribed by law in 1871 and is identical in all bills, whether they originate in the House of Representatives or in the Senate.
		On approval by both Houses, they are signed by the Clerk of the House and the Secretary of the Senate and transmitted to the Archivist of the United States for publication in a special part of the Statutes at Large volume covering that session of Congress.
	www.llpoh.org /HOW_OUR_LAWS_ARE_MADE.html (850 words)

	Books on real estate
		Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act RESPA: hearing before the Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs of the Committee on Banking Housing and Urban Affairs United States Senate One Hundred First Congress second session...
		Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act: hearings before the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development of the Committee on Banking Finance and Urban Affairs House of Representatives One Hundred First Congress second session August 8 Septembe
		Real estate disposition activities of the Resolution Trust Corporation: hearing before the Subcommittee on Consumer and Regulatory Affairs of the Committee on Banking Housing and Urban Affairs United States Senate One Hundred Second Congress first s
	realestatefinderworldwide.com /r-real-estate-books.html (850 words)

	Ronald McDonald House Charities of Denver, Inc.
		That is where the Denver Ronald McDonald House comes in --- a temporary "home-away-from-home" for families to find rest, support and time away from the realities of the hospital procedures and routines.
		Although each House is affiliated with an international network of Ronald McDonald Houses worldwide, the Denver House is an independent, non-profit corporation, locally owned and operated by Ronald McDonald House Charities of Denver, Inc. Our House is not a United Way Agency and receives no government funding.
		The House is run by a Board of Directors, who are all volunteers --- parents, health professionals, McDonald's representatives, business and civic leaders.
	ronaldhouse.org (520 words)

	United States of America (Harpers.org)
		The United States House of Representatives voted to ban human cloning for both reproduction and medical research; the measure also prohibits the sale of treatments derived from such procedures.
		United States troops intervened in the Macedonian conflict by escorting several hundred rebels out of a Macedonian town; riots ensued in Skopje, the capital, and an American diplomat was shot, apparently by accident, by a Macedonian soldier.
		The United States justice department reported that America's prison population had grown to 1,931,859, of whom 791,600 were black; the ACLU pointed out that America, with only 5 percent of the world's population, accounts for 25 percent of the world's prisoners.
	www.harpers.org /UnitedStates.html (4404 words)

	Parrish & Shaw, Attorneys in Memphis, Tennessee
		Testimony, September 20, 1977, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Crime of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States House of Representatives, Ninety-Fifth Congress, First Session on Sexual Exploitation of Children, Serial No. 12, 93-185, pp.240-261 (U.S. Govt.
		Suing The Government: City, County, State and Federal, chapter entitled, "Practice and Procedures-The Federal Tort Claims Act," published by Southeastern Practice Institute, Knoxville, Tennessee, November 4, 1977;
		Senate, Ninety-Ninth Congress, First Session on Oversight on Civil RICO Suits Brought Under 18 U.S.C. 1964(c), Serial No. J-99-37, 53-820 O, pp.778-803 (U.S. Govt.
	www.parrishandshaw.com /Legal_Articles.jsp (4404 words)

	United States: History
		The new Western states, linked in outlook to the North, had long since caused the South to lose hold of the House of Representatives, and Southern parity in the Senate was threatened by the prospective addition of more free states than slaveholding ones.
		In the United States, the Nasdaq Internet and technology stock bubble, which had begun its rise in 1999, completely deflated in the second half of 2000, as the so-called new economy associated with the Internet proved to be subject to the rules of the old economy.
		the territorial gains and westward movement of the United States were focusing legislative argument on the extension of slavery to the new territories and breaking down the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/us/A0861712.html (13585 words)

	United States: History
		The new Western states, linked in outlook to the North, had long since caused the South to lose hold of the House of Representatives, and Southern parity in the Senate was threatened by the prospective addition of more free states than slaveholding ones.
		In the United States, the Nasdaq Internet and technology stock bubble, which had begun its rise in 1999, completely deflated in the second half of 2000, as the so-called new economy associated with the Internet proved to be subject to the rules of the old economy.
		After breaking relations with Cuba, which, under Fidel Castro, had clearly moved within the Communist orbit, the United States supported (1961) an ill-fated invasion of Cuba by anti-Castro forces.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/us/A0861712.html (13589 words)

	Clean Sports Act of 2005
		Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
		A major professional league may make exceptions for any prohibited substances that have been properly prescribed by a doctor of medicine licensed in the United States for legitimate and documented therapeutic purposes.
		(2) diminish the leadership role of the United States in eliminating the use of steroids or other performance-enhancing substances in sports.
	www.theorator.com /bills109/s1114.html (2072 words)

	United States: History
		The new Western states, linked in outlook to the North, had long since caused the South to lose hold of the House of Representatives, and Southern parity in the Senate was threatened by the prospective addition of more free states than slaveholding ones.
		In the United States, the Nasdaq Internet and technology stock bubble, which had begun its rise in 1999, completely deflated in the second half of 2000, as the so-called new economy associated with the Internet proved to be subject to the rules of the old economy.
		In keeping with his announced intention of moving the United States from an era of confrontation to one of negotiation, Nixon made a dramatic visit to the People's Republic of China in Feb., 1972, ending more than 20 years of hostility between the two countries and opening the way for a normalization of relations.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/us/A0861712.html (13198 words)

	United States of America (Harpers.org)
		The United States House of Representatives voted to ban human cloning for both reproduction and medical research; the measure also prohibits the sale of treatments derived from such procedures.
		United States troops intervened in the Macedonian conflict by escorting several hundred rebels out of a Macedonian town; riots ensued in Skopje, the capital, and an American diplomat was shot, apparently by accident, by a Macedonian soldier.
		The United States justice department reported that America's prison population had grown to 1,931,859, of whom 791,600 were black; the ACLU pointed out that America, with only 5 percent of the world's population, accounts for 25 percent of the world's prisoners.
	www.harpers.org /UnitedStates.html (4404 words)

	How to Undermine Voting Rights, June 5, 2005
		On May 3, Congressman Davis reintroduced the DC Fairness in Representation Act in the House of Representatives.
		This high ranking should be expected for a couple of reasons: the fact that large cities in the eastern United States usually have higher costs than other areas of the country and the fact that large cities generally come with high concentrations of poverty.
		It further undermines confidence, in light of the Executive Office of the Mayor’s recent and continuing problems with following legal contracting procedures, by specifying that the EOM can either expend the million dollars itself or award it in one or more noncompetitive, sole-source grants.
	www.dcwatch.com /themail/2005/05-06-05.htm (3904 words)

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