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 ipedia.com: United States Congress Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Additionally, there are non-voting "delegates" from the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico (known as "Resident Commissioner" and serving a double-length term) and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The powers originally delegated to the Congress by the original version of the Constitution were supplemented by the post-Civil War amendmentss to the Constitution (Amendments 13, 14, and 15, each of which authorizes the Congress to enforce its provisions by appropriate legislation), and by the 16th Amendment, which authorizes an income tax.
One of the major characteristics of the Congress is the dominant role that Congressional committees play in its proceedings.
www.ipedia.com /united_states_congress_1.html   (3038 words)

  
 Oregon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oregon borders the Pacific Ocean on the west, Washington on the north, Idaho on the east, and California, and Nevada on the south.
More recent amendments include the nation's only doctor-assisted suicide law, called the Death with Dignity law (which was challenged in 2005 by the Bush administration in the U.S. Supreme Court), legalization of medical marijuana, and among the nation's strongest anti-sprawl and pro-environment laws.
Of the measures placed on the ballot since 1902, the people have passed 99 of the 288 initiatives and 25 of the 61 referenda on the ballot, though not all of them survived challenges in courts (see Pierce v.
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The French controlled the area until 1763, when it was ceded to the British.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, as of 2004, Wisconsin's population was 5,509,026.
There are 229,800 foreign-born residents in the state (4.2% of the state population), and an estimated 41,000 illegal aliens living in the state, accounting for 18% of the foreign-born.
encyc.connectonline.com /index.php/Wisconsin   (2454 words)

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