Finally, the governor reminded session that they should send a memorandum to the United States Congress if they wished to increase the size of the legislature from 24 to 32 members in the House and 12 to 16 in the Council as it would take an Act of Congress to realize the change.
The term can be used in other countries with a legislature named "Congress," such as the Congress of the Philippines.
Created by an Act of Congress in 1980, USADF began program operations in 1984.
The BioFuels Security Act is a proposed legislative Act of Congress intended to phase out current single-fueled vehicles in favor of flexible-fuel vehicles.
The adjective bipartisan can refer to any bill, act, resolution, or other political act in which both of the two major political parties agree about all or many parts of a political choice.
The original Certificate of Merit was authorized by an Act of Congress related to the expansion of the US Army during the Mexican-American War.
The Act of Congress set forth the quest to acquire innovative equipment and services offered by entrepreneurial ventures from the information technology services, remote sensing technology, and telecommunications industries.
Established by an Act of Congress on April 21, 1862, the United States Mint at Denver opened for business in late 1863 as a United States Assay Office.
At the same time, the United States is reviewing the Reconstruction Opportunity Zones (ROZ) Act in Washington, D.C., which is supposed to help the economic status of the Pashtun and Baloch tribes by providing jobs to a large number of the population on both sides of the Durand Line border.
The Freedom of Internet Act (formerly Free Internet Act) is an act aimed to legislate the Internet and its uses worldwide, as an alternative to SOPA and PIPA.
A person of exceptional merit, generally a non-United States citizen, may be declared an Honorary Citizen of the United States by an Act of Congress or by a proclamation issued by the President of the United States, pursuant to authorization granted by Congress.
The Investor Protections and Improvements to the Regulation of Securities is a United States Act of Congress, which forms Title IX, sections 901 to 991 of the much broader and larger Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010.
The Labor Reform Act of 1977 was a proposed United States Act of Congress that never came into force.
The Multiple Use - Sustained Yield Act of 1960 (or MUSYA) (Public Law 86-517) is a federal law passed by the United States Congress on June 12, 1960.
A treaty on March 6, 1865, followed by two acts of Congress on June 10, 1872 and June 22, 1874, ratified the agreement.
Senator Gravel proposes an Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and an accompanying Federal Law to bring about a means of citizen-initiated national lawmaking in addition to the existing means of lawmaking through the institutions of representative government (i.e., Congress and the President).
Established by a treaty dated March 12, 1858 and a supplemental treaty on March 10, 1865, the reservation was re-established by an Act of Congress dated March 2, 1899.
In the United Kingdom, and other Commonwealth nations, primary legislation takes the form of an Act of Parliament, and in the United States, it is (at federal level) an Act of Congress.
Public Law 99-145 designates the U.S. Army responsible for the destruction of the U.S. chemical weapons stockpile.
Reduce America's Debt Now Act of 2011 is a proposed act that will require employers to make non-deductible deductions from employees for the US Treasury to be used to feed the United States public debt.
The program was established by the 1984 Act to Combat International Terrorism (Public Law 98-533).
The original library was founded by an Act of Congress on August 10, 1846, when the Smithsonian Institution was named a trust instrumentality of the United States.
Lieutenant Colonel Bliss was commissioned as a brigadier general in the Regular Army by an Act of Congress under direction of the U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.
An Act of Congress, approved on May 27, 1908, reorganized the regiment as part of the "regular" Army.
May 2, 1872 - an Act of Congress changes the name to Texas and Pacific Railway Company
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The acts of the 113th United States Congress includes all Acts of Congress and ratified treaties by the 113th United States Congress, which lasts from January 3, 2013 to January 3, 2015.
The DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 (H.R. 4640, 42 U.S.C. 14135 et seq.) is a United States Act of Congress that primarily allows U.S. States to carry out DNA analyses for use in the FBI's Combined DNA Index System and to collect and analyse DNA samples.
Low presented credentials as a Republican Member-elect to the 37th Congress but was not permitted to take his seat until a special act of Congress was passed.
The High Performance Computing Act of 1991 (HPCA) is an Act of Congress promulgated in the 102nd United States Congress as (Pub.L. 102–194) on 1991-12-09.
Abraham Lincoln signed an Act of Congress on June 30, 1864 ceding Mariposa Grove and Yosemite Valley to the state of California.
In the United States, Public Debt Acts are Acts of Congress which set the debt ceiling on the National debt of the United States.
The Vaccine Act of 1813 was an Act of the Twelfth Congress of the United States to encourage vaccination against smallpox.