April 1 – Thomas Dunn English (born 1819), American politician, poet, author, songwriter who was elected to the United States House of Representatives and had a feud with Edgar Allan Poe
Republican Representative Michael McCaul shared his view.
On December 3, 2013, the United States House of Representatives passed the bill To extend the Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988 for 10 years (H.R. 3626; 113th Congress).
The association members recommended a public health committee be formed by The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis and be officially sanctioned by the United States House of Representatives.
The Annexation Bill of 1866 was a bill introduced on July 2, 1866, but never passed in the United States House of Representatives.
It is Florida's 8th Congressional District currently served by Republican Daniel Webster in the United States House of Representatives.
Stephen Van Rensselaer's popularity remained high enough that he was able to make an unsuccessful attempt to unseat Daniel Tompkins as Governor of New York, and he later served in the United States House of Representatives.
Benjamin Tallmadge (February 11, 1754 – March 7, 1835) was a member of the United States House of Representatives.
He can be viewed as the first Mexican diplomat in Washington, D.C., since on December 10, 1812 he went to the United States House of Representatives to request support for the cause of Mexican independence.
Julia Carson, former U.S. representative and onetime Center Township trustee (now deceased) (1938–2007).
In 1971 he ran to become the first congressional delegate to the United States House of Representatives from D.C., but lost the Democratic primary to Walter E. Fauntroy.
Its founder and chairman is former Massachusetts Democratic Representative Joseph Patrick Kennedy II.
Frank Carlson was an American politician who served as the 30th Governor of Kansas and United States Representative and United States Senator from Kansas.
Section 301 of this Act provided for a bipartisan commission which consisted of seventeen members: seven appointed by the President, five appointed from the Senate by the Vice President, and five from the United States House of Representatives by the Speaker.
The Congressional Committees Investigating The Iran-Contra Affair were committees of the United States House of Representatives and of the United States Senate formed in January 1987 to investigate the Iran-Contra affair.
When introducing an earlier version of the bill in the House of Representatives, Rep. Howard Coble (R-NC) stated that widespread use of the Internet and the advent of high-capacity storage media like the DVD had the potential to worsen the problem of disregard for copyright, so increased penalties were needed to more strongly deter infringement.
In December 2005, the United States House of Representatives voted 273-148 to add an amendment to the border enforcement bill H.R. 4437 abolishing the DV.
Guam's Delegate to the United States House of Representatives Madeleine Bordallo issued a statement in response to Baza's death: "Eloise was a driving force behind the Chamber and her leadership gave the
The Floor Services Chief is the title of the staff member in the Speaker's or Majority Leader's office who runs the Majority cloakroom in the United States House of Representatives.
Roosevelt Jr. was elected as a member of the United States House of Representatives in a special election in 1949, in which he ran as a candidate of the Liberal Party of New York.
On June 6, 1995, GOA helped in lobbying the House of Representatives to vote against the Moran Amendment, by a vote of 278 to 149.
James Abercrombie, (1795–1861), born in Hancock County, later member of the United States House of Representatives from Alabama.
The ceremony brought together former NFL stars of the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, with surviving members of that year's Hall of Fame class representing the latter decade (one of them, then-Congressman Steve Largent flipped the coin on their behalf).
Bill Schuette, District Court of Appeals Judge, former member of the United States House of Representatives and Attorney General of the State of Michigan
The House Select Committee on Current Pornographic Materials, commonly known as the Gathings Committee, was a select committee of the United States House of Representatives which was active in 1952 and 1953.
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Representative Ezekiel C. Gathings, Democrat from Arkansas, was its chairman, appointed by Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn.
Safavian left Janus in January 2001 to become Chief of Staff for Representative Chris Cannon.
An investigating committee of the United States House of Representatives determined that Jarvis had initiated the attack, but took no other action.
It is named after John W. Kyle, a former Mississippi state senator and a former U.S. representative from Mississippi.
This ended in September 2013, when all TBN services were dropped in favor of Informed TV, a series of video lectures from Alan Roebke, a former Representative from Minnesota's 7th Congressional District.
Cartman gives a speech to the House of Representatives on behalf of stem cell research.
After Adem's arrest, Representative Mary Margaret Oliver (D-Decatur), in collaboration with Fortunate Adem, was able to get a law passed specifically outlawing female genital cutting in the state of Georgia.
John A. Sterling — Lexington superintendent 1881–1883; Congressman 1903–1913 and 1915–1918
The United States Senate passed bills to this effect in 1810 and 1811, but both died from Democratic opposition in the House.
He was the son of H. Malcolm Baldrige, Sr. (1894 - 1985), a congressman from Nebraska, and the former Regina Katherine Connell (1896 - 1967).
The arena is named for Clifton N. (Pat) McArthur, U. S. Congressman and Oregon student-athlete and the school's first student body president.
A subcommittee on administrative law in the Democratic House of Representatives held a hearing on midnight regulations the month after Obama's inauguration.
The series stars Fred Grandy (who also starred in The Love Boat and was later elected to the United States House of Representatives) as Walt, a criminology student working as a night watchman at "Fred's Wax Museum".
In 2011, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) classified Movie2k.to as a "notorious market" for piracy in a letter to the United States House of Representatives.
In 2005, founder Amanda St. John and marty st. john was honored with special awards from the United States House of Representatives and the City of Los Angeles for rescue efforts and community service.
The activities were supported by Freedom House and the Committee to Protect Journalists, and received letters of support from several members of the United States House of Representatives.
The Olympic Peninsula is represented in the U.S. House of Representatives by Derek Kilmer.
The Parliamentarian is appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives without regard to political affiliation and solely on the basis of fitness to perform the duties of the position.
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The Parliamentarian of the United States House of Representatives manages, supervises, and administers its Office of the Parliamentarian, which is responsible for advising presiding officers, Members, and staff on procedural questions under the U.S. Constitution, rule, and precedent, as well as for preparing, compiling, and publishing the precedents of the House.
It is named after Paul B. Johnson, a former U.S. Representative from Mississippi and former governor of Mississippi.
It is named after Percy Quin, a former U.S. Representative from Mississippi.
Valentine is the son of former six-term Democratic U.S. Representative Tim Valentine of North Carolina, but is nonetheless a self-described conservative.
Pius Louis Schwert (November 22, 1892 – March 11, 1941) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.
On February 14, 2008 Republican congressman Frank Wolf questioned the prince's gift, and whether the center had ever been critical of the Saudi government.
William Jasper Blackburn, a Reconstruction U.S. Representative from Louisiana, was born on the Fourche de Mau in Randolph County in 1820.
While the United States House of Representatives does not vote on it at all, the requirement for Senate advice and consent to ratification makes it considerably more difficult in the US than in other democratic republics to rally enough political support for international treaties.
His younger brother, Red Hayworth, also was a major league catcher, and his grandson, J. D. Hayworth, was a Republican Party member of the United States House of Representatives from Arizona between 1995 and 2007.
The House Recording Studio provides radio and television recording services to Members, Committees, and Officers of the United States House of Representatives.
Republican Conference Chair may refer either to the United States Senate Republican Conference Chair, a position in the Republican party leadership of the United States Senate, or its House analogue, the Republican Conference Chairman of the United States House of Representatives.
This is a list of Chairman of the Republican Policy Committee of the United States House of Representatives.
Ringgold, the son of a congressman from Maryland, was known for his particularly effective use of artillery.
On September 25, 2001, US Congress passed a resolution that officially recognized the Florentine immigrant to the United States, Antonio Meucci, as the inventor of the telephone.
While at Warrenton, he was elected to serve as chaplain of the United States House of Representatives.
Mubako and Cynthia McKinney, a representative in the United States House of Representatives, accused supporters of the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act of 2001 of racism.
On August 8, 2007, U.S. Representative Dave Reichert (WA-08), King County Executive Ron Sims, and others announced a proposal to expand the Alpine Lakes Wilderness to include the valley of the Pratt River, a tributary of the Middle Fork, near the town of North Bend.
There are no term limits for Vice Presidency, Representatives and Senators, although there have been calls for term limits for those offices.
In 2008, the chair of the gala dinner was former United States Congress Member Jack Quinn.
Meanwhile, Flora Hamburger, a Socialist from New York, gains a nomination from her party, installing her in the House of Representatives.
A National Research Conference on Technology and Aging, and the Office of Technological Assessment of the House of Representatives, initiated a major examination of the impact of science and technology on older Americans”.
Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution (1992), which prohibits changes to Congress members' salaries from taking effect until after an election of representatives.
The committee was established on December 13, 1865, after both houses reached agreement on an amended version of a House concurrent resolution introduced by Representative Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania to establish a joint committee of 15 members.
The last and most recent version of this committee attempted further reforms, some of which were adopted by Congress when Republicans gained control of the House and Senate after the 1994 Congressional elections.
At first the Congress tried to deal with each land grant by special bill and the House had a Committee on Private Land Claims, seats on which were sought after as a way of dispensing patronage.
In addition, the committee was responsible for the accountability of officers of the House, the procurement of rooms for the use of House committees and for the Speaker, and for recommending and authorizing the employment of such persons as stenographers, reporters of debates, janitors, and clerks and staff assistants for committees, members and senators.
The United States House Committee on Commerce was a standing committee of the U.S. House from 1819 until 1892; it was established when the previous Committee on Commerce and Manufactures, which has existed since 1795, was split into two different committees.
The United States House Committee on Commerce and Manufactures was a standing committee of the U.S. House from 1795 until 1819, when the two initially related subjects were split into the Committee on Commerce and the Committee on Manufactures.
The United States House Committee on Elections is a former standing committee of the United States House of Representatives.
The United States House Committee on Enrolled Bills is a former standing committee of the United States House of Representatives.
The United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Navy Department is a defunct a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives.
The United States House Committee on Mileage is a former standing committee of the United States House of Representatives.
The United States House Committee on Revolutionary Pensions was a U.S. House committee, established on January 10, 1831, that superseded the defunct Committee on Military Pensions to assume jurisdiction over issues related to pensions for service in the American Revolutionary War.
The House Committee on Rivers and Harbors was a U.S. House committee from 1883 until 1946.
The President of the United States Senate and the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives would, upon receipt of the report, each appoint two Members to sit on a joint committee to meet and examine the reports and papers, and report on them.
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The United States House Committee on the Disposition of Executive Papers is a former standing committee of the United States House of Representatives.
The United States House Committee on the Election of the President, Vice President, and Representatives in Congress is a former standing committee of the United States House of Representatives.
The Committee on the Memorial of the Agricultural Bank of Mississippi was a select committee of the United States House of Representatives that existed during the 27th Congress.
The Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measure is a subcommittee of the Committee on Ways and Means in the United States House of Representatives.
The Subcommittee on Social Security is a subcommittee of the Committee on Ways and Means in the United States House of Representatives.
The 1992 United States Senate election in Connecticut took place on November 3, 1992, alongside other elections to the United States Senate in 34 other states, as well as with a presidential election and elections to the United States House of Representatives in all 50 states.
Its revelations prompted the introduction of articles of impeachment against the President in the House of Representatives, which led to Nixon's resignation.
On that day, Nationalist leader Lolita Lebrón and fellow Nationalists Rafael Cancel Miranda, Irving Flores and Andrés Figueroa Cordero attacked the United States House of Representatives.
Ruth Bryan Owen lived abroad for several years during her English husband's postings, until she returned to America, where she ran for Congress from Florida after his early death.
Under the House Rules, the procedure may be used if a member uses inappropriate words in debate.
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Words taken down is a procedure used in the United States House of Representatives under which words spoken by a Representative may be stricken from the record.
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According to C-SPAN's congressional glossary, "After the words are 'taken down' by the clerk and read back, the chair rules on their suitability. If ruled inappropriate, the member may not speak again on the same day without House permission."
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After the United States House of Representatives voted to suspend military aid to Lebanon, the Lebanese government stated that it would reject any future U.S. military aid conditioned on Lebanon agreeing not to use it against Israel.
MacIntyre was elected in 1870 as a Democrat to the U.S. House of Representatives to the 42nd Congress.
Konicov's Libertarian political leanings eventually led him to a 1994 bid for Michigan district 3 seat in the United States House of Representatives.
Along with former Senator John Breaux and Congresswoman Corrine Brown, former President Bill Clinton visited the college on February 8, 2008 to campaign for his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, in the Louisiana 2008 Democratic primary,
The Bonneville Unit Clean Hydropower Facilitation Act (H.R. 254) was a bill introduced in the 113th United States Congress which passed in the United States House of Representatives on April 9, 2013.
Rick Lazio, congressman, 2000 Senate candidate, and gubernatorial candidate (R)
Wainwright's eldest child with Edith Gould was Stuyvesant Wainwright II, who represented New York's 1st District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1953 to 1961.
In 1930, the flamboyant Republican mayor William Hale Thompson invoked the riot in a misleading pamphlet when urging African Americans against voting for the Republican nominee Rep Ruth Hanna McCormick in the United States Senate race for her late husband's seat.
The bill was proposed by Senator Sumner and co-sponsored by Representative Benjamin F. Butler, both Republicans from Massachusetts, in the 43rd Congress of the United States in 1870.
In 2002, Siebert wrote a letter to the United States Congress in which he objected to bill H.R. 5607 introduced by Rep. Joe Baca (D-California) which sought to place Salvia divinorum in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act.
In 1926, he was one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives to conduct the impeachment proceedings against George W. English, judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois.
He was elected to the Maine Legislature 1867–68, to the U.S. House of Representatives 1869–79, serving in the 41st and four succeeding Congresses.
The Federal Contested Elections Act of 1969 (2 U.S.C. §§ 381 et seq.), also FCEA provides a procedure for candidates to the United States House of Representatives to contest general elections by filing with the Clerk of the House.
In 1913, Park won a special election to fill Georgia's vacant 2nd district seat in the United States House of Representatives during the 63rd United States Congress.
Jeffress ran in the 2012 elections for the United States House of Representatives, representing Arkansas' 4th congressional district.
During the 2009 United States House of Representatives consideration of H.R. 4173, the bill that became the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, Representative Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) proposed an amendment to the bill that would have reenacted Glass–Steagall Sections 20 and 32, which had been repealed by the 1999 Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act (GLBA), and also prohibited bank insurance activities.
In 1902, Adams was elected to the United States House of Representatives from the 2nd District of Wisconsin to the 58th United States Congress and was reelected to the 59th Congress serving until his death (March 4, 1903 - July 9, 1906).
Rich served in the Michigan Senate from January 1, 1881, until March 21, 1881, when he resigned, having been elected to the United States House of Representatives for the 47th Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Omar D. Conger, serving from April 5, 1881, to March 3, 1883.
Storrs is a relative of Henry Randolph Storrs, a U.S. Representative from New York; and William L. Storrs, a U.S. Representative from Connecticut.
In January 2003, Nancy Pelosi, the ranking Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives, pushed for a trial arrangement to give holders of Matricula Consular cards access to the Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco.
Three days after graduating from high school, Davis went to work in the office of Representative L. Mendel Rivers, his godfather and for whom he was named.
Before joining UCSJ, he served as an aide to U.S. Congressman Carl Elliott, as Chief Counsel and Deputy Director of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Select Committee on Government Research and as a senior policy analyst with the National Academy of Sciences.
The Democratic primaries and caucuses were contested between retired General Wesley Clark of Arkansas, former Governor Howard Dean of Vermont, Senator John Edwards of North Carolina, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, Congressman Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, and the Reverend Al Sharpton of New York.
The village is the birthplace of David B. Henderson, one of only two foreign born Speakers of the United States House of Representatives.
On January 3, 2006 she was appointed to the Arizona State Senate by the Pima County Board of Supervisors, following the resignation of Gabrielle Giffords, who stepped down to run for the United States House of Representatives.
In 2002, Barham was an unsuccessful candidate for the United States House of Representatives, having lost to Representative Rodney Alexander, now his fellow Republican.
Robert Woodrow Levering (October 3, 1914 – August 11, 1989) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio, son-in-law of Usher L. Burdick and brother-in-law of Quentin N. Burdick.
Harris was then elected in 1846 to represent Alabama's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives during the 30th United States Congress and was reelected to three additional terms (31st, 32nd and 33rd Congresses) in that seat from March 4, 1847, until March 3, 1855.
She was once referred to as "a noted barrister and former elected official" by the late Thomas J. Manton, a member of the United States House of Representatives.
The 1971 South Carolina 1st congressional district special election was held on April 27, 1971 to select a Representative for the 1st congressional district to serve out the remainder of the term for the 92nd Congress.
The Act was introduced in the House of Representatives on June 17, 2009, by Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Maryland) and has been cosponsored by 169 of the 257 House Democrats.
Senate, House and Supreme Court pages formerly attended school together in the Capitol Page School located on the attic level above the Great Hall.
The United States House Committee on Public Works was a U.S. House committee, established in 1947 by the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, that had jurisdiction over infrastructure within the United States.
The United States House Committee on Territories was a committee of the United States House of Representatives from 1825 to 1946 (19th to 79th Congresses).
The United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1954 was an election for California's delegation to the United States House of Representatives, which occurred as part of the general election of the House of Representatives on November 6, 1954.
Elections to the United States House of Representatives for Florida's three House seats in the 61st Congress were held November 3, 1908 alongside the election for President and the election for Governor.
The 2008 congressional elections in New Hampshire were held on November 4, 2008 to determine who would represent the state of New Hampshire in the United States House of Representatives during the 111th Congress from January 3, 2009 until January 3, 2011.
The United States House of Representative elections of 1998 in North Carolina were held on 3 November 1998 as part of the biennial election to the United States House of Representatives.
Another fallback for Obama was that U.S. Representative Dan Boren, the only Democrat from Oklahoma's five-member delegation in the U.S. House of Representatives, refused to endorse Obama.
To this effect the Court quoted a House Judiciary Committee hearing, stating that a physician performing an assisted suicide, "must, necessarily and indubitably, intend primarily that the patient be made dead."
The County is named for Daniel Webster, U.S. representative of New Hampshire and U.S. representative and U.S. senator of Massachusetts.
Congressman David Wilmot first introduced the Proviso in the United States House of Representatives on August 8, 1846, as a rider on a $2,000,000 appropriations bill intended for the final negotiations to resolve the Mexican–American War (this was only three months into the two-year war).