Essays Tagged: "U.S. Senate"

Getting Drunks off the Road

Current Event Article #3 In Washington D.C., the U.S. Senate Transportation Appropriations Subcommittee followed through with their involvement in th ...

(1 pages) 922 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues

Abortion

rs the same question, and their response would be to define "life". After a discussion in 1981, the U.S. Senate decided that biological life starts at implantation. Many of the Pro-abortionists, howev ...

(3 pages) 1315 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

In the lake of the woods

war as a way of gaining 'hero' status in order to reach his lifelong ambitions of reaching the U.S Senate. When the revelations about his acts in the war were made, John Wade lost everything that he ...

(3 pages) 12 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

Richard Nixon

oorhis, with sixty percent of the vote. He then went on to win a Senate seat in 1950. He was in the U.S. Senate for only a year?and-a-half when, in 1952, he was chosen by the Republican convention to ... ting their own war, Nixon began removing American ground combat troops, but he continued the use of U.S. air strikes against North Vietnam. A cease-fire agreement was finally signed in January 1973, a ...

(5 pages) 33 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

Aaron Burr

involved in 1789 with his appointment of attorney general by Governor Clinton. A brief term in the U.S. Senate, where he defeated Hamilton& 8217;s father-in-law General Phillip Schuyler, would be ... ow a fugitive in New York and New Jersey. Burr escaped to Philadelphia, where he met up with former U.S. New Jersey Senator John Dayton and developed the ostentatious #8220;scheme." The "scheme" envis ...

(4 pages) 13 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

JFK- An Overview Of His Life And The Effect His De

etts' eleventh congressional district. He would later serve in the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. He was then chosen by the Democratic Party as its candidate for the Presidential electi ... e of Berlin was second only to that of the United States. For the first three days after his death, U.S. Headquarters in Berlin remained open day and night to accommodate the forty thousand mourners t ...

(4 pages) 18 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

JFK vs. Lincoln Assassinations

ntatives as a democrat in 1946 and held his position until 1952 when he was elected to serve on the U.S. Senate (Christina, n.d.) Lincoln and Kennedy's long political prominence eventually led ...

(3 pages) 14 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents

The AFL-CIO's committee on political education

se discrimination." A dual endorsement was given to Ron Kirk and Representative Ken Bentsen for the U.S. Senate seat left by Phil Gramm. Kirk is the former African-American mayor of Dallas, and he tol ...

(2 pages) 1116 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

NAFTA

ther. All three countries had very low support for NAFTA until Bill Clinton came into office in the U.S. and made the agreement a main priority. President Clinton did not alter the agreement whatsoeve ... g the original document. In the eve of deep political debate, both the House of Representatives and U.S. Senate passed the bill, still with much opposition. Clinton’s additions settled just enough of ...

(4 pages) 37 0 0.0 Mar/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Under-representation of Women In Politics

ces just as men do but that is not the case at all. "As of 2001, women constitute 13 percent of the U.S. Senate and 13.6 percent of the U.S. House of Representatives. At the state level women compose ...

(9 pages) 78 0 5.0 Apr/2008

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government

Rhetoric of Women

mocratic Senator from Illinois and thе first African-American woman ever elected to thе U.S. Senate. She was elected to thе Senate in 1992 and has since supported а variety of ... l Moseley Braun served just one term as thе first African American woman elected to thе U.S. Senate, but continued to make her mark on American politics and policy after she left thе ...

(5 pages) 15 0 0.0 Apr/2009

Subjects: History Term Papers

Plane Crash

(2 pages) 3 0 0.0 Aug/2014

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies > Writing