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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. Clintons additions settled just enough of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Plane Crash
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies > Writing