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Congressional archives consist of records and personal papers that document the history and activities of the United States Congress.The National Archives and Records Administration’s Center for Legislative Archives collects and preserves the official administrative and legislative records of the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives.
A Senate Document (often abbreviated S. Doc.) is an official document ordered to be printed by the United States Senate. [1] Documents are numbered in a serial manner for inclusion in the U.S. Serial Set, and serve a major part of the historical record of the Senate. Documents can include reports of executive departments and agencies, texts of ...
for others with the same name, see Committee of Fifty (disambiguation). The Committee of Fifty was formed in 1893 by a group of American businessmen and scholars to investigate problems associated with the use and abuse of alcoholic beverages.
John W. Forney tombstone at West Laurel Hill Cemetery. He was an earnest promoter of the Centennial Exposition and visited Europe in its interest in 1875. In 1877 he sold the Press and established a weekly, the Progress, which he edited until his death. Progress continued to be published by the Forney Publishing Company after his death. [2]
When South Dakota was admitted as a state, Pettigrew was elected as South Dakota's first Senator to the United States Senate. He served from November 2, 1889, to March 3, 1901. He introduced a bill to fund the structure, recommending that native Sioux quartzite be used for construction of the state's first Federal building.
Incoming US Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Republican from South Dakota, speaks to the press after the weekly Republican policy luncheon at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on December 17, 2024.
President Joe Biden signed the Social Security Fairness Act into law Sunday afternoon, marking what is expected to be one of the last major pieces of legislation of his presidency. Prior to ...
Senate leaders have questioned whether the state can afford to keep all the universities open as population trends show that a decrease in birth rates has caused a drop in elementary and secondary ...