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After an acrimonious debate, the American Equal Rights Association, the nation's leading suffragist group, split into two rival organizations: the National Woman Suffrage Association of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who opposed the amendment, and the American Woman Suffrage Association of Lucy Stone and Henry Browne Blackwell ...
Also called the Blue Dog Democrats or simply the Blue Dogs. A caucus in the United States House of Representatives comprising members of the Democratic Party who identify as centrists or conservatives and profess an independence from the leadership of both major parties. The caucus is the modern development of a more informal grouping of relatively conservative Democrats in U.S. Congress ...
This is a chronological, but still incomplete, list of United States federal legislation.Congress has enacted approximately 200–600 statutes during each of its 118 biennial terms so more than 30,000 statutes have been enacted since 1789.
Spain closed New Orleans to American commerce, despite the protests of U.S. officials. When Barbary pirates began seizing American ships of commerce, the Treasury had no funds to pay toward ransom. If a military crisis required action, the Congress had no credit or taxing power to finance a response.
Chapter 15: National Security (transferred) Chapter 16: Defense Industrial Reserves; Chapter 17: Arming American Vessels (repealed) Chapter 18: Air-Warning Screen; Chapter 19: Guided Missiles; Chapter 20: Wind Tunnels; Chapter 21: Abacá Production (omitted) Chapter 22: Uniform Code of Military Justice Repealed – see Title 10 of the United ...
American Government is a 2012 textbook, now in its seventeenth edition, by the noted public administration scholar James Q. Wilson and political scientist John J. DiIulio, Jr. DiIulio is a Democrat who served as the director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives under president George W. Bush in 2001.
Rates on a 15-year mortgage stand at an average 5.89% for purchase and 5.93% for refinance, up 3 basis points from 5.86% for purchase and 4 basis points from 5.89% for refinance this time last week.
US Government Manual, official freely downloadable PDFs of annual printed versions. Federal Agency Directory, online database maintained by the Louisiana State University Libraries in partnership with the Federal Depository Library Program of the GPO; A–Z Index of US Departments and Agencies, USA.gov, the US government's official web portal ...