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. A month before the end of the war Polk was criticized in a United States House of Representatives amendment to a bill praising Major General Zachary Taylor for "a war unnecessarily and unconstitutionally begun by the President of the United States." This criticism in which Congressman Abraham Lincoln played an important role with his Spot Resolutions followed congressional scrutiny of the war's beginnings including factual challenges to claims made by President Polk the vote followed party lines with all Whigs supporting the amendment Lincoln's attack won lukewarm support from fellow Whigs in Illinois but was harshly counter-attacked by Democrats who rallied pro-war sentiments in Illinois; Lincoln's Spot resolutions haunted his future campaigns in the heavily Democratic state of Illinois and were cited by enemies well into his presidency, Tens of thousands of Loyalists left the United States; Maya Jasanoff restimates 70,000. Some migrated to Britain the great majority received land and subsidies for resettlement in British colonies in North America known as United Empire Loyalists especially Quebec (concentrating in the Eastern Townships) Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia. Britain created the colonies of Upper Canada (Ontario) and New Brunswick expressly for their benefit and the Crown awarded land to Loyalists as compensation for losses in the United States Britain wanted to develop the frontier of Upper Canada on a British colonial model But about 85% of the Loyalists stayed in the United States and became full loyal citizens; some of the exiles later returned to the U.S.

. . Punjab and Haryana: Both states share Chandigarh as their capital city the city itself is administered as a Union territory, Washington D.C has been a member state of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) since 2015, In the late 20th century the media became more important in Congress's work. Analyst Michael Schudson suggested that greater publicity undermined the power of political parties and caused "more roads to open up in Congress for individual representatives to influence decisions". Norman Ornstein suggested that media prominence led to a greater emphasis on the negative and sensational side of Congress and referred to this as the tabloidization of media coverage. Others saw pressure to squeeze a political position into a thirty-second soundbite a report characterized Congress in 2013 as being unproductive gridlocked and "setting records for futility" in October 2013 with Congress unable to compromise the government was shut down for several weeks and risked a serious default on debt payments causing 60% of the public to say they would "fire every member of Congress" including their own representative. One report suggested Congress posed the "biggest risk to the US economy" because of its brinksmanship "down-to-the-wire budget and debt crises" and "indiscriminate spending cuts" resulting in slowed economic activity and keeping up to two million people unemployed. There has been increasing public dissatisfaction with Congress, with extremely low approval ratings which dropped to 5% in October 2013. James Madison Virginia 1 Yes, Citizens and representatives Washington's death came more swiftly than expected at his deathbed he instructed his private secretary Tobias Lear to wait three days before his burial out of fear of being entombed alive. According to Lear he died peacefully between 10 and 11 p.m on Saturday December 14 1799 with Martha seated at the foot of his bed and his last words were "'Tis well" from his conversation with Lear about his burial He was 67, I-66 in Washington D.C vte.