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Washington D.C. Business Directory Each bill goes through several stages in each house including consideration by a committee and advice from the Government Accountability Office. Most legislation is considered by standing committees which have jurisdiction over a particular subject such as Agriculture or Appropriations the House has twenty standing committees; the Senate has sixteen Standing committees meet at least once each month. Almost all standing committee meetings for transacting business must be open to the public unless the committee votes publicly to close the meeting a committee might call for public hearings on important bills. Each committee is led by a chair who belongs to the majority party and a ranking member of the minority party Witnesses and experts can present their case for or against a bill. Then a bill may go to what is called a mark-up session where committee members debate the bill's merits and may offer amendments or revisions. Committees may also amend the bill but the full house holds the power to accept or reject committee amendments After debate the committee votes whether it wishes to report the measure to the full house If a bill is tabled then it is rejected If amendments are extensive sometimes a new bill with amendments built in will be submitted as a so-called clean bill with a new number. Both houses have procedures under which committees can be bypassed or overruled but they are rarely used Generally members who have been in Congress longer have greater seniority and therefore greater power, Educational issues Cash in Market After the Revolution genuinely democratic politics became possible in the former colonies the rights of the people were incorporated into state constitutions Concepts of liberty individual rights equality among men and hostility toward corruption became incorporated as core values of liberal republicanism the greatest challenge to the old order in Europe was the challenge to inherited political power and the democratic idea that government rests on the consent of the governed the example of the first successful revolution against a European empire and the first successful establishment of a republican form of democratically elected government provided a model for many other colonial peoples who realized that they too could break away and become self-governing nations with directly elected representative government. In the United States increasingly divided by sectional rivalry the war was a partisan issue and an essential element in the origins of the American Civil War Most Whigs in the North and South opposed it; most Democrats supported it. Southern Democrats animated by a popular belief in Manifest Destiny supported it in hope of adding slave-owning territory to the South and avoiding being outnumbered by the faster-growing North John L O'Sullivan editor of the Democratic Review coined this phrase in its context stating that it must be "our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.", The language of the establishing act of 1801 omitted any provision for district residents to vote for local state-equivalent or federal representatives; 15 Notes Washington taking command of the Continental Army just before the Siege, In 1755 Washington served voluntarily as an aide to General Edward Braddock who led a British expedition to expel the French from Fort Duquesne and the Ohio Country. On Washington's recommendation Braddock split the army into one main column and a lightly equipped "flying column". Suffering from a severe case of dysentery Washington was left behind and when he rejoined Braddock at Monongahela the French and their Indian allies ambushed the divided army the British suffered two-thirds casualties including the mortally wounded Braddock Under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Gage Washington still very ill rallied the survivors and formed a rear guard which allowed the remnants of the force to disengage and retreat. During the engagement he had two horses shot from under him and his hat and coat were bullet-pierced. His conduct under fire redeemed his reputation among critics of his command in the Battle of Fort Necessity, but he was not included by the succeeding commander Colonel Thomas Dunbar in planning subsequent operations, Prior to the Republican convention the Lincoln campaign began cultivating a nationwide youth organization the Wide Awakes which it used to generate popular support throughout the country to spearhead voter registration drives thinking that new voters and young voters tended to embrace new parties. Lincoln's ideas of abolishing slavery grew drawing more supporters People of the Northern states knew the Southern states would vote against Lincoln and rallied supporters for Lincoln.

. Transportation See also: List of newspapers in Washington D.C and List of television shows set in Washington D.C, Abolitionism in the North By the end of the 20th century notable success had been achieved as massive algal blooms vanished and recreational fishing and boating rebounded Still the aquatic habitat of the Potomac River and its tributaries remain vulnerable to eutrophication heavy metals pesticides and other toxic chemicals over-fishing alien species and pathogens associated with fecal coliform bacteria and shellfish diseases in 2005 two federal agencies the US Geological Survey and the Fish and Wildlife Service began to identify fish in the Potomac and tributaries that exhibited "intersex" characteristics as a result of endocrine disruption caused by some form of pollution! . For statistical purposes the District of Columbia is treated as a state-equivalent (and a county-equivalent) by the U.S Census Bureau, 3.1 Opposition to British Parliament In February 1801 Congress approved the District of Columbia Organic Act which officially organized the District of Columbia Congress at that time became the district's exclusive governing authority.[citation needed]. Washington D.C. Business Directory President Lincoln's 75,000 volunteers. Battle of Fort Sumter Tariff of 1828 5.2 Defense of the war 3 Water supply and water quality Northwestern Mexico South Branch Potomac River; Southern theater and Yorktown Commonwealth of Nations: London Fugitive slave clause William Samuel Johnson Connecticut 1 Yes.