It was passed 99 0 by the United States Senate in 1998.

In the United States, a powerful bi partisan Senate committee directly monitors the intelligence services.

Under the laws of the United States of America, a standing committee is a Congressional committee permanently authorized by United States House of Representatives and United States Senate rules.

A debate on immigration is beginning in the United States Senate, which will take up several proposals.

A United States Senate report released in February revealed flagrant abuse of state funds in Equatorial Guinea.

And in the United States Senate, we need bipartisan support only one or two votes are needed to move global warming through the Senate, and this room can help.

There is no representation in the United States Senate, nor does the Territory have the constitutional right to participate in elections for the President of the United States.

In June 2000, the United States Senate Government Operations Committee approved a bill providing for the United States Virgin Islands to join the nation's Emergency Management Assistance Compact.

He was confirmed by the United States Senate on September 26, 1789, and received commission on September 29, 1789.

The NSF's director, deputy director, and the 24 members of the National Science Board (NSB) are appointed by the President of the United States, and confirmed by the United States Senate.

Although they had been dying by the thousands in wars launched by the United States to defend itself and democracy worldwide, Puerto Ricans lacked representation in the United States Congress or Senate.

The Alaska Purchase was the United States' acquisition of Alaska from the Russian Empire in 1867 by a treaty ratified by the U.S. Senate.

In our system, for example, the support of two thirds of the United States Senate is needed to pass an amendment to a treaty.

In the United States, most members of the Senate were elected by the legislatures of the states until 1913, when the Seventeenth Amendment instituted direct elections for those office holders.

After a number of public hearings on the proposals, the United States House of Representatives finally approved the bill unanimously in September 2004, but it expired as per congressional rule due to inaction in the United States Senate.

That unequal treatment, as a result of which the island's population was not represented in the United States Congress and Senate and was deprived of many federal advantages enjoyed by other states, was discriminatory.

On 10 February 2005 the Alabama State Senate approved Joint Rule SRJ.26 which demands that the United States Congress eliminate commercial, financial and travel restrictions on Cuba .

The representative of the United States of America informed the Conference that, on 7 October 2005, the United States Senate had given its advice and consent to the ratification of the Convention and the Trafficking in Persons Protocol and the Migrants Protocol.

g Converging Dangers in a Post 9 11 World , testimony of United States Director of Central Intelligence George J. Tenet before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, 6 February 2002.

There would be a European senate, a European army, and the larger member states would have equal voting rights.

The Senate approved the indication.

Within the United States, all major presidential appointments must be ratified by the Senate even if rejections are rare, the vetting process is important, for the president knows that he can go only so far.

The United States Senate passed a bill that provides 77 million to Guam to finance eradication programmes to wipe out the brown tree snake.63 The brown tree snake poses a threat to Guam's biodiversity.

According to article 133 of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States, all treaties concluded by the President of the Republic and approved by the Senate immediately become the supreme law of the Union.

The Opposition, which still controlled the Senate, allowed some Government bills to pass the Senate, and blocked others.

LOS ANGELES A strange sense of déjà vu is gripping Washington these days, as the debate over ratification by the United States Senate of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) with Russia heats up.

CAMBRIDGE For the first time in decades, a United States senator will become the next American president as all three of the remaining candidates Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John McCain are members of the Senate.

The highest court was the Senate.

This summer has given us one such example the climate change bill, for which President Barack Obama had pushed so hard, will not even be presented to the United States Senate, because it stands no chance of passage.

The composition of the Senate of the States General is still a long way away from the target figure for 2004 of 40 women.

The report was tabled in the Senate and Houses of Representatives prior to being lodged with the United Nations on 30 December 2003.

That could be easily remedied by granting statehood to Puerto Rico and, thereby, the right to elect and send representatives to the United States Congress and Senate in line with the Constitution, which provided for equal rights for all citizens.

This senate candidate also plays World of Warcraft.

The senate was removed in the new constitution.

6 Senate of the French Republic (see www.senat.fr).

The Senate sat in Vaasa during the Finnish Civil War from January 29 to May 3, 1918 and was known as the Vaasa Senate.

The Senate vetoed the text submitted by the Congress.

Three independent candidates were also voted into the Senate.

While the sale of cell telephone records has gained significant media attention, and telecommunications records are the focus of the two bills currently before the United States Senate, many other types of private records are being bought and sold in the public market.

In January 2013 Senator Patty Murray, Chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs, sponsored an amendment of the National Defense Authorization Act (S.3254) that would require peer counseling as part of a comprehensive suicide prevention program for US veterans.

The Senate must decide whether New START enhances American security.

The proposed revision is currently under review at the Senate.

Octavian relieved the city with the help of the Senate.

The Senate was headed by the Governor General of Finland.

The members of the Senate had to be Finnish citizens.