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The case has already elicited reactions in the United States Congress.

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The funding freeze was ordered by the United States Congress in 1996.

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45. During 1996, the Young bill had been submitted to the United States Congress.

At the Congress, Mr. Rodney Slater, Secretary of Transportation of the United States said

The United States Congress retains the right to annul any act of the local legislature.

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Taking into account the discussions in the Congress of the United States of America on relations between Puerto Rico and the United States of America,

In his address to the United States Congress yesterday, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh stated that

32. On 29 October 1997, the House Committee on Resources of the United States Congress held hearings on the Guam Commonwealth bill (H.R.100) introduced in January 1997 by Guam s delegate to the United States Congress, Mr. Robert Underwood.

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Report on the Teaching of Sociology in the United States , first Argentine Sociology Congress, Mendoza, Argentina, 1959.

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The act requires various United States agencies to report to Congress on their contributions to those efforts.

In peacekeeping and security, the programme has served as an intermediary between United Nations officials, the United States Congress, and other parliaments.

30. Between 1989 and 1991, the United States Congress had tried unsuccessfully to organize elections in Puerto Rico.

The United States had recommended that the site for the Tenth Congress should be Singapore, Bangkok or Jakarta.

Independently of whether the bill will finally be approved by the United States Congress, the question remains whether it will be signed into law by the current United States Administration.

In August 1997, the Bankruptcy Law Revision Commission appointed by the United States Congress had recommended the adoption of the UNCITRAL Model Law as amendments to the United States Code.

The United Nations must make sense of history and call on the United States Congress to declare the island's statehood as soon as possible.

In February 1997, the Young Bill was introduced in the United States Congress, seeking to make the results of the proposed 1998 Puerto Rican plebiscite binding on the United States Government.

However, in late September 2003, the United States Senate Finance Committee rejected the amendment to section 956 and, as a result, the proposal did not go to the United States Congress.

In February 2005 the President of the United States presented to Congress his budget proposal for the 2006 fiscal year.

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The United States Congress was currently planning to remove a provision from the tax code governing the economy of Puerto Rico, demonstrating its dependence on the decisions of an all powerful Congress.

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 people of Guam became United States citizens in 1950 when the United States Congress enacted the Guam Organic Act, which established institutions of local government and made Guam an organized Territory.

The next election for Governor, the Legislature and the Delegate to the United States Congress will be held in November 2006.

General Assembly resolution 748 (VIII) should be repealed, since Puerto Rico was still under the sovereignty of the United States Congress.

53. In 1901, the Chamorros had begun petitioning the United States Congress to address grievances regarding their civil and human rights.

In the United States, this is known as the quot plenary power doctrine , and it holds that the United States Congress may exercise virtually unlimited power over indigenous nations and tribes and their property.

Although the United States Congress authorized the adoption of a local constitution in 1976, none of the four attempts have been successful.

If the people of Puerto Rico chose the constitutional assembly method, the United States Congress could be requested to approve that mechanism.

Invited Testimony to the United States Congress, Government Reform Committee, on The Ongoing Tragedy of International Slavery and Human Trafficking, in 2003.

69. The Commonwealth was not fully sovereign, since it was subject to the Congress and Constitution of the United States of America.

That bill was based on the hypothesis that Puerto Rico was a territory of the United States, that, in the terms of the territorial clause, fell under the supreme authority of the United States Congress.

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The Sixth Congress was presented with the first detailed United Nations survey of crime worldwide, based on information received from 65 Member States.

The organization of the 1998 plebiscite continued as scheduled, despite the failure of Congress to bind the United States Government to the results.

Whatever the majority decided, the President of the United States would submit a proposal to Congress for the transition to the new regime.

As another possible substantive topic for the Congress, the United States suggested the inclusion of an item on combating corruption by criminalizing bribery.

UNU was able to link up sites in Asia, Europe and the United States, involving scholars, policy makers and politicians, for the Congress.