Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislators
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Memorial Addresses and Other Tributes Held in the House of Representatives and Senate of the United States, Together with Memorial Services in Honor of Robert T. Matsui, Late a Representative from California
Author: Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1414
Book Description
The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Nominations of Patsy T. Mink
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign RelationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Commemorative Joint Meeting of the Congress of the United States
Author: United States. CongressPublisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160513565
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Provides the transcripts of a ceremonial meeting at held at Federal Hall, New York, New York, on September 6, 2002, including statements by members of Congress on the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. This meeting was held, by special resolution of Congress, in remembrance of the victims and the heroes of September 11, 2001, and in recognition of the courage and the spirit of the City of New York.
Memorial Addresses and Other Tributes, Held in the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States Together with Memorial Services in Honor of Robert C. Byrd, Late a Senator from West Virginia, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, Second Session
Author: From Vietnam To 9/11
Author: John P MurthaPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271046082
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Memorial Addresses and Other Tributes Held in the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States Together with Memorial Services in Honor of Paul Wellstone, Late a Senator from Minnesota, One Hundred Seventh Congress, Second Session
Author: Treasure in Earthen Vessels
Author: Watchman NeePublisher: Living Stream Ministry
ISBN: 157593860X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
The Gentleman from Ohio
Author: Louis StokesPublisher: Trillium
ISBN: 9780814213124
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Louis Stokes was a giant in Ohio politics and one of the most significant figures in the U.S. Congress in recent times. When he arrived in the House of Representatives as a freshman in 1969, there were only six African Americans serving. By the time he retired thirty years later, he had chaired the House Special Committee on the Kennedy and King assassinations, the House Ethics Committee during Abscam, and the House Intelligence Committee during Iran-Contra; he was also a senior member of the powerful House Appropriations Committee. Prior to Louis Stokes's tenure in Congress he served for many years as a criminal defense lawyer and chairman of the Cleveland NAACP Legal Redress Committee. Among the Supreme Court Cases he argued, the Terry "Stop and Frisk" case is regarded as one of the twenty-five most significant cases in the court's history. The Gentleman from Ohio chronicles this and other momentous events in the life and legacy of Ohio's first black representative--a man who, whether in law or politics, continually fought for the principles he believed in and helped lead the way for African Americans in the world of mainstream American politics.
The Japanese Conspiracy
Author: Masayo Umezawa DuusPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520917677
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
In early 1920 in Hawaii, Japanese sugar cane workers, faced with spiraling living expenses, defiantly struck for a wage increase to $1.25 per day. The event shook the traditional power structure in Hawaii and, as Masayo Duus demonstrates in this book, had consequences reaching all the way up to the eve of World War II. By the end of World War I, the Hawaiian Islands had become what a Japanese guidebook called a "Japanese village in the Pacific," with Japanese immigrant workers making up nearly half the work force on the Hawaiian sugar plantations. Although the strikers eventually capitulated, the Hawaiian territorial government, working closely with the planters, cracked down on the strike leaders, bringing them to trial for an alleged conspiracy to dynamite the house of a plantation official. And to end dependence on Japanese immigrant labor, the planters lobbied hard in Washington to lift restrictions on the immigration of Chinese workers. Placing the event in the context of immigration history as well as diplomatic history, Duus argues that the clash between the immigrant Japanese workers and the Hawaiian oligarchs deepened the mutual suspicion between the Japanese and United States governments. Eventually, she demonstrates, this suspicion led to the passage of the so-called Japanese Exclusion Act of 1924, an event that cast a long shadow into the future. Drawing on both Japanese- and English-language materials, including important unpublished trial documents, this richly detailed narrative focuses on the key actors in the strike. Its dramatic conclusions will have broad implications for further research in Asian American studies, labor history, and immigration history.