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Contents The founding fathers were not unified on the issue of slavery in her study of Thomas Jefferson historian Annette Gordon-Reed discusses this topic "Others of the founders held slaves but no other founder drafted the charter for freedom" in addition to Jefferson George Washington John Jay and many other of the Founding Fathers practiced slavery but were also conflicted by the institution which many saw as immoral and politically divisive. Conversely many founders such as Samuel Adams and John Adams were against slavery their entire lives Benjamin Rush wrote a pamphlet in 1773 which harshly condemned slavery and beseeched the colonists to petition the king and put an end to the British African Company of Merchants which kept slavery and the slave trade going the Continental Association of 1774 contains a clause severely limiting the slave trade as part of the general boycott of British trade, Battle of Fort Sumter Virginia Bluebells growing wild on Theodore Roosevelt Island. 7.5 Tidal Potomac River vte The Siege of Yorktown ended with the surrender of a second British army paving the way for the end of the American Revolutionary War. . Main articles: Republic of Texas Texas annexation and Texas Revolution. The committee structure permits members of Congress to study a particular subject intensely It is neither expected nor possible that a member be an expert on all subject areas before Congress as time goes by members develop expertise in particular subjects and their legal aspects Committees investigate specialized subjects and advise the entire Congress about choices and trade-offs the choice of specialty may be influenced by the member's constituency important regional issues prior background and experience. Senators often choose a different specialty from that of the other senator from their state to prevent overlap. Some committees specialize in running the business of other committees and exert a powerful influence over all legislation; for example the House Ways and Means Committee has considerable influence over House affairs! Show map of North America Dulles was initially considered a white elephant being far out of town with few flights; in 1965 Dulles averaged 89 airline operations a day while National Airport (now Reagan) averaged 600 despite not allowing jets. (Dulles got its first transatlantic nonstop in June 1964.) Airport operations grew along with Virginia suburbs and the Dulles Technology Corridor; perimeter and slot restrictions at National forced long-distance flights to use Dulles in 1969 Dulles had 2.01 million passengers while National had 9.9 million. . Once a bill is approved by one house it is sent to the other which may pass reject or amend it For the bill to become law both houses must agree to identical versions of the bill. If the second house amends the bill then the differences between the two versions must be reconciled in a conference committee an ad hoc committee that includes both senators and representatives sometimes by using a reconciliation process to limit budget bills. Both houses use a budget enforcement mechanism informally known as pay-as-you-go or paygo which discourages members from considering acts which increase budget deficits. If both houses agree to the version reported by the conference committee the bill passes otherwise it fails, 2.1 Inter-terminal transportation See also: Cultural depictions of Abraham Lincoln Washington's first term was largely devoted to economic concerns in which Hamilton had devised various plans to address matters the establishment of public credit became a primary challenge for the federal government. Hamilton submitted a report to a deadlocked Congress and he Madison and Jefferson reached the Compromise of 1790 in which Jefferson agreed to Hamilton's debt proposals in exchange for moving the nation's capital temporarily to Philadelphia and then south near Georgetown on the Potomac River the terms were legislated in the Funding Act of 1790 and the Residence Act both of which Washington signed into law Congress authorized the assumption and payment of the nation's debts with funding provided by customs duties and excise taxes.

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