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Senators face reelection every six years and representatives every two Reelections encourage candidates to focus their publicity efforts at their home states or districts. Running for reelection can be a grueling process of distant travel and fund-raising which distracts senators and representatives from paying attention to governing according to some critics. Although others respond that the process is necessary to keep members of Congress in touch with voters, Wikimedia Commons has media related to South Branch Potomac River. . The Washington Metropolitan Area is the ninth-largest television media market in the nation with two million homes approximately 2% of the country's population. Several media companies and cable television channels have their headquarters in the area including C-SPAN; Black Entertainment Television (BET); Radio One; the National Geographic Channel; Smithsonian Networks; National Public Radio (NPR); Travel Channel (in Chevy Chase Maryland); Discovery Communications (in Silver Spring Maryland); and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) (in Arlington Virginia) the headquarters of Voice of America the U.S government's international news service is near the Capitol in Southwest Washington, In 1868 this committee of representatives prosecuted President Andrew Johnson in his impeachment trial but the Senate did not convict him, Bombardment of Veracruz Cartoon of Lincoln and Johnson attempting to stitch up the broken Union. Based on the President's war powers the Emancipation Proclamation applied to territory held by Confederates at the time However the Proclamation became a symbol of the Union's growing commitment to add emancipation to the Union's definition of liberty. Lincoln played a leading role in getting the constitutionally-required two-thirds majority of both houses of Congress to vote for the Thirteenth Amendment, which made emancipation universal and permanent. Early European colonists who settled along the Potomac found a diversity of large and small mammals living in the dense forests nearby Bison elk wolves ( gray and red) and panthers (cougars) were still present at that time but had been hunted to extirpation by the middle of the 19th century Among the denizens of the Potomac's banks beavers and otters met a similar fate while small populations of minks and martens survived into the 20th century in some secluded areas. . Main article: Joint session of the United States Congress, Coin minted for John Adams in 1782 to celebrate the Netherlands' recognition of the United States as an independent nation one of three coins minted for him; all three are in the coin collection of the Teylers Museum, Robert Morris had been a member of the Pennsylvania Assembly and president of Pennsylvania's Committee of Safety (American Revolution) He was also a member of the Committee of Secret Correspondence. Although many capitals are defined by constitution or legislation many long-time capitals have no legal designation as such: for example Bern Edinburgh Lisbon London Paris and Wellington They are recognised as capitals as a matter of convention and because all or almost all the country's central political institutions such as government departments supreme court legislature embassies etc. are located in or near them.

Washington wrote Alexander Hamilton on July 10: "I almost despair of seeing a favorable issue to the proceedings of our convention and do therefore repent having had any agency in the business." Nevertheless he lent his prestige to the goodwill and work of the other delegates He unsuccessfully lobbied many to support ratification of the Constitution such as anti-federalist Patrick Henry to whom he said "the adoption of it under the present circumstances of the Union is in my opinion desirable" declaring that the alternative would be anarchy. Washington and Madison then spent four days at Mount Vernon evaluating the transition of the new government. The Library of Congress was established by an act of Congress in 1800 It is primarily housed in three buildings on Capitol Hill but also includes several other sites: the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped in Washington D.C.; the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper Virginia; a large book storage facility located at Ft Meade Maryland; and multiple overseas offices the Library had mostly law books when it was burned by a British raiding party during the War of 1812 but the library's collections were restored and expanded when Congress authorized the purchase of Thomas Jefferson's private library One of the library's missions is to serve the Congress and its staff as well as the American public It is the largest library in the world with nearly 150 million items including books films maps photographs music manuscripts graphics and materials in 470 languages, Spouses and children Main article: Mexican Cession Civil rights and home rule era. Unlike in the South slave owners in Utah were required to send their slaves to school. Black slaves did not have to spend as much time in school as Indian slaves; . The prospect of disenfranchisement caused immediate concern One voice from a public meeting in January 1801 before the bill's passage compared their situation to those who fought against British taxation without representation in the Revolutionary War -- 20 years prior. Despite these complaints the bill went into effect as written Given exclusive and absolute political control Congress did not act to restore any of these rights until the 1960s the District still has no voting representation in Congress and the decisions of its long-sought local government established in 1973 are still subject to close Congressional review annulment and budget control.