Further information: American Revolution American Revolutionary War and George Washington in the American Revolution Attendance at conventions Dutch Caribbean islands 1.3% Media Freshwater fish of the Potomac River. 7.4 Reconstruction One of Congress's foremost non-legislative functions is the power to investigate and oversee the executive branch. Congressional oversight is usually delegated to committees and is facilitated by Congress's subpoena power. Some critics have charged that Congress has in some instances failed to do an adequate job of overseeing the other branches of government in the Plame affair critics including Representative Henry A Waxman charged that Congress was not doing an adequate job of oversight in this case. There have been concerns about congressional oversight of executive actions such as warrantless wiretapping although others respond that Congress did investigate the legality of presidential decisions. Political scientists Ornstein and Mann suggested that oversight functions do not help members of Congress win reelection Congress also has the exclusive power of removal allowing impeachment and removal of the president federal judges and other federal officers. There have been charges that presidents acting under the doctrine of the unitary executive have assumed important legislative and budgetary powers that should belong to Congress. So-called signing statements are one way in which a president can "tip the balance of power between Congress and the White House a little more in favor of the executive branch" according to one account. Past presidents including Ronald Reagan George H W Bush Bill Clinton and George W Bush have made public statements when signing congressional legislation about how they understand a bill or plan to execute it and commentators including the American Bar Association have described this practice as against the spirit of the Constitution. There have been concerns that presidential authority to cope with financial crises is eclipsing the power of Congress in 2008 George F Will called the Capitol building a "tomb for the antiquated idea that the legislative branch matters". Second term 1.2 Burning during the War of 1812, The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority has gradually phased out the mobile lounge system for inter-terminal passenger movements in favor of the AeroTrain an underground people mover which currently operates to all of the concourses except concourse D with passenger tunnels remaining to concourses a and B Plane mates remain in use to disembark international passengers and carry them to the International Arrivals Building as well as to transport passengers to and from aircraft on the hard stands (i.e those parked remotely on the apron without access to jet bridges), Support services 6.2.3 Whiskey Rebellion. Lincoln's declared philosophy on court nominations was that "we cannot ask a man what he will do and if we should and he should answer us we should despise him for it Therefore we must take a man whose opinions are known.":471 Lincoln made five appointments to the United States Supreme Court Noah Haynes Swayne was chosen as an anti-slavery lawyer who was committed to the Union Samuel Freeman Miller supported Lincoln in the 1860 election and was an avowed abolitionist David Davis was Lincoln's campaign manager in 1860 and had served as a judge in Lincoln's Illinois court circuit Democrat Stephen Johnson Field a previous California Supreme Court justice provided geographic and political balance Finally Lincoln's Treasury Secretary Salmon P Chase became Chief Justice Lincoln believed Chase was an able jurist would support Reconstruction legislation and that his appointment united the Republican Party.:245. . Source: Note:[e] CSA Caning of Charles Sumner Though in reviewing the incidents of my Administration I am unconscious of intentional error I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors Whatever they may be I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend I shall also carry with me the hope that my country will never cease to view them with indulgence and that after forty-five years of my life dedicated to its service with an upright zeal the faults of incompetent abilities will be consigned to oblivion as myself must soon be to the mansions of rest. By late September Patriot-French forces completely surrounded Yorktown trapped the British army and prevented British reinforcements from Clinton in the North while the French Navy was victorious at the Battle of the Chesapeake the final American offensive was begun with a shot fired by Washington the siege ended with a British surrender on October 19 1781; over 7,000 British soldiers were captured in the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War. Washington negotiated the terms of surrender for two days and the official signing ceremony took place on October 19; Cornwallis in fact claimed illness and was absent sending General Charles O'Hara as his proxy. As a gesture of goodwill Washington held a dinner for the American French and British generals all of whom fraternized on friendly terms and identified with one another as members of the same professional military caste. .
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