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The District has growing industries not directly related to government especially in the areas of education finance public policy and scientific research Georgetown University George Washington University Washington Hospital Center Children's National Medical Center and Howard University are the top five non-government-related employers in the city as of 2009. According to statistics compiled in 2011 four of the largest 500 companies in the country were headquartered in the District in the 2017 Global Financial Centres Index Washington was ranked as having the 12th most competitive financial center in the world and fifth most competitive in the United States (after New York City San Francisco Chicago and Boston), Concourses C and D The 1832 boundaries of Comancheria the Comanche homeland! Freshwater fish of the Potomac River Photograph of Lincoln and McClellan sitting at a table in a field tent Memorial to the Mexican cadets killed in the Battle of Chapultepec. . The Congressional Research Service provides detailed up-to-date and non-partisan research for senators representatives and their staff to help them carry out their official duties it provides ideas for legislation helps members analyze a bill facilitates public hearings makes reports consults on matters such as parliamentary procedure and helps the two chambers resolve disagreements it has been called the "House's think tank" and has a staff of about 900 employees, Retrocession Taylor died in July 1850 and was succeeded by Vice President Fillmore who had privately come to support Clay's proposal the various bills were initially combined into one "omnibus" bill Despite Clay's efforts it failed in a crucial vote on July 31 opposed by southern Democrats and by northern Whigs He announced on the Senate floor the next day that he intended to pass each individual part of the bill the 73-year-old Clay however was physically exhausted as the effects of tuberculosis which would eventually kill him began to take their toll Clay left the Senate to recuperate in Newport Rhode Island and Senator Stephen A Douglas took the lead in attempting to pass Clay's proposals through the Senate.

Bicameral legislatures with the upper house as a check on the lower, Federal Triangle on Pennsylvania Avenue; the U.S federal government accounts for about 29% of D.C jobs, In response to two antislavery petitions Georgia and South Carolina objected and were threatening to "blow the trumpet of civil war" Washington and Congress responded with a series of pro-slavery measures: citizenship was denied to black immigrants; slaves were barred from serving in state militias; two more slave states (Kentucky in 1792 Tennessee in 1796) were admitted; and the continuation of slavery in federal territories south of the Ohio River was guaranteed On February 12 1793 Washington signed into law the Fugitive Slave Act which overrode state laws and courts allowing agents to cross state lines to capture and return escaped slaves. Many in the north decried the law believing the act allowed bounty hunting and the kidnappings of blacks the Slave Trade Act of 1794 limiting American involvement in the Atlantic slave trade was also enacted. Hospitals 2004 89.0% 202,970 9.3% 21,256 Southeast Brazil (Portuguese) 21.1% 9.1 Religion and Freemasonry Night scene depicting Washington at center standing among officers and Indians around a lamp holding a war council. Advance on Mexico City and its capture. None of the Southern states abolished slavery but it was common for individual slaveholders in the South to free numerous slaves often citing revolutionary ideals in their wills Methodist Quaker and Baptist preachers traveled in the South appealing to slaveholders to manumit their slaves by 1810 the number and proportion of free blacks in the population of the United States had risen dramatically Most free blacks resided in the North but even in the Upper South the proportion of free blacks went from less than one percent of all blacks to more than 10 percent even as the total number of slaves was increasing through importation! . ; .