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At the start of each two-year session the House elects a speaker who does not normally preside over debates but serves as the majority party's leader in the Senate the vice president is the ex officio president of the Senate in addition the Senate elects an officer called the president pro tempore Pro tempore means for the time being and this office is usually held by the most senior member of the Senate's majority party and customarily keeps this position until there is a change in party control Accordingly the Senate does not necessarily elect a new president pro tempore at the beginning of a new Congress in both the House and Senate the actual presiding officer is generally a junior member of the majority party who is appointed so that new members become acquainted with the rules of the chamber. . ; !

Air France: Air France/KLM Lounge a Concourse across from gate A22 Beginning in the 19th century with increasing mining and agriculture upstream and urban sewage and runoff downstream the water quality of the Potomac River deteriorated This created conditions of severe eutrophication It is said that President Abraham Lincoln used to escape to the highlands on summer nights to escape the river's stench in the 1960s with dense green algal blooms covering the river's surface President Lyndon Johnson declared the river "a national disgrace" and set in motion a long-term effort to reduce pollution from sewage and restore the beauty and ecology of this historic river One of significant pollution control projects at the time was the expansion of the Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant which serves Washington and several surrounding communities. Enactment of the 1972 Clean Water Act led to construction or expansion of additional sewage treatment plants in the Potomac watershed Controls on phosphorus one of the principal contributors to eutrophication were implemented in the 1980s through sewage plant upgrades and restrictions on phosphorus in detergents! Washington D.C. Business Directory, In Santa Fe Governor Manuel Armijo wanted to avoid battle but on August 9 Catholic priests Diego Archuleta (the young regular-army commander) and the young militia officers Manuel Chaves and Miguel Pino forced him to muster a defense. Armijo set up a position in Apache Canyon a narrow pass about 10 miles (16 km) southeast of the city. However on August 14 before the American army was even in view he decided not to fight (An American named James Magoffin claimed he had convinced Armijo and Archuleta to follow this course; an unverified story says he bribed Armijo.) When Pino Chaves and some of the militiamen insisted on fighting Armijo ordered the cannon pointed at them the New Mexican army retreated to Santa Fe and Armijo fled to Chihuahua, Historians typically begin their histories of the American Revolution with the British coalition victory in the Seven Years' War in 1763 the North American theater of the Seven Years' War is commonly known as the French and Indian War in the United States; it removed France as a major player in North American affairs and led to the territory of New France being ceded to Great Britain Lawrence Henry Gipson writes:! . Outbreak of the war, Washington D.C. Business Directory, Committee on Expenditures in the War Department. Family and childhood, Slave trader's business in Atlanta Georgia 1864, Franklin T Lambert (2003) has examined the religious affiliations and beliefs of some of the Founders Of the 55 delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention 28 were Anglicans (i.e Church of England; or Episcopalian after the American Revolutionary War was won) 21 were other Protestants and two were Roman Catholics (D Carroll and Fitzsimons). Among the Protestant delegates to the Constitutional Convention eight were Presbyterians seven were Congregationalists two were Lutherans two were Dutch Reformed and two were Methodists. . Important political and military prisoners were often housed in the Old Capitol Prison in Washington including accused spies Rose Greenhow and Belle Boyd as well as partisan ranger John S Mosby One inmate Henry Wirz the commandant of the Andersonville Prison in Georgia was hanged in the yard of the prison shortly after the war for his cruelty and neglect toward the Union prisoners of war, 6.1 Fish 14.4 Political and diplomatic 4.1.1 Specializations, 6.4 Reptiles The Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery except as punishment for a crime had been passed by the Senate in April 1864 and by the House of Representatives in January 1865 the amendment did not take effect until it was ratified by three fourths of the states which occurred on December 6 1865 when Georgia ratified it On that date all remaining slaves became officially free.