Grasses of the Potomac River Basin Some community and specialty papers focus on neighborhood and cultural issues including the weekly Washington Blade and Metro Weekly which focus on LGBT issues; the Washington Informer and the Washington Afro American which highlight topics of interest to the black community; and neighborhood newspapers published by the Current Newspapers Congressional Quarterly the Hill Politico and Roll Call newspapers focus exclusively on issues related to Congress and the federal government Other publications based in Washington include the National Geographic magazine and political publications such as the Washington Examiner the New Republic and Washington Monthly! Caning of Charles Sumner Hessian troops hired out to the British by their German sovereigns; 7.9 Funeral and burial United Airlines: United Clubs in C Concourse (at gates C4 [the former Global First Class Lounge] C7 and C17) and one in D Concourse at gate D8 as of June 2019 United has begun construction on their latest Polaris Lounge located across from gate C17 next to the AeroTrain escalator due to open early 2020, The divisions became fully exposed with the 1860 presidential election the electorate split four ways the Southern Democrats endorsed slavery while the Republicans denounced it the Northern Democrats said democracy required the people to decide on slavery locally state by state and territory by territory the Constitutional Union Party said the survival of the Union was at stake and everything else should be compromised!
. See also: Cultural depictions of Abraham Lincoln, Uncle Tom's Cabin Members elected since 1984 are covered by the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) Like other federal employees congressional retirement is funded through taxes and participants' contributions Members of Congress under FERS contribute 1.3% of their salary into the FERS retirement plan and pay 6.2% of their salary in Social Security taxes and like federal employees members contribute one-third of the cost of health insurance with the government covering the other two-thirds. . .
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