Sentence examples for congress finished from inspiring English sources

Congress finished work on a Republican bill to give an election-year tax break to married couples.

Late Thursday night, both houses of Congress finished their initial votes on legislation to pay for the war.

In the past two years, Mr. Bush also proposed significant increases for the physical sciences budget, but the increases largely vanished by the time Congress finished the final spending bills.

MANILA — The Philippine Congress finished tallying Tuesday the votes in the presidential election held last month, with the final results showing Senator Benigno S. Aquino III, the son of the democracy icon Corazon C. Aquino, winning the race with more than 15.2 million votes, five million votes higher than his closest rival, former President Joseph Estrada.

This is -- to add some perspective -- less than a month after Congress finished a five-week vacation.

Members of Congress finished ironing out their differences on Wall Street reform last night, and the resulting bill deserves unequivocal support from progressives and conservatives alike.

The Rangers finished sixth.

Busch finished 32nd.

NBC finished fourth.

Villanova finished at 52.9 percent.

Yale finished in 19 51.2.