Sentence examples for congress proposed from inspiring English sources

Congress proposed the amendment in 1965, and it was ratified on Feb. 10, 1967.

In June 2015, Congress proposed a rule change that would expand the number of Americans who qualify for overtime pay.

(In the United States, for example, the U.S. Congress proposed the Antarctica World Park and Protection Act of 1990).

On Feb. 20, 1933, Congress proposed the Twenty-first Amendment, aimed at rescinding prohibition, and in April Pres.

The first budget the Administration floated to Congress proposed a twenty-eight-per-cent slash to the Department's funding.

Last session, two Democratic members of Congress proposed legislation that would change the way business-method patents are processed.

"What we're asking for is at least as much money as Congress proposed last year -- $300 billion," Mr. Novelli said.

The Malaysian Trades Union Congress proposed a freeze on the recruitment of foreign workers last October.

William White, chaplain of the Continental Congress, proposed that congregations form themselves into an American church that would continue the spiritual legacy of the Church of England but would otherwise separate from it.

This was true of Mr. Mandela's successor, Thabo Mbeki, and it is even more true of the current president, Jacob Zuma, whose government and party, the African National Congress, proposed the new censorship measures.

A day before the Suffolk press conference, the Joint Economic Committee of Congress proposed in a report released in Washington that the government provide funds ($3,300 per household) to help prevent foreclosures nationwide.