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The Library of Congress, which was founded in 1800 to serve the research needs of lawmakers, is home to a hundred and sixty-two mitemsn items and hundreds of miles of bookshelves.

Emerging all the wiser from last year's bruising legislative session, Mr. Scott is also paying closer attention to the needs of Florida lawmakers.

As powerful a visual as an autonomous encampment successfully shuttering an ICE office may be, if this burgeoning new Occupy movement is to make any real headway, they'll need the help of lawmakers to affect real change.

It is difficult enough, he said, keeping his emotions separate from the pragmatic needs of wrangling with lawmakers over issues that have so dramatically changed his life.

Mr. Flake said he believed that his position would ultimately prevail because the needs of farm state lawmakers would trump White House concerns about losing favor with Florida voters.

In short order, people noted that passing a massive piece of legislation in the span of 15 days seemed impractical in the best of times, but much more so when Congress wasn't in session and hundreds of lawmakers needed to be on the campaign trail.

One way he aims to do this is through a bill he introduced that would make it easier to pass new zoning changes by lowering the number of lawmakers needed to approve them from two-thirds to more than 50percentt.

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Back then, a two-thirds supermajority of lawmakers were needed to pass the budget, which required a handful of GOP legislators to join the ruling Democratic majority.

Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md). said the challenge facing Obama is that he needs the support of a group of lawmakers unresponsive to broad public opinion and uninterested in political trades.