Without either endorsing or opposing it, Congress agreed to forward the Constitution to the states, for ratification.
In this year's budget, Congress agreed, at Mr Clinton's insistence, to finance the hiring of 100, 000 new teachers.
Budget wonks knew exactly what would happen when Congress agreed to delay the sequester from January 1 to March 1 rather than March 28.
Three weeks ago, my administration and Congress agreed on a new trade policy that will be applied to free trade agreements with Peru, Colombia, Panama and South Korea.
This onerous tax on capital is a U.S. competitive disadvantage in the global economy, which is why Congress agreed in 2003 to cut the rates on dividends and capital gains.
The 40% tax rate that Congress agreed to is a compromise between the 45% rate that President Obama was seeking and the 35% rate that was in effect for 2011 and 2012.
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Even if Congress had agreed to it, he should never have been handed such overriding power.
Now, I will confess I wish that Republican leaders in Congress had agreed earlier.
Congress also agreed to extend unemployment compensation and continue higher payments to Medicare providers.
Democrats and Republicans in the US Congress have agreed a compromise spending bill to avoid a government shutdown.
The Bush administration and Congress have agreed that the federal government should have a role, but they are at odds over what it should be.
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Congress overwhelmingly agreed, and I was recently able to sign into law legislation that calls for extending the life of the space station for at least another 10 years.
In the absence of some such conviction about the economic contribution of the university, would America's Congress have agreed this summer to pump billions of extra dollars into public support for students?
Just before we got here, Congress did the right thing and voted to make sure that taxes would not go up on middle-class families at the end of this month. (Applause.) Congress also agreed to extend unemployment insurance for millions of Americans -- maybe some of your family members -- who are still out there looking for a job.
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Wow, I am so relieved that Congress has finally agreed on an energy bill.
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But Mr Obama and Congress have already agreed to draconian caps that will shrink such spending to its lowest share of GDP since the 1950s.
Lawmakers in two chambers of the Congress last week agreed on a text of the compensation bill, which is set to be officially ratified this week and signed by President Benigno Aquino III.
Both men agreed that Congress needs to take action, but neither committed to supporting specific parts of the plan.
Members of Congress from both parties agreed with the content of Bush's speech but diverged on what should happen next.
The goal is for Congress to put those agreed-upon guidelines into law.
What if, instead, Congress and the President agreed that the new reformed tax code should raise xx percent of Gross Domestic Product in revenue in 2022?
We also believe that the fiscal consolidation plan that Congress and the Administration agreed to this week falls short of the amount that we believe is necessary to stabilize the general government debt burden by the middle of the decade.
It is a vote to pay the bills of spending previously agreed upon by Congress.
The White House demanded, and Mr. Reid agreed, that Congress should try to pass the amendment without such a debate.
Not only was there spending restraint, but Congress and the White House agreed on a fairly substantial tax cut in 1997.
But the failure to launch Glory comes days after Congress and the White House agreed to a stopgap spending bill that narrowly averted a government shutdown.
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The cabinet of the Congress party-led coalition agreed last week to allow foreign multibrand retailers to own up to 51% of joint ventures and open supermarkets in India.
Congress and the White House agreed to the sequestration cuts as part of the 2011 debt ceiling deal that ended a showdown over whether to increase the federal government's borrowing limit to meet its obligations.
In the 2011 debt ceiling deal that ended a showdown over whether to increase the federal government's borrowing limit to meet its obligations, Congress and the White House agreed to include the automatic spending cuts of sequestration as motivation to pass a comprehensive deficit-reduction plan.
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