Introduced in the First Congress in 1789, the Bill of Rights was born out of compromise.
WHITEHOUSE: Presidential Proclamation -- Bill of Rights Day, 2011
In 1790, the first Congress, sitting in New York, passed a criminal law that banned perjury.
At the first congress of the Democratic Left, in March 2011, in an extraordinary move, the then serving Pasok prime minister, George Papandreou, attended.
First Congress had a sergeant at arms who was there to keep order, but also a doorkeeper to make sure that people wouldn't come in and out.
Ettajdid, a former Marxist party now run by social democrats that is represented in the new government, echoed this point in its first congress since Mr Ben Ali's fall.
Just two hours before the blast at Pemex headquarters, the company touted its security record at a conference titled "First Congress for Security, Health and Environmental Protection" in the city of Merida in eastern Mexico.
At first, Congress didn't give the IRS authority to immediately reject taxpayers claims for the first-time home-buyer credit if they lacked proper documentation.
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First, Congress should provide immediate funding to put more cops on the beat to monitor activity in energy markets.
First, Congress controls the federal government's purse strings, including for diplomacy and the armed services, so foreign policy is in fact part of the job description.
That was a first for Congress: in the four cases regarding income tax brought before the Court, not one had ever struck down a law as unconstitutional.
First, Congress should stop giving tax breaks to companies that ship jobs overseas, and use that money to cover moving expenses for companies that bring jobs back to America.
WHITEHOUSE: Weekly Address: Congress Must Act on "To-Do List"
First, Congress needs to help the millions of Americans who have worked hard, made their mortgage payments on time, but still have been unable to refinance their mortgages with these historically low rates.
First, Congress has authorized the Cobell settlement, an agreement that will resolve the 14-year, highly contentious class action lawsuit regarding the U.S. government's trust management and accounting of individual American Indian trust accounts.
The Democrats certainly made the early running in the health-care debate: Mr Clinton first asked Congress for a patient's bill of rights way back in November, and the Democrats duly obliged with their plan in March.
To help make college more affordable, the first thing Congress can do is to pass a comprehensive reauthorization of the Higher Education Act that includes key reforms to address rising costs, protect student borrowers and improve critical programs.
The visionary Austrian-Jewish journalist, Theodore Herzl, clarified and gave political weight to the concept of Jewish nationalism - or Zionism - and a national home for the Jews in Palestine at the first Zionist Congress at Basle, in Switzerland, in 1897.
Critics of ObamaCare--including federal judges in Florida and Virginia who have struck down all or part of the law--say those precedents don't matter because for the first time Congress has ordered citizens to buy something instead of telling them what they can't do.
She was first elected to Congress in 2000 and is the first Hispanic woman to serve on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
The Court said that, under the First Amendment, Congress could not restrict campaign expenditures.
Bush says he'll drop the executive order if Congress first lifts its 26-year-old ban.
The newest members will be sworn in when 106th Congress first convenes on January 6.
Ruling in a coalition for the first time, Congress has delivered steadier government than many expected.
The first is whether Congress honours the few reforms Mr Mukherjee was bold enough to volunteer.
Not for the first time, Congress seemed to go too far, even for the government of Israel.
Michael Kennedy had assumed control of the energy corporation when his brother was first elected to Congress.
Congress first started examining predatory lending practices as far back as February 2007.
Obama faces his first test with Congress on Wednesday when the House of Representatives votes on his economic recovery plan.
CNN: In first week, Obama takes initial steps on ambitious agenda
Bono was first elected to Congress in 1994 as a Republican from Palm Springs, where he was mayor from 1988-92.
Second, Mr Vajpayee wants his place in history as the first non-Congress prime minister to serve a full five-year term.
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