The purpose of the Kansas-Nebraska bill reportedly was to settle differences among opposing railroad interests in the area.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

And lawmakers in Rhode Island are considering a bill that would require state schools to offer the choice of a three-year degree.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

When the Senate began debate on the Kansas-Nebraska bill, Stephen Douglas was the first to defend it.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

The Confederate Congress passed a bill in March of eighteen sixty-five to accept Negroes as soldiers.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

I vote for more freedom." The bill aims to provide health coverage to thirty-six million Americans.

VOA: special.2009.11.13

In nineteen sixty-eight, Bill Graham moved his operations to a dance hall called the Carousel Ballroom.

VOA: special.2010.12.03

Recently,Wyclef travelled to Haiti with former President Bill Clinton and United Nations SecretaryGeneral Ban Ki-moon .

VOA: special.2009.11.25

Opponents of the Sherman Anti-Trust Bill said its purpose was not to destroy trusts, but to make the public believe that trusts would be destroyed.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

Opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska bill was extremely strong in the northern United States.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

The bill provided 700 billion dollars to buy hard-to-value securities from banks.

VOA: special.2009.01.02

Bill Tilghman was shot to death on November first, nineteen twenty-four.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

The proposal to split them was called the Kansas-Nebraska bill.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

The bill also incorporates a three-strike provision, restricting Internet access to users who download copyrighted material more than twice.

VOA: standard.2009.04.23

President Obama says the energy bill will open the door to a clean-energy economy and a better future for America.

VOA: standard.2009.06.27

Indiana Republican Congressman Mike Pence spoke to a crowd outside the U.S.Capitol that had gathered to rally against the Democratic health-care bill.

VOA: standard.2010.03.16

Senator Reid told reporters on Monday that the bill he plans to send to the Senate floor will include a government-run plan.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

The measure then would have to be reconciled with the House-passed legislation before a final bill is sent to President Obama for his signature.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

Ms.Lee has co-sponsored a bill to lift a travel ban on American visits to Cuba.

VOA: standard.2009.04.07

Rossman points to a string of e-mails from colleagues around the world who call the bill misguided, and see it as an example of California foolishness.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

Bill Hunt,a professor of Biology and Agricultural Engineering at North Carolina State University, has developed an easy-to-use computer model to predict how landscape impacts water pollution.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

The Senate could act on the $91-billion bill to fund the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and provide aid to Pakistan as early as this week.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

Also,like the House bill, nearly all Americans would be required to purchase some form of insurance, while lower-income Americans would receive help from federal government subsidies.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

LeMieux says a Democrat-sponsored plan in the Senate would unfairly burden states like Florida that will have to pay the bill for government health care programs.

VOA: standard.2009.10.10

(SPEAKING) They have come to Washington from across the country in a combative mood with one mission in mind - to stop President Obama's health care bill.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

In the opposition Republican Party's weekly address, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison says the Democrat-sponsored Senate bill would not end government bailouts, and Republicans want to continue negotiating.

VOA: standard.2010.04.24

In an area where manufacturing jobs have disappeared and the unemployment rate has risen above the national average, Mr.Obama called on Congress to pass a new job-creation bill.

VOA: standard.2010.01.22