Clay especially wanted approval of a bill to give the different states money from the sale of public land.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

For about a month, the proposed bill seemed to have the support of the administration of President Zachary Taylor.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

That same year, Polk was able to get Congress to approve a bill that greatly reduced the taxes on imports.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

Mother set off with some of the children to look for Bill, but they could find no sign of him.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

The Senate must also act. The president wants to sign a bill into law by the end of the year.

VOA: special.2009.05.15

The bill seemed to curl up as if it had been rolled and stuck into the end of a gun barrel.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

The Whigs were angry. Still, they did not have enough votes to pass the bill over the president's veto.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

At the heart of the two thousand three hundred pages in the bill are promises to protect average Americans.

VOA: special.2010.07.23

"Finally,because of this law, the American people will never again be asked to foot the bill for Wall Street's mistakes.

VOA: special.2010.07.23

Stephen Douglas united other Democrats and members of the anti-slavery Republican Party to fight against the bill in the Senate.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

The mother has to save Bill from getting punished and,in the process, she teaches her husband a lesson.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

As we reported in our last program, slavery supporters failed to push through Congress a bill to make Kansas a slave state.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

A bill to place new restrictions on the credit card industry in the United States won final approval this week in Congress.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

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

VOA: special.2009.04.23