Human DNA carries the information that decides our heredity, the characteristics passed on to us by our ancestors.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

But the buildings at Guadalupe continued to be used by soldiers and others who passed that way.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

The United States did not vote on the cease-fire resolution passed Thursday by the Security Council.

VOA: special.2009.01.10

For example, the United States Constitution gives the president power to veto bills passed by Congress.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

By early October,Congress passed the Troubled Asset Relief Program, a rescue plan for the financial system.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

The law,passed by Congress, does not prevent gays and lesbians from serving in the military.

VOA: special.2010.02.06

It was better protected from Indian attacks because it passed by two Army forts.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

The report led Republicans to say the recovery plan passed by Democrats is failing.

VOA: special.2009.07.10

But on Wednesday, thirteen Republicans supported a jobs bill passed by the Senate.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

President Obama wants a final bill passed by the end of the year.

VOA: special.2009.11.13

The newact passed by Congress is named for two victimsof hate crimes.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

The bill was passed by close votes in the House and Senate.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

As time passed, the area filled with material left by rivers.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

One day,as crowds passed by, two young men left notes.

VOA: special.2009.05.25

By eighteen eighty-two, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

Liberal Democrats, including Speaker Pelosi, insist that a public option must be part of any bill eventually passed by Congress.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

The bill passed by a margin of 308 to 114, but 102 Democrats and 12 Republicans voted no.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

Israel's new anti-rocket system, called the Iron Dome, has passed final tests and will be deployed near the country's borders by November.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

With those results,he tied and then passed long track speed skater Bonnie Blair for the most Winter Olympics medals won by an American.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

The measure was passed by a narrow 23 to 22 vote with one member not participating.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

Many began to identify themselves as Taino, and they started working to restore their traditions by studying the stories passed down by their grandparents.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

"We need to see this the actual law passed by Congress, this EPCA, Electronic Privacy Communications Act made much more stronger, brought up to date.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

Recently the U.S.House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee passed a non-binding resolution recommending that President Barack Obama recognize the 1915 killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide.

VOA: standard.2010.03.19

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she believes it is essential that a government-sponsored public option be part of any bill, if it is to be passed by the House.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09