The Los Angeles City Council is close to becoming an Old Boys Club again. Once Janice Hahn takes the oath of office for Congress this week, Jan Perry becomes the last woman on the council.
[Helen Gahagan Douglas] found a more meaningful role as a plucky politician who defied McCarthyism and broke the gender barrier. A celebrity Democrat, she cleared the path to Washington for Republicans Ronald Reagan, George Murphy, Shirley Temple Black and Sonny Bono. "To be the first Hollywood personality making a foray into national politics was daring," writes [Sally Denton]. "To be the first female movie star to do so was audacious." Audacious and vivacious, Douglas was one of nine women in Congress when she took her oath of office in 1945, almost 40 years before Barbara Boxer, Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters and Dianne Feinstein. In 1950, she became the first woman in California history to run for the U.S. Senate. She was defeated by a hungry young congressman named Richard Nixon in a ...
... of the clause as applied to acts of Congress. By his vigorous opinions in McCulloch v. Marylan...
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - Leonel Fernandez was sworn in as the Dominican Republic's president Monday, returning to power after four years out of office to lead a nation struggling through its worst economic crisis in decades. Fernandez, a 50-year-old lawyer and author who spent much of his youth in New York City, took the oath of office in Congress before hundreds of people.
... for Use of Military Force (AUMF), Congress empowered the President "to use all necessary and ... remedial powers to secure the historic office of the writ, and included saving clauses to preser... Members of Congress, in accord with their oath of office, considered the constitutional issue and...
A member of the Pittsburgh family that owns the Steelers will take the oath of office in Congress today. Tom Rooney, 39, of Tequesta, Fla., a Republican elected to represent Florida's 16th Congressional District, is the first Rooney to hold elected office. He is the grandson of Steelers founder Art Rooney.
BRASILIA, Brazil -- Brazil's first working-class president was sworn in Monday to a second term, renewing his pledges to boost the nation's lackluster economy and ease the deep divide between a rich elite and millions living in misery. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took the oath of office in Congress after riding to the ceremony in a classic Rolls-Royce convertible, according to inaugural protocol, but insisted he has not lost sight of his roots as the son of a dirt-poor farmer from Brazil's impoverished northeast.
Congress, the president and other appointed government officials take an oath of office to uphold the Constitution. Unfortunately, it seems that to some of those people, enforcement of laws is a pick- and-choose situation. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. didn't pursue the New Black Panther Party for voter intimidation. And Mr. Holder still refuses to enforce the Defense of Marriage Act passed by Congress. Yet he sued Arizona for passing a law to adhere to federal law regarding illegal aliens. He doesn't sue states that violate the federal law by establishing sanctuary cities that protect illegal aliens.
The House last week took about seven hours out of its customary August recess to come back and pass the $26 billion union bailout bill. The unusual session confirmed the well-known principle that the republic is most imperiled while Congress is in town. That's why Rep. Tom Price, Georgia Republican, is on the right track with his resolution that would restrain federal lawmakers from meeting after the November elections until the new representatives take the oath of office in January. Election-year lame-duck sessions of Congress have plagued the nation for generations. Eighty years ago, the St. Louis Post- Dispatch complained about such meetings, saying, "Here will assemble all manner of members, to make laws for voters who have repudiated them and all their works." A similar concern mot...
MEXICO CITY -- President Felipe Calderon had to outsmart legislative opponents just to physically enter Congress and take the oath of office after last year's razor-close election. Now, 100 days later, he's flying high in the polls and doing surprisingly well even with those who say the vote was fraudulent. Recent polls by Mexico's largest national newspapers, Reforma and El Universal, both put Calderon's approval rating at 58 percent. That's not bad for a candidate who barely garnered 35 percent of the vote and won by just half a percentage point.
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