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    Forest Park branch, formerly called the Congress branch, successor to the Garfield Park Branch. Immediately west of Racine, the Forest Park branch tracks diverge...
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    Congress the exclusive power to appropriate funds, and this power of the purse is one of Congress's primary checks on the executive branch. Congress can...
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    the legislative branch of the government of Honduras. The Congress of Mexico (Spanish: Congreso de la Unión) is the legislative branch of Mexican government...
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    them. The Congress branch contained stations designed to replace those on the Garfield Line. Both the Dearborn Street Subway and Congress branch are parts...
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    O'Hare branch station) Harlem (CTA Green Line station) "CTA to Open New Congress Right of Way". Chicago Daily Tribune. March 20, 1960. p. W3. "Congress CTA...
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    however, all stations on the Congress branch west of Racine station were A stations; B trains would run along the Douglas branch (part of today's Pink Line)...
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    of three distinct branches: legislative, executive, and judicial, whose powers are vested by the U.S. Constitution in the Congress, the president, and...
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  • executive branch departments and administrative agencies; and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure of the federal courts. Acts of Congress are published...
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    Necessity of Taking Up Arms and the Olive Branch Petition. All 13 colonies were represented by the time the Congress adopted the Lee Resolution, which declared...
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    Expressway and a new branch line along the median. The new California station opened on June 22, 1958, on the newly-built Congress branch. Unlike its elevated...
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    had a place in the Library of Congress. He remarked: I do not know that it contains any branch of science which Congress would wish to exclude from their...
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    routed on the Congress branch while "B" trains were sent to the Douglas branch. On the North-South Line, "A" trains went to the Englewood branch and "B" trains...
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  • White House (executive branch), while another party controls one or both houses of the United States Congress (legislative branch). Divided government is...
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  • on June 22, 1958, when it was replaced by the Congress branch of the Blue Line. The Garfield Park branch divided from the Metropolitan Main Line at the...
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    The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 5, 1775, and signed on July 8 in a final attempt to avoid war between...
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    and it was decided that all stations on the Douglas branch would now be "B" and the Congress branch would now be "A". In 1973, due to budget cuts, the...
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    The Congress of Deputies (Spanish: Congreso de los Diputados) is the lower house of the Cortes Generales, Spain's legislative branch, the upper house being...
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    broke out in Massachusetts. Soon after meeting, the Second Congress sent the Olive Branch Petition to King George III, established the Continental Army...
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    The 119th United States Congress is the next meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate...
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    The Congress Branch of the CTA Blue Line has stations from LaSalle Drive to Forest Park Transit Center under, in the median or next to Congress Parkway...
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    Loop neighborhood of the larger Near West Side community area. The Congress Branch of the Blue line opened in June 1958, and connected to the existing...
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    The National Congress (Spanish: Congreso Nacional) is the legislative branch of the government of Honduras. The Honduran Congress is a unicameral legislature...
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    Paraguay's bicameral Congress (Congreso) consists of a 45-member Senate and an 80-member Chamber of Deputies. It serves as the legislative branch of the Paraguayan...
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    Lawrence O'Bryan Branch (November 28, 1820 – September 17, 1862) was a North Carolina representative in the U.S. Congress and a Confederate brigadier general...
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  • Union functioned as its legislative branch until its dissolution in 1936. Its initial full name was the "Congress of Soviets of Workers', Soldiers' and...
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    Fathers expected the Congress, which was the first branch of government described in the Constitution, to be the dominant branch of government; however...
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    Congressional Record The 115th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States of America federal government, composed...
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  • The Thanks of Congress is a series of formal resolutions passed by the United States Congress originally to extend the government's formal thanks for...
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    the United States (VPOTUS) is the second-highest officer in the executive branch of the U.S. federal government, after the president of the United States...
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    the southern branch of the tunnel was extended under Congress Parkway, past its former terminus at LaSalle, to connect to the Congress Branch in the median...
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