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The Senate was organized without interrupition.
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The House and Senate each adopted ta bill.
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The Senioority rule was an unwritten custom.
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The House forbids any members froming holding the floor for more than an hour.
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speakers had power to force any member who strays away from the subject at hand to give the floor
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Woodrow Wilson's first message was that the President has almost presented his annual assessment in person.
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Senator Robert C. Byrd was elected to his first term in the upper house
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The House installed a comuterzied the voting system for all quorum calls and record votes to replace the roll call by claerk.
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Watergate Scandal was starting to unfold and Senator Sam Ervin created the Senate Watergate Committe
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President Richard Nixon resignation from office
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Nancy Pelosi was the first woman to serve as Speaker.
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The Senate's Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition and The House Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran.
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Representative Sherrod Brown does his first opening.
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The House Republicans forged a major change in the seniority rule when they took control of the lower chamber