The Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits any law that increases or decreases the salary of members of Congress from taking effect until after the next election of the House of Representatives has occurred. It is the most recently adopted amendment but was one of the first proposed.
Michael Dennis Rogers is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Alabama's 3rd congressional district since 2003. He is a member of the Republican Party of Alabama. Since 2021,he has served as the Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Committee. From 2019 to 2021,he served as the Ranking Member of the House Homeland Security Committee.
Robert Brown Aderholt is an American politician and attorney serving as the U.S. representative for Alabama's 4th congressional district since 1997. He is a member of the Republican Party. The district includes most of Tuscaloosa County north of the Black Warrior River,as well as Birmingham's far northern suburbs in Walker County and the southern suburbs of Huntsville and Decatur.
Artur Genestre Davis is an American attorney and former politician who served as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives for Alabama's 7th congressional district from 2003 to 2011. He was also a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Alabama in the 2010 election. After losing in the primary,he moved to Virginia and joined the Republican Party. He rejoined the Democratic Party 2015 and 2017 in his two attempts to be elected Mayor of Montgomery,Alabama in the 2015 and 2019 elections,losing both times. He rejoined the Republican Party for one year in 2016.
Sanford Dixon Bishop Jr. is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Georgia's 2nd congressional district,serving since 1993. He became the dean of Georgia's congressional delegation after the death of John Lewis. A member of the Blue Dog Coalition,he belongs to the conservative faction of the Democratic Party. His district is in southwestern Georgia and includes Albany,Thomasville,and most of Columbus and Macon.
Frank Rudolph Wolf is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Virginia's 10th congressional district from 1981 to 2015. A member of the Republican Party,he announced in December 2013 that he would not run for reelection in 2014. Wolf retired at the conclusion of his 17th term in office,in January 2015. At the time of his retirement,he was the dean of the state's congressional delegation,having served for 34 consecutive years.
The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA),enacted in 1976,is the principal federal law in the United States governing the disposal of solid waste and hazardous waste.
Thomas Stephen Foley was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 49th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. A member of the Democratic Party,Foley represented Washington's fifth district for thirty years (1965–1995). He was the first Speaker of the House since Galusha Grow in 1862 to be defeated in a re-election campaign.
Francis William Kellogg was a U.S. Representative from the states of Michigan,during the Civil War,and Alabama,during Reconstruction.
Jack Bascom Brooks was an American Democratic Party politician from the state of Texas who served 42 years in the United States House of Representatives,initially representing Texas's 2nd congressional district from 1953 through 1967,and then,after district boundaries were redrawn in 1966,the 9th district from 1967 to 1995. He had strong political ties to prominent Texas Democrats including Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn and President Lyndon B. Johnson. For over fifteen years,he was the dean of the Texas congressional delegation.
Donald Milford Payne was an American politician who was the U.S. representative for New Jersey's 10th congressional district from 1989 until his death. He was a member of the Democratic Party. The district encompassed most of the city of Newark,parts of Jersey City and Elizabeth,and some suburban communities in Essex and Union counties. He was the first African American to represent New Jersey in Congress.
The 95th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government,composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington,DC from January 3,1977,to January 3,1979,during the final weeks of the administration of U.S. President Gerald Ford and the first two years of the administration of U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
William Levi Dawson was an American politician and lawyer who represented a Chicago,Illinois district for more than 27 years in the United States House of Representatives,serving from 1943 to his death in office in 1970. In 1949,he became the first African American to chair a congressional committee.
Maurice Connolly was elected in 1912 to a single term as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa's 3rd congressional district. After giving up his House seat in an unsuccessful bid for election to the U.S. Senate in 1914,Connolly then served as an aviation officer in World War I and died in a plane crash in 1921.
Herman Carl Andersen was a U.S. Representative from Minnesota.
Thetus Willrette Sims was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 8th congressional district of Tennessee.
Bobby Neal Bright Sr. is an American former lawyer,farmer,and former politician who served as a U.S. Representative and was previously the three term Mayor of Montgomery,Alabama. He served from 2009 to 2011 as the Representative from Alabama's 2nd congressional district. His 2008 campaign ran on the message of "America First". His voting record indicated that he was the most conservative member of the House Democratic Caucus in the 111th Congress. District 2 includes just over half of the state capital,Montgomery,as well as most of the Wiregrass Region in the southeastern part of the state.
Nathan Edward Kendall was an American Republican politician. Kendall was a two-term U.S. Representative from Iowa's 6th congressional district and the 23rd Governor of Iowa.
William Leslie "Bill" Johnson is an American businessman and politician who has been the U.S. representative for Ohio's 6th congressional district since 2011. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Townley is an unincorporated community in Walker County,Alabama,United States. It was formerly an incorporated town from 1895 until the 1920s. Townley has one site on the National Register of Historic Places,Boshell's Mill.
