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According to this page, 298 Senators have died in office (it does not include the last member to die, who died in 2010. I included him in the previously stated number).
According to this page, 815 House Representatives have died in office (it does not include the last three members to die in office. I included them in the previously stated number).
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There are several types of repeals.
First, there are partial repeals where a poorly crafted portion of a law causes problems. For example, the onerous 1099 reporting section of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) was repealed. The rest of the law remains intact so far but that portion was repealed. Another recent example would be ...
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I think the legislatures in many countries have the same structure. A quite distant example is the Supreme Council of the USSR which also had two chambers, the Council of the Union and the Council of the Nationalities. The former was elected by the population at rate of 1 deputy per 300000 people while the later represented the constituent republics.
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There is a provision in the Constitution for the President to propose bills to Congress. From Article II, Section 3 (emphasis mine):
He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient;
While every President has had the ...
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As far as I understand you can use Food and Fuel Control Act of August 10, 1917 as a counter-example.
It was an independent public act approved by 65th Congress. (not a list of changes to previous acts)
It was repealed entirely by the Joint Resolution of 66th Congress at March 3, 1921 (with other wartime acts)
Certain sections of Act were amended in ...
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Originally I thought that the fact it said "one or the other Houses of Congress" might have something to do with this, since the House tends to be less able to keep up traditions due to the turnover in Representatives every few years. And I was almost right. Although the date looks to be slightly off, it turns out that:
February 19, 1979
On this ...
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1964 outlawed various forms of discrimation, although what they outlawed were mostly State laws it's hard to say if this is what you are looking for; since you don't make a distinction on what laws Congress has repealed. Most notably, around the same time in 1973 Congress passed the War Powers ...
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I have given in to my weaker loquacious side and allowed this answer to become a tar baby, incorporating many topics that are only tangential to the OP. The summary is that bicameralism is one of many governmental architectures designed to incorporate stakeholders, foster deliberation and slow consensus. Although it was a tool ...
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This quote appears to have been written in 1982. Under normal circumstances, the US's Highway Trust Fund gets all its money from gasoline sales taxes. However, in 1982 the amount hadn't been raised in nearly 30 years. This amount was clearly no longer sufficient, as congress at the end of that year felt the need to essentially double it.
I'm not familiar ...
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What you may be confusing in this case is what is termed the War Powers Act which gives the President latitude to actually engage in military operations for up to 90 days before declaring war or going to Congress. Part of this stems from the face that Vietnam avoided this with the Gulf of Tonkin resolution which then President Lyndon Johnson used to ...
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