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 | | LEE-SCHAKOWSKY AMENDMENT TO PREVENT PERMANENT U.S. (March 16, 2006) WASHINGTON, DC- U.S. An amendment to the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act sponsored by U.S. Representatives Jan Schakowsky and Barbara Lee, founding members of the Out-of-Iraq Caucus, today passed the House of Representatives. | | | Her election marks a turning point for Liberia, a long-time ally of the United States, which has recently been debilitated by war, corruption, and civil strife. | | | (February 16, 2006) WASHINGTON, DC- U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky will join House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and other Members of Congress on an official Congressional delegation trip to Africa, leaving tonight and returning on Feb. 24. |
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| | All Liberia Coalition Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The party won 3 of 64 seats in the House of Representatives and 2 of 26 in the Senate. | | | The party won one seat in the Senate and two in the House of Representatives. | | | The All Liberia Coalition Party (ALCOP) is a political party in Liberia. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Liberia_Coalition_Party
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| | Stories from Liberia: Field Officer Reflects on Election Prep in a War-Torn Land |
| | The electoral reform law passed in December mandated each county have at least two seats in the House of Representatives, but left vague whether a county would receive those up front, or only if it otherwise wouldn't have earned them by virtue of population. | | | As in the United States, Liberia's Senate represents the country's subdivisions equally, but a county earns seats in the lower chamber according to its proportion of registered voters, a proxy for population in a country that hasn't done a census in more than 20 years. | | | Liberia's destroyed infrastructure, pervasive poverty, 85 percent illiteracy rate, and bitter electoral history are compounding the challenges of providing civic education and making technical arrangements for the election process. |
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http://www.cartercenter.org/doc2140.htm
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| | Stories from Liberia: Field Officer Reflects on Election Prep in a War-Torn Land |
| | The electoral reform law passed in December mandated each county have at least two seats in the House of Representatives, but left vague whether a county would receive those up front, or only if it otherwise wouldn't have earned them by virtue of population. | | | As in the United States, Liberia's Senate represents the country's subdivisions equally, but a county earns seats in the lower chamber according to its proportion of registered voters, a proxy for population in a country that hasn't done a census in more than 20 years. | | | Liberia's destroyed infrastructure, pervasive poverty, 85 percent illiteracy rate, and bitter electoral history are compounding the challenges of providing civic education and making technical arrangements for the election process. |
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http://www.cartercenter.org/doc2140.htm
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| | Elections in Liberia |
| | The House of Representatives has 64 members, elected for a six year term in single seat constituencies. | | | Freedom House rated the country on political rights with a 6 and on civil rights with a 6, both on a scale of 1 to 7 (in which 1 is the most free). | | | Liberia has a population of around 3,3 million on 96,320 km². |
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http://www.electionworld.org/liberia.htm
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| | Liberia |
| | The fifth American president, James Monroe, once served as president of the ACS and so was Henry Clay, a one-time Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. | | | President William Tolbert was inaugurated the 10th president of Liberia in 1972. | | | Liberia is located on the southern part of the west coast of Africa. |
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http://us-africa.tripod.com/liberia.html
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| | Liberia Profile: Government |
| | Senate - percent of vote by party - NA%; seats by party - NPP 21, UP 3, ALCOP 2; House of Representatives- percent of vote by party - NA%; seats by party - NPP 49, UP 7, ALCOP 3, Alliance of Political Parties 2, UPP 2, LPP 1 | | | Senate - last held 19 July 1997 (next to be held NA 2006); House of Representatives- last held 19 July 1997 (next to be held 14 October 2003) |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/country/li/Government
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| | Liberia |
| | The fifth American president, James Monroe, once served as president of the ACS and so was Henry Clay, a one-time Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. | | | President William Tolbert was inaugurated the 10th president of Liberia in 1972. | | | However, Liberias growth rates of 6% in the 1960s and 4% in the 1970s, "characterized as growth without development" had relatively little impact on the overwhelming majority of Liberians, and mainly benefited a small urban elite. |
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http://us-africa.tripod.com/liberia.html
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| | UGA African American Studies |
| | In 1978 she was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives, where she was voted Best Legislator each of the ten years she served. | | | Born in Baltimore County, Maryland, Banneker was the child of a free black father. | | | Self taught in the fields of astronomy and surveying, he assisted in the survey of the Federal Territory of 1791 and calculated ephemerides and made eclipse projections for Benjamin Banneker's Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia Almanack and Epheremis, published during the years 1792-1797. |
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http://www.uga.edu/iaas/History.html
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| | July 1997 |
| | Taylor's National Patriotic Party wins 21 of 26 seats in the Senate and 49 of 64 seats in the House of Representatives. | | | Mexico: In parliamentary elections, the Institutional Revolutionary Party wins 38.9% of the vote (239 seats), the National Action Party 27% (121), the Party of the Democratic Revolution 25.6% (125), the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico 3.9% (8), and the Workers Party 2.6% (7). | | | Guntars Krasts of the Fatherland and Freedom Party is chosen as new prime minister. |
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http://www.rulers.org/1997-07.html
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| | He served as Speaker of the House of Representatives; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; and President of Liberia from 1870-1871. | | | Ambassador Padmore was appointed Assistant Secreatry of State of Liberia in 1951; in 1955, he served as Acting Secretary of State, when Secretary of State Gabriel L. Dennis Died; and he served as Liberia's Ambassador to the United States from 1956 to 1961. | | | Liberia's strategic location and its rich supply of natural resources were so important for the war effort, that President Roosevelt seriously considered sending Harry Hopkins, one of his closest advisors, to represent the United States in Liberia. |
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http://pages.prodigy.net/jkess3/History.html
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| | Liberia |
| | There were 16 opposition parties, most of which had little popular support outside of the capital, and opposition legislators, who held only one-quarter of the seats in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, generally were more passive than members of the ruling NPP. | | | The 1997 legislative and presidential elections were held under a special election law in accordance with the terms of the Abuja Peace Process. | | | Liberia, with a population of approximately 3,164,000, is a very poor country with a market-based economy that has yet to recover from the ravages of the civil war. |
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http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/af/8388.htm
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| | Politics of Liberia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Legislative branch: bicameral National Assembly consists of the Senate (26 seats; members elected by popular vote to serve nine-year terms) and the House of Representatives (64 seats; members elected by popular vote to serve six-year terms) | | | National Democratic Party of Liberia (NDPL) was declared winner. | | | Liberia is still trying to recover from the ravages of war. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Liberia
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| | United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) |
| | On 11 October 2005, nation-wide elections will be held in Liberia for the offices of the President and the Vice-President, the Senate, and the House of Representatives. | | | The parties to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed in Accra in August 2003 were motivated by concerns about the years of civil war and the suffering of the population, and by the desire of the Liberian people for genuine lasting peace, national unity and reconciliation. | | | The NEC was inaugurated on 29 April 2004 and is the exclusive electoral authority responsible for the organization and conduct of the elections. |
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http://www.unmil.org/content.asp?cat=elections
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| | Liberia 4 |
| | Charles Taylor was elected President and his National Patriotic Party (NPP) gained 21 of the 26 seats in the Senate and 49 of the 64 in the House of Representatives. | | | Liberia was founded by freed black slaves from the southern states of the US who were settled on the Grain Coast under the auspices of the American Colonization Society in the early part of the nineteenth century. | | | The Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) are believed to have been responsible for the massacre of over 1,000 civilians in two separate instances: St Peter's Lutheran Church in Monrovia in July 1990 and Harbel Plantation in June 1993. |
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http://www.asylumlaw.org/docs/liberia/ind99b_liberia_ca.htm
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| | Liberia 4 |
| | Charles Taylor was elected President and his National Patriotic Party (NPP) gained 21 of the 26 seats in the Senate and 49 of the 64 in the House of Representatives. | | | Liberia was founded by freed black slaves from the southern states of the US who were settled on the Grain Coast under the auspices of the American Colonization Society in the early part of the nineteenth century. | | | The Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) are believed to have been responsible for the massacre of over 1,000 civilians in two separate instances: St Peter's Lutheran Church in Monrovia in July 1990 and Harbel Plantation in June 1993. |
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http://www.asylumlaw.org/docs/liberia/ind99b_liberia_ca.htm
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| | Liberia 4 |
| | Charles Taylor was elected President and his National Patriotic Party (NPP) gained 21 of the 26 seats in the Senate and 49 of the 64 in the House of Representatives. | | | Liberia was founded by freed black slaves from the southern states of the US who were settled on the Grain Coast under the auspices of the American Colonization Society in the early part of the nineteenth century. | | | The Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) are believed to have been responsible for the massacre of over 1,000 civilians in two separate instances: St Peter's Lutheran Church in Monrovia in July 1990 and Harbel Plantation in June 1993. |
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http://www.asylumlaw.org/docs/liberia/ind99b_liberia_ca.htm
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| | OTAL - Liberia |
| | The House of Representatives has 64 members, elected for a six year term in single seat constituencies. | | | Charles Taylor was born in Liberia in 1948 to a Liberian mother and an American father. | | | There is relative stability in Liberia at the moment. |
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http://www.otal.com/liberia/liberiaministry.htm
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| | Politics of Liberia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Liberia has a bicameral National Assembly that consists of the Senate (30 seats; members elected by popular vote to serve nine-year terms) and the House of Representatives (64 seats; members elected by popular vote to serve six-year terms) | | | Politics of Liberia takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President is the head of state and head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system. | | | From 1980 to 2003, Liberia was governed by a series of military and transitional governments. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Liberia
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| | ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Liberia: Elections set for 11 October |
| | Besides electing a new president, who is due to take power in January 2006, voters will also choose 30 senators - two for each of Liberia's 15 counties - and a new House of Representatives. | | | The Liberian constitution stipulates that such a run-off should be held two weeks after the round of the presidential election. | | | The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) which brokered the 2003 peace agreement between Liberia's three warring factions, has meanwhile reiterated that, under the terms of the peace deal, those who hold high office in the current transitional government will not be eligible to stand for high office in October. |
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http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/KHII-69E3PZ?OpenDocument
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| | CIA - The World Factbook -- Liberia |
| | elections: Senate - last held 19 July 1997 (next to be held 11 October 2005); House of Representatives - last held 19 July 1997 (next to be held 11 October 2005) | | | The United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), which maintains a strong presence throughout the country, completed a disarmament program for former combatants in late 2004, but the security situation is still volatile and the process of rebuilding the social and economic structure of this war-torn country remains sluggish. | | | Civil war and government mismanagement have destroyed much of Liberia's economy, especially the infrastructure in and around Monrovia, while continued international sanctions on diamonds and timber exports will limit growth prospects for the foreseeable future. |
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http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/li.html
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| | He served as Speaker of the House of Representatives; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; and President of Liberia from 1870-1871. | | | Ambassador Padmore was appointed Assistant Secreatry of State of Liberia in 1951; in 1955, he served as Acting Secretary of State, when Secretary of State Gabriel L. Dennis Died; and he served as Liberia's Ambassador to the United States from 1956 to 1961. | | | Liberia's strategic location and its rich supply of natural resources were so important for the war effort, that President Roosevelt seriously considered sending Harry Hopkins, one of his closest advisors, to represent the United States in Liberia. |
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http://pages.prodigy.net/jkess3/History.html
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| | liberia, peacekeeping, congress - FCNL |
| | Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That Congress-- | | | Whereas in 1926 the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company opened a rubber plantation on 400,000 hectares (1,000,000 acres) of land granted by the Liberian Government allowing rubber production to become the mainstay of the Liberian economy and in 1936 the new government of former slaves succeeded in abolishing forced-labor practices on the Firestone plantations; | | | Expressing the sense of Congress with respect to the urgency of providing support for the `Agreement on Ceasefire and Cessation of Hostilities Between the Government of the Republic of Liberia and Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy and the Movement for Democracy of Liberia', and for other purposes. |
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http://www.fcnl.org/issues/int/sup/un_liberia-peacekeeping.htm
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| | 099 Hearings: House Committee Meetings by Date (1986) |
| | LIBERIA Committee on Foreign Affairs: Ordered reported a resolution to be introduced expressing sense of the House of Representatives regarding the furnishing of assistance for the Republic of Liberia. | | | LIBERIA Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations and the Subcommittee on Africa approved for full Committee action a resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the furnishing of assistance for the Republic of Liberia. | | | Testimony was heard from Representatives Barnes, Hoyer, Mikulski, Parris, Reid and Wolf; James W. Morrison, Jr., Associate Director, Compensation Group, Office of Personnel Management; and public witnesses. |
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| | He served as Speaker of the House of Representatives; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; and President of Liberia from 1870-1871. | | | When Edwin J. Barclay, the new President of Liberia, refused to implement measures recommended by the League of Nations (measures that could have compromised the independence of Liberia), the Franklin Roosevelt Administration refused to recognize the new Liberian Government. | | | One of the reasons for this treatment was because he was perceived by both sides of the national-political spectrum as interfering in the political battles between the Republican Party dominated by the mulattos, and the Whigs, controlled by the dark-skinned Liberians. |
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http://pages.prodigy.net/jkess3/History.html
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| | Liberia After Charles Taylor: Prospects for Peace and Security in the West African Sub-Region |
| | Editor's Note: On October 6 - 7, 2003 - Dr. Levi B. Zangai, former Minister of Education presented a paper titled: "Liberia After Charles Taylor: Prospects for Peace and Security in the West African Sub-Region" at the NIIA-Friedrich Ebert Joint Workshop to the House of Representatives’ Foreign Relations Committee. | | | Thus, the attack on Monrovia in April of 1996 was code-named, "Operation pay yourself." It provided the unpaid fighters with incentives to capture and loot Monrovia, as they had done previously in other less-endowed villages, towns and cities. | | | Not only have sub-regional economic development projects and programmes been undermined thereby, but ECOWAS’ efforts towards sub-regional integration, involving the Mano River Union countries, have been hindered by the diversion of limited material and human resources to conflict prevention, management and resolution. |
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http://www.theperspective.org/prospectsforpeace.html
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| | United States Monrovia Liberia Embassy |
| | In collaboration with the United National Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), the European Union (EU), the National Transitional Government of Liberia (NTGL), and other donors, USAID is contributing $10 million toward the preparations and conduct of national elections that will choose Liberia’s president, vice president, the Senate (30 members) and the House of Representatives (64 members). | | | They are both areas that have suffered as a result of longstanding lack of leadership committed to pursuing that which is the interest of the Liberian people. | | | Therefore, the United States has dedicated tens of millions of dollars in resources to rebuild these crucial elements of Liberia’s future (complete text) |
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