James Buchanan said...

The practice of making such appointments, whether in a vacation or during the session of Congress, has been constantly f...

It would be a strange anomaly indeed to have created two funds--the one by taxation, confined to the execution of the en...

I transmit, for the consideration of the Senate with a view to ratification, a convention for the adjustment of claims o...

an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene for the transaction of business at the Cap...