MPs vet nominee for Auditor-General

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MPs vet nominee for Auditor-General

If MPs approve her appointment, it will end a nine-month wait for a new Auditor-General.

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On February 2, 1955, New York Representative Adam Clayton Powell, then one of only three African Americans in the U.S. Congress, rose to argue that his colleagues should support two pending civil rights bills then before the House of Representatives. His speech appears

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1927

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1964

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House Judiciary Committee opened hearings to decide whether to recommend the impeachment of President Nixon in the Watergate controversy. Two Blacks Rep. John Conyers of Michigan and Rep. Barbara Jordan of Texas were members of the committee.

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1974

Former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Ronald H Brown was born, 1

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1941

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1967

Central Area Civil Rights Committee

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1917

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1965

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1869

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1969

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1967

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1950

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