• the 1859 McLane-Ocampo Treaty would have given the United States extensive free trade and transit rights across Mexico and the right of military intervention, in exchange for a $4 million loan to the Benito Juarez government then fighting a civil war, but was never ratified by Congress?
• the Union Monument in Perryville is one of only seven monuments in Kentucky dedicated to Union soldiers, and it took an act of Congress to build it?
• a few years after Albert H. Wiggin, President of Chase National Bank, was lauded as a hero for committing bank funds to try to stop the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a Congressional investigation revealed he had secretly helped drive the stock market down in order to reap a multi-million dollar profit for himself by short selling Chase Bank shares?
• Representative Edith Nourse Rogers sponsored the G.I. Bill and the legislation that created the Women's Army Corps before becoming the longest-serving woman in the U.S. Congress?
• Ohio's College Township was given by Congress for the benefit of Miami University?
• Charles Butler McVay III, commander of the USS Indianapolis, was blamed when it was lost at sea in 1945 and only finally exonerated by the United States Congress posthumously in 2000?

Facts on topics related to Congress of the United States

Federal government of the United States

• US-CERT developed the Einstein program that monitors and protects the computer networks of U.S. departments and agencies?
• James B. Longacre's design for the Shield nickel (pictured) symbolizes the strength of the US federal government through the unity of the states?
• Jimmy Fratianno was the highest-ranking member of the Mafia to become an informant for the U.S. government until Sammy Gravano in 1991?
• Philip Elman wrote the U.S. Government's brief in the case of Brown v. Board of Education?
• Robert S. Vance was the third American federal judge to be assassinated as the result of his judicial service?
• after a year as Assistant Secretary to the Treasury under Franklin D. Roosevelt, James H. Douglas, Jr. left the government and founded a committee opposing Roosevelt's monetary policies?
• although the damages by Hurricane Dennis in Mississippi in 2002 were mostly minor, 41 counties in the state were declared federal disaster areas?
• in 1918, the National Federation of Federal Employees became the first labor union in the United States to win the legal right to represent federal employees?
• the 2004 Dean v. Utica U.S. federal case expanded the First Amendment rights of high school journalists, which had been limited by the Supreme Court's 1988 Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier ruling?
• the U.S. Federal Government's largest provider of HIV/AIDS services, the Ryan White Care Act, is named after Ryan White, a teenager who was expelled from his Indiana middle school in 1985 for having AIDS?