On May 26, 1836, during the 24th Congress (1835–1837), the U.S. House of Representatives instituted the “gag rule,” the first instance of what would become a traditional practice forbidding the House from considering anti-slavery petitions on September 28, 2018
Melissa Rogers, a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and former Obama administration official, will give the Ensign Lecture at Yale Divinity School on Thursday, October 18. on September 28, 2018