The CCMA appeared in front of the Portfolio Committee yesterday to close the ... The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee for Labour has thanked the Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) for standing up for good governance and not allowing the abuse of state resources.
Fell in love with Mexico almost to the point of obsession ;). Texas had already seceded from Mexico during the Texas Revolution (1835-1836), but it became part of the US when it was admitted to the Union in 1845.
The citizens of the independent Republic of Texas elected Sam Houston president but also endorsed the entrance of Texas into the Union. The likelihood of Texas joining the Union as a slave state delayed any formal action by the U.S. Congress for more than a decade. In 1844, Congress finally agreed to annex the territory of Texas. On December 29, 1845, Texas entered the United States as a slave state, broadening the irrepressible differences in the United States over the issue of slavery and setting off the Mexican-American War.