On May 10th in US Political History
Part XI
On May 10th in 2007 The Democratic-controlled House, by a vote of 255-171, defeated legislation to require the withdrawal of US combat troops from Iraq within nine months.
On May 10th in 2007 A US federal jury in Santa Ana, Ca., convicted Chi Mak, a China-born engineer, of passing submarine data to Beijing. Mak was later sentenced to 24 1/2 years in federal prison.
On May 10th in 2007 In Virginia the maker of the powerful painkiller OxyContin and three of its current and former executives pleaded guilty to misleading the public about the drug's risk of addiction.
On May 10th in 2010 President Barack Obama nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan (50) to the Supreme Court, pushing the former law school dean toward the pinnacle of her profession and positioning the United States to have three women justices for the first time in its history.
On May 10th in 2010 Afghan President Hamid Karzai arrived in Washington, seeking to show a united front with the United States during a pivotal time in the nine-year war.
On May 10th in 2012 Former Republican presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann renounced her Swiss citizenship just a day after she confirmed that she had filed papers for it. The Minnesota Representative said on her website that she decided to relinquish her dual citizenship to show her full loyalty to the United States. Bachmann obtained the right to become a Swiss citizen in 1978, when she married Marcus Bachmann, who is himself a dual US-Swiss citizen.
On May 10th in 2007 A US federal jury in Santa Ana, Ca., convicted Chi Mak, a China-born engineer, of passing submarine data to Beijing. Mak was later sentenced to 24 1/2 years in federal prison.
On May 10th in 2007 In Virginia the maker of the powerful painkiller OxyContin and three of its current and former executives pleaded guilty to misleading the public about the drug's risk of addiction.
On May 10th in 2010 President Barack Obama nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan (50) to the Supreme Court, pushing the former law school dean toward the pinnacle of her profession and positioning the United States to have three women justices for the first time in its history.
On May 10th in 2010 Afghan President Hamid Karzai arrived in Washington, seeking to show a united front with the United States during a pivotal time in the nine-year war.
On May 10th in 2012 Former Republican presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann renounced her Swiss citizenship just a day after she confirmed that she had filed papers for it. The Minnesota Representative said on her website that she decided to relinquish her dual citizenship to show her full loyalty to the United States. Bachmann obtained the right to become a Swiss citizen in 1978, when she married Marcus Bachmann, who is himself a dual US-Swiss citizen.
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