1 Water Quality Act of 1965 required states to issue water quality standards for interstate waters, and authorized the newly created Federal Water Pollution Control Administration to set standards where states failed to do so.ts objective is to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the nation's waters by preventing point and nonpoint pollution sources, providing assistance to publicly owned treatment works for the improvement of wastewater treatment, and maintaining the integrity of wetlands.
The United States Constitution provides that each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, therefore each Congress of the United States, upon convening, approves its own governing rules of procedure.
House of Representatives. The House may use either of the methods used by the Senate, though roll-call votes are rare. Alternately, the House of Representatives may take a standing division vote or a recorded vote. Generally, the Speaker of the House chooses the voting method, though votes must be by the recorded method if one-fifth of Congress requests it. In a division vote, the ayes and noes are asked to stand.