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in the Congress vs at the Congress

Both 'in the congress' and 'at the congress' are correct, but they are used in different contexts. 'In the congress' is used when referring to someone being a member of the legislative body, while 'at the congress' is used when referring to someone attending a meeting or gathering of people.

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in the Congress

This phrase is correct when referring to someone being a member of the legislative body.

Use 'in the congress' when talking about someone who is a member of the legislative body, such as a senator or representative.

Examples:

  • She works in the congress as a senator.
  • He has been serving in the congress for ten years.
  • Let me at this point appeal to our American colleagues in the Congress and the Senate.
  • We were able to fulfil part of our delegation duties, we met members of the Committee on Foreign Affairs in the Congress and had some very useful, although very sad discussions with them.
  • You did not invite us to the start of the Spanish Presidency, and you summed up in the Congress before here.
  • Finance spokesperson for the Partido Popular on the Committee on the Economy and Finance in the Congress of Deputies.
  • If we were to raise interest rates at a meeting, and someone in the Congress didn't like that, and said, "I want the GAO to audit that decision,"
  • On Friday afternoon and Saturday morning last, I was invited to take part, and duly did so, in the Congress of the Transnational Radical Party in Geneva. Moreover, I have also applied to join this party and been accepted as a member.
  • However, a new draft law was introduced in the Congress on 21 May 2015 and it proposes the extension of the three subsidy schemes for the period between 31 December 2014 and 31 December 2016 [18].
  • Something our friends in the congress will debate.
  • In a country which had just gone through this wrenching crisis, the vote in the congress in favor of this constitutional amendment was 124 to one.
  • His job is to speak as often as possible of the nation's desire for peace while he acts as a business agent in the Congress for the military and their contractors.
  • As to whether the mood in the Congress permits a solution which would enable the requisite amendment to the legislation to amend Title 4, I cannot answer that either.
  • Some weeks ago a number of us had the opportunity to visit Washington and to speak not only with under-secretaries at the State Department but also with our counterparts in the Congress, the Senate and various scientific institutions.
  • "Fight in the Congress", she say, "fight in London, "fight in France, fight here, fight there.
  • The sympathy vote in the congress will give your anti-gun bills... passage by a landslide.
  • Guatemala is a presidential republic, in which legislative power is vested in the Congress.
  • Obama operatives in the Congress have introduced more than 10 bills that would end the Second Amendment as we know it.
  • Is something... something our friends in the Congress will I will be very surprised if they will countenance an attack on slavery.
  • What you never understood in the congress...
  • But if they decide to talk about Europe today as they were in the Congress of Vienna two centuries ago, then there is nothing to do.
  • NSA Director, Raymond Burke, annouced spoken alphabetically upgrade... was not available in the Congress... and we were getting breaking news now out of Bangkok, Thailand.

Alternatives:

  • in Congress
  • in the legislative body
  • as a member of the congress
  • as a congressman
  • as a congresswoman

at the Congress

This phrase is correct when referring to someone attending a meeting or gathering of people.

Use 'at the congress' when talking about someone attending a meeting or gathering of people, such as a conference or convention.

Examples:

  • She will be presenting at the congress next week.
  • He is a keynote speaker at the congress.
  • As a result, the two parties will be given the status of PPE-DE observer members at the Congress to be held in Rome next week.
  • It was 1815, I was at the Congress of Vienna.
  • having regard to the Madrid Declaration Non-discrimination plus positive action results in social inclusion adopted by 600 representatives of disabled people's organisations from all over Europe at the Congress held by the Spanish Presidency of the European Union,
  • having regard to the Madrid Declaration 'Non-discrimination plus positive action results in social inclusion' adopted by 600 representatives of disabled people's organisations from all over Europe at the Congress held by the Spanish Presidency of the European Union,
  • Herr Beethoven proposes that he write a grand oratorio... praising Austria and your magnificent diplomacy... at the Congress of Vienna... that has secured the peace for all of Europe.
  • I would like to remind you that the first time that the declaration of rights was discussed was at the Congress of Europe in The Hague in 1948, and that was the origin of the European Convention on Human Rights of the Council of Europe.
  • The fanciful notion was taken up again in 1948, at the Congress of Europe held in The Hague, and then by Winston Churchill in 1950, following the failure of the European Defence Community, which was one of his dreams.
  • Calls on the Belarusian authorities to recognise the Union of Poles in Belarus led by Angelika Borys, who was re-elected as its Chair at the Congress of the Union of Poles on 15 March 2009;
  • Calls on the Belarussian authorities to recognise the Union of Poles led by Angelika Borys, who was re-elected as its Chairwoman at the Congress of the Union of Poles on 15 March 2009;
  • And at the congress, the Mensheviks were "singing".
  • They have a seat at the congress, and Escher got them there.
  • In August, the President of this Parliament participated at the congress of the German Landsmannschaft.
  • At the congress, we heard someone say these were farmers' funds.
  • In the nineteenth century, better prospects were held out for all the Balkan nations at the Congress of Berlin in 1878.
  • While I was there, I listened very carefully to the Chechen Foreign Minister, Ilyas Akhmadov, who, like myself was a guest at the Congress too.
  • Bernard Wojciechowski, who criticised the President's participation at the congress of the German Landsmannschaft,
  • During the final meeting at the congress, I stated 'We should conclude that instead of common ambitions, it is only problems that are uniting Europe at the moment'.
  • Since we are talking about Turkey, however, I should like to point out that a Member of Parliament from my group, Mrs Uca, was representing my group until yesterday at the congress of one of Turkey's Kurdish parties, HADEP.
  • Only two Member States were present at the Congress of the LTDH.
  • Speech by Jean-Claude Trichet, President of the ECB, at the Congress on Small-sized Enterprises, organized by Confindustria, Bari, Italy, 18 March 2005.

Alternatives:

  • at the conference
  • at the convention
  • attending the congress
  • participating in the congress
  • presenting at the congress

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