The 65th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C., from March 4, 1917, to March 4, 1919, during the fifth and sixth years of Woodrow Wilson's presidency. The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the 1910 United States census. The Senate maintained a Democratic majority. In the House, the Republicans had actually won a plurality, but as the Progressives and Socialist Representative Meyer London caucused with the Democrats, this gave them the operational majority of the nearly evenly divided chamber, thus giving the Democrats full control of Congress, and along with President Wilson maintaining an overall federal government trifecta. Major events March 4, 1917: Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman member of the United States House of Representatives. March 8, 1917: The United States Senate adopted the cloture rule to limit filibusters. April 2, 1917: World War I: President Woodrow Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany. March 4, 1918: A soldier at Camp Funston, Kansas, fell sick with the first confirmed case of the Spanish flu. Major legislation April 6, 1917: Declaration of war against Germany, Sess. 1 ch. 1, April 24, 1917: First Liberty Bond Act, Sess. 1, ch. 4, May 12, 1917: Enemy Vessel Confiscation Joint Resolution, , May 12, 1917: First Army Appropriations Act of 1917, May 18, 1917: Selective Service Act of 1917, Sess. 1, ch. 15, May 29, 1917: Esch Car Service Act of 1917, Sess. 1, ch. 23, June 15, 1917: Emergency Shipping Fund Act of 1917, c. 29, June 15, 1917: Second Army Appropriations Act of 1917, June 15, 1917: Espionage Act of 1917, Sess. 1, ch. 30, (incl. title XI: Search Warrant Act of 1917) July 24, 1917: Aviation Act of 1917, ch. 40, August 8, 1917: River and Harbor Act of 1917, Sess. 1, ch. 49, August 10, 1917: Priority of Shipments Act of 1917 (Obstruction of Interstate Commerce Act of 1917), Sess. 1, ch. 51, August 10, 1917: Food and Fuel Control Act (Lever Act), Sess. 1, ch. 53, October 1, 1917: Second Liberty Bond Act, Sess. 1, ch. 56, October 1, 1917: Aircraft Board Act of 1917, Sess. 1, ch. 61, October 3, 1917: War Revenue Act of 1917,