Senate

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• SOURCE: Roll Call
  8/21/19
  

  Senate Historian Daniel S. Holt Featured on Political Theatre Podcast

  Holt discusses duels, bathtubs and other Senate mysteries.

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• SOURCE: OUPBlog
  6/14/19
  

  The impeachment illusion

  by Donald A. Ritchie

  What is clear from the record is that politically-motivated impeachments fail. Only in cases where malfeasance has become overwhelmingly obvious to members of both parties in the House will there be any chance of conviction in the Senate, raising the question: is a losing effort worth the trouble?

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• SOURCE: Think Progress
  6/10/19
  

  Missouri senator says it’s a waste of time to study history because it was a long time ago

  Sen. Josh Hawley says not to compare Trump's behavior to Nixon's because Watergate was more than 40 years ago.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/17/19
  

  Elizabeth Warren’s historically sound case against the filibuster

  by Julian Zelizer

  The Senate rule has long been used as a weapon against civil rights and other progressive legislation.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  11-13-18
  

  Who Gets the Last Word in a Disputed Senate Race? The Senate.

  That is because the Constitution says that the ultimate arbiter of who gets a Senate seat is the Senate itself — not election officials or the courts.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  10-6-18
  

  The Senate has lost its way

  by Dov Weinryb Grohsgal

  With Sens. Jeff Flake and Susan Collins’s decision to vote for Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh on Friday, ensuring his confirmation, the case of Clement Haynsworth offers another important comparison.

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• 9-18-18
  

  Newsflash: The US Senate Has Passed a Resolution Backing Freedom of the Press

  by Bruce W. Dearstyne

  In this day and age that’s news.

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• 9/15/18
  

  These 15 GOP Senators from the Past Could Show Mitch McConnell and His Colleagues How to Do the Job

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  The list includes liberals, conservatives and moderates.

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• 9/9/18
  

  The Senate’s Incomplete Hall of Fame

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  Three portraits should be added to the room the Senate uses to honor great members: John McCain, George Norris, and Ted Kennedy

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• SOURCE: FiveThirtyEight
  1-10-18
  

  Are Democrats’ Senate Chances In 2018 Overrated?

  by Nate Silver

  It may be the worst Senate map that any party has faced ever.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  12-12-17
  

  Secrecy in the Senate

  by Katlyn Marie Carter

  To the framers, working in secret was meant to deliver enlightened legislation.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  12-7-17
  

  How many senators have resigned their seat?

  It’s more than you’d think.

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• 12-7-17
  

  Can a 1903 Supreme Court Case Put Roy Moore in the Senate?

  by David Hosansky

  The case, Giles v. Harris, upheld Alabama’s successful campaign to prevent African Americans from casting ballots despite the constitutional guarantee of the right for black people to vote.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  11-15-17
  

  It’s been 155 years since the Senate expelled a member. Will Roy Moore break the streak?

  by Michael Todd Landis

  The senator they expelled? A proslavery Democrat who recognized Jefferson Davis as the legitimate president of the Confederacy.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  7-12-17
  

  The Senate's August Recess Is Delayed. That Break Exists for a Reason.

  Congress has long seen August as an ideal month for housekeeping in members' districts, and for a simple reason: It's too darn hot.

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• SOURCE: The Los Angeles Times
  6-16-17
  

  Republican secrecy faces mounting criticism as GOP senators work behind closed doors to replace Obamacare

  The GOP’s secretive process marks a sharp departure from the traditional way the Senate has developed large, complex bills.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  5-13-17
  

  Believe it or not, Senate’s Russia investigation is moving faster than its Watergate counterpart 44 years ago

  If it doesn’t seem that way, that’s got more to do with the insatiable appetites of social media and cable news than with reality.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  12-20-16
  

  Can Republican senators get to 60 seats in 2018?

  by Stuart Rothenberg

  A net change of eight seats would be large by historical standards but not unprecedented.

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• 10-31-16
  

  Can the Senate Shrink the Supreme Court?

  by Ray Raphael

  Here’s what the Constitution says.

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• 2-7-16
  

  A Close Observer of Congress Reports that Senators of Both Parties Still Cooperate

  by Donald Ritchie

  A surprising amount of business, both small and large, is done with unanimous consent, meaning without any dissent, says a former Senate historian.