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	United States Senate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Senate of the United States of America is one of the two chambers of the Congress of the United States, the other being the House of Representatives.
		Senators serve for six-year terms that are staggered so elections are held for approximately one-third of the seats (a "class") every second year.
		The Senate meets in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. Like the House of Representatives, the Senate meets in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. At one end of the Chamber of the Senate is a dais from which the Presiding Officer (the Vice President or the President pro Tempore) presides.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_Senate (4783 words)

	Majority and Minority Leaders of the United States Senate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Senate Majority and Minority Leaders (also called Floor Leaders) are two United States Senators who are elected by the party conferences that hold the majority and the minority respectively.
		The Majority leader customarily serves as the chief representative and "face" of his or her party in Senate, and sometimes even in all of Congress if the House of Representatives and thus office of Speaker of the House is controlled by the opposition party.
		Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_Senate_Majority_Leader (590 words)

	U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > People > Party Leadership > Majority and Minority Leaders and Party Whips
		The posts of majority and minority leader are not included in the Constitution, as are the president of the Senate (the vice president of the United States) and the president pro tempore.
		Majority leaders seek to balance the needs of senators of both parties to express their views fully on a bill with the pressures to move the bill as quickly as possible toward enactment.
		William Knowland was the youngest majority leader in Senate history, being elected to the position at the age of 45.
	www.senate.gov /artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Majority_Minority_Leaders.htm (1931 words)

	GUIDE TO THE LEGISLATURE
		The leader of the caucus of the majority party is the majority leader, and the leader of the caucus of the minority party is the minority leader.
		In the Senate, the Democrats were in the majority for most of the 1930s, for two years in the late 1950s and from 1973 to 1976.
		When all the senators present in the chamber have voted, the Secretary tallies the votes, announces the outcome, and the votes are recorded in the journal.
	legis.state.sd.us /general/guide.htm (15603 words)

	H-Net Review: Allan G. Bogue on Minority Rights, Majority Rule: Partisanship and the ...
		Legislative minorities are much less able to influence the shape and content of the national policies being developed in the U.S. House of Representatives than in the Senate, where they are sometimes able to affect significantly the nature of the legislation approved.
		Binder maintains that minorities in Congress have typically lost rights when strong majority parties have believed that depriving the minority of legislative prerogatives was a necessary precondition for the attainment of their policy objectives.
		She defines congressional minority rights as "procedural advantages protected from arbitrary change that enable members of the minority party to amend, debate, or obstruct the majority agenda" and a procedural advantage one that gives members or groups of members "preferential access to the legislative process at a particular stage of the game" (p.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=8853890268016 (2112 words)

	Quartz Hill School of Theology
		A free church in a free state is the Christian ideal, and this implies the right of free and unhindered access to God on the part of all men, and the right to form and propagate opinions in the sphere of religion without interference by the civil power.
		All civil states, with their officers of justice, in their respective constitutions and administrations, are proved essentially civil, and therefore not judges, governors, or defenders of the spiritual, or Christian, state and worship.
		The state of the land of Israel, the kings and people thereof, in peace and war, is proved figurative and ceremonial, and no pattern nor precedent for any kingdom or civil state in the world to follow.
	www.theology.edu /journal/volume2/ushistor.htm (4338 words)

	U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > People
		Outstanding former Senate leaders and other distinguished Americans share their insights about the Senate's recent history and long-term practices.
		These lectures were delivered in the Capitol's historic Old Senate Chamber to an audience of current Senators and specially invited guests from the executive branch, the diplomatic corps, the media and private enterprise.
		The Senate's longest-serving majority leader, Mike Mansfield, delivered the first lecture on March 24, 1998.
	www.senate.gov /pagelayout/history/g_three_sections_with_teasers/people.htm (146 words)

	CongressLink: [Congress: The Basics - Leaders] Resources: Vice President of the United States (President of the Senate)
		As is apparent from such examples, the men who served as vice president of the United States varied greatly in their talents and aptitude for the post.
		Congressional leaders and members of Harrison's cabinet who were inclined to challenge Tyler eventually set aside their concerns in the face of the accomplished fact.
		In 1886 the Senate initiated the practice of honoring former vice presidents by acquiring marble busts of those who had held the office, with the expenses paid from the contingent fund of the Senate.
	www.congresslink.org /print_basics_vicepresidents.htm (5341 words)

	The Journal of American History
		The United States Senate Historical Office World Wide Web site provides scholars, students, and lifetime learners with a wealth of useful historical information about the upper house of the United States Congress.
		Available data include a broad range of historical statistics and facts pertaining to the Senate, primary texts (specifically oral history interviews of former senators), and a timeline of the legislative body's history.
		Senators and their staffers should be thrilled about the attractive appearance and ready usability of much of this online resource, and the Senate should be commended for making materials from its history available through one of the six primary links available on the site's front page.
	www.indiana.edu /~jah/issues/reviews/911_wr05.shtml (493 words)

	Politics1 - Guide to American Political Parties
		It appears a few state NLP groups are still functioning as of 2006, with the Ohio NLP remaining the most active one.
		For 2004, former Democratic State Senator Walt Brown of Oregon is the SPUSA Presidential nominee.
		WWP Presidential nominee Monica Moorehead was on the ballot in 12 states in 1996 (29,100 votes - 0.03%) -- and was again the WWP's Presidential nominee in 2000 (ballot status in 4 states - 4,795 votes - 10th place - 0.004%).
	www.politics1.com /parties.htm (9389 words)

	NewsHour Online: The race for Senate majority leadership
		KWAME HOLMAN: As Majority Whip, he is No. 2 in the Republican leadership, and when Bob Dole began spending more and more time campaigning across America, Lott took over many of the Majority Leader's day-to-day duties.
		KWAME HOLMAN: Although Sen. Lott is considered one of the more accessible leaders in Congress, he is denying most media requests to talk about his race to become Majority Leader, including ours, although it's not considered to be much of a race at all.
		KWAME HOLMAN: And having two Senators from Mississippi in the Majority Leader race may not be so much a coincidence as it is politically significant.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/shields&gigot/lott_6-7.html (1281 words)

	Who served?
		Former Senator John Glenn, D-OH (1974-1999) - Served in WWII and Korea; extensive military commendations include the Distinguished Flying Cross on six occasions, and the Air Medal with 18 Clusters.
		Senator Ted Stevens, R-AK, WW II pilot, two Distinguished Flying Crosses, two Air Medals, and the Yuan Hai medal awarded by the Republic of China.
		The Coast Guard is in fact a branch of the United States Armed Forces.
	www.awolbush.com /whoserved.html (2372 words)

	Freedom Alliance -- Discussing the ICC on the BBC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		When his antagonists complained that the United States acted unilaterally and noted that that there were 139 signatories to the Treaty, Gedrich reminded them that only 66 nations -- representing about one-sixth of the world's population -- ratified the Treaty.
		When asked about recent statements by Wisconsin Senator Russell Feingold supporting the global court, Gedrich quickly replied that Feingold's views are in the minority in the U.S. Senate.
		He demonstrated this by explaining that the Senate passed North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms' version of the American Servicemembers' Protection Act this past December by a vote of 78 to 21, with Feingold in the minority.
	www.freedomalliance.org /print_article.php?a_id=141 (305 words)

	“Renewable Energy Legislative Priorities” List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The priorities list includes production and investment tax credits for renewable energy sources, uniform interconnection and net metering standards, fair transmission access, a renewable fuels standard and a renewable electricity standard (aka Renewable Portfolio Standard), and a doubling of funding over the next five years for renewable energy research, development, and deployment activities.
		The text of the groups’ cover letter to the Senate leadership and of the list of legislative priorities follows.
		As the members of the U.S. Senate take up consideration of national energy legislation, we, the undersigned members of the Sustainable Energy Coalition, wanted to share with you our recommendations for what we believe should be renewable energy priorities for the 108th Congress.
	www.earthvision.net /ColdFusion/News_Page1.cfm?NewsID=24668 (581 words)

	Bernard Weiner
		He was impeached but the Senate did not convict, believing, along with the overwhelming majority of the American people, that lying about sex did not constitute a "high crime" against the country or Constitution.
		But while a majority of the public is willing to consider or support making Bush and Cheney accountable for their lies and corruption and incompetency, the weak-kneed politicians simply refuse to even consider a censure resolution, let alone to pass one authorizing impeachment hearings.
		A year later, in 1996, neo-conservative leaders Bill Kristol and Robert Kagan, in their Foreign Affairs article "Towards a Neo-Reaganite Foreign Policy," came right out and said the goal for the U.S. had to be nothing less than "benevolent global hegemony," a euphemism for total U.S. domination, but "benevolently" exercised, of course.
	www.bushwatch.com /weiner.htm (15501 words)

	Committee on Education and the Workforce Home Page
		WASHINGTON, D.C. Republican leaders of the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce today called attention to a new report by the independent Government Accountability Office (GAO) that warns of flaws in the financial oversight structure of the federal Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) program.
		Witnesses Question Administration of Current Guest Worker Programs, Describe Key Provision of Senate Guest Worker Expansion as 'Troubling'
		Senate and House Education Leaders Introduce Legislation to Give Children Trapped in Under-Performing Schools More Opportunities to Achieve
	edworkforce.house.gov (304 words)

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