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  SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - United States Senate
Senators are elected by their state as a whole; if both Senate seats are contested in one election year, the elections will be separate and all voters in the state will cast votes for one candidate in each of the two races.
The list is fairly extensive and includes heads of the federal executive departments and federal agencies, ambassadors, consuls, judges, United States Attorneys (including the Solicitor General), marshals, and commissioned officers in the Regular Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force.
The senator from each state with the longer tenure is known as the "senior senator" and carries some additional responsibilities to their state's constituents; however, this does not necessarily indicate a hierarchy in which the senior senator has direct authority over the junior senator.
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 Finance Choices - Personal Finance Wiki
Senators were selected by the state legislatures, not by the voters, until 1913 with the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
The senator from each state with the longer tenure is known as the "senior senator," and their counterpart is the "junior senator"; this convention, however, does not have any official significance.
United States, although the Senate's advice and consent is required for the appointment of certain executive branch officials, it is not necessary for their removal.
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The Senate is one of the two houses of the Congress of the United States, the other being the House of Representatives.
In the Senate, each state is equally represented by two members regardless of population; as a result, the total membership of the body is 100.
The chamber of the United States Senate is located in the north wing of the Capitol building, in Washington, D.C. The House of Representatives convenes in the south wing of the same building.
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 United States Senate
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.
Senators were selected by the state legislatures, not by the voters, until 1913 with the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
In general, senators are regarded as more important political figures than members of the House of Representatives because there are fewer of them, and because they serve for longer terms, represent larger constituencies (except for House at-large districts, which also comprise entire states), sit on more committees, and have more staffers.
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All authority vested by the constitution or laws of the state in the Senate, House of Representatives, or joint session thereof, in so far as applicable, shall be and hereby is vested in said Legislature of one chamber.
CVII-4 The State Board of Education shall appoint and fix the compensation of the Commissioner of Education, who shall be the executive officer of the State Board of Education and the administrative head of the State Department of Education, and who shall have such powers and duties as the Legislature may direct.
Whenever the state is so redistricted the members elected prior to the redistricting shall continue in office, and the law providing for such redistricting shall where necessary specify the newly established district which they shall represent for the balance of their term.
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 United States Senate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The [[impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton (1999)]] The Senate is the sole body granted with the power to remove from office (following a conviction) federal officials who have been served with Articles of Impeachment by the House of Representatives.
Unlike the United States House of Representatives there are no strict rules regarding the debate, and one strategy used by senators to kill a bill is to filibuster which is to continuously debate the bill, thereby preventing its passage.
Helms reveled in the nickname “Senator No.” Earlier in Senate history, prior to some reorganizations, particularly an important one in the mid-20th century, the number of standing committees was much greater than it is today.
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 United States Congress
It is bicameral, comprising the House of Representatives and the Senate.
House seats are apportioned among the states on the basis of population.
The Senate uses roll call votes; a clerk calls out the names of all the senators, each senator stating "aye" or "no" when his or her name is announced.
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 Category:United States Senators - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This category includes all past and present members of the United States Senate—please see the subcategories below for state-by-state breakdowns.
As of January 4, 2005, there have been 1,884 members of the U.S. Senate, according to the U.S. Senate Historical Office.
Lists of current and former United States Senators, by state
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 United States Senators
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof...
Haynes, The Senate of the United States 79-117 (1938...
Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each state...
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 U.S. Senate: Reference Home > Virtual Reference Desk > Censure
Less severe than expulsion, a censure (sometimes referred to as condemnation or denouncement) does not remove a senator from office.
In 1834, the Senate censured President Andrew Jackson – the first and only time the Senate censured a president.
Senate Censured in Lobbyist Case, November 4, 1829
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 The United States of America Part I
While these attempts to create independent States in the remote regions are now praised as evidences of the organising instinct of the American people, it must not be forgotten that at the time they were formed within the legitimate bounds of regular States and seriously threatened to impair their domains.
The two ordinances were alike in precluding the separation of any part of the territory from the United States, requiring the inhabitants to pay a portion of the national debt, and forbidding new States, to interfere with the sale of or to tax the national public lands within their limits.
United States troops were employed to drive out the “squatters" on the public lands, to burn their cabins, and destroy their crops.
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 United States Senate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Seal of the Senate]] The Senate is one of the two houses of the Congress of the United States, the other being the House of Representatives.
Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress was a unicameral body in which each state was equally represented.
The [[impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton (1999)]] The Senate is the sole body with the power to remove from office (following a conviction) federal officials who have been served with Articles of Impeachment by the House of Representatives.
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 The Political Graveyard: Politicians Who Got Into Trouble or Disgrace
New Hampshire state senate from Rockingham County, 1785-86, 1790-93.
Censured by the Senate in 1811 for violating an injunction of secrecy.
Senator from Alabama in the Confederate Congress, 1862-64.
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 List of United States Congressional districts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
This is a complete list of congressional districts for representation in the United States House of Representatives.
The quantity and boundaries of districts are determined after each census, although in some cases states have changed the boundaries more than once per census.
List of United States congressional districts by area
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 United States Senate
The United States Senate is one of the two chambers of the bicameral United States Congress, the other being the House of Representatives.
Any senator may block such an agreement, but, in practice, objections are rare.
During any impeachment trial, senators are constitutionally required to sit on oath or affirmation.
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 The Political Graveyard: Politicians Who Participated in Duelling
Censured by the U.S. Senate in 1834 over his removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the United States.
Expelled from the Confederate Congress in early 1865 for going North on an unauthorized peace mission.
Senator from Texas in the Confederate Congress, 1862-65.
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 List of current United States Senators by seniority
This is a classification of current U.S. Senators by seniority.
Behind this is former service as a U.S. Senator (only giving the Senator seniority within his or her new incoming class), service as U.S. Vice President, a House member, a cabinet secretary, a state governor, and then by their state's population, respectively.
For Senators who have taken the oath since the last census (2000) the state population ranking is listed.
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 Articles - Political scandals of the United States   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The arrangement of the list of federal-level scandals in this article follows a more or less chronological order; in the case of state and local scandals, the arrangement is alphabetical, by state.
Republican Senator Barry Goldwater), but its status as a "scandal" is debatable, even though, as a result of the U.S.-sponsored paramilitary actions in Central America, the United States in the case ´´Nicaragua v.
United States,´´ ultimately became the only nation ever adjudged by the International Court of Justice to have been guilty of sponsoring terrorism.
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 The Hedgehog Report - Comments on Open Thread 06/20/05
As I said the familar pattern is House to Senate and often Governor to Senate.
They select senate nominees by caucus and convention in Utah and Hatch basically just campaigned among the same folks for the senate nomination.
In 1960 the state was only about 5% more republican then the nation as a whole in the Presidential race.
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 The Indepundit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
My choice would be for the state of Illinois to recall him and replace him with someone who would represent the people of the state rather than the lunatic left of his party.
Perhaps the reason why Senator Dick feels emboldened to slander the military with bogus charges of torture is that the bona fide torture of Saddam has not been detailed by the liberal media, partly for good reasons of propriety but partly for bad reasons that such details would support the Bush administration.
The United States may not legally pick and choose among them to decide who is entitled to decent treatment.
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 The Hedgehog Report - Comments on Open Thread 06/20/05
As I said the familar pattern is House to Senate and often Governor to Senate.
They select senate nominees by caucus and convention in Utah and Hatch basically just campaigned among the same folks for the senate nomination.
In 1960 the state was only about 5% more republican then the nation as a whole in the Presidential race.
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The GDP of the United States is $10,082,000,000,000 ($10.82 trillion).
The population of the United States is 280,562,489.
Senior US administration officials have stated that they are considering the use of nuclear weapons against Iraq, as reported in the Los Angeles Times, January 25, 2003[35], and in many other media worldwide.
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