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  U.S. Senate: Senators Home > State Information
Today there are 100 Senators, who, in performing their constitutionally appointed duties, bring to the Senate a part of their State's culture for all to share.
Reminders that we are a union of States surround us as we walk the halls of the Senate office buildings and the Capitol, seeing state flags, seals and cherished objects of art from the individual States proudly displayed.
Choose a State to see a listing of that State's former Senators as well as interesting facts about its relationship to the U.S. Senate, including individuals from that State who held leadership positions in the Senate, artifacts in the Senate's art collection related that State, and suggested readings about the State.
www.senate.gov /pagelayout/senators/f_two_sections_with_teasers/states.htm   (188 words)

  
  GuruNet — Content Map
List of United States Senators expelled or censured
List of United States Senators from New Hampshire
List of United States Senators from New Jersey
www.gurunet.com /cm-dsname-Wikipedia-dsid-2222-letter-1L-first-28851   (92 words)

  
 Indiana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Indiana, meaning the "Land of the Indians", is a state of the United States.
Indiana is bounded on the north by Lake Michigan and the state of Michigan, on the east by Ohio, on the south by Kentucky with which it shares the Ohio River as a border, and on the west by Illinois.
As of 2003, the population of Indiana was 6,195,643.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/I/Indiana.htm   (1362 words)

  
 Richard G. Lugar, United States Senator for Indiana - Extended Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Senator Lugar volunteered for the U.S. Navy in 1956 and served as an officer from 1957 until 1960, ultimately being assigned as the intelligence briefer for Admiral Arleigh Burke, Chief of Naval Operations.
Senator Lugar is one of only two current Senators to have served on a school board, and he is the only Senator with experience both as a school board member and as a mayor.
Senator Lugar was the co-author of the 1996 Nunn-Lugar-Domenici program, which has facilitated the training of first responders in more than 120 cities for the possibility of an attack by nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons.
lugar.senate.gov /long_bio.html   (2266 words)

  
 U.S. Senate
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (R-WI) began his rise to national prominence with a speech at Wheeling, West Virginia, in which he charged that Communists had infiltrated federal government agencies.
Written in 1787, ratified in 1788, and in operation since 1789, the United States Constitution remains a vital and living document.
The United States Senate is proud to commemorate this day with several articles on this Web site, including a feature on a painting depicting Roger Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth composing the Connecticut Compromise, the decision which led to the creation of the Senate and House of Representatives.
www.senate.gov   (450 words)

  
 Roosevelt and Approaching War
Senator Nye - the father of the Neutrality Act - spoke of events in Europe being similar to the drift toward war in 1914.
Senator Burton Wheeler of Montana joined Nye, announcing that war would be no remedy for what he called "international anarchy." To deny Roosevelt powers concerning the declaration of war, a few congressmen were working on a bill that would make a declaration of war possible only through a nationwide referendum.
He believed that the landed aristocracy of the United States had been crushed in its civil war and that this had been followed by upstart capitalists in the United States importing "scum of the earth" immigrants from Eastern Europe, resulting in the kind of polyglot urbanization that Hitler had seen in his youth in Vienna.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The United States of America
In examining the constitutionality of a state law one is to assume that the state legislature has power to pass all acts whatever, unless they are prohibited by the Constitution of the United States or by the constitution of the state.
It also provides that the citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states; for the return of fugitives from justice and for the admission of new states.
Senator Hayne, of South Carolina, chose to regard this as a manifestation of the Eastern jealousy of the West.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/15156a.htm   (21027 words)

  
 U.S. Senate: Legislation & Records Home
Active Legislation is a list of current bills, arranged by subject, that have been receiving legislative or media attention.
If the Senate was not in session on the specified date, you will see a header with the date, but no items will appear.
The Senate document room provides copies of publications generated by the Senate; including bills, reports, and committee assignment lists.
www.senate.gov /pagelayout/legislative/g_three_sections_with_teasers/legislative_home.htm   (325 words)

  
 THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION - We the People
The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State.
But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice.
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
www.stlplaces.com /constitution   (7712 words)

  
 U.S. Senate: Committees Home
Although the Senate committee system is similar to that of the House of Representatives, it has its own guidelines, within which each committee adopts its own rules.
In the Senate there is one officially recognized caucus -- the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control established by law in 1985.
Supreme Court Nominations is a list of nominees to the Court since 1789.
www.senate.gov /pagelayout/committees/d_three_sections_with_teasers/committees_home.htm   (170 words)

  
 Classes of United States Senators - dKosopedia
Current States with a Class I Senator: Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
Current States with a Class II Senator: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
Current States with a Class III Senator: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin.
www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/Classes_of_United_States_Senators   (577 words)

  
 Fifty States of the United States
- The United States is often called a "nation of immigrants." It is varied and vast with a land mass ranked fourth of the world's nations and the third largest population.
State government has direct authority over local governments such as towns and cities, townships, counties, and school districts.
States and Capitals of the United States by J. Moreland
www.42explore2.com /50states.htm   (1610 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: Tippecanoe County, Ind.
U.S. Senator from Indiana, 1839-45; state court judge in Indiana.
Indiana state house of representatives, 1838-39; defeated, 1835, 1841;
U.S. Representative from Indiana 2nd District, 1933-35; defeated, 1934.
politicalgraveyard.com /geo/IN/TI.html   (780 words)

  
 United States House of Representatives, 110th Congress, 1st Session
United States House of Representatives, 110th Congress, 1st Session
Access the Laws of the United States »
Search Thomas by bill text or number, the Congressional Record, or the legislative archive.
www.house.gov   (130 words)

  
 The Project Gutenberg eBook of "The United States' Constitution", by Founding Fathers.
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the legislature thereof, for six Years; and each Senator shall have one Vote.
No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen.
The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them.
www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext90/const11h.htm   (4360 words)

  
 U.S. Senate: Visitors Center Home
The United States Capitol is one of the most recognizable symbols of Democracy in the world.
The essay The Senate in Session is a good introduction to Senate floor proceedings.
The Office is nonpartisan and funded by the United States Senate.
www.senate.gov /pagelayout/visiting/a_three_sections_with_teasers/visitors_home.htm   (593 words)

  
 Myths and Truths - [Indiana] United States Senators Lugar & Bayh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
State Sen. David Long, R-Fort Wayne, plans to introduce legislation that would allow cities and counties to study and carry out changes to the structure of their local governments.
The state attorney general's office said most criminal investigations are left to the state police or a local prosecutor's office.
Indiana law says a circuit or superior court judge may appoint a special prosecutor if someone files a verified petition requesting one and the court believes there's probable cause to believe the prosecutor has committed a crime.
www.wischepp.com /Archive_Shine.htm   (10208 words)

  
 1960-1969
Library employees and university administrators were coming to the realization that the current location of the library in Franklin Hall was no longer capable housing the entire collection or meeting the needs of student and faculty, and a new facility would be required in the near future.
In 1961, Joseph Sutton, a professor of political science who would later become a President of Indiana University, and Robert F. Byrnes, of the history department, emphasized to the Faculty Council and the administration that a new library should have priority in the next ten year plan.
Clark states "while not specifically opposing the Faculty Council's arrangement of priorities that placed a new library first, [Wells] thought such an arrangement might not be in the best interests of the faculty.
www.indiana.edu /~libweb/info/history/docs/1960.html   (1379 words)

  
 2005 Base Closure Recommendations
Therefore, shifting "tenant" units to larger bases with room for growth saves a great deal of money and manpower in the long run, although moving units requires money for relocation and some new construction.
This is not an official list, just informed speculation gathered from hundreds of sources over the past two years.
Portsmouth was to be included in the 1995 base closure list, but President Clinton was said to have exerted inappropriate pressure on the commission to spare it since the important New Hampshire presidential primary race was underway.
www.g2mil.com /2005.htm   (8632 words)

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