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	Traditions of the United States Senate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		If a senator dies in office, it is traditional for the Senate to adjourn for a day and for US flags to be flown at half-staff.
		In keeping with a 1974 Senate resolution, this desk is assigned to the senior Senator from Webster's birth state, New Hampshire, Judd Gregg as of 2005.
		This tradition, which dates back to the early twentieth century, is said to be based on an edict by Senator Fred Dubois of Idaho (or in another version of the story to Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Traditions_of_the_United_States_Senate (691 words)

	United States Senate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The senator from each state with the longer tenure is known as the "senior senator," and his or her counterpart as the "junior senator"; this convention, however, does not have any special significance.
		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.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_Senate (5288 words)

	Encyclopedia: United States Senate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Senate has several exclusive powers enumerated in the Constitution not granted to the House; most significantly, the President cannot ratify treaties or make important appointments without the "Advice and Consent" of the Senate The President of the United States (unofficially abbreviated POTUS) is the head of state of the United States.
		The Senate Majority Leader is a member of the United States Senate who is elected by his or her party conference to serve as the chief Senate spokesman for his or her party and to manage and schedule the legislative and executive business of the Senate.
		The U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary (informally Senate Judiciary Committee) is a standing committee of the United States Senate, the upper house of the United States Congress.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/United-States-Senate (1032 words)

	Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy On The Nominations Richard Griffin And David McKeague To The United States Court Of ...
		Nonetheless, the Michigan Senators, with grace and dedication to this institution, withdrew their opposition to three of those nominees as part of the discussions related to averting the nuclear option.
		Senator Feinstein likewise reminded the then-Chairman of his statements in connection with the nomination of Ronnie White when he acknowledged that had he known both home-state Senators were opposed, he would never have proceeded.
		The Committee overrode the objection of one home-state Senator with the Kuhl nomination.
	leahy.senate.gov /press/200506/060905e.html (4107 words)

	Tony Snow
		Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid smoked a cherry bomb over the weekend when he told a group of high school juniors that the president was "a loser." Then, emboldened by chortling 16-year-olds, he ad-libbed an apology, not to the president, but to Karl Rove, whom he cast as the real power behind the throne.
		Meanwhile, Republican senators began speaking in tongues and writhing on the floor because they have come to realize that they soon will face a fateful choice: They must decide what they cherish more — back slaps from Democratic colleagues or the cherished traditions of the United States Senate.
		This is a reasonable argument: Senators cherish their traditions, and the filibuster was improvised as a way of making it possible for minority parties to ensure that the world's greatest deliberative body took its time in mulling over important legislative issues.
	www.jewishworldreview.com /tony/snow051005.php3?printer_friendly (732 words)

	INDEPENDENT MIND-SENSE: May 2005
		Senate rules require 60 votes to end debate in the Senate and to bring a matter to a vote whether that matter is legislative, ratification of a treaty or the confirmation of a nomination.
		It was Senator Van de Putte’s amendment that is oh so revealing of her interests and her sense of humor that lightened the mood of the contentious three hour debate.
		Senator Reid understands this point entirely and so he is compelled to respect my freedom to speak unhindered, uncensored, unlimited when he asks for my response to the attack on my freedom.
	indymind.blogspot.com /2005_05_01_indymind_archive.html (5050 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Poles in the United States
		The total Polish population in the United States did not exceed 40,000 in 1870, of whom fully a fourth were in Chicago alone.
		In 1875 the Poles in the United States numbered nearly 150,000, of which number nearly 20,000 were in Chicago, which as early as 1866 had become and still remains the metropolis of this the fourth division of Poland, as the Polish community in America is called by the Poles.
		He became an American citizen and remained in the United States until the formation by Bonaparte of the Grand Duchy of Warsaw, when he returned to Poland and was actively engaged in Poland's cause until his death in 1841.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/12204c.htm (7766 words)

	Articles - United States Senate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Senate has several exclusive powers enumerated in the Constitution not granted to the House; most significantly, the President cannot ratify treaties or make important appointments without the "Advice and Consent" of the Senate (see Article I).
		However, this also meant that states now had no real represenation in Congress (or federal government), since senators were now directly elected by the people, rather than elected by state legislatures.
		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.
	www.centralairconditioners.net /articles/United_States_Senate (5058 words)

	Lisa Murkowski - U.S. Senator, Alaska :: Opinion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The use of the filibuster in the United States Senate and the President's judicial nominations have been popular topics of conversation in recent weeks.
		Under the "advice and consent" process, every Senator has the right to vote against a nominee if he/she does not believe the nominee is qualified for the position, but it is not fair to the nominees to have their lives placed on hold - sometimes in excess of two years while the process drags on.
		The impasse over these nominees has led the Senate Majority Leader to consider the possibility of seeking a ruling that the use of the filibuster on judicial nominees is unconstitutional, thus allowing an up-or-down vote on their confirmation.
	www.senate.gov /member/ak/murkowski/general/opinion_050105.html (688 words)

	United States involvement in the Vietnam War -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		On August 7, at the urging of President Lyndon B. Johnson, the United States Congress responded by passing the Tonkin Gulf resolution, which authorized the use of American military force in Vietnam.
		The climate of cultural diversity that prevailed in the United States at the end of the 20th century was a product of both political upheavals, such as the civil rights movement, and economic ones, such as the migration of Third World peoples to more prosperous industrialized nations.
		Official Feb. 7, 1950, U.S. State Department notice according diplomatic recognition to the governments of the State of Vietnam, the Kingdom of Laos, and the Kingdom of Cambodia.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9314143 (927 words)

	Lawrence Cranberg for U.S. Senate
		I welcome the opportunity, at this time of extraordinary national crisis, to serve the people of Texas and of our country in the Senate of the United States.
		Lawrence Cranberg has more than sixty years of experience as Professor of Physics, as entrepreneur, inventor, science consultant on high energy physics and environmental and energy issues, as journalist and civil libertarian, as advocate on elder-care legal and health issues, and as Senior Physicist in the Department of Defense research programs.
		It is a remarkable fact of American political-scientific history that according to Dr. Spencer Weart, the Director of the History of Physics Project of the American Institute of Physics, the U. Senate has never had a physicist member.
	www.lawrencecranberg.org (798 words)

	Crosswalk.com - 'Nominees Should Only Be Filibustered Under Extraordinary Circumstances_'
		In the second half of the memo, the 14 senators agreed to oppose a rules change (an end to judicial filibusters) in the 109th Congress.
		The memorandum said, "We believe that, under Article II, Section 2, of the United States Constitution, the word 'advice' speaks to consultation between the Senate and the president with regard to the use of the president's power to make nominations.
		We encourage the executive branch of government to consult with members of the Senate, both Democratic and Republican, prior to submitting a judicial nomination to the Senate for consideration.
	www.crosswalk.com /news/1331934.html (292 words)

	Don Singleton: Senate Compromise
		Part I relates to the currently pending judicial nominees; Part II relates to the subsequent individual nominations to be made by the president and to be acted upon by the Senate's Judiciary Committee.
		To recover, the Majority Leader will have to move quickly to get the blocked nominations on to the flooor and then the bench, and he will have to be the leader from day one on a Supreme Court nomination fight that is quickly and decisively won.
		Soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines are fighting and sometimes dying for freedom and human dignity, not for Senate "comity" and Robert Byrd's fuzzy grasp of history.
	donsingleton.blogspot.com /2005/05/senate-compromise.html (1382 words)

	The Washington Note Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		We respect the diligent, conscientious efforts, to date, rendered to the Senate by Majority Leader Frist and Democratic Leader Ried, This memorandum confirms an understanding among the signatories, based upon mutual trust and confidence, related to pending and future judicial nominations in the 109th Congress.
		We firmly believe this agreement is consistent with the traditions of the United States Senate seek to uphold.
		Because the NSA intercepts were never provided to the Senate Committee with jurisdiction in the matter, there is ample room to beat back this nomination.
	www.thewashingtonnote.com /archives/000650.html (634 words)

	US Senator Harry Reid for Nevada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		“While the Senate Republicans continue to distract from the American people’s business with this partisan power grab, the Senate remains distracted from the crucial work we must do to address skyrocketing health care costs, soaring gas prices and a pension crisis that are facing the American people today.
		Instead of engaging in a partisan fight on the floor of the United States Senate, Democrats are prepared to do the work we were sent here to do and address rising health care costs, make retirement more secure, and address the needs of our troops, military families and veterans.
		Senator McConnell claimed today that “what we have here is a further effort to make it impossible to do the peoples' business here in the Senate…the normal way we do business around here is for action to be going on on the floor and additional action in committees at the same time.” [Congressional Record, 5/19/05]
	reid.senate.gov /espanol/record.cfm?id=237913 (622 words)

	HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE: The National Conservative Weekly Since 1944 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		We respect the diligent, conscientious efforts, to date, rendered to the Senate by Majority Leader Frist and Democratic Leader Reid. This memorandum confirms an understanding among the signatories, based upon mutual trust and confidence, related to pending and future judicial nominations in the 109th Congress.
		This memorandum is in two parts. Part I relates to the currently pending judicial nominees; Part II relates to subsequent individual nominations to be made by the President and to be acted upon by the Senate’s Judiciary Committee.
		A. Future Nominations. Signatories will exercise their responsibilities under the Advice and Consent Clause of the United States Constitution in good faith. Nominees should only be filibustered under extraordinary circumstances, and each signatory must use his or her own discretion and judgment in determining whether such circumstances exist.
	www.humaneventsonline.com /article.php?print=yes&id=7548 (272 words)

	A Western Heart: Compassionate NeoConservatism
		But the senators ramble on for hours, whereas our members can speak for only five minutes, apart from "special orders" at the end of the day, and a few other exceptions.
		Having found himself agreeing with President Hoover from a very early age, that the adoption of communism (and leftism) is a response of desperate people, he often wonders just how many of them wake up in the night, whispering their own peculiar version of Rosebud.
		The NLECTC system is a program of the National Institute of Justice, United States Department of Justice, and also performs work with the US Department of Homeland Security.
	awesternheart.blogspot.com /2005/05/who-got-who.html (2144 words)

	Center for Reclaiming America -- NEWS You Won't hear on the News! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		We believe that, under Article II, Section 2, of the United States Constitution, the word "advice" speaks to consultation between the Senate and the president with regard to the use of the president's power to make nominations.
		We firmly believe this agreement is consistent with the traditions of the United States Senate that we as senators seek to uphold.
		Contact your senators and encourage them to allow fair up-or-down votes on all judidicial nominees.
	www.reclaimamerica.org /Pages/NEWS/newspageprint.asp?story=2674 (330 words)

	The Corpuscle: Hard Things (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		I believe a group of Senators actually took their responsibilities seriously today.
		But I believe these Senators have risked much to make this deal and that they did it because they really do believe in the protection of the rights of the minority and in the deliberative nature of the Senate.
		These 14 Senators could have done the easy thing and gone along with their leaderships.
	www.thecorpuscle.com /2005/05/hard_things.html (1274 words)

	TARSNIPS: Let's Make a Deal
		On NRO Bench Memos, Matthew J. Franck starts his comments as follows: "As I write, Bill Frist is on the floor of the Senate gamely putting lipstick on this pig of an agreement, when he should be denouncing it.
		On "ConfirmThem" at least one poster thinks there is some upside to the deal.
		Captain's Quarters has a longish but slightly more optimistic view here; however, their analysis starts out as follows: "Based on reaction around the Internet, it appears that everyone except for the Senate and the media are unhappy about this compromise on judicial filibusters."
	tarsnips.blogspot.com /2005/05/lets-make-deal.html (617 words)

	Text of Filibuster Deal
		I'm embarassed to be from Ohio in light of the activities of the idiot Senators DeWhine and Voinovich.
		Excuse me guy and girls, but this is a deal worked out by a group of Senators and not the leadership, so before you jump on Frist you need to read what is going on.
		The President is under no obligation to get the consent of the Senate to send a nominee up for a vote.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1409009/posts (2540 words)

	Disabled American Veterans (DAV) - Main Section - links
		This is a National Service Organization made up of citizens of the United States who have served, or are now serving in the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, and the U.S. Coast Guard.
		Website of the United States Navy Memorial Foundation, founded in 1977, honoring all who have served in the sea services, and perpetuating their heritage, values, and traditions.
		Dedicated to the men and women from the United States who made the ultimate sacrifice during WWII for the good of free people everywhere.
	www.dav.org /main/links.html (3789 words)

	HUNDREDPERCENTER NEWS: THE REPLICRATS RULE THE DAY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		I am sure "extraordinary circumstances" means if the judge is a republican or believes in the Constitution.
		In all the years that I have been a card carrying member of the GOP, NEVER have I felt so betrayed.
		In a nutshell, we elected a republican President, House and Senate to ensure a conservative Judiciary.
	hundredpercenter.blogspot.com /2005/05/replicrats-rule-day.html (475 words)

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