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	United States Senate - Knowmore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Senators serve for six-year terms, which are staggered so that elections are held in approximately one-third of the seats (a "class") every second year.
		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.
		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.
	www.knowmore.org /index.php/United_States_Senate (4990 words)

	WIC - Women's History in America
		Higher education particularly was broadened by the rise of women's colleges and the admission of women to regular colleges and universities.
		Great Britain passed a ten-hour-day law for women and children in 1847, but in the United States it was not until the 1910s that the states began to pass legislation limiting working hours and improving working conditions of women and children.
		Women in the United States during the 19th century organized and participated in a great variety of reform movements to improve education, to initiate prison reform, to ban alcoholic drinks, and, during the pre-Civil War period, to free the slaves.
	www.wic.org /misc/history.htm (4166 words)

	SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - United States Senate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		Unlike the United States House of Representatives, the Senate has no strict rules regarding debate, and one strategy used by senators to kill a bill is the filibuster, an intentional extension of debate on the bill, which prevents it from coming to a vote.
		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.
	www.singaporemoms.com /parenting/United_States_Senate (2154 words)

	U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > People > Senators > Women in the Senate
		Senators Smith and Neuberger confer with Lyndon Johnson, ca.
		Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia, the first woman to serve in the United States Senate, took the oath of office on November 21, 1922.
		To date, thirty-three women have served in the United States Senate, with fourteen serving at this time (indicated in bold print below).
	www.senate.gov /artandhistory/history/common/briefing/women_senators.htm (185 words)

	United States Senate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Vice President of the United States is the President of the Senate and serves as its presiding officer, but is not a Senator and does not vote except to break ties.
		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.
		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 (4875 words)

	CPUSA Online - At War: Women in the United States in 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Women and men in the United States have lived through another year of a "jobless recovery." Growing wage inequality meant that wages were flat or falling for all workers in the US; all workers, that is, except those in the top 95th percentile, who saw a salary increase of 7.7%.
		Even as almost all women feel the brunt of Bush policies to reduce social spending, increase the national debt, drain resources from affordable health care policies and education, as well as systematically gut environmental protections for clean air and water, and for uncontaminated food, not all women reacted the same in the voting booth.
		Women's families are less likely to see better futures under Bush's attack on public education, and less likely to be able to afford college with his erasure of government scholarship programs in favor of high-interest private loans.
	www.cpusa.org /article/articleview/630 (1912 words)

	Ancient Rome - Classroom Activity (Women in World History Curriculum)
		It limited the amount of gold women could possess and required that all the funds of wards, single women, and widows be deposited with the state.
		Women also were forbidden to wear dresses with purple trim (the color of mourning and a grim reminder of Rome's losses).
		Livy, a Roman historian, described the women's demonstrations and a portion of the debate between Consul Cato and Tribune Lucius Valerius in the Tribunal.
	www.womeninworldhistory.com /lesson10.html (2013 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.
		The Senate created a 3-member committee to audit and control the contingent expenses of the Senate, as proposed by Senator John Quincy Adams.
		A handsomely illustrated new publication, The United States Catalogue of Graphic Art, offers a variety of perspectives on the Senate of the 19th and 20th centuries and provides insight into a time quite different than the media-saturated world of today.
	www.senate.gov (533 words)

	Russ Feingold for United States Senate - Issues
		Women in the developing world are more likely to live in poverty, suffer from malnutrition, and lack access to education.
		One quarter of all children in the United States live with single parents.
		Senator Feingold joined with Congressman Klug to fight for a Nontraditional Employment for Women (NEW) grant for the state of Wisconsin.
	www.russfeingold.org /women.php (693 words)

	United States Senate (Harpers.org)
		Liberal political groups were attempting to rally Senate Democrats to oppose the nomination of John Ashcroft to be attorney general of the United States, though few seriously believed that members of the Democrat Party were brave or principled enough to do what it would take to defeat the right-wing Christian extremist.
		Senator James M. Jeffords of Vermont defected from the Republican Party, handing control of the Senate to the Democrats, who promptly voted to confirm Theodore B. Olson as solicitor general, suggesting that the White House cabal had little to fear after all.
		The Senate Intelligence Committee released a scathing report on the CIA's unfounded, unjustified, and unreasonable claims about Iraq's purported weapons of mass destruction; the report was oddly silent, however, about the Bush Administration's well-documented and apparently successful campaign to intimidate the CIA into coming up with justifications for the President's fraudulent case for the invasion.
	www.harpers.org /Senate.html (3030 words)

	Violence Against Women in the United States
		The number of women who have been murdered by their intimate partners is greater than the number of soldiers killed in the Vietnam War.
		Women who are battered have more than twice the health care needs and costs than those who are never battered.
		Abused women are disproportionately represented among the homeless and suicide victims.
	www.now.org /issues/violence/stats.html (706 words)

	Women in the United States Senate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There have been 35 women in the United States Senate since the establishment of that body in 1789, meaning that out of the 1,884 Americans who have served in the United States Senate since that time, 1.86 percent of all Senators have been female.
		Carnahan—even though dead—defeated the incumbent Senator, John Ashcroft, and his widow, in the tradition of the Senate, was named to fill his seat by the Missouri Governor, Roger Wilson.
		In 2006, Claire McCaskill and Amy Klobuchar were elected to the Senate, bringing the total number of female senators to an all-time high of 16.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Women_in_the_United_States_Senate (1043 words)

	Women in Kentucky -- U.S. and Ky. Timeline
		A proposal to give women an equal portion in colonial lands is rejected by the Virginia House of Burgesses.
		Tennessee becomes 38th state to ratify the 19th amendment; woman suffrage becomes constitutional law across the U.S. National American Woman Suffrage Association dissolves and reorganizes as League of Women Voters to operate on local, state and national levels.
		The ERA passes out of Congress and goes to states for ratification; when the time limit runs out it in 1982 (after Congress allows for an extension) it is still 3 states short of the 38 needed to become an Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
	www.womeninkentucky.com /us_and_ky_timeline.html (2964 words)

	DSCC : Women's Senate Network
		Senator Debbie Stabenow made history in 2000, when she defeated incumbent Spencer Abraham to become Michigan's first woman Senator.
		The Women’s Senate Network (WSN) was established in 2001 by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) to celebrate the accomplishments of women in public office and to provide the resources necessary to recruit and elect more Democratic women to the United States Senate.
		The Democratic women of the Senate are united in our effort to protect America’s families, nurture our children and build a safer world.
	www.dscc.org /wsn (712 words)

	CNN Transcript - Morning News: Sen. Snowe, Sen.-Elect Stabenow Discuss Women in 107th Congress - January 3, 2001
		Women ran in seven Senate races in the 2000 election and won all of them.
		We have Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe, who has represented the state of Maine since 1994 -- and we should mention for trivia that is one of the states represented by two women.
		And it's important for women to serve in the highest positions of elective office in the country.
	transcripts.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0101/03/mn.15.html (1181 words)

	Sierra Club
		All Americans are entitled to breathe clean air and drink clean water, and the prospect that the Chief Justice of the United States does not believe that our laws should be used to remedy this disgraceful imbalance is very troubling.
		On the one hand, President Bush has asked the Senate to confirm Judge Roberts as Chief Justice of the United States, a lifetime position of enormous national influence and constitutional importance.
		In contrast to President Reagan's understanding of the Senate's constitutional duties, President Bush's reliance on unfounded assertions of "privilege" and refusal to acknowledge precedent naturally lead to the suspicion that these records contain material so incendiary that, despite Judge Roberts' credentials, the Senate would not confirm him.
	www.commondreams.org /news2005/0912-03.htm (1608 words)

	Nikkibio
		HER EYE IS ON THE U.S. Nikki Morgan Oldaker's decision to become an Independent candidate for the U.S. Senate from Florida was made at the right time.
		Florida, which claims to be the "State for All Seasons" will benefit from an Independent who has diversified experience that reflects problems that matter to down-to-earth people in business, education, the professions, students, seniors and growers-citizens from all walks of life.
		They claim that Orlando, the city, and Florida, the state, represent one of the best places to live, work, have fun, and meet new people from all over the world. "It's a truly cosmopolitan area, deserving the very best service from its elected officials." Nikki states unequivocally.
	nikki4senate.homestead.com /Nikkibio.html (199 words)

	HIST 400: Women in the Modern United States: Finding Books - Bowling Green State University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		These are a few of the reference books in the BGSU Libraries that may be useful for researching women in the modern United States.
		European Immigrant Women in the United States: A Biographical Dictionary, ed.
		Women, State, and Territorial Legislators, 1895-1995: A State-by-State Analysis, With Rosters of 6,000 Women, by Elizabeth M. Cox
	www.bgsu.edu /colleges/library/infosrv/lue/hist400books.html (332 words)

	AllPolitics - Louisiana Senate, 1996: It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over - May 5, 1997
		While Landrieu was certified by the Louisiana secretary of state (a Republican, incidentally) as the winner of the state's 1996 Senate race and seated by the United States Senate, Jenkins continues to argue that massive vote fraud, supported by an allegedly corrupt Louisiana politician and his organization, denied him of a victory that he earned.
		Still, Senate Democrats can't allow Landrieu to be replaced with Jenkins, and they probably would do whatever they had to in order to block any GOP effort to overturn the results.
		Iowa Senate: Sen. Chuck Grassley's decision to seek re-election to the Senate rather than the governorship means that the Republican incumbent is a heavy favorite to win a fourth term.
	www.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/1997/05/05/spotlight (940 words)

	United States Senate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		These Senate hearings pointedly demonstrate how a demagogue, hiding behind the American flag and the power of Congress, destroyed countless lives and careers.
		One of only five World War II veterans remaining in the Senate, he was named Secretary of the Navy by President Richard Nixon and was once married to actress Elizabeth Taylor.
		He's the only current member of the Senate who is a former space shuttle astronaut, having rode the Columbia in January 1986, less than two weeks before the Challenger exploded.
	www.emailyoursenator.com (542 words)

	United States Senators and the U.S. Senate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The United States Senate is offered referred to as the world's greatest deliberative body and over 1700 men and women have served as U.S. senators.
		Senator Robert C. Byrd (D-WV) said it best when he described the role of the Congress in relationship to the Executive Branch:
		A policy without checks and balances is a policy that too often loses its way...Our representative form of democracy depends upon power divided and power shared.
	www.united-states-senators.com (101 words)

	HIST 400: Women in the Modern United States: Finding Government Information - Bowling Green State University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Databases marked Accessible Off Campus are also available off-campus to those with a current BGSU ID. For more information see Off-Campus Access to Library Resources.
		An index to government publications that were issued as House and Senate reports and documents.
		A Statistical Portrait of Women in the United States, 1978 (1980)
	www.bgsu.edu /colleges/library/infosrv/lue/hist400govdocs.html (482 words)

	United States Senate Election Information November 2, 2004 Election
		The League of Women Voters of Ohio has asked all candidates for this office to respond to 3 questions on Qualifications, Environmental policies, and Federal deficit.
		Tips for New Voters by League of Women Voters of the Cincinnati Area
		The League of Women Voters neither supports nor opposes candidates for public office or political parties.
	www.smartvoter.org /2004/11/02/oh/state/race/uss (299 words)

	NPR : Women In Power
		There is also a woman head of state in the Philippines.
		We'll talk with some of America's most powerful women about their position in America's power structure." />
		We'll talk with some of America's most powerful women about their position in America's power structure.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1138129 (220 words)

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		A history of women in the United States Senate
		Green, Libertarian, and Reform Party figures joined to call on the Commission on Presidential Debates to be replaced with a group more inclined to invite alternative-party candidates,
		(I-VT) "is scheduled to headline a major fund-raising dinner for Senate Democrats on Feb. 27 and has also pledged to hit the hustings to campaign for his Democratic colleagues, including some of the party's more embattled incumbents," the Boston Globe reports...The
	www.voxpopuli-ne.com /2002_03/page4.html (456 words)

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