Warner was among ten GOP Senators who voted against the charge of perjury during Clinton's impeachment ( the others were Richard Shelby of Alabama, Ted Stevens of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, Olympia Snowe of Maine, John Chafee of Rhode Island, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, Jim Jeffords of Vermont, Slade Gorton of Washington and Fred Thompson of Tennessee ).

However, unlike Snowe, Collins, Specter, Jeffords and Chafee, the rest of the Republicans voted guilty on the second article.

Chafee opposes the death penalty, and has consistently voted against limiting federal death penalty appeals, has favored including racial statistics in death penalty appeals, and a prerequisite of DNA analysis for all federal executions.

Chafee was the only Republican in the Senate to have voted against authorization of the use of force in Iraq.

Chafee also voted against both the 2001 and 2003 federal tax cut bills.

Chafee also Cosponsored the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005, which expanded federal jurisdiction over class-action lawsuits, and voted against a wholesale ban on gifts from employees of lobbying companies.

In 2003, Chafee voted against the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit.

Seven Democrats, James Jeffords ( I ) of Vermont, and Lincoln Chafee ( R ) of Rhode Island voted against the bill ; nine Republicans supported it.

" On February 12, 1999, Chafee voted against both articles of impeachment against Clinton.

The six Republican senators who voted against conviction on both charges were John Chafee of Rhode Island, Susan Collins of Maine, Jim Jeffords of Vermont, William V. Roth, Jr. of Delaware, Olympia Snowe of Maine, and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania.

Former Rhode Island Senator Lincoln Chafee, the other Republican who voted against Bush's tax cuts in 2001, was the only Republican Senator to vote against the Iraq War resolution.

Several members of the Gang of 14 then voted against confirming Alito, including Republican Lincoln Chafee.

In addition, the Club for Growth also makes independent expenditures to pressure certain moderate Republicans to vote more conservatively ( e. g. running ads against Senators George Voinovich of Ohio, Olympia Snowe of Maine, and Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island after these Senators objected to certain aspects of President Bush's tax cuts ).

* On April 28, 2009, Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter specifically mentioned the Club for Growth's previous activity in supporting conservative primary opponents against Republicans such as Wayne Gilchrest, Joe Schwarz, Lincoln Chafee and Heather Wilson, in his decision to run for re-election as a Democrat in 2010.

In September 2005, Steve Laffey, the mayor of Cranston, Rhode Island, announced his intention to run against Chafee in the Republican primary.

In regards to the case, which would likely result in capital punishment, Chafee said: " The State of Rhode Island must seek to protect both the strong states ' rights issues at stake and the legitimacy of its longstanding public policy against the death penalty.

Chafee was one of the few Republicans to vote against allowing drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and was a member of the Republicans for Environmental Protection.

On June 27, 2006, Chafee was one of only three Republicans to vote against the proposed Flag Desecration Amendment.

However, Chafee also cast a crucial procedural vote against a Democratic attempt to kill the bill, which failed by only two votes.

On fiscal issues, she has voiced support for cutting taxes as economic stimulus, although she joined fellow Republican senators Lincoln Chafee and John McCain in voting against the Bush tax cuts in 2003.

The NRSC generally avoids supporting Republicans in primaries against other party members, though the 2006 Rhode Island Senate primary between Lincoln Chafee and mayor of Cranston Steve Laffey is a notable exception.

However the Secretary of the Navy, John H. Chafee, intervened on Bucher's behalf and no action was taken against Commander Bucher.

After an unsuccessful candidacy for the Senate in 1972 against Democratic incumbent Claiborne Pell, Chafee was elected to that body in 1976, the first Republican to win a Rhode Island Senate election since 1930.

Chafee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee attacked Laffey for calling for the city of Cranston to accept consular ID cards from Mexico and Guatemala.

However, a subsequent essay by Zechariah Chafee titled “ Freedom of Speech in War Time ” argued despite context that Holmes had intended to substitute clear and present danger for the bad-tendency standard a more protective standard of free speech.

She also posthumously received the John H. Chafee Excellence in Environmental Affairs Award for 2001 presented by the Conservation Law Foundation.

A Rhode Island native educated at Phillips Academy and Brown University, Chafee worked as a professional farrier for seven years before entering state politics in 1985.

Chafee was appointed to the United States Senate in 1999 upon the death of his father, Senator John Chafee, and was elected in the 2000 Senate election for a full six-year term.

On January 4, 2010, Chafee declared his intent to run for Governor of Rhode Island.

After his father announced he would not seek re-election in 2000, Lincoln Chafee announced he would run for the seat.

Chafee went on to defeat Laffey in the primary on September 12 by a margin of 53 percent to 47 percent, an unusually close margin for an incumbent Senator.

In his victory speech, Chafee credited unaffiliated voters and disaffiliated Democrats for his victory.

In December 2006, Chafee announced he was accepting a fellowship to serve as a " distinguished visiting fellow " at Brown University's Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies.

In September 2008, Chafee received media attention for describing Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska and the Republican vice-presidential nominee in the 2008 United States presidential election, as a " cocky wacko ".

On January 4, 2010 Chafee formally declared his intention to run for Governor of Rhode Island in 2010 as an independent,

When asked if he was considering it, Chafee responded, " I ’ m happy where I am for now.

While Senator, Chafee was a member of the Republican Majority for Choice and Republicans for Choice.

Chafee is " wary " of Race to the Top, " because Race to the Top includes money for charter schools ".

Chafee is now involved in the J Street project, a liberal Jewish group that calls for Israel to withdraw from all occupied territories and advocates for a " two state " solution to the Israeli-Arab conflict.

Chafee was a member of the Republican Main Street Partnership and supports federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.

) The John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor retraces the history of " America's Hardest-Working River ', the Blackstone.

* October 24 – John Chafee, American politician ( b. 1922 )

** Lincoln Chafee, U. S. Senator from Rhode Island

* October 22 – John Chafee, American politician ( d. 1999 )

While at AFIT, Chafee would continue to participate in astronaut candidate testing as the pool of candidates dropped to 271 in mid-1963.

Harvard Professor Zechariah Chafee critiqued the raids and attempts at deportations and the lack of legal process in his 1920 volume Freedom of Speech.

* John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor: Valley sites-Douglas, Sutton, Northbridge ( National Park Service )

Chafee laid out another village, " City of Attraction '" a short time later to the southeast.

* Johnstons Corners – A location formed by the intersection of Allen and Savage Roads, west of Chafee.

Cumberland is in the lower Blackstone Valley of Rhode Island and in the John H. Chafee, Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor, New England's historic National Park area.

Lincoln is in the lower Blackstone Valley of Rhode Island and in the John H. Chafee, Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor, New England's historic National Park area.

Amos Chafee Barstow, mayor of Providence, was named chairman of the meeting.

( Chafee was defeated in 2006 general election after an expensive primary fight with a more conservative Republican financed in large part by the club.

He also met the Harvard Law professor Zechariah Chafee and discussed his criticism of Schenck.

Cianci clashed behind the scenes with John Chafee, trying to talk him out of his Senate run so Cianci could get the Republican nomination instead.