Seven Republican senators – William Pitt Fessenden, Joseph S. Fowler, John B. Henderson, Lyman Trumbull, Peter G. Van Winkle and notably Senators Grimes and Ross played a decisive role ; purportedly disturbed by how the proceedings had been manipulated to give a one-sided presentation of the evidence, they voted against conviction, in defiance of their party and public opinion.

Senators Ted Kennedy – a Democrat – and Orrin Hatch – a Republican – teamed up with Hillary Rodham Clinton and her staff in 1997, and succeeded in passing legislation forming the State Children's Health Insurance Program ( SCHIP ), the largest ( successful ) health care reform in the years of the Clinton Presidency.

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At the Federal level, the two U. S. Senators from Texas are Republicans John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchison ; Paris is part of Texas ' US Congressional 4th District, which is currently represented by Republican Ralph M. Hall.

The two bills were then reconciled in a conference committee that was criticized by Senators from both the Republican and Democratic parties for ignoring civil liberty concerns.

The three leading candidates for the 1940 Republican nomination were all isolationists to varying degrees: Senators Robert Taft of Ohio and Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan, and Thomas E. Dewey, the " gangbusting " District Attorney from New York.

Senators Charles Sumner and Henry Wilson of Massachusetts wanted the Republican Party to advocate constitutional amendments to prohibit slavery and to guarantee racial equality before the law.

In 1997, Senators McCain and Feingold sought to eliminate soft money and TV advertising expenditures but the legislation was defeated by a Republican filibuster.

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United States Senate | Sen. John Sherman ( Ohio ) | John Sherman ( Republican Party ( United States ) | R — List of United States Senators from Ohio | OH ), the principal author of the Sherman Antitrust Act.

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After being told by key Republican Senators that enough votes existed to remove him, he decided to resign.

Powerful forces in United States Congress pushing for non-interventionism and strong Neutrality Acts were the Republican Senators William Edgar Borah, Arthur H. Vandenberg, Gerald P. Nye and Robert M. La Follette, Jr., but support of non-interventionism was not limited to the Republican party.

When they heard Nixon might make Dole chairman of the Republican National Committee, half the Republican Senators protested, especially moderates who feared Dole would direct party assets to conservatives.

Glenn and Republican Senator John McCain were the only Senators exonerated.

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Hughes would not comment on tax reforms or other issues in which the Republican candidates are involved.

There may be other 1961 state committee retirements come April 18, but they will be leaving by choice of the Republican voters.

Privately, they also admitted that their hopes for Clint Anderson's three-fifths modification depended on none other than Republican Richard Nixon.

Du Bois ' Black Reconstruction, first published in 1935, historians have noted African American contributions during Reconstruction to founding what were often the first systems of public education and welfare institutions in the South, gave muted praise for Republican efforts to extend suffrage and provide other social institutions, and excoriated Johnson for opposing the extension of basic rights to freedmen.

In the following twenty years, the Provisional Irish Republican Army and other smaller republican groups such as the Irish National Liberation Army ( INLA ) mounted an armed campaign against the British, by which they meant the RUC, the British Army, the Ulster Defence Regiment ( UDR ) of the British Army ( and, according to their critics, the Protestant and unionist establishment ).

Simultaneous attacks around the perimeter of Phnom Penh pinned down Republican forces, while other CPK units overran fire bases controlling the vital lower Mekong resupply route.

Although he sought to slow or contain the New Deal and other federal programs, he did not attempt to repeal them outright and in doing so was popular among the liberal wing of the Republican Party.

While the Rising and its leaders continued to be venerated by Irish republicans — including members and supporters of the Provisional IRA and the modern Sinn Féin — with murals in republican areas of Belfast and other towns celebrating the actions of Pearse and his comrades, and a number of parades held annually in remembrance of the Rising, the Irish government discontinued its annual parade in Dublin in the early 1970s, and in 1976 it took the unprecedented step of proscribing ( under the Offences against the State Act ) a 1916 commemoration ceremony at the GPO organised by Sinn Féin and the Republican commemoration Committee.

The new Republican government sought to institute, among other reforms, a new social and legal system, a new system of weights and measures ( which became the metric system ), and a new calendar.

Radicals also published sizeable excerpts from the reports in the Northern Star, the Red Republican and other newspapers.

The RPG-7 has been used during The Troubles by both the Provisional Irish Republican Army, the Ulster Volunteer Force, and other Republican and Loyalist paramilitaries.

Roosevelt was a Republican activist during his years in the Assembly, writing more bills than any other New York state legislator did.

In South Carolina, the party received 10 % of the vote against Republican Floyd Spence who had no other opposition.

Two political parties, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, have dominated American politics since the American Civil War, although other parties have also existed.

Although there is not an explicitly-labeled " left " or " right " designation of the party, it is considered by many to be more right-wing than the Democratic Party but more left-wing than the Republican Party when comparing the parties ' positions to each other.

The Congregationalists and the Episcopalians supported the Federalists ; most of the Presbyterians, Baptists, and other minority denominations tended toward the Republican camp.

Rival tanks of the 1st Armoured Division and the Republican Guard faced off against each other in San ' na.

* July 1 – The congress of Central America declares absolute independence from Spain, Mexico, and any other foreign nation, including North America and a Republican system of government is established.

* July 1 – The congress of Central America declares absolute independence from Spain, Mexico, and any other foreign nation, including North America, and a Republican system of government is established.

As World War II was ending, the Christian Democrats started organizing post-Fascist Italy in coalition with all the other mainstream parties, including the Italian Communist Party ( PCI ), the Italian Socialist Party ( PSI ), the Italian Liberal Party ( PLI ), the Italian Republican Party ( PRI ), the Action Party ( Pd ' A ) and the Labour Democratic Party ( PDL ).

Most contemporary press accounts attributed Bryan's nomination to his eloquence, though in the case of Republican and other gold-favoring newspapers, they considered it his demagoguery.

In addition, many Democratic legislators would vote down a human rights measure backed by Thompson and other Republican legislators.

This convention took more ballots to choose its party's nominee for president than any other Republican convention.