The Radicals in the House of Representatives impeached him in 1868 ( a first for a U. S. president ), charging him with violating the Tenure of Office Act, when he sought to remove his Secretary of War without Senate approval ; his trial in the Senate ended in an acquittal by a single vote.

The Radicals in the House of Representatives impeached him in 1868 ( a first for a U. S. president ), charging him with violating the Tenure of Office Act, when he sought to remove his Secretary of War without Senate approval ; nevertheless, his trial in the Senate ended in an acquittal by a single vote.

The Radicals, upset at President Johnson's opposition to Congressional Reconstruction, filed impeachment charges but the action failed by one vote in the Senate.

The Radicals were led by Charles Sumner in the Senate and Thaddeus Stevens in the House of Representatives.

On December 9, 1861 the Senate Radicals established the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, whose purpose was to investigate battle defeats and determine the loyalty of generals fighting for the Union War effort.

When the 42nd U. S. Congress convened on March 4, 1871 Senators affiliated with President Grant, known as ‘’ New Radicals ’’ voted to oust Sen. Sumner from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairmanship.

The leading Radicals in Congress were Thaddeus Stevens in the House, and Charles Sumner in the Senate.

We believe that the list of vital things left undone to date by the Eighty-seventh Congress should have included repeal by the Senate of the Connally amendment.

In all, the Senate signed a check for $46.7 billion, which not only included the extra $3.5 billion requested the week before by President Kennedy, but tacked on $754 million more than the President had asked for.

His fellow students — there were 38 in all — included young Samuel I. Hayakawa ( later to become a Republican member of the U. S. Senate ), Ralph Moriarty deBit ( later to become the spiritual teacher Vitvan ) and Wendell Johnson ( founder of the Monster Study ).

The Senate took three votes: on May 16, it voted on the 11th article of impeachment, which included many of the charges contained in the other articles, and on May 26 voted on the second and third articles, after which the trial adjourned.

The Senate took up his slate of amendments, condensed them into eleven, and removed the language which Madison had included so that they would be integrated into the body of the constitution.

While the U. S. Senate did not add any reservation to the treaty, it did pass a measure " interpreting " the treaty which included the statement that the treaty must not infringe upon America's right of self defense and that the United States was not obliged to enforce the treaty by taking action against those who violated it.

Subsequent changes included the creation of the Federal Electoral Institute in the 1990s and the inclusion of proportional representation and first minority seats in the Senate.

There were wrangles over land-usage: although a central feature of the Daimler-Benz development is a top shopping mall-the Arkaden ( Arcades ), this did not form part of the plans until the Berlin Senate belatedly insisted that a shopping mall be included, and the plans were altered accordingly.

Reformers included William Jennings Bryan, while opponents counted respected figures such as Elihu Root and George Frisbie Hoar amongst their number ; Root cared so strongly about the issue that, after the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment, he refused to stand for re-election to the Senate.

The treaties, which easily passed the Senate, also included agreements regulating submarines, dominions in the Pacific, and dealings with China.

Notable Clerks of Senate have included the chemist, Professor Joseph Black ; Professor John Anderson, father of the University of Strathclyde ; and the economist, Professor John Millar.

It brought in Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state ( thus maintaining the balance in the Senate, which had included 11 free and 11 slave states ), and it forbade slavery north of 36 ° 30 ' ( the northern boundary of Arkansas and the latitude line ) except in Missouri.

He was elected for a Senate term of his own in 1797, which included the 5th Congress, the 6th Congress of 1799-1801 during which he was President pro tempore, and the 7th Congress, serving until March 3, 1803.

A similar version was included in the " Stop Over Spending Act of 2006 ", authored by Senator Judd Gregg, in the Senate and approved by the Senate Budget Committee, but the full Senate failed to approve it, thereby preventing the Legislative Line-Item Veto Act from becoming law.

Rep. Armey included legislation in the House's Homeland Security Bill that explicitly prohibited the creation of Operation TIPS ; but Joe Lieberman blocked the program's removal from the Senate version of the bill.

This included many of the newspapers of her day: for example, in the Hallowell ( Maine ) Gazette, 8 February 1815, p. 4, it refers to how the congress had allowed " Madame Dolly Madison " an allowance of $ 14, 000 to purchase new furniture ; and the New Bedford ( MA ) of 3 March 1837, p. 2 referred to a number of important papers from her late husband, and said that " Mrs. Dolly Madison " would be paid by the Senate for these historical manuscripts.

During the eleven years that Corydon served as a capital it was the center of politics in the state, and its residents included Davis Floyd, Governors of Indiana Jonathan Jennings and Ratliff Boon ( the first and second, respectively ), first Speaker of the Senate Dennis Pennington, and William Hendricks, who was the first Congressman, third governor and Senator.

The city is also included in State House District 20 and State Senate District 5, of which State Representative Paul D. Roan and Senator Jerry Ellis represent respectively in the state legislature.

In 1962, he was elected to the Minnesota Senate, representing the old 63rd District, which included portions of St. Louis County in the northeastern part of the state.

Other notable attendees included consumer protection activist and presidential candidate Ralph Nader ; Landscape Architect Ian McHarg ; Nobel prize-winning Harvard Biochemist, George Wald ; U. S. Senate Minority Leader, Hugh Scott ; and poet, Allen Ginsberg.

U. S. Senator ( Iowa ) James W. Grimes proposed Senate Bill 82, " to promote the efficiency of the Navy " which included a provision for a Navy Medal of Valor which was signed into law ( 12Stat329 ) by President Abraham Lincoln on December 21, 1861.

The first Senate passed version of the Banking Act of 1935 included Glass ’ s revision to Section 16 of the Glass – Steagall Act to permit bank underwriting of corporate securities subject to limitations and regulations.

The French government sometimes included a visit to the Chabanais as part of the program for foreign guests of state, disguising it as visit with the President of the Senate in the official program.

Seward's initial reaction to the Trent affair, however, was too bellicose, so Lincoln also turned to Senator Charles Sumner, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and an expert in British diplomacy.

Violence on behalf of Southern honor reached the floor of the Senate when a Southern Congressmen nearly beat to death Republican Charles Sumner when he ridiculed prominent slaveholders as pimps for slavery.

* 1856 – Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas (" Bleeding Kansas ").

The annexation treaty was defeated by the Senate in 1871 and led to unending political enmity between Sumner and Grant.

* May 22 – Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate, for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas (" Bleeding Kansas ").

In 1856, the citizens of Hernando County chose to rename the town, their new County Seat, Brooksville in honor of South Carolina Representative Preston Brooks, who in the same year beat fierce abolitionist Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the Senate chambers, winning the Congressman great renown in the South.

Preston Brooks achieved notoriety for his brutal attack on Massachusetts abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner in the Senate Chamber in 1856 after Sumner delivered a speech comparing slavery to a harlot and slaveholders to those who embraced her, to which Brooks objected violently.

Seward mounted a vigorous campaign, however, and with support from Charles Sumner, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, won approval of the treaty on April 9 by a vote of 37 – 2.

Senator Charles Sumner, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, originally wanted to ask for $ 2 billion, or alternatively the ceding of Canada to the United States.

Senator Charles Sumner, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, originally wanted to ask for $ 2 billion, or alternatively the ceding of all of Canada to the United States.

Grant was so enraged at having his plans thwarted that he engineered to have Sumner removed from his chairmanship as head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

An academic lawyer and a powerful orator, Sumner was the leader of the antislavery forces in Massachusetts and a leader of the Radical Republicans in the United States Senate during the American Civil War and Reconstruction, working to control the ex-Confederates and guarantee equal rights to the Freedmen.

In 1856, a South Carolina Congressman nearly killed Sumner on the Senate floor two days after Sumner delivered an intensely anti-slavery speech called " The Crime against Kansas ".

After three years of medical treatment Sumner returned to the Senate as the war began.

As the chief Radical leader in the Senate during Reconstruction, 1865 – 1871, Sumner fought hard to provide equal civil and voting rights for the freedmen on the grounds that " consent of the governed " was a basic principle of American republicanism, and to block ex-Confederates from power so they would not reverse the North's victory in the Civil War.

Sumner took his Senate seat in late 1851 as a Democrat.

Two days later, on the afternoon of May 22, Brooks confronted Sumner as he sat writing at his desk in the almost empty Senate chamber: " Mr. Sumner, I have read your speech twice over carefully.

The Richmond Enquirer editorialized that Sumner should be caned " every morning ", praising the attack as " good in conception, better in execution, and best of all in consequences " and denounced " these vulgar abolitionists in the Senate " who " have been suffered to run too long without collars.

Sumner then toured several countries, including Germany and Scotland, before returning to Washington where he spent only a few days in the Senate in December.