One factor was the statement of Senator J. W. Fulbright ( D ) of Arkansas, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

He spent the summer of 1967, the summer before his senior year, interning for Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright.

This vision greatly influenced Senator J. William Fulbright in the goal of the Fulbright fellowships to promote international understanding and peace, and has guided many other international fellowship programs.

Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas pointed out as late as 1966, " The very word ' Yankee ' still wakens in Southern minds historical memories of defeat and humiliation, of the burning of Atlanta and Sherman's march to the sea, or of an ancestral farmhouse burned by Cantrill's raiders.

One of his childhood friends was J. William Fulbright, the future United States Senator from Arkansas and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Throughout 1970, Ellsberg covertly attempted to persuade a few sympathetic U. S. Senators — among them J. William Fulbright, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and George McGovern, a leading opponent of the war — to release the papers on the Senate floor, because a Senator could not be prosecuted for anything he said on the record before the Senate.

Senator J. William Fulbright was born in Sumner on April 9, 1905.

Meanwhile Senator J. William Fulbright, who established the Fulbright Program, was a Rhodes Scholar at Pembroke in the 1920s.

Additionally, two former chairs of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Senator Richard G. Lugar, ( Republican ), and Senator J. William Fulbright ( Democrat ), were students of Pembroke, between them chairing the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for a 27 year period.

* J. William Fulbright, Democratic U. S. Senator representing Arkansas

The Fulbright Program, sponsored by the US Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, was created in the aftermath of World War II through the efforts of US Senator J. William Fulbright.

He opposed Senator Hattie Caraway and the freshman U. S. Representative J. William Fulbright of Fayetteville.

A senator from Arkansas, Senator James W. Fulbright, mentioned that to drive a MBT-70, a master's degree in a technical institute would be required.

Others involved in the restoration are Parker O. Westbrook, a former aide to the late U. S. Senator J. W. Fulbright, and Westbrook's sister, Lucille.

The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright-Hays Program, is a program of competitive, merit-based grants for international educational exchange for students, scholars, teachers, professionals, scientists and artists, founded by United States Senator J. William Fulbright in 1946.

In 1945, Senator J. William Fulbright proposed a bill to use the proceeds from selling surplus U. S. government war property to fund international exchange between the U. S. and other countries.

James William Fulbright ( April 9, 1905 – February 9, 1995 ) was a United States Senator representing Arkansas from 1945 to 1975.

An earlier portrait of Senator Fulbright.

Senator Fulbright and the Chicken Tax U. S. Poultry farming # Intensive chicken farming | intensive chicken farming led to the 1961 – 1964 " chicken war " with Europe.

The Republicans some weeks ago served notice through Senator Thruston B. Morton ( R ) of Kentucky, chairman of the Republican National Committee, that the Kennedy administration would be held responsible if the outcome in Laos was a coalition government susceptible of Communist domination.

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.

Senator Daniel Inouye, a Democrat from Hawaii and chairman of the appropriations committee, said he initially had favored keeping Guantanamo open until Obama produced a " coherent plan for closing the prison.

In 1975, the activities of COINTELPRO were investigated by the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, called the Church Committee after its chairman, Senator Frank Church ( D-Idaho ), and these activities were declared illegal and contrary to the Constitution.

The money allowed him to purchase a modest estate and spend the rest of his life as an active member of the Indiana Democratic Party, serving as an Indiana State Senator, party chairman, and financial contributor.

Although many observers from the 1880s onward predicted that Yankee politicians would be no match for new generations of ethnic politicians, the presence of Yankees at the top tier of modern American politics was typified by Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, and by Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean ( as well, to some observers, by 2004 Democratic presidential nominee Senator John Forbes Kerry, descendant through his mother, of the Scottish Forbes family, which emigrated to Massachusetts the 1750s ).

Numerous party leaders privately told Roosevelt that they would fight Wallace's renomination as VP and proposed Missouri Senator Harry S. Truman, a moderate who had gained favorable publicity as the chairman of a Senate wartime investigating committee, as FDR's new running mate.

The Sherman Antitrust Act was named after its author, Senator John Sherman, an Ohio Republican, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, who was also Rockefeller's colleague.

Senator Patrick Leahy ( D-VT ), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, had stated that he could " not support " the proposed legislation and, as chairman, intended to block consideration of the controversial bill.

The chief antagonist was Senator William Proxmire ( D-Wis ), the nemesis of Lockheed and its chairman, Daniel J. Haughton.

The Act was sponsored by Senator George H. Pendleton, Democratic Senator of Ohio, and written by Dorman Bridgeman Eaton, a staunch opponent of the patronage system who was later first chairman of the United States Civil Service Commission.

It was named after its author, Senator John Sherman, an Ohio Republican, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.

William McKinley, an Ohio Republican and chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee worked with John Sherman, the senior Republican Senator from Ohio, to create a package that could both pass the Senate and receive the President's approval.

* Notable recent graduates of the college include: former Missouri Senator Jim Talent, Nevada Senator Chic Hecht, and former Nebraska Congressman Hal Daub ; George Zimmer, founder of Men's Wearhouse ; Avram Glazer, chairman of Manchester United ; Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Ken Cooper and Hank Klibanoff ; Jon Feltheimer, CEO of Lionsgate films ; actors Peter Sarsgaard ( Boys Don't Cry, An Education, Flight Plan ) and Harold Ramis ( Ghostbusters, Caddyshack ); U. S. Ambassador Sam Fox ; baseball player Dal Maxvill ; and science-show host Deanne Bell ( Design Squad ).

The most thorough critique of the system emerged from the hearings conducted in 1960 ( 1961 by the Senate Subcommittee on National Policy Machinery, known as the Jackson Subcommittee for its chairman, Senator Henry Jackson.

Senator Walter F. Mondale, chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity, went to Uvalde on July 30, 1970, and criticized city officials in an interview published in the Uvalde Leader News.

It is named in honor of John Henninger Reagan ( 1818-1905 ), who served as postmaster general of the Confederate States of America and also as a U. S. Senator, U. S. Representative, and first chairman of the Railroad Commission of Texas.

Currently, Representative Bedke is House Assistant Majority Leader, Senator Darrington, the Dean of the Senate, is chairman of the Senate Judiciary and Rules Committee and Fred Wood sits on the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee.

Town Alderman, 1904, Louisiana State Senator 1916-1920, District Attorney 1920-1924, Chairman of the Louisiana State Democratic Central Committee, four-time delegate to the Democratic National Convention 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, Democratic National Convention Rules Committee Member 1945, Louisiana Public Service Commissioner 1928-1936 ( PSC chairman 1932-1936 ), Federal Prosecutor for the Western District of Louisiana 1937-1941, Chairman of the Ouachita Valley Farmers Association, Law partner of Huey Long and Earl Long and Robert O ' Neal.

Jesse Alexander Helms, Jr. ( October 18, 1921 – July 4, 2008 ) was a five-term Republican United States Senator from North Carolina who served as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1995 to 2001.

* Tom Connally, U. S. Senator from 1928 to 1952 ; chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during World War II ; member of the United States House of Representative from 1918 to 1928

According to Senator Zachariah Chandler, he " disgraced himself and the Senate by making a drunken foolish speech.

* 1957 – U. S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957 ; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.

The U. S. Senate Select Committee chaired by Senator Frank Church ( the Church Committee ) reported in 1975 that it had found " concrete evidence of at least eight plots involving the CIA to assassinate Fidel Castro from 1960 to 1965.

On August 31, Senator Kenneth Keating ( R-New York ), who probably received his information from Cuban exiles in Florida, warned on the Senate floor that the Soviet Union may be constructing a missile base in Cuba.

However, Republican Dino Rossi narrowly carried the city over Democratic Senator Patty Murray in the 2010 Senate race with 50. 7 percent of the vote to Murray's 49. 3 percent.

To persuade the Senate, he expressed his distress on behalf of a Senator who could not find seating at a crowded games in Puteoli:

After being debriefed extensively by the CIA, Lockheed, and the Air Force, on March 6, 1962, Powers appeared before a Senate Armed Services Select Committee hearing chaired by Senator Richard Russell and including Senators Prescott Bush and Barry Goldwater Sr.

With help from supporters Senator Dill and Representative White, Hoover brought the issue of radio control to the Senate floor.

The NAACP was successful in gaining Senator Borah's support and the nomination was defeated by one vote in the Senate.

The Senate expelled Senator Blount and, after initially hearing his impeachment, dismissed the charges for lack of jurisdiction.

He was serving in the Michigan Senate when he enrolled at Thomas M. Cooley Law School, and graduated with a Juris Doctor degree from Cooley, having served as a Michigan State Senator since 1979.

Posthumus later went on to be elected State Senator, Senate Majority Leader and Lieutenant Governor.

* On March 30, 2000, with Senator Russ Feingold, Ashcroft convened the only Senate hearing on racial profiling, where he stated that racial profiling is unconstitutional and said that he supported the concept of legislation requiring that statistics be kept of police actions.

* 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 ").

In September 2008, Barnaby Joyce replaced CLP Senator and Nationals deputy leader Nigel Scullion as leader of the Nationals in the Senate, and stated that his party in the upper house would no longer necessarily vote with their Liberal counterparts in the upper house, which opened up another possible avenue for the Rudd Labor Government to get legislation through.

In 2004 Aníbal Acevedo Vilá ( PDP ) was declared the winner by the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico as governor, by about 3, 000 votes, but his party lost control of the Senate, which elected NPP Senator Kenneth McClintock as its president, and the House of Representatives, which chose the NPP's José Aponte as Speaker, and Puerto Rico's seat in Congress, due to the election of Luis Fortuño.

Petrarch revived the work and letters of the ancient Roman Senate | Roman Senator Cicero | Marcus Tullius CiceroPetrarch also published many volumes of his letters, including a few written to his long-dead friends from history such as Cicero and Virgil.

The only case where a senator was appointed prime minister was that of John Gorton, who subsequently resigned his Senate position and was elected as a member of the House of Representatives ( Senator George Pearce was acting prime minister for seven months in 1916 while Billy Hughes was overseas ).

On 15 July 2009, Senator Jim Webb of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee declared that only the " United States has both the stature and the national power to confront the obvious imbalance of power that China brings " to situations such as the claims to the Spratly and Paracel islands.

He also served a one-year term as the President of the Continental Congress, and was a U. S. Senator from Virginia from 1789 to 1792, serving during part of that time as one of the first Presidents pro tempore of the United States Senate.

* Senator the Hon John Herron, Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs to the Senate Legal And Constitutional References Committee, " Inquiry Into The Stolen Generation " Federal Government Submission, March 2000