With the help of Washington's Senators, Wesley Jones and Clarence Dill, Congress ordered $ 600, 000 in further studies to be carried out by the Army Corps and Federal Power Commission on the Columbia River Basin and Snake Rivers.

Democratic Senators characterized Alito as a hard right conservative in the mold of a Clarence Thomas or Robert Bork.

His nephews State Senators Clarence Mitchell III and Michael Mitchell ended up serving time in Federal prison for their parts in the scandal.

Hazlitt became well known both through his articles and by frequently debating prominent politicians on the radio, including: Vice President Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, and U. S. Senators Paul Douglas and Hubert H. Humphrey, the future Vice President.

Famous MSU alumni include former Michigan governors James Blanchard and John Engler, U. S. Senators Debbie Stabenow and Tim Johnson, U. S. Ambassador to Brazil Donna Hrinak, former Jordan Prime Minister Adnan Badran, billionaire philanthropists Tom Gores and Eli Broad, Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court Wallace B. Jefferson, trial lawyer Geoffrey Feiger, former Food and Drug Administration official Peter Rheinstein, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Ford, Teamsters president James P. Hoffa, Quicken Loans founder and Cleveland Cavaliers owner and billionaire Dan Gilbert, Sergeant at Arms of the U. S. House of Representatives Wilson Livingood, former Michigan U. S. Senator and Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham, former Vice President of the Republic of Liberia Harry Moniba, and former U. S. Ambassador to Italy Peter Secchia.

George Wallace Jones ( April 12, 1804 – July 22, 1896 ), a frontiersman, entrepreneur, attorney, and judge, was among the first two United States Senators to represent the state of Iowa after it was admitted to the Union in 1846.

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.

Important members of the party have included Minneapolis mayor Hubert H. Humphrey and Minnesota Attorney General Walter Mondale, who each went on to be United States Senators, Vice Presidents of the United States, and unsuccessful Democratic nominees for president, Humphrey in 1968 and Mondale in 1984 ; Eugene McCarthy, a Senator who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968 as an anti-Vietnam War candidate ; and Paul Wellstone, a Senator from 1991 – 2002 who became an icon of populist progressivism.

Lane County was named after James H. Lane who was a leader of the Jayhawker abolitionist movement and served as one of the first U. S. Senators from Kansas.

Lane was named after James H. Lane, a leader of the Jayhawkers abolitionist movement, who served as one of the first Senators from Kansas.

All the other Senators elected to terms starting in 1913 had been elected earlier ; Senator James H. Brady of Idaho was elected to fill a vacancy on January 24 ; he was next to last.

" Santorum faced criticism for his comments from Republican Senators including Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Lincoln Chafee, and Gordon H. Smith.

After ruling out a promotion of a sitting Associate Justice to Chief ( despite much lobbying from the legal community for prominent Justice Samuel Freeman Miller ), Grant offered the Chief Justiceship to Senators Oliver Morton of Indiana and Timothy Howe of Wisconsin, then to his own Secretary of State, Hamilton Fish, before finally submitting to the Senate his nomination of Attorney General George H. Williams on December 1.

The hearings were covered heavily by the media and were co-chaired by Senators Joseph Lieberman ( Connecticut ) and Herbert H. Kohl ( Wisconsin ), during which Night Trap was cited as " shameful ", " ultra-violent ", " sick ", and " disgusting ", encouraging an " effort to trap and kill women ".

Over " objection " by Senators James Inhofe ( R-OK ) and Paul Wellstone ( D-MN ), the Senate passed the Conference Report, and therefore H. R.

There were seven members: Nye, the committee chair ; and Senators Homer T. Bone ( D-WA ), James P. Pope ( D-ID ), Bennett Champ Clark ( D-MO ), Walter F. George ( D-GA ), W. Warren Barbour ( R-NJ ), and Arthur H. Vandenberg ( R-MI ).

In the same year, the Broadcaster Freedom Act of 2007 was proposed in the Senate by Senators Coleman with 35 co-sponsors ( S. 1748 ) and John Thune ( R-SD ) with 8 co-sponsors ( S. 1742 ) and in the House by Republican Representative Mike Pence of Indiana with 208 co-sponsors ( H. R.

Bayard was the father of two U. S. Senators, Richard H. Bayard and James A. Bayard, Jr., grandfather of another, Thomas F. Bayard, Sr. and great grandfather of another, Thomas F. Bayard, Jr ..

* Google Book Life Sketches of State Officers, Senators, and Members of Assembly in the State of New York in 1867 by S. R. Harlow and H. H. Boone ( Weed, Parsons & Co., Albany NY, 1867 )

He held another breakfast on June 16, 1946, attended by Senators H. Alexander Smith and Lister Hill, and US News and World Report publisher David Lawrence.

He has advised many United States Governors, Mayors, Congressmen and Senators on policy and served as a political advisor to former Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.

* Both U. S. Senators from Ohio: John H. Glenn Jr. ( 1974-1999 ) and Howard M. Metzenbaum ( 1974, 1976-1995 )

Harry H. Davis ( July 19, 1873 – August 11, 1947 ) was a Major League Baseball first baseman and right-handed batter who played for the New York Giants ( 1895 – 96 ), Pittsburgh Pirates ( 1896 – 98 ), Louisville Colonels ( 1898 ), Washington Senators ( 1898 – 99 ), Philadelphia Athletics ) ( 1901 – 11, 1913 – 17 ), and Cleveland Naps ( 1912 ).

Senators Nunn and Lugar leave the White House in 1991 after briefing President George H. W. Bush on the Nunn – Lugar legislation

Former President George H. W. Bush, Senators Bob Dole, Daniel Inouye, Bob Kerry, and other men and women described how combat changed their lives.

* George H. Richardson, owner of the Washington Senators, 1920 to 1949

His funeral was attended by a series of luminaries including U. S. Senators Paul Sarbanes and Barbara Mikulski, now House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer, various county executives and other prominent public officials as well as regular citizens touched by Goldstein's life of public service.

His family had a long tradition of political service, and two of his uncles served as U. S. Senators, with one of them, Alfred H. Colquitt, also the Governor of Georgia.

Two strong dissents from the majority report of the Joint Economic Committee ( May 2 ) by Senators Proxmire and Butler allege that the New Deal fiscal policy of the Thirties did not work.

-- Senators unanimously approved Thursday the bill of Sen. George Parkhouse of Dallas authorizing establishment of day schools for the deaf in Dallas and the four other largest counties.

New Mexico's Clint Anderson offered a resolution to change the Senate's notorious Rule 22 to allow three-fifths of the Senators present and voting to cut off debate, instead of the current hard-to-get two-thirds.

Fair Dealer Humphrey upped the ante, asked cloture power for a mere majority of Senators.

In 1957 Nixon delivered a significant opinion that a majority of Senators had the power to adopt new rules at the beginning of each new Congress, and that any rules laid down by previous Congresses were not binding.

Agrippina became involved in a group of Roman Senators who opposed the growing power and influence of the notorious Praetorian Guard Lucius Aelius Sejanus.

He reprised resolutions for constitutional amendments to provide for 1 ) the direct election of the president, rather than by the electoral college, 2 ) the direct election of U. S. Senators, rather than by state legislatures and 3 ) the limiting of judges ' terms to twelve years.

" As southern Senators began to express their intent to resign their seats, Johnson reminded Sen. Jefferson Davis, the Confederacy's future leader, that if his coalition would only hold to their seats, the Democrats would control the Congress, and thus better defend the South's interests.

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.

During the impeachment trial, Representative Benjamin Butler launched an investigation into suspicious and complex activities surrounding certain Senators, whose votes would either convict or acquit President Johnson.

According to the historian David O. Stewart, Cornelius Wendell led an acquittal committee, which met in the Astor House in New York ; it collected a bribery fund of up to $ 150, 000 to influence Senators into voting for Johnson's acquittal.

Senators Ross, Henderson, and Fowler, were most suspected of taking bribe money.

The Member for Fraser and the ACT Senators also represent the constituents of the Jervis Bay Territory.

* 1913 – The 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution, requiring direct election of Senators, becomes law.

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.

Pressured by the Senators present and by his officers, he reluctantly engaged in battle and suffered an overwhelming defeat, ultimately fleeing the camp and his men disguised as an ordinary citizen.

After trapping Caesar in Thessaly, the prominent Senators in Pompey's camp began to argue loudly for a more decisive victory.

Anthrax was used in a series of attacks on the offices of several United States Senators in late 2001.