In the United Kingdom, the House of Lords was composed of life members and hereditary members and reserved solely to the nobility ; similarly, in France, Senators, also with life terms, were named rather than elected ; in the United States, a presidential republic, Senators were chosen by the state legislatures ( until this was modified by the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913 ).

Senators are elected on the basis of a nationwide ballot, while representatives are elected in multimember districts co-located within the 32 national departments.

Senators are elected by the legislatures of the 26 provinces.

The Floor Leaders are referred to as the Senate Majority Leader, who belongs to the party with the most Senators, and the Senate Minority Leader, who belongs to the other major party.

Even flags flown over the U. S. Capitol for sale to the public through Representatives or Senators are provided in these sizes.

* 1867 – 72 Senators are summoned by Royal Proclamation to serve as the first members of the Canadian Senate.

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.

Of the 60 Senators, 11 are nominated by the Taoiseach, so there is rarely a majority opposed to a government bill.

So are Gil Hodges and Mickey Vernon, who managed the " New Senators ".

A two-thirds supermajority of those Senators " present " is required to convict, although given the obvious importance of impeachment proceedings, there are generally few absent members.

Now that Senators are popularly elected, it is largely a moot point.

Furthermore, the Twelfth Amendment provides that the votes of " a majority of the whole number " of Senators are required to arrive at a choice.

However, concerning children born in the United States to parents who are not U. S. citizens ( and not foreign diplomats ), three Senators, including Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lyman Trumbull, the author of the Civil Rights Act, as well as President Andrew Johnson, asserted that both the Civil Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment would confer citizenship on them at birth, and no Senator offered a contrary opinion.

Unlike Senators and Representatives who are constitutionally prohibited from holding any other " office of trust or profit " of the United States or of any state while holding their congressional seats, the Chief Justice and the other members of the federal judiciary are not barred from serving in other positions.

The legislative power is constituted by the General Assembly, composed of two chambers: the Chamber of Deputies of 99 members representing the 19 departments, elected based on proportional representation ; and the Chamber of Senators consisting of 31 members, 30 of whom are elected for a five year term by proportional representation and the Vice-president, who presides over the chamber.

The Chamber of Senators ( Cámara de Senadores ) has 31 members ; 30 members are elected for a five year term by proportional representation and the Vice-president who presides over it.

* In Scotland, judges of the High Court of Justiciary are called Senators of the College of Justice.

* In some, mostly federal countries with a unicameral legislature, some of the legislators are elected differently from the others and are called Senators.

The Senate Majority and Minority Leaders are two United States Senators who are elected by the party conferences that hold the majority and the minority respectively.

However, this is not necessary as some are simply signed in as guests of Senators or Members on the day of their visit.

They are also its elders, and are therefore known as Senators.

The initial session of the five day session, which was addressed by two U. S Senators and opened by the Marine Corp Band and Joint Armed Services Honor Guard, was attended by several hundred members from around the world.

Five of the U. S. Senators who participated in the investigation agreed, writing, " As to the ' endowment oath ,' it is sufficient in this summary to say that the testimony is collated and analyzed in the annexed statement, and thereby shown to be limited in amount, vague, and indefinite in character, and utterly unreliable because of the disreputable and untrustworthy character of the witnesses.

Senators led the opposition, with Strom Thurmond writing the initial draft and Richard Russell the final version.

He resisted criticism of the Wehrmacht, strongly opposing a travelling exhibition called Die Verbrechen der Wehrmacht 1941-1944 ( The Crimes of the Wehrmacht, 1941 – 1944 ) and writing to US Senators that if they discouraged Ronald Reagan from his presidential visit to the Bitburg military cemetery, he would " consider this to be an insult to my brother and my comrades who were killed in action ".

Seeing the writing on the wall, the Twins traded Pascual and once-promising second baseman Bernie Allen on December 3, 1966 to the new Washington Senators for 35-year-old relief pitcher Ron Kline.

The Senate of the Republic, () constitutionally Chamber of Senators of the Honorable Congress of the Union (, is the upper house of Mexico's bicameral Congress.

It met with stronger resistance in the Senate — some Senators objected to the change of name ; Ernest Manning, who argued that the rationale for the change was based on a misperception of the name, and George McIlraith, who did not agree with the manner in which the bill had been passed and urged the government to proceed in a more " dignified way "— but finally passed.

The team name was officially changed to Washington Senators around the time of Clark Griffith's death.

The franchise was established in 1961 by the name of the Washington Senators, an expansion team awarded to Washington, D. C., after the city's first ballclub, the original Washington Senators, moved to Minnesota and became the Twins.

This new team adopted the old Senators name, but was ( and still is ) considered an expansion team since the Twins retained the old Senators ' records and history.

* 1905: Washington Senators renamed Washington Nationals ; Senators name continued to be used by media

The Jackson Senators was the name of at least two minor league baseball teams that played in Jackson, Mississippi.

: Note: Because the original Senators ' relocation to Minnesota and the expansion Senators ' arrival occurred in the same year ( 1961 ), and both had the same name, it is a very common mistake to confuse or combine the two baseball franchises.

A third, the Ottawa Senators, borrows its name and heritage from its NHA counterpart, but is a separate expansion franchise founded in 1992.

Lee is credited with two acts which influenced Rice's subsequent career: he changed the player's name from ' Edgar ' to ' Sam ', and he convinced the Senators to let Rice play in the outfield instead of pitching.

When the Montreal Expos moved to Washington, " Grays " was one of the three finalists ( along with " Senators " and the eventual winner " Nationals ") for the relocated team's new name, reflecting Washington's baseball history.

* Beyond the Shadow of the Senators — the website is a companion to the book of the same name, a comprehensive history of the Grays, written by Brad Snyder.

The stadium was home to the American League Senators from 1911 through 1960, and to an expansion team of the same name for their first season in 1961.

* The Washington Senators ( disambiguation ), the name of multiple defunct Major League Baseball teams based in Washington, D. C.

The Nationals ' name derives from the former Washington baseball team that had the same name ( used interchangeably with Senators ).

The second Senators team moved to Arlington, Texas for the 1972 season and changed their name to the Texas Rangers, and Washington spent the next 33 years without a baseball team.

Although there was some sentiment to revive the name Senators, political considerations factored into the choice of Nationals, a revival of the first American League franchise's " official " nickname used from 1905 to 1956.

Politicians and others in the District of Columbia objected to the name Senators because the District of Columbia does not have voting representation in Congress.

In addition, the Rangers still owned the rights to the Senators name, although the