The Senate also voted $5.2 billion to finance the government's health, welfare, and labor activities.

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.

A second invasion also ended in defeat at the Battle of Verona, though Alaric forced the Roman Senate to pay a large subsidy to the Visigoths.

Time was also taken up in a controversy involving his Senate colleague from Tennessee, John Bell, a leading Whig.

Seward also negotiated to purchase the Danish West Indies, but the Senate refused to approve the purchase in 1867 ( it eventually was accomplished in 1917 ).

A 2008 Senate investigation found that Biederman also received $ 1. 6 million in speaking and consulting fees between 2000 and 2007 — some of them undisclosed to Harvard — from companies including makers of antipsychotic drugs prescribed for children with bipolar disorder.

Clinton also experienced a number of judicial appointment controversies, as 69 nominees to federal judgeships were not processed by the Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee.

Olson, who had also worked under Thomas at the EEOC and was a close friend of Thomas, spoke out on his behalf during his contentious Senate confirmation hearings.

The censors were also in charge of the membership roll of the Senate, every five years adding new senators who had been elected to the requisite offices.

Censors could also remove unworthy members from the Senate.

They also requested that Claudius be allowed to debate in the Senate.

He also put the Imperial provinces of Macedonia and Achaea back under Senate control.

The Lyon Tablet preserves his speech on the admittance of Gallic senators, in which he addresses the Senate with reverence but also with criticism for their disdain of these men.

This was partly due to the ongoing hostility of the Senate, as mentioned above, but also due to his respect for the senators.

The censors also possessed the right, though probably not without the assent of the Senate, of imposing new vectigalia, and even of selling the land belonging to the state.

: And the One Hundred and Fifty most religious Bishops, actuated by the same consideration, gave equal privileges ( ἴσα πρεσβεῖα ) to the most holy throne of New Rome, justly judging that the city which is honoured with the Sovereignty and the Senate and enjoys equal privileges with the old imperial Rome, should in ecclesiastical matters also be magnified as she is, and rank next after her.

The Maritimes, with its much smaller proportion of the national population ( compared to the time of Confederation ) also have an over-representation in the Senate, particularly compared to the population growth of Ontario and the western provinces.

The resulting Treaty of Versailles, due to European allies ' punitive and territorial designs, showed insufficient conformity with these points and the U. S. signed separate treaties with each of its adversaries ; due to Senate objections also, the U. S. never joined the League of Nations, which was established as a result of Wilson's initiative.

The Parliament of the third republic is also bicameral, with a National Assembly and a Senate.

In the election he also brought with him a Republican majority in the House ( by eight votes ) and in the Senate ( actually a tie, with Nixon providing the majority vote ).

It also tied his success to that of the Senate, whose support he would need in an advance on Rome.

When the Democrats took control of the Senate in December 1845, they chose Atchison as President pro tempore, placing him third in succession for the Presidency, and also giving him the duty of presiding over the Senate when the Vice President was absent.

And the One Hundred and Fifty most religious Bishops ( i. e. the second ecumenical council in 381 ) actuated by the same consideration, gave equal privileges to the most holy throne of New Rome, justly judging that the city which is honored with the Sovereignty and the Senate, and enjoys equal privileges with the old imperial Rome, should in ecclesiastical matters also be magnified as she is.

Twice previously the Senate has approved measures backing ETV and the House has let them die.

Nonetheless, as Frank Bowe predicted when he testified as the lead witness on Title III in the Senate hearings leading up to enactment, the fact that Title III calls for accessibility in, and alterations to, thousands of stores, restaurants, hotels, etc., in thousands of communities across the U. S. means that this Title probably has had more effect on the lives of more Americans with disabilities than any other ADA title.

In more recent times, it has been suggested that the Senate may have pushed for the marriage between Agrippina and Claudius to end the feud between the Julian and Claudian branches.

It has been suggested in recent times that the Senate may have pushed for the marriage to end the feud between the Julian and Claudian branches.

This has led to calls to reform the Senate ; however, such a move would entail constitutional changes.

Another factor related to the number of Senate seats is that a constitutional amendment in the early 20th century mandated that no province can have fewer Members of Parliament than it has senators.

The US Constitution gives much of the foreign policy decision-making to the presidency, but the Senate has a role in ratifying treaties, and the Supreme Court interprets treaties when cases are presented to it.

Over the years, Francis Coppola has given political contributions to several candidates of the Democratic Party, including Mike Thompson, Nancy Pelosi for the U. S. House of Representatives and Barbara Boxer and Alan Cranston for the U. S. Senate.

Grenada is governed under a parliamentary system based on the British model ; it has a governor general, a prime minister and a cabinet, and a bicameral Parliament with an elected House of Representatives and an appointed Senate.

" The bill was referred to committee on first reading in the Senate and has been there ever since.

However, the elections were marred by controversy in the Senate race over the calculation of whether Senate candidates had achieved the majority required to avoid a run-off election ( in Haiti, seats where no candidate wins an absolute majority of votes cast has to enter a second-round run-off election ).

In presidential systems, such as that of the United States, appointments are nominated by the President's sole discretion, but this nomination is often subject to parliamentary confirmation ( in the case of the US, the Senate has to approve cabinet nominees and judicial appointments by simple majority ).

Following his Senate term, Schmitt has been a consultant in business, geology, space, and public policy.

On 31 October 2007 the Foreign Relations Committee of the United States Senate, by a vote of 17 to 4, recommended ratification, and President George W. Bush publicly supported U. S. accession to the Convention ; no date has yet been set for action by the full Senate.

The House has impeached 14 federal judges and the Senate has convicted six of them.

The peregrine praetor ( literally-the traveling judge ) within the next ten days after this law is passed by the people or plebs shall provide for the selection of 450 persons in this State who have or have had a knight's census ... provided that he does not select a person who is or has been plebeian tribune, quaestor, triumvir capitalis, military tribune in any of the first four legions, or triumvir for granting and assigning lands, or who is or has been in the Senate, or who has fought or shall fight as a gladiator for hire ... or who has been condemned by the judicial process and a public trial whereby he cannot be enrolled in the Senate, or who is less than thirty or more than sixty years of age, or who does not have his residence in the city of Rome or within one mile of it, or who is the father, brother, or son of any above-described magistrate, or who is the father, brother, or son of a person who is or has been a member of the Senate, or who is overseas.

* 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 tax was criticized by the opposition as a tax grab, and voted down in the Senate on March 18, 2009.

* Singer, S. Fred " Testimony of Prof. S. Fred Singer ", Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on Climate Change, July 18, 2000, accessed May 16, 2010.

While the Senate passed the petition on January 29, it was defeated in House of Representatives on February 18.

When he was summoned to a meeting of the Senate later that year on 18 October 31 AD.

It was officially proposed by the Congress to the states when the Senate passed the resolution, by a vote of 47 to 8, the next day, December 18.

* September 18 – Valerie Percy, 21-year-old daughter of then U. S. Senate candidate Charles H. Percy, is stabbed and bludgeoned to death in the family mansion on Chicago's North Shore.

* April 18 – The U. S. Senate votes 68 – 32 to turn the Panama Canal over to Panamanian control on December 31, 1999.

* March 18 – The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius's will and proclaims Caligula Roman Emperor.

* February 18 – The first ongoing filibuster in the United States Senate begins and lasts until March 11.

* May 18 – Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French by the French Senate.

The majority of the provisions of the Act took effect on September 18, 1947, the day after the Senate confirmed James Forrestal as the first Secretary of Defense.

Those voting for passage in the Senate were ( 18 ):

Senate: 79 – 18

The Health Insurance Bill 1973 and the accompanying bills were rejected by the Senate on three occasions ( 12 December 1973, 2 April 1974 and 18 July 1974 ) but were subsequently passed at a joint sitting of both Houses ( 7 August 1974 ) following a double dissolution election.

Senator Sarbanes's bill passed the Senate Banking Committee on June 18, 2002, by a vote of 17 to 4.

On March 10, 1971, the Senate voted 94 – 0 in favor of proposing a Constitutional amendment to guarantee that the voting age could not be higher than 18.

Benton County was established on December 18, 1832, named for Thomas Hart Benton, a member of the United States Senate from Missouri, with its county seat at Jacksonville.

Miami County is part of Indiana's 5th congressional district ; Indiana Senate district 18 ; and Indiana House of Representatives districts 23, 24 and 32.

LaGrange County is part of Indiana's 3rd congressional district ; Indiana Senate district 13 ; and Indiana House of Representatives districts 18 and 52.

It is also part of Indiana Senate districts 9, 13, 17 and 18 and Indiana House of Representatives districts 18, 22 and 23.

It is also part of Indiana Senate district 18 ; and Indiana House of Representatives districts 16 and 23.

The Board of the University of Wisconsin System includes 18 members, 16 of whom are appointed by the Governor and approved by the Senate.