Johnson took to the Senate floor after the election demonstrated the schism in the country, giving a sensational speech headlined by the New York Times: "... I will not give up this government ... No ; I intend to stand by it ... and I invite every man who is a patriot to ... rally around the altar of our common country ... and swear by our God ... that the Constitution shall be saved, and the Union preserved.

Because of the circumstances of his accession, Claudius took great pains to please the Senate.

They took the side of the Senate in most conflicts with the Princeps, invariably viewing him as being in the wrong.

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.

During Hillary Clinton's campaign for election to the U. S. Senate, the couple's daughter Chelsea took over much of the First Lady's role.

His followers took two-thirds of the legislature's lower house and all of the seats in the Senate.

In May 2000 the Haitian legislative election, 2000 for the Chamber of Deputies and two-thirds of the Senate took place.

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.

He took an active part in the new government, and in 1790 he was elected to the Senate of the first United States Congress, where he joined the Jeffersonians.

On November 9, 2004, following George W. Bush's re-election, Ashcroft announced his resignation, which took effect on February 3, 2005 when the Senate confirmed White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales as the next attorney general.

President Woodrow Wilson had been a driving force behind the League's formation and strongly influenced the form it took, but the US Senate voted not to join on 19 November 1919.

In 2004, Stott Despoja took 11 weeks ' leave from the Senate following the birth of her first child before returning to full duties as Democrat spokesperson on, inter alia, Higher Education, Status of Women, and Work and Family.

Realizing that this would bring solidarity to the region and an obstacle to conquest, the Senate took steps to turn these species against each other.

After the senior Romulan leadership was assassinated in the Romulan Senate, the Remans took over the Senate and Shinzon became Praetor ; he was, however, dispatched by Captain Jean-Luc Picard shortly afterwards.

On 5 December, he took office and was officially enrolled in the Roman Senate.

Julianus was condemned to death by the Senate and killed, and Severus took possession of Rome without opposition.

In 1913 Wilson took the then unheard-of step of meeting personally with members of the Senate to discuss policy.

Harding took on a personal secretary in the Senate, George B. Christian, Jr., a former neighbor, who protected him from political patrons and intrusive inquiries, and served until the future president's death.

In order to strengthen his title to both the Roman Empire and announce his position as the protector of Christendom, Otto III took for himself the titles " the Servant of Jesus Christ ," " the Servant of the Apostles ", " Consul of the Senate and People of Rome ," and " Emperor of the World ".

Minnesota elected Humphrey to the United States Senate in 1948 on the DFL ticket, unseating incumbent Republican Joseph H. Ball with 60 % of the vote, and he took office on January 3, 1949.

She took office after being confirmed by the United States Senate on February 24, 2009.

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.

For three or four years in the mid-1950's, this complaint was heard rumbling up from the Senate floor whenever there was a dull legislative afternoon.

On March 5, 1868, the impeachment trial began in the Senate and lasted almost three months ; Reps. George S. Boutwell, Ben Butler and Thaddeus Stevens acted as managers ( prosecutors ) for the House and William M. Evarts, Benjamin R. Curtis and Attorney General Henry Stanberry served as Johnson's counsel ; Chief Justice Chase served as presiding judge.

The current Senate composition is as follows: 20 seats are held by the Coalition of Parties for Democracy ( CPD ): Six Christian Democrats ( PDC ), eight Socialists ( PS ), three Party for Democracy ( PPD ) and three Social Democrat Radical Party ( PRSD ); 17 by the Alliance for Chile ( APC ): nine Independent Democratic Union ( UDI ) and eight National Renewal ( RN ); and one independent leaning right.

The plot is described as having been planned by three men, but many in the Senate, army and equestrian order were said to have been informed of it and involved in it.

The Canadian Senate is structured along regional lines, giving an equal number of seats ( 24 ) to the Maritimes, Ontario, Quebec, and western Canada, in addition to the later entry of Newfoundland and Labrador, as well as the three territories.

In an interview with the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Atchison revealed that he slept through most of the day of his alleged presidency: " There had been three or four busy nights finishing up the work of the Senate, and I slept most of that Sunday.

The passing of the Tokoi Senate bill, called the " Power Act ," in July 1917 became the first one of the three culminations of the power struggle between the Social Democrats and the conservatives during the political crisis from March 1917 to the end of January 1918.

Guadeloupe sends four deputies to the French National Assembly and three senators to the French Senate.

No one had ever posthumously won election to the Senate, though voters had on at least three occasions chosen deceased candidates for the House.

The opposition participated in municipal elections in January – February 1994 and subsequent Senate elections, most recently in April 2004, gaining representation at the local level as well as three seats in the Senate.

Legislative elections are scheduled every six years for the Senate, to be fully renewed in elections held concurrently with the presidential elections ; and every three years for the Chamber of Deputies.

In 1972, he headed a Soviet delegation to Belgium, and three years later he led a delegation to West Germany ; in 1983 he headed a delegation to Canada to meet with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and members of the Commons and Senate.

This empowers the governor-general to appoint Ministers of the Crown and requires such ministers to be members of the House of Representatives or the Senate, or become members within three months of the appointment.

The President is formally one of three tiers of the Oireachtas ( national parliament ), which also comprises Dáil Éireann ( the lower house ) and Seanad Éireann ( the Senate or upper house ).

The Senate was composed of 300 Senators, with 100 Senators representing each of the three ancient tribes of Rome: the Ramnes ( Latins ), Tities ( Sabines ), and Luceres ( Etruscans ) tribes.

This ' Commonwealth of Both Nations ' ensured that the state of affairs surrounding the ' three estates ' system ' continued, with the Sejm, Senate and King each being referred to as an ' estate ' and supreme deliberating body of the state.

After this, all Senators from those States have been elected to six-year terms, and as new States have joined the Union, their Senate seats have been assigned to one of the three classes, maintaining each grouping as nearly equal in size as possible.

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.

Between 1857 and 1900, the Senate investigated three elections over corruption.

In 1960, after Eisenhower had made three such appointments, the Senate passed a " sense of the Senate " resolution that recess appointments to the Court should only be made in " unusual circumstances.

The Student Senate of Wabash College is the legislative authority, consisting of senators from each residence hall and fraternity, four representatives from each of the three underclasses, and the chairmen of the Senate's standing committees.