This Article undertakes a systematic rebuttal to the arguments made by Supreme Court nominees and others that Court nominees are constrained, in their Senate hearings on possible confirmation, from expressing their specific views on legal issues and cases of the day. It argues that nominee ...
While many Americans struggle to save forretirement, elected representatives and senators in the U.S. Congress receive substantial pension benefits for life. Though congressional retirement pay is not typically a big election-year issue, it might serve as evidence of a disconnect between lawmakers ...
State’s electoral votes are equal to the number of representatives and senators the state has in Congress. Each state is guaranteed at least one seat in the House and two in the Senate. According to USAfacts.org, if electoral votes were distributed according to population, one electoral vote...
Tim Scott net worth of$1.1 millionis the result of his successful political career and business. He earns money from the salary he receives from the government and agencies he is serving. Being one of the richest senators in the country, Tim Scott earns more than $50,000 monthly, and his...
WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, February 12) -- The Senate acquitted President Bill Clinton Friday of both articles of impeachment. The perjury charge was defeated with 55 "not guilty" votes and 45 "guilty" votes. On the obstruction-of-justice article, the chamber was evenly split, 50-50. Below ...
the House along with its current status. You can find bills that have not yet passed the House, which means you’ll want to write your House Representative. Bills that have passed the House will then go to the Senate, so for those you’ll want to write both of your state’s Senators...
then he was so impatient of putting off pleasure, which his cruelty used to demand in great amount without delay, that while walking with matrons and other senators in the open promenade of his mother’s gardens, which separates the portico from the river bank, by lamp-light, he beheaded ...
What has spurred this posting is a response I received from an anti-SOPA/PIPA message I sent to one of my (Connecticut) Senators, Richard Blumenthal, who as the state’s Attorney General was a fierce advocate for the consumer. He in fact had been favorably inclined towards these terrible ...
Matthews, D. 1960.U.S. Senators and their world. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. (Open in a new window)Google Scholar Mayer, A. 1966. “The Significance of Quasi-Groups in the Study of Complex Societies.” InThe Social Anthropology of Complex Societies, edited by M. Bant...
The Senate holds recorded votes much less often than the House, with many issues moved forward by simple voice votes, leaving a smaller sample of recorded votes to look at. Article content But across the same number of votes in the two different time periods, one or more ISG senators voted...