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American Protective Association

The Ohio APA still had enough strength in 1914 to contribute to the defeats of Democratic US Senate candidate Timothy S. Hogan and incumbent Democratic Governor James M. Cox.

Donor advised fund

On August 17, 2006, President George W. Bush signed the Pension Protection Act of 2006 (H.R. 4) into law, which includes a number of changes to the regulatory framework for donor-advised funds, and follows both House and Senate passage of H.R. 4.

Ed Kealty

In the novel Debt of Honor, Kealty was serving as a Senator from New England, before being appointed Vice-President following the resignation of President J. Robert Fowler (at the end of the previous novel, The Sum of All Fears).

George Miller, Jr.

as running mate to losing gubernatorial candidate James Roosevelt, who, together with US Senate candidate Helen Gahagan Douglas, was deserted by the old-line state Democratic organization of San Francisco boss William M. Malone, with the acquiescence of Truman's Washington.

Raising Kaine

During the 2006 US election cycle, RK helped found the "Draft James Webb" movement, an effort to draft Marine Corps veteran Jim Webb to run for US Senate against George Allen.

Robert C. Lee

On 1918-06-15, he married Elsie Francis Calder, daughter of Senator William M. Calder.

Ron Ziegler

Particularly in the period following the resignations of such senior administration officials as Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, Ziegler became one of Nixon's closest aides and confidants, defending the President until the bitter end, urging Nixon not to resign, but rather fight impeachment in the Senate.

Saint Paul-Reformation Lutheran Church

The congregation gained national attention in 2001 when it ordained Anita C. Hill (not to be confused with Anita Hill of the Clarence Thomas US Senate confirmation hearings).

Sipco Industries

A world pioneer in enzyme technology, Sipco is best known for helping the United States Postal Service (USPS) with Anthrax following the attacks on the US Senate shortly after September 11, 2001.

Voice of the Martyrs

In 1966, Wurmbrand testified before the Internal Security Subcommittee of the US Senate about the treatment that Christians received under Communist governments, raising world-wide interest in Christian persecution, and through his influence several missions were founded around the world to help support Christians who suffered under Communist persecution.

Webloyalty

The Congress' act was considered and passed the by Senate on 30 November 2010, and considered and passed the House of Representatives on 15 December 2010.

Work Hard, Play Hard

Marco Rubio mentioned the song during March 2013 Rand Paul Filibuster of CIA Director.


see also

Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty

The treaty was signed during the 1972 Moscow Summit on May 26 by the President of the United States, Richard Nixon and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev; and ratified by the US Senate on August 3, 1972.

Arizona Green Party

Prominent Green candidates in Arizona have included Vance Hansen, who ran for the US Senate in 2000 and received 108,926 votes, Claudia Ellquist who ran for Pima County Attorney in 2004 on a platform largely focused on declaring a moratorium on the death penalty, and Dave Croteau who ran for mayor of Tucson in 2007 on a platform of relocalization and received over 28% of the vote.

Charles Pasqua

Following the publication of the Al Mada article, a US Senate report accused him, along with the British Respect MP, George Galloway, of receiving the right to buy oil under the UN's oil-for-food scheme.

Collector of the Port of New York

Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. was nominated December 1877, and rejected by the US Senate

David Glasgow Farragut High School

Academic Games, Honors Band & Choir, Newspaper, After School Club: Academic Support, Junior National Honor Society, Odyssey of the Mind, Art Club Language & Arts Festival, Outdoor Club, Color Guard, Math Counts, Spanish Club, Drama Club, Model US Senate, Student Council, Drill Team & Marksman Team, MS Intramurals, Student 2 Student Club, Future Business Leaders of America, National Honor Society, Yearbook, Future Teachers of America, and Navy JROTC.

Dick Snider

He is most widely known for his humor column in the Topeka Capital-Journal, and he was campaign manager for former University of Oklahoma football coach Bud Wilkinson's failed 1964 US Senate campaign.

Equal representation

Connecticut Compromise, the US constitutional provisions that each state receives equal representation in the US Senate.

Freedom Road

Initially representing black ex-slaves at the state's constitutional convention, Jackson is elected to the state legislature and eventually to the US Senate, while facing opposition from white landowners, law enforcement, and the Ku Klux Klan.

Graduated driver licensing

In 2011, the Safe Teen and Novice Driver Uniform Protection (STANDUP) Act (S. 528, H.R. 1515) was introduced in the US Senate on March 9 by Senator Kristen Gillibrand (D-NY) and in the US House of Representatives on April 14 by Representatives Tim Bishop (D-NY) and Randy Hultgren (R-IL).

Human rights in Indonesia

In the United States, the US Senate had since early 2001 been rejecting repeated efforts by the Bush administration to have US funding of the Indonesian military resumed, a ban which had been reluctantly imposed by the Clinton administration after TNI officers were filmed coordinating the Dili Scorched Earth campaign.

Illinois Channel

In November 2003, then Illinois State Senator Barack Obama seeking the Democratic nomination for the US Senate seat, was interviewed on the Illinois Channel.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

She also served as a speech writer to Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, ran unsuccessfully for the US Senate Republican nomination in New York in 2006 and is currently a Fox News contributor on foreign policy and national security issues.

Libertarian Party of Connecticut

After receiving the largest vote total in Connecticut Libertarian Party history, Paul Passarelli became the party's first US Senate candidate to retain ballot access for that office despite the towns of Middlefield and Washington failing to report any votes for his candidacy to the Secretary of the State.

Martin Koppel

In 2004, Koppel ran for the US Senate seat from New York against Chuck Schumer.

Pete Perry

They interrupted Admiral Michael Mullen, Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as he spoke to US Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair, US Senator John Kerry.

Republican Party of Texas

In 1961, James A. Leonard, was the "first Executive Director of the Republican Party of Texas to emphasize the Party's new intention to become a force in state government." "In the dead of night," he moved the Party Headquarters from Houston to Austin" and "mobilized the Party's meager resources to support the candidacy of a 36-year-old Associate Professor of Government, John Tower, to fill Lyndon Johnson's vacant US Senate Seat.

Róger Calero

In 2006, Róger Calero appeared on the ballot in New York as the Socialist Workers Party candidate for US Senate.

Rosario Marin

Hoping to ride the popular sentiment that toppled Democratic Gov. Davis in the recall election and installed Republican moderate Arnold Schwarzenegger in his place, Marin officially became a candidate for the Republican nomination to the US Senate on December 2.

Shivnath Thukral

He has also interned in the US Senate in the office of Sen. Dick Durbin.

St. Pius X Preparatory Seminary

Joe Donnelly, Democrat of Indiana, US Senate (2013- ), US House of Representatives (2007-2013), Class of 1973

U.S. Congressional staff edits to Wikipedia

On August 2, 2013, an editor linked to the US senate with the IP 156.33.241.5 //en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edward Snowden&diff=prev&oldid=566904988 edited the Wikipedia page of whistleblower Edward Snowden to change his description from "dissident" to "traitor".

Union County, Indiana

Hiram Rhodes Revels, first African-American member of the US Senate, representing Mississippi 1870-1871; attended the Union County Quaker Seminary.