Learn the story of a place through the people that represented it through history
President Reagan's nominee for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Robert Bork, found his nomination defeated in the Senate. His name subsequently became a verb, meaning 'to attack or defeat a nominee unfairly through an organized campaign of harsh public criticism or vilification'.
As Joe Biden is inaugurated as America's 46th President, browse his votes as a U.S. Senator
The U.S. Senate unanimously voted to pass what would become the 26th Amendment, lowering the voting age to 18.
Explore the votes of Hiram Rhodes Revels, the first African-American man elected to the Senate