Visualize the 117th Senate and its members, and compare it with past congresses
The House of Representatives voted 421-1 to authorize the use of military force against the perpetrators of the September 11th attacks
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'.
Before she became Vice President, Kamala Harris was the first South Asian-American woman elected to the Senate
By a vote of 96-3, Ford was easily confirmed. Click to learn who the three dissenting votes were.
