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How the Senate Is Supposed to Work - WSJ
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May 30, 2016 — How the Senate Is Supposed to Work. On issues of great national significance, one party should never simply force its will on everybody else.
This is not how the Senate is supposed to work - Vox
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Sep 29, 2017 — The root issue here is that the Senate's legislative process has been upended by the abusive use of the filibuster, and neither party has been ...
U.S. Senate: Origins and Development
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On April 6, 12 members were present to establish a quorum and the Senate got down to work. As its first item of business, the Senate elected New Hampshire's ...
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U.S. Senate: Rules and Procedure
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The legislative process on the Senate floor is governed by a set of standing rules, a body of precedents created by rulings of presiding officers or by votes of the ...
Majority Leader McConnell: How the Senate Is Supposed to Work ...
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Majority leader McConnell wrote for the May 30, 2016 copy of the Wall Street Journal a piece titled, “How the Senate Is Supposed to Work.” His statements ...
United States Senate | Definition, History, & Facts | Britannica
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Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that ...
How Congress Works | Congressman Tim Walberg
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Senators however, serve six-year terms and elections to the Senate are ... efficient to have work done at the committee level than on the House or Senate floor.
US Senate needs to get back to work and take its essential place
www.delawareonline.com › story › opinion › 2020/03/13
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Mar 13, 2020 — I spent 24 years working in the United States Senate. I came to revere it as an institution. I know how it is supposed to work. It pains me to say ...
The Legislative Branch | The White House
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The Senate has the sole power to confirm those of the President's ... Senators can use this to filibuster bills under consideration, a procedure by which a Senator ...
About the Senate – Parliament of Australia
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In recent decades this has meant that the government party usually does not have a majority of ... The Senate Chamber is the principal focus of a senator's work.