Senate

Over 3424 lynchings in 33 years (1889-1922) An anti-lynching bill was proposed to the senate that would have made lynching a federal felony and allowed perpetrators to be punished by fines, prison, or both. Ultimately the bill was dismissed by filibuster in the Senate by Southern Democrats. 

This chart details different senate actions regarding cloture since its inception in the 65th Congress of 1917-1918. The chart is up to date as of February 2025.

This article, published on the U.S. Senate website, describes the book "The American Senate" written by Columbia University professor Lindsay Rogers. In his book, Rogers defended unlimited debate in the U.S. Senate and argued that the Senate provided a crucial check and balance on the…

The Senate tradition of unlimited debate has allowed for the use of the filibuster, a loosely defined term for action designed to prolong debate and delay or prevent a vote on a bill, resolution, amendment, or other debatable question. Prior to 1917 the Senate rules did not provide for a way to end…

<p><span class="deck">One of the saddest tales in American history tells how a well-intentioned President lost a dazzling opportunity</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">The “conversion” of Arthur Vandenberg, told by a former Secretary of State, his sometime adversary but also his friend</span> </span></p>

<p>The filibuster has played a key role in the enactment of federal law since 1789, but is rarely used outside the U.S. Senate.</p>

<p><span class="deck"> A Senator’s View</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Gargantuan, gross, and cynical, the patrician boss Boies Penrose descended from aristocracy to dominate Pennsylvania Republican politics for thirty years</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Despite his feeling that “we are beginning to lose the memory of what a restrained and civil society can be like,” Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the senior senator from New York, and a lifelong student of history, remains an optimist about our system of government and our resilience as a people.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The framers of the Constitution were proud of what they had done but might be astonished that their words still carry so much weight. A distinguished scholar tells us how the great charter has survived and flourished.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A recent British ambassador to Washington takes a generous-spirited but clear-eyed look at the document that, as he points out, owes its existence to King George III</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee explains why it has always frustrated presidents, and why it doesn’t have to.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">As Hillary Clinton campaigns for a New York Senate seat, she’d do well to study the career of another effective outsider.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> “Filibuster”</span> </p>

<p>An impetuous and sometimes corrupt Congress has often hamstrung the efforts of the president since the earliest days of the republic.</p>

<p>Newly released personal papers and transcripts of closed-door hearings reveal both the depth of the senator’s conniving and his surprising charm.</p>