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Common Cause Sues To Restore Majority Rule To U.S. Senate

Bob Edgar, Common Cause. May 15, 2012.

It is time to return to majority rule in the U.S. Senate--not 60-vote hurdles to end filibusters before voting.

Tea Party Senate Candidate Mike Lee Tried to Dump 1,600 Tons of European Nuclear Waste on Utah

Andrew Belonsky, AlterNet. September 23, 2010.

With an assist from FreedomWorks, Mike Lee grabbed Utah's Senate nomination from incumbent Bob Bennett. Now he shows he's not a states' rights kind of guy.

In Kagan's Supreme Court Hearings, GOP's Line of Questioning Panders to the Tea Party Crowd

Stephanie Mencimer, Mother Jones Online. July 1, 2010.

No one actually mentioned the Tea Partiers during Elana Kagan's Supreme Court nomination hearings, but they were there in spirit, pitchforks in hand.

Alvin Greene: Victorious Mystery Candidate With an Obscene Past

Suzy Khimm, Mother Jones Online. June 12, 2010.

He beat the establishment candidate in the Democratic primary race for South Carolina's U.S. Senate seat, but nobody's ever heard of him. Who is Alvin Greene?

U.S. Senate Votes Formal Apology for Slavery

Agence France Presse June 18, 2009.

The resolution apologes for the "fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery" of African-Americans.

Senate Votes For Unprecedented Tobacco Controls

Agence France Presse June 11, 2009.

The bill would overturn decades of resistance by the powerful tobacco industry.

Update: New York, Meet Senator Kirsten Gillibrand

Gregg Levine, Firedoglake. January 23, 2009.

We have a winner.

Will Caroline Kennedy Replace Hillary in the Senate?

The Christian Progressive Liberal, Jack & Jill Politics. December 5, 2008.

It is certainly starting to look that way ...

Ban on HIV+ Visitors and Immigrants in the U.S. is One Step Closer to Being Repealed

Melissa McEwan, Shakesville. July 17, 2008.

After a decade long fight the Senate takes us one step farther from legalized discrimination.

Gus Puryear: Bush's Latest Dangerous Court Nominee

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. May 22, 2008.

An interview with author Silja Talvi about her AlterNet investigative report on Gus Puryear, a Bush court nominee with a villainous past.