Explore the votes of America's longest-serving Speaker of the House, Sam Rayburn, who presided over key civil rights votes
In 1997, the Senate voted 95-0 to restrict entry of the U.S. into future international climate treaties, ending hopes for legally binding emissions targets for the U.S.
Explore the votes of Hiram Rhodes Revels, the first African-American man elected to the Senate
Over 50 years after relations between the two countries ended, the United States Senate voted 83-15 to normalize trade with the People's Republic of China
After a nomination process that culminated in a public FBI investigation, Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed largely along party lines 50-48.
