Although confirmed 92-7, Rockefeller did not make an impact as Vice President and subsequently withdrew from President Ford's re-election ticket.
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'.
As Joe Biden is inaugurated as America's 46th President, browse his votes as a U.S. Senator
The Senate failed, barely, to secure a two-thirds majority in favor of convicting President Andrew Johnson
The House of Representatives voted 421-1 to authorize the use of military force against the perpetrators of the September 11th attacks
