See Teddy's positions on key rollcalls in congress
Explore the votes of America's longest-serving Speaker of the House, Sam Rayburn, who presided over key civil rights votes
Before she became Vice President, Kamala Harris was the first South Asian-American woman elected to the Senate
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'.
In 1882, Congress passed the Edmunds Anti-Polygamy Act, which prohibited polygamy and 'unlawful cohabitation'. The Act set off a series of court cases which culminated in the disincorporation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
