Hours after armed rioters storm the U.S. capitol to demand the 2020 presidential election be overturned, 7 Senators vote in support of their demands
Before he was elected President, Barack Obama served as a U.S. Senator from Illinois.
Before she became Vice President, Kamala Harris was the first South Asian-American woman elected to the Senate
The Gold Standard Act of 1900 ended the decades-running debate over bimetalism and restored the U.S. to 'gold standard' currency -- the system lasted until 1971
Congress authorized the prohibition of immigration to America from China; the first bill to ban immigration from any foreign country.
