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The Senate failed, barely, to secure a two-thirds majority in favor of convicting President Andrew Johnson
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Before she became Vice President, Kamala Harris was the first South Asian-American woman elected to the Senate
On March 7th, 1975, in a bipartisan vote, the U.S. Senate voted to amend Rule XXII (which governs the end of debate, and thus filibustering) to lower the threshold for cloture from 67 to 60 votes.