Buried dozens of pages into the Defense Appropriations Act of 2010 was the first and only congressional apology to Native peoples.
In 1866, the House voted 105-20 to try former Confederate President Jefferson Davis for treason -- the trial ultimately never occurred.
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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'.
By a vote of 96-3, Ford was easily confirmed. Click to learn who the three dissenting votes were.
