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Under the direction of President John Adams, the Congress passed the Sedition Act of 1798, which made it a criminal offence to publish statements critical of the federal government. The first individual to be tried under the law was Rep. Matthew Lyon, who unsurprisingly had voted against its passage. Lyon was re-elected from jail.
By a vote of 96-3, Ford was easily confirmed. Click to learn who the three dissenting votes were.
Before she became Vice President, Kamala Harris was the first South Asian-American woman elected to the Senate
