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After a nomination process that culminated in a public FBI investigation, Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed largely along party lines 50-48.
Robert Smalls, born enslaved in South Carolina, stole the CSS Planter and delivered it to Union troops. After the Civil War, Smalls was elected to the South Carolina legislature and later to the U.S. Congress where he served 5 terms during and after Reconstruction.
In 1965, Congress passed the Immigration and Nationality Act, which eliminated restrictions racial, ethnic, and national origin restrictions on immigration and established priority immigration procedures for family reunification.
Felton became the first woman to serve in the Senate, for only 24 hours.
