The Senate's attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act narrowly failed due to a surprise defection by Sen. John McCain
When the islands were under the rule of military dictator Suharto, 55 representatives voted to ban sending U.S. dollars to Indonesia.
For the first time in the nation's history, members of Congress sought to overturn state results of a Presidential Election.
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'.
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