As Joe Biden is inaugurated as America's 46th President, browse his votes as a U.S. Senator
Explore the votes of Hiram Rhodes Revels, the first African-American man elected to the Senate
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 prohibited racial discrimination in voting by protecting voting rights. It banned poll taxes and literacy tests and required states with historians of Jim Crow discrimination to seek advance clearance before changing and requiring states with histories of Jim Crow discrimination to obtain advance clearance to change laws governing voting.
Visualize the 117th Senate and its members, and compare it with past congresses
After reports that the USS Maddox had been attacked by North Vietnamese naval vessels, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 422-1 to authorize military action in Vietnam. Eugene Siler was the loan 'Nay' vote.
