As Joe Biden is inaugurated as America's 46th President, browse his votes as a U.S. Senator
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Joseph Rainey (R-SC), born into slavery, was the first African-American elected to the House of Representatives.
Before she became Vice President, Kamala Harris was the first South Asian-American woman elected to the Senate
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'.