I strongly think so. Her late sister Emily was a Democratic State Senator in Virginia.
Senator Nelson does not favor the repeal of DOMA.
The two US Senators are:Mike Johanns (R), senior senator (current term 2009-2015)Deb Fischer (R), junior senator (current term 2013-2019)The three US Representatives (by district) are:1- Jeff Fortenberry [R]2 - Lee Terry [R]3 - Adrian Smith [R]
"War with Spain would increase the business and earnings of every American railroad, it would increase the output of every American factory, it would stimulate every branch of industry and domestic commerce." John Mellen Thurston (R) (21 August 1847-9 August 1916) Former Union Pacific general solicitor and US Senator from Nebraska from 4 March 1895 to 3 March 1901.
Tim Russert worked for a Democratic New York U.S. Senator and a Democratic New York State Governor before becoming a journalist. This type of transition is typical in the American media -- former Democratic Party staff become the media. For example, George Stepanopolis is on ABC as a Political Commentator. He used to work in Democratic President Bill Clinton's White House. Studies have shown that journalists as a group vote 9-to-1 for Democrats.
The Democratic senator from Illinois, Stephen Douglas is most associated with the idea of popular sovereignty. His Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed citizens in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to vote on the slavery issue before the territory applied for statehood.
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Stephen A. Douglas was an American politician from Illinois and the designed of the Nebraska-Kansas Act. The act wanted to create a sovereign nation that allowed male white settlers whether they would allow slavery in those nations.Ê
The concept of popular sovereignty was introduced by the 1854 Kansas Nebraska Act. The term did not apply to any particular law or concept that was related to slavery. The term was coined by Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas.
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Senator Stephen A. Douglas believed that the only way to democratically deal with the issue of slavery was by voting. This was called popular sovereignty and applied to his Kansas- Nebraska Act of 1854.
the construction of a transcontinental railroad that would start in Chicago, Illinois
The term of popular sovereignty was not coined by Senator Stephen A. Douglas. It was coined by Senator Lewis Cass of Michigan He ran as the Democrat for the US presidency in 1848. He lost to Zachary Taylor.
Stephan A. Douglas proposed the Kansas Nebraska Act in 1854.
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Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois.
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