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United States Senate: Vice President
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The Constitution provides that the Vice President of the United States serves as the President of the Senate and holds a vote that can only be cast to break a tie. By convention, the Vice President presides over very few Senate debates, attending only on important ceremonial occasions (such as the swearing-in of new senators) or at times when his vote may be needed to break an equally divided tie vote. The Constitution ... authorizes the Senate to elect a President pro tempore (Latin for "temporary president") to preside in the Vice President's absence; the most senior senator of the majority party is customarily chosen to serve in this position. The President pro tempore is Senator Robert Byrd (D) of West Virginia. Like the Vice President, the President pro tempore does not normally preside over the Senate. Instead, he typically delegates the responsibility of presiding to junior senators of the majority party.
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On November 4, 2008, the United States of America will hold its 55th consecutive quadrennial election for President and Vice President of the United States. The President serves as the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, head of state and head of government. The Vice President serves as the President's deputy and as President of the Senate. Elections for all 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives and 33 members of the United States Senate will ... occur on November 4.
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Benjamin was elected as an Unconditional Unionist candidate to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy of Senator Waldo P. Johnson who was expelled by the yankee radical Republicans. He served from 1863 to 1867. Benjamin was elected Governor in 1871. He was the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Vice President of the US on the ticket with Horace Greeley in 1872. He resumed his law practice after that. He died 13 Dec 1885 at Kirkwood near St. Louis and was buried at Oak Hill Cemetery there.
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Alberto Gonzales (born August 4, 1955) is an American jurist and the 80th Attorney General of the United States. Gonzales was appointed to the post in February 2005 by President George W. Bush. Gonzales is the first Hispanic to serve as United States Attorney General. While Bush was Governor of Texas, Gonzales had served as his general counsel, and subsequently he served as Secretary of State of Texas and then on the Texas Supreme Court. From 2001 to 2005, Gonzales served in the Bush Administration as White House Counsel.[1] Amid several controversies and allegations of perjury before Congress, on August 27, 2007 Gonzales announced his resignation as Attorney General, effective September 17, 2007.[2][3]
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Fred was elected in 1932 as a Democrat to the United States Senate during the national Democratic landslide under Franklin D. Roosevelt. He served from 1933 to 1939. He lost a bid for reelection in 1938. President Roosevelt appointed him Comptroller General of the United States in Apr 1939 and he served until he resigned in Jun 1940. He served as a member of the United States Tariff Commission 1940-1941. He then retired from public life.
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There is increasing evidence that Israel instigated a disastrous war on Lebanon largely at the behest of the United States. The Bush administration was set on crippling Hezbollah, the radical Shiite political movement that maintains a sizable block of seats in the Lebanese parliament. Taking advantage of the country's democratic opening after the forced departure of Syrian troops last year, Hezbollah defied U.S. efforts to democratize the region on American terms. The populist party's unwillingness to disarm its militia as required by UN resolution—and the inability of the pro-Western Lebanese government to force them to do so—led the Bush administration to push Israel to take military action. In his May 23 summit with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, President George W. Bush offered full U.S. support for Israel to attack Lebanon as soon as possible. Seymour Hersh, in the August 21 New Yorker, quotes a Pentagon consultant on the Bush administration's longstanding desire to strike “a preemptive blow against Hezbollah.” The consultant added, “It was our intent to have Hezbollah diminished, and now we have someone else doing it.” Israel was a willing partner.
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