U.S. Senate | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-03

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U.S. Senate


00:02:07 1 History
00:05:45 2 Current composition and election results
00:05:56 2.1 Current party standings
00:06:10 2.2 115th Congress
00:06:32 3 Membership
00:06:41 3.1 Qualifications
00:08:49 3.2 Elections and term
00:09:20 3.2.1 Term
00:11:01 3.2.2 Elections
00:13:21 3.2.3 Mid-term vacancies
00:16:10 3.3 Oath
00:16:55 3.4 Salary and benefits
00:19:22 3.5 Seniority
00:20:39 3.6 Expulsion and other disciplinary actions
00:21:33 4 Majority and minority parties
00:22:24 4.1 Seating
00:23:37 5 Officers
00:24:05 5.1 Presiding over the Senate
00:26:17 5.2 Party leaders
00:26:46 5.3 Non-member officers
00:27:37 6 Procedure
00:27:46 6.1 Daily sessions
00:30:28 6.1.1 Debate
00:32:30 6.1.2 Filibuster and cloture
00:34:20 6.1.3 Voting
00:36:14 6.1.4 Closed session
00:37:25 6.2 Calendars
00:37:54 6.3 Committees
00:41:51 7 Functions
00:42:00 7.1 Legislation
00:43:49 7.2 Checks and balances
00:48:59 8 See also



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SUMMARY
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The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprises the legislature of the United States.
The composition and powers of the Senate are established by Article One of the United States Constitution.  The Senate is composed of senators, each of whom represents a single state in its entirety, with each state being equally represented by two senators, regardless of its population, serving staggered terms of six years; with 50 states currently in the Union, there are 100 U.S. Senators. From 1789 until 1913, Senators were appointed by legislatures of the states they represented; following the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913, they are now popularly elected.  The Senate chamber is located in the north wing of the Capitol, in Washington, D.C.
As the upper house, the Senate has several powers of advice and consent which are unique to it; these include the approval of treaties and the confirmation of Cabinet secretaries, Supreme Court justices, federal judges, other federal executive officials, flag officers, regulatory officials, ambassadors, and other federal uniformed officers. In addition to these, in cases wherein no candidate receives a majority of electors for Vice President, the duty falls to the Senate to elect one of the top two recipients of electors for that office. It further has the responsibility of conducting trials of those impeached by the House. The Senate is widely considered both a more deliberative and more prestigious body than the House of Representatives due to its longer terms, smaller size, and statewide constituencies, which historically led to a more collegial and less partisan atmosphere.The presiding officer of the Senate is the Vice President of the United States, who is President of the Senate. In the Vice President's absence, the President Pro Tempore, who is customarily the senior member of the party holding a majority of seats, presides over the Senate. In the early 20th century, the practice of majority and minority parties electing their floor leaders began, although they are not constitutional officers.