Original sentence: Manning resigned his seat in the senate on 28 Mar 2011 in order to run in the 2011 federal election in a bid to retake the same seat he had lost in 2009.Manning's bid for riding of Avalon was unsuccessful
Edited sentence: In June 2009, Manning earned recognition for his outburst in a Senate Committee meeting dubbed "Senators behaving badly".In his first three months as a Senator, Manning was cited for being the priciest of Harper's first 18 Senators, having spent more than $4,800 per Senate sitting day