United States Senate

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chamber of the United States Congress upper house of bicameral legislature

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the U.S. Congress, composed of two senators from each state who share responsibility for making federal laws, confirming key executive and judicial appointments, and ratifying treaties.

Aliases (10)

United States Senator ×6
U.S. Senate ×4
United States Senate from Pennsylvania ×2
United States Senators ×2
Members of the United States Senate ×1
Senate of the United States ×1
U.S. senators ×1
United States Senate (in structure and function) ×1
United States Senate chamber ×1
United States senators ×1

Statements (57)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	chamber of the United States Congress → upper house of bicameral legislature →
clotureThreshold	three-fifths of Senators duly chosen and sworn (typically 60) →
confirms	Cabinet-level appointments → Supreme Court justices → ambassadors → federal judges →
contrastedWith	United States House of Representatives representation by population →
country	United States of America →
createdBy	Constitution of the United States, Article I →
dateEstablished	1789 →
establishedBy	United States Constitution →
hasCheckAndBalanceFunction	check on executive branch → check on judicial branch →
hasCitizenshipRequirement	at least 9 years U.S. citizenship →
hasCommitteeSystem	joint committees → select committees → standing committees →
hasElectionCycle	staggered →
hasElectionFraction	approximately one-third of seats every two years →
hasLegislativePower	power to approve or reject legislation → power to propose amendments to bills → power to propose constitutional amendments →
hasMembersFrom	U.S. states →
hasMembersPerState	2 →
hasMinimumAgeRequirement	30 years →
hasMotto	E pluribus unum (shared national motto) →
hasNumberOfMembers	100 →
hasOfficerTitle	Majority Leader → Majority Whip → Minority Leader → Minority Whip → President pro tempore →
hasOfficialLanguage	English (de facto) →
hasPresidingOfficer	Vice President of the United States →
hasPresidingOfficerTitle	President of the Senate →
hasPrimaryFunction	advice and consent on presidential appointments → lawmaking → ratification of treaties → trial of impeachments →
hasResidencyRequirement	inhabitant of the represented state at time of election →
hasRule	filibuster tradition →
hasTermLength	6 years →
hasVotingSystem	popular vote within each state →
impeachmentConvictionThreshold	two-thirds of members present →
impeachmentRole	conducts trials after impeachment by the House of Representatives →
legislativeProcessRequires	passage of bills by both houses of Congress →
locatedIn	Washington, D.C. →
meetsIn	United States Capitol →
originalSelectionMethod	election by state legislatures →
partOf	United States Congress →
publishesRecord	Congressional Record →
ratifies	treaties negotiated by the President of the United States →
represents	states as political units →
selectionMethodChangedBy	Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution →
sharesLegislativePowerWith	United States House of Representatives →
treatyRatificationThreshold	two-thirds of Senators present →

Referenced by (showing first 500 of 591)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (Cabinet-level) → Administrator of the Small Business Administration → Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development → Architect of the Capitol → Archivist of the United States → Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights → Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division → Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division → Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy → Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information → Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs → Assistant Secretary of Energy → Bill Nelson → Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service → Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers (Cabinet-level) → Chair of the Federal Reserve → Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff → Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces → Chief of Army Reserve → Chief of Naval Operations → Chief of Space Operations → Commissioner of Internal Revenue → Comptroller General of the United States → Comptroller of the Treasury → Director of Central Intelligence → Director of National Intelligence → Director of the Central Intelligence Agency → Director of the Central Intelligence Agency → Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency → Edwin M. Stanton → Eric Holder → FRB → Federal Communications Commission → Federal Radio Commission → Federal Reserve Board governors → Federal Trade Commission → General Counsel of the Navy → Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Labor → Jack Lew → James Comey → Librarian of Congress → Michael Kubayanda → National Endowment for the Humanities → Neil M. Gorsuch → Office of the United States Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator → Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence → SECVA → Samuel A. Alito Jr. → SecDOT → SecEnergy → Secretary of Commerce of the United States → Secretary of War → Secretary of the Air Force → Secretary of the Army → Secretary of the Treasury → Sergeant at Arms of the Senate → Surface Transportation Board → Surgeon General of the United States → U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines → U.S. Army officers → U.S. ambassadors → Under Secretary of Commerce of the United States → United States Ambassador to France → United States Ambassador to Hungary → United States Ambassador to Ireland → United States Ambassador to Mexico → United States Ambassador to NATO → United States Ambassador to Samoa → United States Ambassador to South Vietnam → United States Ambassador to West Germany → United States Ambassador to Yugoslavia → United States Ambassador to the European Union → United States Ambassador to the Netherlands → United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union → United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom → United States Ambassador to the United Nations (Cabinet-level) → United States Associate Attorney General → United States Attorney → United States Attorney General → United States Attorney for the Central District of California → United States Attorney for the District of Alaska → United States Attorney for the District of Arizona → United States Attorney for the District of Colorado → United States Attorney for the District of Maryland → United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts → United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota → United States Attorney for the District of Nevada → United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico → United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico → United States Attorney for the District of Utah → United States Attorney for the District of the Northern Mariana Islands → United States Attorney for the District of the Virgin Islands → United States Attorney for the Eastern District of California → United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York → United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania → United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia → United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin → United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida → United States Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama → United States Attorney for the Northern District of California → United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia → United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois → United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio → United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas → United States Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama → United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida → United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York → United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio → United States Attorney for the Southern District of Texas → United States Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina → United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee → United States Attorney for the Western District of Texas → United States Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations → United States Deputy Secretary of Housing and Urban Development → United States Minister to Russia → United States Minister to Spain → United States Representative to the United Nations Economic and Social Council → United States Secretary of Agriculture → United States Secretary of Health and Human Services → United States Secretary of Homeland Security → United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development → United States Secretary of Labor → United States Secretary of State → United States Secretary of Transportation → United States Secretary of the Interior → United States federal judges → Vice Chair for Supervision → Wilbur Ross →	confirmedBy
101st United States Congress → 107th United States Congress → 109th United States Congress → 58th United States Congress → 73rd United States Congress → 74th United States Congress → 75th United States Congress → 76th United States Congress → 77th United States Congress → 82nd United States Congress → 99th United States Congress → Albert Gallatin → Alexander Hamilton's First Report on the Public Credit → Atomic Energy Act of 1946 → Benghazi attack congressional hearings → Benjamin Wade → Brien McMahon → Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee → Church Committee → Cordell Hull → Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act of 2018 → David Barton → Edmund G. Ross → First United States Congress → Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of 1920 → Henry Cabot Lodge → Henry Wilson → Herbert H. Lehman → John C. Stennis → John E. Sununu → Lever Food and Fuel Control Act of 1917 → Music Modernization Act → National Park Service Organic Act → Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act → Nunn–Cohen Amendment → OPEN Government Act of 2007 → Prentiss M. Brown → Privacy Act of 1974 → Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act → Robert F. Wagner → Russell B. Long → S.1790 → Samuel Smith → Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities → Senate Committee on Public Works → Senate Majority Leader → Senate Minority Leader → Senate Minority Whip → Shipping Act of 1916 → Subcommittee on Intellectual Property → Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security → Torrijos–Carter Treaties → United States Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs → United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence → United States Senate Watergate Committee →	legislativeBody
Adlai Stevenson III → Alan K. Simpson → Alben W. Barkley → Albert Gore Jr. → Albert Gore Sr. → Alexander Martin → Benjamin A. Smith II → Bill Bradley → Bill Nelson → Bob Dole → Charles Curtis → Christopher Dodd → Dan Quayle → Daniel Patrick Moynihan → Edward Dickinson Baker → Elihu Root → Everett Dirksen → Gaylord Nelson → George W. Norris → Harry Reid → Henry Clay → Herbert H. Lehman → James Eastland → Joe Lieberman → John Armstrong Jr. → John Danforth → John Edwards → John McCain → John Randolph of Roanoke → Joseph McCarthy → Joseph Montoya → Joseph T. Robinson → Kay Bailey Hutchison → Kirsten Gillibrand → Lamar Alexander → Leland Stanford → Lyman Trumbull → Lyndon B. Johnson → Mark O. Hatfield → Mitch McConnell → Nathaniel Macon → Orrin Hatch → Pete Ricketts → Reed Smoot → Richard Henry Lee → Richard Mentor Johnson → Richard Russell Jr. → Roger Sherman → Samuel Johnston → Thomas Hart Benton → Thomas Sumter → Tim Kaine → Warren G. Harding → Zachariah Chandler →	memberOf
106th United States Congress → 110th United States Congress → 118th United States Congress → 72nd United States Congress → 79th United States Congress → Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 → Aldrich–Vreeland Act → Bituminous Coal Conservation Act of 1935 → Civil Rights Act of 1957 → Emergency Quota Act of 1921 → HELP Committee → Home Rule Act of 1973 → Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 → Joint Economic Committee of Congress → Public Law 107-56 → Public Law 79-585 → Public Law 81-171 → Senate Judiciary Committee → Senate Select Committee on Intelligence → Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act → Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights → Subcommittee on Children and Families → Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism → Subcommittee on Employment and Workforce Safety → Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law → Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety → Subcommittee on the Constitution → U.S. intelligence authorization and appropriations acts → United States Senate Committee on Finance → United States Senator from New York → Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006 → Wheeler-Rayburn Act →	legislativeChamber
American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 → Civil Rights Act of 1964 → Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986 → Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016 → Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 → Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act → Department of Veterans Affairs Act → Emergency Banking Act → Employment Act of 1946 → Espionage Act of 1917 → Ethics Reform Act of 1989 → Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007 → Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Reorganization Act of 1980 → First Step Act → Funding Act of 1790 → Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003 → National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 → National Recording Preservation Act of 2000 → Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act → Public Law 103-308 → Public Law 116-283, Division F → Public Law 80-242 → Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 → Revenue Act of 1934 → Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 → USA PATRIOT Act Additional Reauthorizing Amendments Act of 2006 → VRA →	chamberInvolved
100th United States Congress → 107th United States Congress → 111th United States Congress → 113th United States Congress → 115th United States Congress → 116th United States Congress → 41st United States Congress → 61st United States Congress → 72nd United States Congress → 74th United States Congress → 82nd United States Congress → 84th United States Congress → 86th United States Congress → 88th United States Congress → 91st United States Congress → 92nd United States Congress → 94th United States Congress → 96th United States Congress → 98th United States Congress → 99th United States Congress →	hasPart
2010 United States Senate special election in Massachusetts → 80th United States Congress → American Indian Religious Freedom Act Amendments of 1994 → Civil Rights Act of 1866 → Congressional tax-writing committees → Hiram Revels → Magnuson Act of 1943 → Militia Act of 1903 → NASA Authorization Act of 2010 → President pro tempore of the United States Senate → Rand Paul → Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee → Social Security Amendments of 1950 → United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence → Virginia congressional delegation →	chamber
101st United States Congress → 103rd United States Congress → 108th United States Congress → 112th United States Congress → 58th United States Congress → 63rd United States Congress → 75th United States Congress → 76th United States Congress → 81st United States Congress → 83rd United States Congress → 87th United States Congress → 89th United States Congress → 93rd United States Congress → 95th United States Congress → U.S. Congress →	hasChamber
Authorization for Use of Military Force of 2001 → Evarts Act → Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 → Judiciary Act of 1789 → Kansas–Nebraska Act → McMahon Act → Sherman Antitrust Act → Wagner–Steagall Act →	chamberOfOrigin
Apology Resolution (U.S. Public Law 103-150) → Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act → John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 → Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act → National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 → National Park Service Organic Act → Public Law 86-449 → Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act →	introducedIn
Aviation and Transportation Security Act → Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 → Federal Reserve Act of 1913 → Glass–Owen Act → Goldwater–Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 → IRTPA → Voting Rights Act of 1965 →	introducedInChamber
Benjamin A. Smith II → Henry Wilson → Mary Jo Kopechne → Pete Rouse → Stuart Symington → William M. Evarts →	employer
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit → United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit → United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit → United States Court of Federal Claims → United States Court of International Trade → United States courts of appeals →	judgesConfirmedBy
Merit Systems Protection Board → National Credit Union Administration → National Labor Relations Board → National Transportation Safety Board → Social Security Board →	boardMembersConfirmedBy
Civil Rights Act of 1875 → Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 → Firearm Owners Protection Act → Judiciary Act of 1891 → PRO-IP Act of 2008 →	legislativeChamberOfOrigin
President pro tempore of the United States Senate → Senate press galleries → Sergeant at Arms of the Senate → Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law → U.S. Senate from North Carolina →	partOf
Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee → Sergeant at Arms of the Senate → United States Commission on Civil Rights →	appointedBy
CAAF → District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands → Federal Reserve Board of Governors →	confirmationBy
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau → Federal Housing Finance Agency → United States Marshals Service →	directorConfirmedBy
Senate leadership offices → Senate wing → Subcommittee on the Constitution →	governingBody
Senate wing ("United States Senate chamber") → United States Capitol → United States Capitol Complex →	houses
Albert B. Fall → Charles A. Halleck → Robert P. Casey →	officeContested
Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002 → Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1978 → Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 →	otherChamber
Bill Clinton → William Jefferson Clinton →	acquittedBy
Title 2 of the United States Code → rules of the United States Senate →	appliesTo
President of the United States Senate → Senate press galleries →	appliesToJurisdiction
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States → Under Secretary of the Navy →	appointmentRequiresConsentOf
Chief of the United States Capitol Police → Members of Congress Reading Room →	associatedWith
Senate press galleries → Senate wing →	category
Securities and Exchange Commission → U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission →	commissionersConfirmedBy
Birch Bayh → Tammy Baldwin →	electedTo
EMK Institute → Senate Immersion Module →	focusesOn
85th United States Congress → United States Congress →	hasComponent
1950 State of the Union Address → 1975 State of the Union Address →	legislativeAudience
Civil Rights Act of 1960 → USA PATRIOT Act →	legislativeChamberInvolved
National Science Board → United States International Trade Commission →	memberConfirmationBy
Cabinet of the United States → Postal Regulatory Commission →	membersConfirmedBy
rules of the United States Senate →	adoptedBy
Eugene McCarthy →	affiliation
Do-Nothing Congress →	appliedToBody
United States Senate (Massachusetts Democratic primary, 1948) ("U.S. Senate") →	appliesToChamber
United States Senate (Massachusetts Democratic primary, 1948) →	appliesToOffice
Chief of Naval Personnel →	appointmentConfirmedBy
Vice Chief of Naval Operations →	appointmentRequiresAdviceAndConsentOf
U.S. states →	areRepresentedIn
Kennedy family →	associatedWithOffice
Congressional Gold Medal →	awardedBy
Corporation for Public Broadcasting →	boardConfirmedBy
HELP Committee chair →	branchOfGovernment
rules of the United States Senate →	canBeAmendedBy
86th United States Congress →	chamber1
National Labor Relations Act →	chamberOfIntroduction
JEC ("Members of the United States Senate") →	composition
Admiral of the Navy →	confirmationAuthority
Capitol Hill →	contains
United States presidential election →	contingentVicePresidentialElectionBodyIfNoMajority
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence →	createdBy
Article I of the United States Constitution ("Senate of the United States") →	creates
Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate →	dedicatedTo
Article I of the United States Constitution ("United States Senators") →	definesTermLengthFor
Hillary Clinton →	describedBySource
House simple resolution →	doesNotRequireApprovalFrom
Robert Byrd →	electedToBody
Charles Schumer →	electedToOffice
National Labor Relations Board →	generalCounselConfirmedBy
"Day of Infamy" speech →	governmentBodyAddressed
Article I, Section 3 of the United States Constitution →	governs
United States Senate leadership →	governsBody
Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution ("United States Senators") →	governsOffice
United States Customs Court →	hadJudgesConfirmedBy
JEC →	hasChamberRepresentation
Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security ("United States senators") →	hasMembers
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence →	hasParentOrganization
Support for the Walker Tariff of 1846 →	hasParticipant
United States House of Representatives →	hasUpperHouse
U.S. states →	haveEqualRepresentationIn
1949 State of the Union Address →	houseAddressed
Congress Hall →	housedBody
United States federal elections →	includeElectionFor
Northern Mariana Islands Senate ("United States Senate (in structure and function)") →	isModeledAfter
United States district courts →	judgeConfirmationBy
Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security →	jurisdiction
Eisenhower's 1960 State of the Union Address →	legislativeBodyAddressed
Electoral Count Act of 1887 →	legislativeBodyInvolved
Public Law 107-306 →	legislativeBranch
Gerald Ford administration →	legislatureUpperHouse
Origination Clause →	limitsPowerOf
Senate minority party conference →	locatedIn
First United States Congress →	meetsIn
Board of Directors of the FDIC →	memberConfirmedBy
HELP Committee →	parentOrganization
Monica Lewinsky scandal →	parliamentaryBodyInvolved