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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"U.S. Senate"”.
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Race of the century : Guy vs. Young, 1974 North Dakota U.S. Senate election
… Milton Young, who had served in the U.S. Senate for twenty-seven years, decided to run for another term with realistic confidence in his ability to repeat prior election victories. His initial optimism began to erode as national Republican leaders questioned his ability to defeat his …
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U.S. Senate Deliberations on the War Powers Resolution during the Bush and Obama Administrations
… of those lines of argument in the U.S. Senate over the Republican Administration of President George W. Bush and the Democratic Administration of President Barack Obama. Both administrations were involved in multiple deployments of U.S. forces abroad, and experienced opposition from both …
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Battleground Blog: Analyzing the 2006 U.S. Senate Campaign Blogs through the Lenses of Issue Ownership, Agenda setting, and Gender Differences
… in determining which party would control the Senate. This thesis employs a content analysis of ten candidate-controlled blogs from five 2006 U.S. Senate elections to evaluate candidate issues, incumbent and challenger strategies, and message tactics used by the candidate to reach a wide …
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An evaluative study on attempts to improve the quality of processes for the U.S. Senate Productivity and Quality Award for Virginia
… thesis is a formative evaluation of the U.S. Senate Productivity and Quality Award for Virginia. This research reviews the processes used in determining winners for this award. Recommendations are made to improve the application evaluation and feedback processes, in particular. The thesis …
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Toppling the ivory tower: Coded communication in American political discourse
… emphasizing intellectualism in four U.S. Senate races in 2012 in Massachusetts, New Mexico, North Dakota, and Missouri. Findings show that coded anti-intellectual communications span party and gender lines.
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James V. Allred of Texas: A judicial biography
… on the federal bench to run for the U.S. Senate, but narrowly lost to Senator William L. "Pappy" O'Daniel. President Roosevelt re-appointed Allred to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, but political repercussions blocked that nomination. Allred was finally returned to the Southern …
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TRADING OFF THE BENEFITS AND BURDENS: COAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE TRANSBOUNDARY FLATHEAD RIVER VALLEY
… of the Montana Flathead Valley is pending U.S. Senate approval.
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TRADING OFF THE BENEFITS AND BURDENS: COAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE TRANSBOUNDARY FLATHEAD RIVER VALLEY
… of the Montana Flathead Valley is pending U.S. Senate approval.
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Indirect Election and the Democratization of the United States Senate: Constitutional Design, Historical Development, Roll Call Voting, and the Outcome of National Election
… to indirect election and the United States Senate. The dissertation begins with an investigation of the origins and development of the Classical Republican and Classical Liberal principles that laid the foundation for indirect election in the American Constitution. The dissertation then goes …
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REPUTATIONAL EFFECTS IN LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS: MEASURING THE IMPACT OF REPEAT CANDIDACY AND INTEREST GROUP ENDORSEMENTS
… and individual contributions for 2010 U.S. Senate candidates. The results of this chapter suggest that some interest group endorsements lead to increased campaign contributions, as compared to unendorsed candidates, but that others do not. This research points to a number of opportunities …
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Toward Deliberative AI: Multi-Agent LLMs for Real-World Reasoning
… interviews with city planners, another from U.S. Senate voting recordsand propose structured debate strategies (e.g., moderation, nudging) along with behavioral metrics (e.g., sycophancy, vote switching). A lightweight few-shot DPO training method is used to align agent behavior with collaborative …
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Educational Leaders Serving Language Minority Students (1965-2001)
… primary sources used include public laws, U.S. Senate and House of</p><p>Representatives hearings, congressional documents, newspaper articles, presidents'</p><p>speeches, government reports, and journals. These sources help to understand and</p><p>describe the trends of each time period and the …
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John F. Kennedy and the Summer of Peace, 1963
… the Test Ban had to be ratified by the U.S. Senate. President Kennedy was pessimistic. He confided in aides that getting this “controversial treaty” through the Senate was “almost in the nature of a miracle.” And yet, two months later, the Test Ban was ratified by an overwhelming majority. …
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Political contributions, voter turnout, and the effects of redistricting
… is that political campaigns for the U.S. Senate overlap with campaigns for the U.S. House of Representatives. This may cause individual contributors to substitute a political contribution to one campaign with a political contribution to another campaign. Conversely, individual contributors …
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Interactive Voice Response Polling in Election Campaigns
… polling in 2010 U.S. gubernatorial and U.S. Senate elections that was conducted using both live interviewers and IVR. The findings suggest that in general elections, IVR polls find fewer undecided voters compared to surveys conducted using live interviewers. In primary elections, IVR polls …
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America's Moral Responsibility?: The Debate over American Intervention in the Near East after WWI
… but the Wilson administration and the U.S. Senate took little action. The Armenian cause in particular was foremost in the minds of Americans. Many Americans felt the United States had a moral responsibility to help Near Eastern Christians. For many observers, American interest coupled with …
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Driving down emissions : analyzing a plan for meeting Massachusetts' carbon emission reduction targets for passenger vehicles
… climate legislation floundered in the U.S. Senate. This legislation committed the state to reducing carbon emissions 25% below 1990 levels by 2020 and 80% by 2050. However, progress toward these targets has been uneven, particularly when it comes to transportation and land use. Despite …
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Communicating Climate Change: Climate Rhetorics and Discursive Tipping Points in United States Global Warming Science and Public Policy
… cases: James Hansen's testimony to the U.S. Senate in the late 1980s, debates and hearings about U.S. ratification of the Kyoto Protocol, and the defeat of the Climate Stewardship Act of 2003. As the United States moves from a nation in which only scientists engage global climate change …
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Where Was the Outrage? The Lack of Public Concern for the Increasing Sensationalism in Marvel Comics in a Conservative Era 1978-1993
… challenged conservative norms. In 1954, a U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing on Juvenile Delinquency tried to determine if comic books were having a harmful impact on children. The senators were concerned that comic books objectified women, taught children to engage in violence, promoted bigotry, …
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