Underground Airlines is a 2016 novel by Ben Winters that contains the unsuccussful proposal introducted by which United States Senator?
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Underground Airlines Underground Airlines is a 2016 novel by Ben Winters which is set in a contemporary alternate-history United States where the American Civil War never occurred because Abraham Lincoln was assassinated prior to his 1861 inauguration and a version of the Crittenden Compromise was adopted instead. As a result, slavery has remained legal in the "Hard Four" (a group of southern states which have kept slavery): Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and a unified Carolina. The novel attracted praise for exploring racism through the alternate-history mechanism, but also engendered criticism for coverage that seemingly ignored similar contributions by Octavia Butler.
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Crittenden Compromise The Crittenden Compromise was an unsuccessful proposal introduced by United States Senator John J. Crittenden (Constitutional Unionist of Kentucky) on December 18, 1860. It aimed to resolve the secession crisis of 1860–1861 by addressing the fears and grievances about slavery that led many slave-holding states to contemplate secession from the United States.
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Pandemic Preparedness and Response Act The Pandemic Preparedness and Response Act is a bill introduced on October 5, 2005 by U.S. Senators Harry Reid, Evan Bayh, Dick Durbin, Ted Kennedy, Barack Obama, and Tom Harkin in response to the growing threat of an outbreak of avian influenza. The bill calls for:
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William Marmaduke Kavanaugh William Marmaduke Kavanaugh (March 3, 1866February 21, 1915) was a Democratic United States Senator from the State of Arkansas.
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Security and Privacy in Your Car Study Act The Security and Privacy in Your Car Study Act of 2017, short title "SPY Car Study Act of 2017", is a bill introduced in the House of Representatives by Reps. Joe Wilson and Ted Lieu in January 2017 and referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. It built upon a previous bill introduced in the House in 2015. In 2015, another bill was introduced in the Senate directing the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to create standards for automakers regarding cybersecurity. The SPY Car Study Act of 2017 does not introduce any new regulations, but mandates a study done by the NHTSA into the safety of cars against technological threats.
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William R. Hawkins William R. Hawkins is a conservative American author and scholar whose principal field of study is the interplay between economic policy and national security. He serves on the board of the Asia America Initiative, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting democratic ideals, strengthening international security, and mediating in conflict-plagued areas throughout the Asia-Pacific region. In 1990 he won the Republican nomination for the United States Senate race in Tennessee, but lost in the general election to the Democratic incumbent Senator Al Gore, Jr. He is the author, with Erin Anderson, of "The Open Borders Lobby and the Nation’s Security After 9/11", a book published by the Center for the Study of Popular Culture in 2004.
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The American Senator The American Senator is a novel written in 1875 by Anthony Trollope. Although not one of Trollope's better-known works, it is notable for its depictions of rural English life and for its many detailed fox hunting scenes. In its anti-heroine, Arabella Trefoil, it presents a scathing but ultimately sympathetic portrayal of a woman who has abandoned virtually all scruples in her quest for a husband. Through the eponymous Senator, Trollope offers comments on the irrational aspects of English life.
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Jim Inhofe James Mountain Inhofe ( ; born November 17, 1934) is the senior United States senator from Oklahoma and a member of the Republican Party. First elected to the Senate in 1994, he was the ranking member of the United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) and was its chairman from 2003 to 2007, and again from January 2015 until January 2017. Inhofe served eight years as the United States representative for 2=nd
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Tim Scott Timothy Eugene Scott (born September 19, 1965) is an American former insurance agent and politician who is the junior United States Senator for South Carolina. A Republican, he joined the Senate in 2013 when South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley appointed him to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Jim DeMint. Scott won a special election in 2014 for the final two years of DeMint's second term, and won election to a full term in 2016.
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Lindsey Graham presidential campaign, 2016 The 2016 presidential campaign of Lindsey Graham, the longtime senior United States Senator from South Carolina, and former U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 3rd congressional district was announced on June 1, 2015. His candidacy for the Republican nomination for President of the United States in the 2016 election began at an event in his hometown of Central, South Carolina. On December 21, 2015, Graham announced the suspension of his campaign.
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Michael Moynihan (author) Michael Moynihan is an American author and the nephew of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, former Senator (Democrat) from New York. He wrote "The Coming American Renaissance", a rebuttal of works by Lester Thurow and others, argued that America possessed a unique set of economic advantages that would propel it to global leadership in the 21st century. Moynihan cited technology leadership, in particular, as a driver of economic growth. He worked in the Clinton administration as an advisor to Secretaries of the Treasury, Lawrence Summers and Robert Rubin from 1996 to 1999. Moynihan was in charge of Internet and electronic commerce policy and was involved with the effort to pass the Internet Tax Freedom Act. Moynihan founded the Internet website AlwaysonTV.
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Bob Bird (politician) Robert Mario Bird (born August 1, 1951, Evanston, Illinois) is an American pro-life activist, retired high school teacher, home-school tutor and Alaskan Independence Party candidate for the United States Senate seat formerly occupied by Senator Ted Stevens.
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Tom Del Beccaro Thomas Gerard F. "Tom" Del Beccaro (born August 28, 1961) is an American author and lawyer who served as the chairman of the California Republican Party from March 22, 2011 to March 3, 2013. On April 26, 2015, Del Beccaro announced his candidacy for U.S. Senate in a bid to succeed Democrat Barbara Boxer. On May 26, 2015, Del Beccaro launched his new book, "The Divided Era," which discusses how our government system creates political division.
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James A. McDougall James Alexander McDougall (November 19, 1817 – September 3, 1867) was an American attorney and politician elected to statewide office in two U.S. states, then to the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate. A gifted orator, McDougall began his career as a civil engineer in New York, then read law, rising quickly to heights in his profession in Illinois, where he became a friend of fellow prairie attorneys Abraham Lincoln, Edward D. Baker, and Stephen Douglas. Like many Americans, McDougall was drawn to Gold Rush California in 1849; he resumed his law practice and was elected second attorney general for the new state of California. In the election of 1860, Lincoln won the presidency as a Republican, Baker was elected Republican senator from Oregon, and McDougall was elected senator from California, joining Douglas in the Senate as fellow War Democrats. All three of McDougall's Prairie State friends would die in the six years before his term as senator expired. A noted drinker, McDougall once gave an address to the Senate disparaging a proposed rule to outlaw the sale of alcohol in the United States Capitol, but died shortly after leaving the Senate, "...hastened by his indulgence in the bowl."
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Roy Blunt Roy Dean Blunt (born January 10, 1950) is an American politician who currently serves as the junior United States senator from Missouri, having been in office since 2011. He is a member of the Republican Party.
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Claire McCaskill Claire Conner McCaskill ( ; born July 24, 1953) is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who serves as the senior United States Senator from Missouri. She is the first female U.S. Senator elected in Missouri in her own right.
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Trent Lott Chester Trent Lott Sr. (born October 9, 1941) is an American politician and author. A former United States Senator from Mississippi, Lott served in numerous leadership positions in both the United States House of Representatives and the Senate. He entered Congress as one of the first of a wave of Republicans winning seats in Southern states that had been solidly Democratic. He became Senate Majority Leader, then fell from power after praising Strom Thurmond's 1948 segregationist Dixiecrat presidential bid.
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Johnny Isakson John Hardy Isakson (born December 28, 1944) is the senior United States Senator from Georgia, in office since 2005, and a member of the Republican Party. Previously, he represented  in the United States House of Representatives from 1999 to 2005.
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Nancy Erickson Nancy Erickson is the former Secretary of the United States Senate. She began her term as Secretary on January 4, 2007 in the 110th Congress. Erickson was appointed by Democratic and Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada. Prior to serving as Secretary of the Senate, Erickson served as the Democratic Representative to the Sergeant at Arms. She also served as the deputy chief of staff to former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle, (D) South Dakota. Erickson has a B.A. from Augustana College, and a M.A. from American University.
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Nate Boulton Nate Boulton (born May 23, 1980) is an American lawyer and politician currently serving in the Iowa Senate. Boulton, a Democrat, represents the 16th district. Boulton was first elected in 2016 to replace retiring Democratic Senator Dick Dearden. On May 4, 2017 Boulton announced his candidacy for Iowa Governor with a video on Twitter.
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William Dotzler William Anthony "Bill" Dotzler Jr. (born May 7, 1948) is the Iowa State Senator from the 11th District. A Democrat, he has served in the Iowa Senate since 2003 and is currently an assistant majority leader.
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Warren Rudman Warren Bruce Rudman (May 18, 1930November 19, 2012) was an American attorney and Republican politician who served as United States Senator from New Hampshire between 1980 and 1993. He was known as a moderate centrist, to such an extent that President Clinton approached him in 1994 about replacing departing Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen in Clinton's cabinet, an offer that Rudman declined.