• Senatorial courtesy is a long-standing, unwritten, unofficial, and nonbinding constitutional convention in the U.S. describing the tendency of U.S. senators...
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    City Stephen Sweeney, D-Gloucester – Freeholder, Gloucester County Senatorial courtesy is a senate tradition that allows home county legislators to intercede...
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  • Senatorial courtesy is an unwritten rule practiced in the Senate of the U.S. state of New Jersey under which a State Senator can indefinitely block consideration...
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  • 1916 as the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee. It was reorganized in 1948 and renamed the National Republican Senatorial Committee. The NRSC helps...
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    president included his assertion of presidential authority against senatorial courtesy in executive appointments, a purge of corruption in the Post Office...
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    said to be blocking consideration of his confirmation by invoking "senatorial courtesy", a Senate tradition that allows home county legislators to intercede...
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    No. 62, James Madison justified this arrangement by arguing that the "senatorial trust" called for a "greater extent of information and stability of character":...
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    identify colleagues who place holds, in all but name. Blue Slip Senatorial courtesy Walter J. Oleszek (December 20, 2007), Proposals to Reform "Holds"...
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  • Recess appointment Quorum Quorum call Salaries Saxbe fix Seal Holds Senatorial courtesy Standing Rules Traditions Unanimous consent Vice presidential tie-breaking...
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  • Senators of the majority party, The caucus system is different from senatorial courtesy, which allowed any senator to block a gubernatorial appointment from...
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