If you visit the Senate chamber during a session on an average day, you're most likely to find the session presided over by "A. the majority leader" since the Vice President only comes in on special occasions.
In 1856 Franco-Russian-British peace was signed at the Congress of Paris. Cavour succeeded in having one of the sessions expressly devoted to discussing the "Italian problem": He was able to publicly defend the idea that the repression of the reactionary governments and the The policies of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were the real culprits of the revolutionary anxieties that were forming throughout the peninsula and, above all, that these revolts in Italy could degenerate into a revolutionary threat to all the governments of Europe, thereby increasing the Franco-British concern in the "Italian problem".
There were several immediate stated causes for the U.S. declaration of war: first, a series of trade restrictions, Orders in Council (1807), introduced by Britain to impede American trade with France, a country with which Britain was at war (the U.S. contested these restrictions as illegal under international law); second, the impressment (forced recruitment) of U.S. citizens into the Royal Navy; third, the British military support for American Indians who were offering armed resistance to the expansion of the American frontier to the Northwest. President James Madison and Congress declared what is sometimes referred to as the 2nd War of Independence, the War of 1812.
