After the First World War the poppy was adopted as a symbol of Remembrance
The president of the senate (which is also the vice-president at the same time) can only vote to break a tie, that is when there is the same number of votes in favour and against: his or her vote decides then.
1. Two weeks after 9/11, the Federal Bureau of Investigation connected the hijackers to al-Qaeda, a militant Salafist Islamist multi-national organization.
2. Critics have argued that the U.S. was unprepared for the widespread looting and the violent insurgency that immediately followed the invasion.