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“The United States Senate has long enjoyed worldwide respect as the greatest deliberative body in the world. But recently that delibera- tive character has too often been debased to the level of a forum of hate and character assassi- nation sheltered by the shield of congressional immunity.”

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The United States Senate has long enjoyed worldwide respect as the greatest deliberative body in the world. But recently that delibera- tive character has too often been debased to the level of a forum of hate and character assassi- nation sheltered by the shield of congressional immunity.
— Margaret Chase Smith
June 1, 1950