Senate Historian: How the Senate has Changed | From the Archives

By JM Rieger and Megan Evans

Posted May 7, 2015 at 2:28pm

Senate Historian Donald Ritchie, in a 2010 exclusive interview with CQ Roll Call, discuses how a shift in the two political parties impacted the Senate over time.

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