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What happens when senators die or are incapacitated?

  • Written by Nicholas G. Napolio, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
imageThe Senate wing of the U.S. Capitol building.Matt H. Wade via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

What happens if U.S. senators get sick or, even worse, if they die? It’s happened before – and our research shows that national policies, and even the course of history, can change as a result.

At least three U.S. Republican senators have recently...

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