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TIL about Senator Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME) who delivered a 1950 Senate floor speech ("Declaration of Conscience") against McCarthyism - while he was seated behind her. McCarthy removed her from a subcommittee and financed her (unsuccessful) primary challenger. She voted for his censure in 1954.

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