what is the senate responsible for?
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 The committee also shortened the president 's term from seven years to four years , freed the president to seek re @-@ election after an initial term , and moved impeachment trials from the courts to the Senate . They also created the office of the vice president , whose only roles were to succeed a president unable to complete a term of office and to preside over the Senate . The committee transferred important powers from the Senate to the president , for example the power to make treaties and appoint ambassadors . One controversial issue throughout much of the Convention had been the length of the president 's term , and whether the president was to be term limited . The problem had resulted from the understanding that the president would be chosen by Congress ; the decision to have the president be chosen instead by an electoral college reduced the chance of the president becoming beholden to Congress , so a shorter term with eligibility for re @-@ election became a viable option . 

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 According to internal White House and Commission documents posted in February 2016 by the National Security Archive at The George Washington University , the Gerald Ford White House significantly altered the final report of the supposedly independent 1975 Rockefeller Commission investigating CIA domestic activities , over the objections of senior Commission staff . The changes included removal of an entire 86 @-@ page section on CIA assassination plots and numerous edits to the report by then @-@ deputy White House Chief of Staff Richard Cheney . 

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 Clinton has been criticized for not including enough details about the Monica Lewinsky scandal and his impeachment . One of the 14 alcoves is dedicated to the " politics of persecution " and is titled The Fight For Power . The alcove includes the Lewinsky affair , the Whitewater scandal , and the Republican Contract with America . Ralph Applebaum , the chief exhibit designer for the center , said that Clinton was heavily involved in the alcove 's design , and that Clinton " insisted on a transparent and illuminating exhibition " . The scandal is portrayed as a power struggle between Republicans in Congress and Clinton after the Republican Party took control of both the House of Representatives and Senate in 1994 . 

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 No consensus has been reached on who was responsible for the assassination . In August 2014 , an online petition was started using the White House online petition mechanism to call on the government to release without alteration any files they still held relating to the murder of Malcolm X. The petition failed to attract enough signatures to mandate a White House response . 

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 There were two final reports of the commission : a 300 @-@ page classified report for Congress and a 27 @-@ page unclassified report . In the unclassified version , the group came to four unanimous conclusions : 
