#senate

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda. ↗

— Dan Quayle

#control #establishes #gavel #important #instrument

People in Nevada know me from the street to the ring to the Senate chambers. I've never had to prove my manhood to anyone. ↗

— Harry Reid

#chambers #had #i #know #manhood

We can move America forward with a strong middle class. We can move America forward with a strong Democratic majority in the Senate. And together we can move America forward with Barack Obama in the White House. ↗

— Harry Reid

#barack #barack obama #class #democratic #forward

I think dealing with the U.S. Senate is very different from dealing with the electorate. ↗

— David Remnick

#different #electorate #i #i think #senate

I'd like to see that bipartisanship come back that we used to have in the House of Representatives, in the Clinton years. I think there's a possibility that the voters are going to send the message that everybody running - Congress, the Senate, the presidency - that they want us to come together. ↗

— Bill Richardson

#bipartisanship #clinton #come #congress #everybody

Prior to that I testified before the Senate subcommittee addressing mountaintop removal. ↗

— Kevin Richardson

#before #i #mountaintop #prior #removal

First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you. ↗

— Pat Roberts

#being #chairman #committee #first #i

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation. ↗

— Will Rogers

#closes #i #i can #investigation #opens

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate. ↗

— Orson Welles

#donald #donald duck #duck #election #politicians

The Patriotic Millionaires campaign, pulled together quickly by the Agenda Project in New York City, just happens to appear on the same day as a new study from the Center for Responsive Politics revealing that half of the members of the House and the Senate are millionaires. ↗

— Joe Conason

#appear #campaign #center #city #day