#senate

I think I can speak for every Senator, saying that he or she ran for the Senate because we want to help make this a better place; that is, we want to help our States and help America. ↗

— Max Baucus

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I am proud to be in the Senate. I have always been proud to be a part of our political system. It is a remarkable privilege to participate in this system of ours. ↗

— Byron Dorgan

#am #been #i #i am #our

I'm interested in being part of a majority in the Senate. ↗

— Roy Blunt

#i #interested #majority #part #senate

And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to start its own public hearings. ↗

— Sibel Edmonds

#been #campaigning #committee #get #hearings

House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans. We hope President Obama will follow through on his support for an earmark ban by pressing Democratic leaders to join House and Senate Republicans in taking this critical step to restore public trust. ↗

— John Boehner

#ban #critical #democratic #democratic leaders #earmark

This has not been a legislative process worthy of the Senate. Members of the Judiciary Committee, as I just said, were implored to save their amendments for the floor. Then, when we got here, we were told no amendments could be accepted. ↗

— Russ Feingold

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President Barack Obama has it right - there is a lot to change about Washington. The problem is, not much will get changed unless we confront the runaway filibuster in the U.S. Senate. ↗

— Peter Fenn

#barack #barack obama #change #changed #confront

You need the House, you need the Senate and you need the administration. And absent one of them, you're not going to get a heck of a lot done. ↗

— John Chafee

#administration #done #get #going #heck

In his years in Washington, Senator Kerry has been one vote of a hundred in the United States Senate - and fortunately on matters of national security he was very often in the minority. ↗

— Dick Cheney

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I used to sit on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and wonder why the Senate was always going into recess, until in my first year I realized how intense the pressure was. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

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