#senate

It's now up to the full Senate to move swiftly to confirm John Roberts so he can assume his duties and responsibilities as chief justice when the Supreme Court begins its new term in a matter of weeks. We call on the Senate to confirm John Roberts without delay. ↗

— Jay Alan Sekulow

#begins #call #chief #chief justice #confirm

Now, for this book I had to learn the world of the Senate, which is really for all that's written about the Senate, an unknowing world and its mores, and the way things work with subcommittees and all. I loved learning about that. ↗

— Robert Caro

#book #had #i #learn #learning

What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#common denominator #denominator #happens #lowest #republicans

For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee, and up until about 1923, something like that. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#american #american history #before #come #committee

Well, first, if I am fortunate enough to be elected to the U.S. Senate, it won't be a party that will have elected me. It will be the people of California. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#california #elected #enough #first #fortunate

When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#billions #children #cut #debt #dollars

Right now, there are nearly 30 jobs bills passed by the House with support from both Republicans and Democrats that are awaiting action in the Democratic-run Senate. ↗

— Nan Hayworth

#awaiting #bills #both #democrats #house

What this bill says is it reiterates again the deadline, and that the Senate should act before the deadline, and that's what the American people are expecting. ↗

— Eric Cantor

#again #american #american people #before #bill

In the executive branch, winning by a whisker is as good as winning in a landslide, but not so in the Senate. ↗

— Lincoln Chafee

#executive #executive branch #good #landslide #senate

If you're hanging around with nothing to do and the zoo is closed, come over to the Senate. You'll get the same kind of feeling and you won't have to pay. ↗

— Robert J. Dole

#closed #come #feeling #get #hanging