#senate

Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to senate. ↗

— Agnes Macphail

#clean #clean up #dirty #drive #everything

We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting - our shoulders square, our lipstick on - because you deserve equal pay for your hard work. ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

#deserve #equal #equal pay #fighting #hard

I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that would potentially increase Hubble's power and efficiency by a factor of 10 and allow us to look back almost to the beginning of the universe. ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

#almost #back #beginning #efficiency #factor

Twenty-six years ago, I became the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. I was the first, but I made sure I wasn't the only. ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

#became #democratic #elected #first #her

Reconciliation is a special budget procedure to change entitlement and tax laws. It cannot be filibustered and requires only a simple majority in the Senate to be passed. It is primarily intended for deficit and mandatory spending reduction. ↗

— Jeff Miller

#cannot #change #deficit #entitlement #intended

Guess what - I am one of the ONLY senators in the whole United States Senate that is computer literate! ↗

— Patty Murray

#computer #guess #i #i am #literate

If the Republicans get control back of the United States Senate, we will no longer have a check and balance on the White House, on the Republican Congress. ↗

— Patty Murray

#balance #check #congress #control #get

Violence is a problem we all want to solve. I want to make sure that kids learn to deal with anger by learning how to talk with people to solve problems. Here in the United States Senate I want to make sure we have safe schools, safe neighborhoods and good things for kids to do after school! ↗

— Patty Murray

#anger #deal #good #good things #here

1992 became known as the 'Year of the Woman' because so many of us were elected to public office that November, including a record six to the United States Senate. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#because #elected #including #known #many

One of the great privileges of being a part of the Senate, it being the greatest deliberative body in the world, is out of the discussions of ideas, hopefully truth can ultimately be achieved. ↗

— Bill Nelson

#being #body #discussions #great #greatest