#senate

Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York. ↗

— Laura Bush

#i #i can #moment #never #new

The danger of what's happening right now in terms of using reconciliation is, the purpose of the Senate is going to be defeated. And that is to bring consensus to big issues in this country so that we have a reasoned and thoughtful approach and that the American public buys into it. ↗

— Tom Coburn

#american public #approach #big #bring #buys

The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to bring federal spending under control. ↗

— Jeff Flake

#bring #center #control #country #crisis

The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court. ↗

— Ralph Neas

#bush #court #decades #decisions #future

I'm the only pro-life woman in the Senate. I take this issue very seriously. I'm the mother of two children. ↗

— Kelly Ayotte

#i #issue #mother #only #pro-life

I look at the Senior Al Gore that I had the chance to serve in the Senate with. A great human being. He went down to defeat to this right wing bunch back at the time. ↗

— Birch Bayh

#al gore #back #being #bunch #chance

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

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#bring #committee #common #common sense #diplomatic

When you have a Senate that is 50 Democrats and 49 Republicans and one independent, it's quite obvious that the only way we are going to get something done is if we work together. ↗

— John Breaux

#done #get #going #independent #obvious

The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica. ↗

— Frederic William Farrar

#claudius #decision #guilt #his #innocence