#senator

It was important for us to be as supportive as our candidates and as our incumbent senators would have us be. ↗

— Tom Daschle

#important #incumbent #our #senators #supportive

So, the point I'm making is, we are not going to cut spending in Washington if we think it's the job of every congressman and senator is to pave local parking lots and build local sewer plants. These parochial interests are getting in the way of the national interests. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#congressman #cut #every #getting #going

The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint, upon the advice and consent of a majority of the Senate, and it plainly does not give a minority of senators any right to interfere with that process. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

#any #appoint #consent #constitution #does

As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years. ↗

— Kit Bond

#chief #commander #did #enough #experience

McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin. ↗

— Pat Buchanan

#mccarthy #person #senator #wisconsin

If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators. ↗

— Eleanor Clift

#former #governors #look #presidents #senators

In 2008, as a matter of fact, I had people accusing me of being a Senator Obama supporter because I wouldn't slam him. I said, 'Well, consider the fact that I voted for impeachment for President Clinton, but it wasn't a personal vote. I voted based on the facts and the law and the Constitution and what we were dealing with.' ↗

— J. C. Watts

#based #because #being #clinton #consider

Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happened with reconciliation; twelve Democratic Senators voted for it. You didn't have a real partisan issue on those times that it was used. ↗

— Kent Conrad

#bush tax cuts #cuts #democratic #democrats #half

The intelligence investigation under the leadership of Senator Church, which I know has helped cause this investigation by you, points out that the agencies did not disclose certain facts to us and that certain plots were going on. ↗

— John Sherman Cooper

#cause #certain #church #did #disclose

Justices are not politicians. They don't run on a political platform, and senators should not ask them to do so. ↗

— John Cornyn

#justices #platform #political #politicians #run