#senators

Republican secretaries of state from Kissinger to Baker, Powell to Rice, President Bush, 71 United States Senators all supported President Obama's new START treaty, but not Mitt Romney. ↗

— John F. Kerry

#bush #kissinger #mitt #mitt romney #new

Filibusters should require 35 senators to... make a commitment to continually debate an issue in reality, not just in theory. The number of votes needed to overcome a filibuster should be reduced to 55 from 60. ↗

— Evan Bayh

#continually #debate #filibuster #issue #just

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

Rome had Senators too, that's why it declined. ↗

— Frank Dane

#had #rome #senators #too #why

The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver. ↗

— Jay Leno

#designated #designated driver #driver #each #reason

Senators will do what they think they need to do to represent their constituents. ↗

— John Cornyn

#need #represent #senators #their #think

Cannibals are devouring senators. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#devouring #senators

Fundamentally, legislation that is historic, that is comprehensive, that has a large number of senators supporting it is more durable. ↗

— Max Baucus

#durable #fundamentally #historic #large #large number

Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#complicated #deciding #enough #having #homes

I think that the justices were totally answering the way that they should. I think that the senators, as best I could tell, for the most part, Democrat and Republican, respected that. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#best #could #democrat #i #i think