#united states senate

In the United States Senate, we cannot do great things without reaching across the aisle and working together - and I look forward to the challenges ahead. ↗

— Richard Burr

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When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our Founding Fathers did that was so genius, is that they made the Senate the place where compromises are supposed to happen because of the makeup of the Senate. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

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The bottom line is, there have been a lot of nuts elected to the United States Senate. ↗

— Charles Grassley

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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

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To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing. ↗

— Christine Todd Whitman

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Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot. ↗

— Joe Biden

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We must stop the Tea Party before the United States Senate falls into the hands of extremists and ideologues who leave no room for reason or compromise, who don't recognize common ground even when they're standing on it. ↗

— Harry Reid

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