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" He said he served as Senate speaker, but the work does not end, determined to " make people's lives for the better and hard work.

Harry Reid, the party's leader in the Senate, faces a difficult election fight in Nevada: he said the mosque should go somewhere else.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said he did not expect to have to defend religious freedom on the floor of the U. S. Senate.

Richard Shelby, the top Republican on the Senate banking committee, said the bail-out in its original form was unacceptable.

We sort of have a 'do-nothing Senate' right now where nobody's wanting to really pick up the ball and run with it. . .

President Bush said he hoped Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, has the same desire to move the bill forward as he does.

When he entered the Senate, Miller did not know that he was shortly to be murdered by his dearest friend.

He had served in the marines in World War II, had been a great governor, and was the best speaker in the Senate.

The findings and allegations in the Senate report are said by people familiar with the matter to mirror those discovered by US authorities.

The point of all this, though, was to uphold the worth of the Senate.

And the United States Senate has a duty as well - to give those nominees a fair hearing, and a prompt up-or-down vote on the Senate floor.

Now, he said, it would fall to the Senate "to take the baton and bring this effort to the finish line on behalf of the American people. "

In his own life, Barack Obama has lived the American dream, as a community organizer, in the state senate, as a United States senator.

After Mr Obama's speech, Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell accused the Obama administration of trying to "lock up" US energy.

The U. S. Senate has dropped efforts to put emissions curbs in an energy bill now focused on reforming offshore drilling.

Jones grew up in Paris and is fluent in French. As a young officer in the 1980s he was the Marine Corps' liaison to the U. S. Senate.

And he had a plain face, one which many thought was ugly. He looked more like a simple farmer than a candidate for the United States Senate.

The Chairman of this Subcommittee, Senator Frist, has asked you for a 1 page memo on whether or not the Senate should ratify the Treaty.

Hillary Clinton said the decision to give up her seat in the U. S. Senate to accept the post of secretary of state was not easy.

Good morning. The United States Senate is now considering my nomination of Judge Sam Alito to be an associate justice on the Supreme Court.

The truth is that given the state of American politics, the way the Senate works is no longer consistent with a functioning government.

Max Baucus, chairman of the Senate finance committee, said it was just one of several ways in which China broke world trade rules.

despite the fact that I've opposed them even before I got to the United States Senate.

In the Senate, Obama amassed a voting record in line with that of the Democratic Party's liberal wing.

He worked his way through college and made it to the Senate by the age of 29.

The full Senate will take up the matter after this week's Thanksgiving recess, with the leadership keen to pass it before Christmas.

McClellan said Bush would be urging the Senate and the Senate minority leader to let the comprehensive bipartisan agreement move forward.

This was the culmination of a campaign extending over many months in the Senate and in the media to get at the "truth" in Laos.

Andy was as good as his word. He kept writing to the State Senate. Two letters a week instead of one.

With the bill struggling to pass the Senate, the support of influential companies will give it a boost.

He didn't happen to see that light during the first three years as a member of the United States Senate, $932 million in requests.

Perhaps the Senate should give a bit of money to the CPSC but it need not splash out too much.

Mr Obama said he was comfortable with the Senate's plan. It seems a safe bet that the protesters in McPherson Square would approve as well.

When Burris arrived at the Capitol without the document, the secretary of the Senate informed him he would not be accepted.

So the consumer protection bureau serves a vital function. But as I said, Senate Republicans are trying to kill it.

The president said he expected the Senate to quickly make a last set of legislative fixes needed in the new law.

Lo and behold, when he returned to Washington, the Senate Republican Leader came out against the common-sense reforms we've proposed.

If it does pass, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D. , Nev. ) prepared to put it to a vote in the Senate, hoping to defeat it.

China was just beginning to remake its economy, and I was in the first Senate delegation to witness this evolution.

Let me unequivocally state right here before you and the whole country, under no circumstances was I trying to sell the Senate seat. . .

Less than a month after turning 30 in 1962, Mr. Kennedy declared his candidacy for the remaining two years of his brother's Senate term.

McCain said he intends to run for re-election to the Senate in two years, but laughed off the prospect of another run for president.

And yet when he was on the war path his opponents on the Municipal Corporation or the Senate of the University were mortally afraid of him.

Senate Republicans said they were ready to fight to put more emphasis on tax cuts and less on new spending.

Congress returns from recess on Tuesday, and bipartisan groups in the House and Senate have been trying to hash out compromise deals.

After the Senate refused to allow Richard an up-or-down vote when I nominated him in 2011, I took action to appoint him on my own.

He was ultimately confirmed by the Senate, after acknowledging he made a tax mistake while serving abroad.

He said he believed that he could support all of it and would work for its approval in the Senate.

The White House has said the timetable for Senate action this week would have to be met or the "clunker" program would cease.

Abortion could also scupper things, as the Senate bill's provisions on the matter do not please some conservative House Democrats.

Over time, it became apparent that the US would not live up to its commitment, owing, as now, to opposition in the Senate.

And Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn. , the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, said he would hold a hearing on the issue next month.

Romulus's life ended in the thirty-eighth year of his reign, with a supernatural disappearance, if he was not slain by the Senate.

Dingell's plan could still face opposition in the Senate, but looks as though it will have the support necessary to make it into law.

The first speaker of the day was Rand Paul, who by then had said he might run for the Senate if Bunning were to retire.

She has been a regular at Senate prayer breakfasts, where something of the old bipartisan Senate survives.

The question of income tax was the apple of discord among the senate.

His wife, Michelle Obama, voiced concerns about his safety before he was elected to the Senate.

The California Democrat said he hoped the Senate will move swiftly to adopt a similar bill so a measure can be sent to the White House.

The Senate is still ruminating on its own bill. It may take until the middle of next year for a final law to be passed.

In the Senate, a proposal that started out with a carbon cap on most of the economy ended up with one limiting just the utilities sector.

After just a few days, the video dramatically changed the Virginia Senate race as the news media reported on the controversy.

The absence of any experience as a judge was raised by Senate Republicans as a potential stumbling block to her confirmation.

Judicial candidates for the District Court are nominated by the President and must be confirmed by the U. S. Senate.

One only needs to look at the US Senate, whose members are all elected statewide, and therefore not gerrymandered at all, to see that.

THE president of Brazil's Senate sits in a fine blue leather chair designed by Oscar Niemeyer, a celebrated Brazilian architect.

It would be an ambassador-type position to be confirmed by the Senate, meaning the official could be called before Congress to testify.

The new hearing, brought by his allies in the Czech Senate, neatly ties his hands: he cannot sign the treaty, even if he wants to.

But it is hard to see the applicability of that principle to Senate voting, given the other barriers to enacting legislation.

NIA hopes to see Rand Paul filibuster any attempts by the U. S. Senate to raise the ceiling on our national debt.

The senate even directs the present and future consuls and praetors to see to it that no injurious consequences to her follow.

Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, spoke for many earlier this year when he said the war was lost.

Mr. Warner, the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, had already said he disagreed with General Pace.

One former staffer says that his fellow-employees used to say that the senate was like a mother to them.

Mrs. Clinton's Senate office broke a week of silence to acknowledge the talks but cautioned that they had not been made final.

After the war, it was not easy for Seward to convince the Senate that Alaska would be an important addition to the United States.

Mr Fuld was one of a number of witnesses testifying in a Senate hearing room on Capitol Hill.

Republican Senate James Inhole sounded alarm bells as well, warning that the Congress might have to put brakes on the idea.

Christopher Dodd, chair of the Senate Banking Committee, said Mr Obama would have to press the matter with Chinese leaders in Beijing.

It also has no hope of passing the Senate, as Max Baucus, the head of its Finance Committee, confirmed this week.

This will allow her to bypass what some have speculated would be a risky Senate nomination process.

Reid, D-Nev. , said he had invited Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. , to join him in negotiations.

Although the Senate did not follow the co - author with the box-office hit what World War II, "Li meters, " but quietly in the fire, Xinhua.

Not coincidentally, the Warner-Lieberman bill eventually went down in an embarrassing defeat in the Senate.

With such a man let loose in the Senate, there was no hope of bipartisanship.

Should significant problems arise, I shall be glad to involve the FIA Senate, but I hope this will not be necessary.

Senator Cochran said he would work to "craft language and funding that will be approved by the Senate" in the next recovery bill for all U.

The rebellious youth did not live up to Sagaro's strict disciplines and washed out of Senate Guard training.

The chances of that have recently receded, following the United States Senate's failure in July to approve a proposed cap-and-trade scheme.

On the floor of the Senate one day, I caught up with one of my Republican colleagues who had leveled this charge at me.

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee approved the bill more than a year ago, but it has yet to come to the floor.

Treasury Secretary Geithner told members of the Senate banking committee that economic recovery efforts are beginning to take effect.

In the case of at least one proposal reportedly included in the Senate package, bipartisan support actually seems to prove the opposite.

If I should lose on the real issues, I shall return to my seat in the Senate, satisfied that I'd tried my best and was fairly judged.

Charlie Crist, Florida's governor, was set to leave the Republican Party and run for the Senate as an independent.

But while this is embarrassing for the nominee, her confirmation by the Democratic-controlled Senate still seems to be in no doubt.

There was no clear single reason for the Senate's rejection of the president's two previous nominees.

He said the Republicans' newest legislation would clear the House, could clear the Senate and then would be sent to Obama for his signature.

Senator John Clayton of Delaware proposed to the Senate that it name a special committee on the question of slavery in the new territories.

The Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the proposal was, in his words, "the only game in town" , and there will be a vote by midnight.

Once, near the Russell Senate Office Building, we happened upon a mysterious pile of pellets that appeared to be some kind of fertilizer.

By yesterday there were fears that the rescue plan might have trouble passing in the Senate - at least without significant spending cuts.

WHEN Barack Obama was running for the Senate, an adviser showed him a file of damaging facts that Republicans had dug up about him.

Dodd was hurt and angered by the Senate censure and not ready to give up his seat without a fight.

Jennifer Berlin, a spokeswoman for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the proposal would be studied by the committee.

A spokeswoman for state Senate Minority Leader Dennis Hollingsworth, R-Temecula, said he had no comment on the proposal.

"He is going to have bipartisan support in the Senate, and I would anticipate he will be confirmed, " he said.

Plus, there's no guarantee that a climate bill could have garnered 60 votes in the Senate if it had come up for a vote after the stimulus.

The FBI is investigating the scandal and the Senate is to look at proposed legislation that would make it a crime to use webcams for spying.

The governor of the state of Illinois stands accused of trying to sell the Senate seat to the highest bidder.

I didn't want him to leave the Senate but was excited by the prospect of appointing George to the Supreme Court.

The bill would extend benefits through November, but the Senate left town for a week-long break without taking action.

A year ago Mrs Hutchison was the most popular politician in Texas, a moderate serving her fourth term in the Senate.

If Gregg leaves the Senate, his replacement would be appointed by the Democratic governor of the Northeastern state of New Hampshire.

Republicans are noisily claiming that some provisions do not meet this test, and therefore must be rejected by the Senate's parliamentarian.

McConnell spokesman Don Stewart said the Republican Senate leader is amenable to a two-year extension.

Edward Kennedy, who chairs the Senate's education committee, has urged Congress to "take the money changers out of the temple. "

Think too of the Illinois governor, Rod Blagojevich, accused of trying to sell Barack Obama's Senate seat.

Among them was one passed the day before by both Senate and House in a form agreed to in conference committee, the Food and Drugs Act.

The Senate has failed to move forward to stop debate on the defense bill that includes the 'do not ask do not tell' repeal.

You know, in 1999 when I was thinking off running for the Senate, I did not know what to do.

However, such a plan will have to win support of House Republicans and clear the U. S. Senate.

He served for eight years in the Illinois state Senate before voters elected him to the United States Senate in two thousand four.

In a televised speech on Monday Bush spelled out his vision for immigration reform that closely resembles the Senate bill.

In today's political climate, public displays of prosperity are the kind of thing that gets you lambasted by a Senate subcommittee.

The law said the president could not remove a cabinet officer without approval by the Senate.

When the Senate is ready to vote, senators are asked, "Will the Senate advise and consent to this nomination? "

The bill aims to help thousands of struggling homeowners fight off foreclosure. The Senate passed the measure in a rare Saturday session.

It also calls for the industry to pre-fund the cost of winding down basket-cases; the Senate wants the money to be raised after the fact.

Reid said every Democratic senator would vote against the current Boehner proposal if it was passed by the House and went to the Senate.

The Senate is expected to spend the next few weeks debating and writing its own version of a government funding bill.

Once cap-and-trade is in place (if it ever passes the Senate), it will be easier for the market to have its say on such schemes.

President Barack Obama on Tuesday said he has enough votes in the U. S. Senate to pass financial reform legislation.

The next day Palpatine called for a special session of the Galactic Senate.

Instead the Democrats agreed to put some of these proposals to separate votes, knowing they will not pass the Senate.

In the Senate, 12 Democratic incumbents are seeking re-election, and only one seems to be facing a serious challenge.

Remember that in May, its sister bill PIPA passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee in just two weeks and with almost no opposition.

One of the draft energy bills floating around the Senate this year even proposed removing the ban on government purchases of tar-sands oil.

The Missouri Senate just passed a bill that would require doctors to talk about a fetus' development and its ability to feel pain.

Theoretically, the president could appoint anyone reading this book to a federal judgeship as long as the Senate concurs.

Several top Democrats have expressed concern that the traditionally conservative Senate would not pass a bill with a public option.

However, it was not ratified by the US Senate until 50 years later and did not prohibit such weapons from being developed.

The U. S. Senate is expected to end debate today (Monday) on an economic recovery bill, clearing the way for a final vote by Tuesday.

A spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he is open to debating the bill after Congress returns from its recess next week.

Suddenly, a cause that couldn't find its way into a bill for two or more years was set to become State Senate Bill 1395.

Harry Reid, the Democrats' leader in the Senate, had earlier said the war was "lost" .

Senate Democrats reversed their position on Roland Burris and decided to let him take the Illinois seat vacated by Mr Obama.

King may also be with his attendants and supporters to attend the General Assembly curia, or senate meeting .

"Contractors are using fine print to deny women like Jamie Leigh Jones their day in court, " he said in a Senate debate.

The bill now moves to the Senate, where a similar bill did not get a hearing. But advocates are optimistic.

And Democrats on the Senate intelligence committee said they had been kept in the dark about the nomination.

The White House is not saying if it will comply with subpoenas from the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Instead, the president found himself talking to the nation about the loss of a man known as "the liberal lion" of the Senate.

Nishioka said Senate President Japan, Naoto Kan, the regime has reached a dead end, he said: "has been limited to the last critical point. "

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Obama would push for the U. S. Senate to advance a stalled bill to tackle global warming.

Corker played a key role in the debate that eventually led to the bailout failing in the Senate a week ago.

"I'm more confident than I've every been, " Frank said of chances the Senate will pass its own credit card bill.

But the legislation would still be at least a few weeks away, because it must go through the Senate as well.

Today, Senate majority leader Harry Reid kicked off the Senate debate on her nomination by calling for civility.

The New York state assembly approved the marriage equality bill, for the fourth time, last week and it is now up to the New York Senate.

First, the Democrats failed to meet the president's deadline for getting health bills out of both the House and the Senate by August.

Jinn, fearful that the Federation might harm the Queen, insisted that she journey to Coruscant to put her case before the Galactic Senate.

Legal proceedings rumbled on, trying to confirm a winner in last November's Minnesota Senate race.

The group had previously claimed to have broken into Sony Corp. , the U. S. Senate and affiliates of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Ms Sotomayor is a decent judge who performed well in her Senate hearings, but she makes an inviting target for Mr Obama's opponents.

Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee and another Democratic presidential candidate, is also up in arms.

The first leg of my journey took place in the chambers of the Undergraduate Student Senate.

Ruling the Republic was the Galactic Senate, a governing body comprising elected or appointed representatives from across the galaxy.

The president urged the U. S. Senate to take up the intelligence legislation as quickly as possible.

Vladivostok products: dry sea cucumber, salinization Senate and the Senate ready-to-eat, sea cucumbers tablets.

And I look forward to working with the United States Senate to achieve ratification for this important treaty later this year.

Mr Obama's voting record in the Senate is one of the most left-wing of any Democrat.

The Vice President is also the President of the Senate, but votes only in the CASE of a tie vote in the Senate.

Several of these droids detonated in the heart of the New Republic Senate.

If confirmed by the Senate, Panetta would take over the Pentagon at a time when the U.

Regan Lachapelle, a spokeswoman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, said it would be premature to comment on how the new Senate will act.

If you were in the United States Senate you would be accused of filibustering.

Voter anger is high, and a Republican Senate victory in Massachusetts has sent shock waves through the president's Democratic Party.

Experts told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that this is part of the reason why biological weaponry is so dangerous.

A Republican majority in the Senate, though possible, would be astonishing, because relatively few Democratic seats are up for grabs there.

The Minnesota Senate race is still up in the air.

There was no formal statement issued by the offices of either the House or Senate Republican leaderships.

The Chief Justice, like anAssociate Justice, is nominated by the President and confirmed to sit on the Court by the U. S. Senate.

Earlier he told ABC he had considered Oprah Winfrey for the Senate seat he is accused of trying to sell.

A Senate committee has approved a bill to reform US healthcare, a key step in President Barack Obama's attempt to overhaul the system.

Both the House and Senate would have to pass an identical measure before it could be sent to President George W. Bush to sign into a law.

This might be because a Senate impasse led to the expiration of extended unemployment insurance benefits early in June.

In the U. S. Senate, Stevens used his perch as an appropriator to direct federal dollars to his home state.

In the U. S. , the Senate Finance Committee is discussing the issue with the office of the Trade Representative.

Most political observers view the repeal effort as a symbolic act, since the Democratically-controlled Senate will not follow suit.

So the health bill that the full Senate is likely to consider over the next few weeks now looks likely to include a public plan.

Together, the two pleaded to the Senate for intervention, only to see their request stalemated by Trade Federation filibustering.

Yet the collapse of the Senate bill does not mean illegal immigration will go away, either as a fact or as an urgent political issue.

And certainly in the Senate, he has been a benefactor for ACORN. -How's he been a benefactor for ACORN? He was just organizer.

Testifying before the Senate late last month, Gates said the opposition suffered from a lack of training and experience.

The current seizures of domains did not even use the proposed bill which recently passed the US Senate Judiciary Committee.

When a single vote decided the outcome in the Senate, a single senator prepared to cross the floor had immense bargaining power.

On October 25, we had a great rally in Atlanta, where my longtime friend Max Cleland was in a tight race for the U. S. Senate.

The secrets of the President and the Cabinet, as well as of the Senate and the House of Representatives, seemed to be open to him.

In (the southeastern state of) Florida, voters will choose a Democratic candidate for the U. S. Senate in another closely watched race.

The bill was approved last week by the Wisconsin Assembly, but has not come up for a vote in the Senate.

The Senate and House release volumes of the reimbursement requests for these allowances , but do not make them available electronically.

He was one of ten Senate Democrats to support President Bush in the first Gulf War.

President George W. Bush signed the treaty in 2004 but did not send it to the Senate, where a two-thirds vote is needed for ratification.

Exporters in Germany warned that the plan may spark a trade war even as the U. S. Senate voted to water down the provisions.

The Senate minority leader, Kentucky Republican Mitch McConnell, accused Democrats of being in a state of denial.

Then, on any given morning or afternoon at the U. S. Senate, a DBA specifies the workload to be analyzed and enters the criteria.

Senate Minority Leader Phil Berger , R-Rockingham, said the pay increases raise questions.

BY THE START of my second year in the Senate, my life had settled into a manageable rhythm.

We know senate majority leader Harry Reid is sorry for what he said about president Obama.

So I urge Republicans in the Senate to at least allow a majority of Senators and Congressmen to stop this pay cut.

As the president spoke in Florida, the U. S. Senate passed its version of the economic stimulus plan.

But if there should remain two or more who have equal votes, the Senate shall choose from them by ballot the Vice President.

The Democrat is in a close race in an important Senate election in the southern state of Tennessee .

So it will never get through the Senate, and if it did, it would be vetoed by Mr Obama.

Republican pickups in the Senate, and their takeover of the House, would seem to augur brightened prospects.

SIX YEARS LATER, when I decided to run for the United States Senate, I wasn't so sure of myself.

In recent weeks, hackers known as Lulz Security attacked the Web sites of Sony, the United States Senate, the C. I. A. , PBS, among others.

The Chief Justice of the United States is appointed by the President, subject to Senate confirmation.

She also showed that she could be a team player in the Senate (a period when her husband stayed more firmly in the background).

Testifying before congressional and Senate committees has never been my idea of fun and games.

Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid on Friday wrote to Bush asking to meet with him as soon as possible to discuss the economy.

The Senate Finance Committee approved a sweeping health care bill last week that did not include a public option.

But Mr Obama could not get the creation of such a commission through the Senate (and thus has talked of creating one by executive order).

Needless to say, the Senate did not embrace this idea.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the same day he expects the Senate will act on the bills before the end of October.

Senate Republicans are open to a stimulus package, but say tax relief must be an essential part of the plan.

Of course, none of their plans will ever succeed since the Democrats still control the Senate and the presidency.

Jerry was to find out in the newspaper about his impending invertigation by the senate ethics committee.

In the end, doctors got a six-month reprieve; efforts are now under way in the Senate to extend that reprieve for a further two years.

SINCE MY ARRIVAL in the Senate, I've been a steady and occasionally fierce critic of Bush Administration policies.

So far his strategy has worked: in late October a state Senate committee refused to approve the legislation.

Pakistan is a federation of four provinces, each with an elected assembly and with representation in the national assembly and the senate.

Reform of financial regulations, which the US Senate is scheduled to take up in April, will also have diverse impacts on banks.

At least the US Senate can be partisan when it comes to sanctioning foreign countries.

The White House worried that pledges made abroad could wind up being revised by the U. S. Senate.

When she decided to run for the presidency instead, everyone else started looking at the Senate race.

The Senate's climate legislation is called the 'Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act'. This bill is expected to be approved in spring.

But she told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the negotiating process championed by the Bush administration is being reviewed .

His long Senate career and role as patriarch in the well-known Kennedy family has made him a major figure in American politics.

In the Senate, the Democrats could be reduced to such a slim majority that they won't be entirely in control there either.

In response, House and Senate Republicans accused Democrats of trying to politicize the Iraq issue for their own political gain.

His clients include the Presidents of Wal-Mart, Firestone, Shell, Samsung, New York Life, and the United States Senate, to name only a few.

The move was symbolic, since the bill will die in the U. S. Senate, where Democrats and Independents still hold a majority.

The Senate's second-ranking Democrat said he hoped the atmosphere will have changed after the election and the impassed ended.

Students can access from the front of the Senate, the latest information, published works, message and online testing.

With the help of the Senate, he found a way.

With Moseley Braun out of the Senate race, Obama was free and clear to announce that he would definitely run.

In response , House and Senate Republic accuse Democrats of trying to politicize the Iraq issue for their own political gain .

Two years after he was defeated in the Senate race, Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States.