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He was the last of nine children, three of whom went on to become senators and one of whom became president.

He was one of only twenty-three senators who voted in two thousand two against supporting the invasion of Iraq.

His wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, is now one of the two United States senators who represent the state of New York.

Furthermore, some senators and representatives would become "born again" constitutionalists out of a sense of self-preservation.

"I would urge you to broaden your focus just a bit, " Mr Bernanke told the senators.

You're right, the Dynasty is untouchable as long as you're just a man; a scabby little assassin hired to kill overweight Senators.

But many senators do not much like the Waxman-Markey bill either, and it is unlikely to be passed before the summit, if at all.

It had looked as if the measure might not pass, but eight Republican senators eventually backed it.

The Vice President was one of the first U. S. senators to visit China back in 1979, and we look forward to welcoming him back.

The chief justice began to call on the senators. One by one, they answered guilty or not guilty.

Despite warnings from his wife and Cleopatra, he is confident of victory. However, he is stabbed to death by various senators.

And its coalition would be just a few senators short of the 60% needed to amend the constitution.

Just as the President, Senators, and Representatives have overlapping constituencies, their terms also overlap.

Senators will reintroduce legislation giving the White House new tools to press China on the currency front, he said.

The Republicans, not to be outdone, decided to try to recall eight Democratic senators who had absconded.

Clay said he did not want to debate, but wished that the senators would think carefully about his proposals.

One of the senators' prerogatives is to put individual "holds" on a nominee, stopping the candidate's progress to a full vote on the floor.

The next day, after several Republican senators had expressed support for the raid, Lott backed off his comments.

Both the president and Ms. Miers cited a demand from several senators to view internal White House documents as a reason for the withdrawal.

So the Democrats focused instead on recalling the eight Republican senators over a year into their terms who had voted for the reforms.

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

The governor of Nebraska, one of the states along the route, and one of its senators, both Republicans, have expressed concern.

He was one of the most influential Democratic senators on Capitol Hill.

Senators voted 79-19 on Monday to open a week of debate on the Currency Exchange Rate Oversight Reform Act of 2011, which would allow the U.

That's why the President and I need your help to tell your Republican congressmen and senators to step up.

Most senators find out how the wind blows in their home state before voting on bills in Congress.

Two years later, he took over as manager of the Senators until 1932.

Were Mr Zuckerberg to be grilled by senators who have not yet grasped the concept of e-mail, he might let his irritation show.

And I need you to tell your Senators to do the right thing by passing this jobs bill right away.

Some Republican senators had urged me to delay the speech, but I wasn't about to do that.

The final bit of progress came with a bundle of amendments, offered by 11 freshman Democratic senators, to tackle costs.

President Barack Obama is leading the nation in remembering Ted Kennedy, calling him one of the greatest senators of our time.

I ask you to call your senators and to urge them to vote for this bipartisan alternative.

Traditionally, the president does not fill federal jobs in a state until he discusses them with the senators from that state.

Clay also opposed the southern senators who tried to prevent discussion of slavery. He said their position was emotional and extreme.

He dodged behind the long table where the Senators had sat so that it was now between him and Obi-Wan.

Two years later he was reelected by a large margin, and two years after that he became one of our U. S. senators.

An election was held, and the top two vote- getters got to go as Arkansas senators.

These interests could just as well afford to assure that fifty-one senators block reform as forty.

A meeting between the senators and Ambassador Rice did not appear to ease their doubts.

The majority of Senators continued to be Patricians.

But he is not having a party. He is set for a White House huddled with Democratic senators to discuss his health care overhaul plan .

In a recent letter to Google, senators said the importance of the issue at hand justified the call for Google's top brass to attend.

When he started his inaugural address as majority leader, his fellow senators at first did not notice and carried on chatting.

"Three Republican senators have put politics and partisanship aside to support this reform, " he said.

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

Senators can place a hold in secret, avoiding the embarrassment that such naked politicking might bring if it were known.

The governor wanted a break in negotiations until at least Tuesday, said Michael Brodkorb, a spokesman for the state's Republican senators.

Perhaps over the medium term and maybe just as importantly, it is holding accountable those senators who voted against public safety.

The senators assailed the President on the subject of the treaty between the two countries.

And a tradition has grown up under which senators, in return for not gumming up everything, get the right to block nominees they don't like.

He is one of six senators, three from each party, working discreetly behind the scenes in search of a compromise.

Palpatine knew of a delegation of concerned Senators, and he would deal with them in time.

Most senators find out which way the wind blows in their home states before voting on bills in Congress.

Most senators find out which way the wind blows in their home state before voting on bills in Congress.

The senators are considering attaching the legislation to a war-funding bill expected to be debated by Congress in the coming weeks.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada said he expected the House would pass the bill, a sentiment echoed by other senators.

Fourteen Democratic senators have left the state, leaving it one lawmaker short of a quorum required to bring the bill to a vote.

Clinton was greeted warmly by a number of senators and her daughter, Chelsea, as she entered the hearing.

Do these staff foibles tell us about the kind of president Senators Clinton or Obama would be?

Moreover, the senators say, with the huge costs of the March earthquake and tsunami, Japan can hardly afford to add to its fiscal burden.

It's unclear to the senators if that or any other law prompted the spy community to move into geo location collection.

China says a visit to Beijing by two U. S. senators is not likely to resolve a dispute with the United States over China's currency.

He proved to the Senators that the peanut was valuable enough as a food to be protected by a tariff.

He thinks the Defence Department should be audited by an independent body and wants 12-year term limits for representatives and senators.

Some senators feel that if air power is to be the main threat, we are not spending enough on aircraft to give us the "Sunday punch" needed.

Her husband is honourable in the gates, when he sitteth among the senators of the land.

The immigration-reform deal among a bipartisan group of U. S. senators is a key milestone in what will continue to be a bruising debate.

The two United States Senators, whenever business called them to Columbus, invariably maintained parlour chambers at the hotel.

To that end, Senators loyal to Palpatine motioned that the Chancellor be given emergency powers to deal with the Separatist threat.

Last week, several U. S. senators said Chinese miners should be barred from investing in the U. S. until rare-earth supplies are guaranteed.

Vice President Cheney and a number of senators joined hundreds of mourners to pay their respects to Jesse Helms.

Some senators said they do not want military decisions to be dictated by budgetary constraints.

He said special deals were struck with some Democratic Senators to get them to support the bill.

She tried calling the offices of her two U. S. senators, both Democrats, to complain, but says their voicemail boxes were full.

Each state has two senators, but the number of House seats for a given state depends on population.

As a consequence, China's overall trade surplus has fallen sharply, by approximately half as a share of its economy, Geithner told senators.

Some Republican senators jumped ship and did not vote for the bill.

Some senators worry that the costs of a cap-and-trade scheme may spiral out of control.

In what may be a last act of defiance on this issue, Republican senators mustered enough votes to block the Democratic move.

The legislature was unable to form a quorum to debate the issue after Democratic state senators absconded to Illinois.

Meanwhile, the Democratic primary race between Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton is now in its final week.

Wyoming, one of the smallest states, has only three electoral votes, taking into account its two U. S. senators and one House member.

At the White House, Mr Obama hailed a plan by a group of senators to cut the budget deficit and raise the limit.

Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, has beaten back demands from senators in both parties for a similar provision.

In 1999 you were one of the senators who helped pass deregulation of Wall Street. -Mm-hmm.

Opponents of the bill cheered when a legislative leader announced that there were not enough senators present to proceed.

The White House has been supportive of late, inviting senators over to talk.

The " railroad senators " who framed the Elkins Act carefully avoid giving the ICC any authority over the rate-making process .

Murkowski is one of the top five senators in contributions from the oil and gas industry in the 2010 election cycle.

In one of the most recent embarrassments, US Democratic Senators Robert Byrd was prematurely declared dead by rogue editors.

Only Senators and Representatives (also known as Members of Congress) can introduce a bill in their respective chamber.

At the Judiciary Committee hearing, Democratic senators struggled to have the executives explain how oil prices had risen so high.

The Republican senators whom they took on were last elected in 2008, a good year for Democrats, so were always going to be hard to dislodge.

Andrew , last security official that told the truth like that had Republican Senators calling for his job. But your 100% right.

By making that distinction clear, the president could win over support from senators worried about the breadth of the planned restrictions.

Senators have been debating legislation to protect consumers and end government bailouts of part of the nation's economy.

But I'm more concerned that John McCain and other Republican senators are using homophobia as a defense in their argument.

The two senators debated whether or not the Senate should pass the new tax bill.

If you also feel strongly about this issue, please write to your Congress representatives, senators, and even the Supreme Court. I am.

Senators may also elect a vice president , tosucceed the president in case of illness incapacity or death.

The radio station tried to line up a few senators for the panel.

The Ottawa Senators have drawn first plight in their eastern conference final series against the top seated Buffalo Sabres.

In the end, the staff problems that Senators Clinton and Obama have suffered don't show a lack of readiness for the White House.

And over the last few weeks, Senators here in Washington have listened and taken some big steps forward.

Several powerful U. S. senators have been concerned about the plan's overall cost and its impact on America's regional military strategy.

Earlier this week, two American senators proposed legislation for three times as much non-military aid as Pakistan now receives.

Senators who opposed a second term for Ben Bernanke as Fed chairman were more likely to cite regulatory failures than high unemployment.

The senators note that legislative restrictions on GPS acquisition so far only apply to cops and feds, not spies.

Senators were not to be elected, but to be appointed by the state legislatures.

The unions have won the backing of senators and members of the house in their attempt to introducing the bill.

The kind of massive stimulus that Paul Krugman wants simply is not politically feasible , no matter how many Senators he lambastes .

One important topic the first representatives and senators needed to address was establishing the U. S. military.

Senators have given free air tickets to relatives and claimed housing allowances for houses they did not live in.

In June Midwestern senators proposed a bill to speed up a study of the issue.

To amplify the unfairness, senators have the power (not to mention the verbosity) to talk a bill to death.

Some senators from both parties blame the central bank for allowing the financial crisis to happen and for mishandling subsequent policy.

The senators emerged from the meeting to announce that no deal had been reached.

A majority supports term limits and the election of senators; about 30% (rising to 43% in Quebec) would like the upper house abolished.

Senators profess to be worried that embryonic research fails to respect the dignity of "potential persons" .

Two senior senators from Mr. Bush's own Republican Party are pressing the president to begin planning for the redeployment of U.

A tactic used by a group of Senators to block the passage of a bill favored by the majority.

Connecticut and Vermont remain the only two states with Independent Senators.

Each state is represented by electors in equal number to the number of senators and representatives that represent that state in Congress.

This week senators and industrial groups have been discussing a compromise bill to introduce mandatory controls on carbon (see article).

Senators represent the interests of citizens of a state.

Republican Senator John McCain and Democratic Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama returned to Capitol Hill Tuesday to take part.

Senators must next debate their own health-care proposals, which could be brought to the Senate floor before the end of this month.

Meanwhile, there is only one week left in the Democratic primary battle between Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

Labor lacks a majority in the upper house and needs the support of seven non-government senators to have its bills passed.

Some senators criticised the Fed for maintaining a loose monetary policy for too long and fuelling the last housing bubble.

and he even gave pecuniary aid to Roman magistrates and senators to assist them in the performance of their duties.

Some Republican senators from the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico coastal region were quick to accuse the president of not offering anything new.

Hence, two-thirds of the senators are always people with some legislative experience at the national level.

Bane then took a group of Senators hostage in the east wing, cutting off communications and making his demands known to the Chancellor.

He came to Washington young and idealistic, and worked for a congressman, three senators and Donald Rumsfeld.

Mr Obama said a proposal had been put forward on Tuesday by a bipartisan "gang of six" senators.

At least 7 senators jointly issued a statement demanding that he leave office because he has lost the trust of South Carolinians.

Meanwhile, Labor also failed to gain the support of senators from the Australian Greens party, which views the CPRS as too timid.

Emperors became popes (both were called "Pontifex Maximus" ), senators became bishops, orators became priests and basilicas became churches.

Two senators who opposed the bill heard the noise as they walked down the steps of the capitol building.

And I commend all the Senators and Representatives who did the right thing.

Rather than counselling calm to the senators, he warned China of the dangers of an angry Congress.

It will be weeks or months before the American public knows which senators will hold specific posts in the next U. S. Senate.

The public option has been raised as a bone of contention by several of the more conservative Democratic senators.

Senators serve six-year terms, with one-third of them up for election every even year.

Opposition came from conservatives, populists and senators facing tight races where the rescue bill is drawing criticism.

Although the Senators single out China, they said "tomorrow it could be another economy's currency, with even more devastating effects" .

It depends on unelected life senators for its majority in the upper house and so is vulnerable to even a small rebellion on its own side.

During the hearing process, senators often will question nominees on their judicial record and views on constitutional issues.

This week, Mr Prodi won a majority thanks to support from unelected life senators and from rebels within the centre-right opposition.

S. senators who say the U. S. military should safeguard navigation in the strategic waterway.

Senators from both parties have been putting heavy pressure on regulators at the Food and Drug Administration.

Obama should fill the remaining vacancies quickly, and senators should generally give him the benefit of the doubt.

Please click here to call your senators, and to report your call.

The speech ended; fellow senators clapped and congratulated Senator Byrd for his magnificent oratory.

The Democrats do now have 60 senators (see article), and they might pick up a Republican or two; but they cannot afford many defections.

What unites senators Schumer and Graham with Morgenthau and White is the eternal quest for a weaker dollar.

The trial was all but done . Remaining senators voted as expected.

Senators from coal states and the South worried that their regions would be disproportionately hurt.

We don't trust nor respect those in leadership positions, including presidents, his advisors, senators, congressmen and congresswomen.

Amid continuing violence, the senators say Iraq still needs U. S. and coalition support, and vowed to see the job through.

The main battleground was the Senate, with 315 elected members (and seven life senators).

but restore the requirement that filibustering senators actually take to the floor and talk until the majority gives up.

Hard negotiations with the Russians will now be followed by hard negotiations with [U. S. ] Republican Senators to achieve ratification.

president bush made a rare visit to capitol hill , lunching with gop senators , making the case for immigration reform.

A bill designed to help avert some foreclosures has been under discussion by senators this week.

U. S. President Barack Obama is urging senators to approve a new nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia before the end of the year.

Before long, a bipartisan delegation of senators and representatives came to take me to the House chamber.

Senators and government officials may concurrently, congress is mutual, no government mount to dissolve parliament power.

Meanwhile, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner faced tough questions from senators of both parties on Capitol Hill.

Voters chose between two candidates for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination: Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

In written answers to senators at his confirmation hearing in January, he stated that China was "manipulating its currency" .

Legislating may become more complicated, however, once the newly-elected batch of senators take their seats in the upper house next July.

Voters elected several new Republican senators who either were part of the tea-party movement or propelled by it.

Powell was his usual reassuring presence, urging senators not to mouth off .

Everybody pulled out all the stops to give wavering senators the spine to take a stand.

Senators Barack Obama and Joe Biden are kicking off a bus tour that will take them on a tour of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan.

Even some senators who support Mr Bernanke want to reduce the Fed's regulatory authority and delegate it to a new bank supervisor.

All five commissioners of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission were on hand to answer senators' questions.

But GOP senators are pushing House Republicans to take up the bill themselves.

Two leading Republican senators called Sunday for a new strategy in Iraq, saying the situation is getting worse.

President Bush uses his weekly radio address to praise Senators from both parties for reaching a deal overhauling immigration policy.

McConnell has scheduled a meeting with Republican senators for Monday morning to discuss the details of the deal.

But such holds on nominees are often withdrawn once Senators' concerns are addressed.

Today the Senators are elected directly, and likewise (in effect) the President.

Trial lawyers are aghast, as are Democratic senators and those who distrust big business more than they distrust lawyers.

Three senior U. S. senators who met with top Indian-government officials say emotions are running high following the Mumbai terror attack.

Nonetheless, home-state senators in effect keep a veto, known informally as a "blue slip" , over both.

The star appeared at the rally in Portland, Maine, particularly targeting the state's two Republican senators.

Last week, four senators wrote to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, expressing skepticism about food aid to the North.

He had sent copies to town officials and to his state senators and representatives.

Mr Obama praised moderate Democratic and Republican senators for coming up with the tentative compromise deal.

A short time after President Eisenhower asked a group of Senators if he could join their prayer breakfast, it became a national event.

He was accompanied by fellow Senators Jack Reed and Chuck Hagel at the meeting.

"Let us return to the Temple, " Qui-Gon said as the Senators filed out. "Come, Obi-Wan. "

During his confirmation hearing, senators sent General Alexander several questions.

Democratic Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama said it falls short of what is needed to address the credit and foreclosure crisis.

Senators lounged around like teenagers at an all-night party, amusing themselves by sending messages to conservative blogs.

When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter.

Separate from the Biden working group, the so-called "Gang of Six" senators continue to work on developing their own bipartisan plan.

Although that seemed ominous for bipartisan co-operation, Republican senators were on course to vote for the deal.

The legislation passed the Democrat-led Senate with a comfortable 63-35 majority, with several Republican senators also supporting the bill.

Ban also revealed that he will next week meet all the US Senators involved in deliberations over the energy and climate bill.

Senators John McCain and Barack Obama offer two very different approaches for addressing healthcare coverage and cost.

Many pension funds follow the index and, argue senators, those investments are artificially inflating prices.

Shown here are students being sworn in as senators in the Mississippi State Senate chamber at the Capitol building in Jackson.

Among the world's oldest portraits are ancient Roman busts of venerable senators.

There aren't many incentives for lots of senators to vote for a reasonable climate bill.

Top administration officials worked closely with senators to come up with the current accord.

After Massachusetts, senators squirmed about supporting anyone so closely involved with bank bail-outs.

For such people it is essential to revisit the issues raised by Senators Glass and Steagall in the Great Depression.

They say the opening has emerged because opinion polls show Senator McCain stretching his lead over senators Obama and Clinton.

Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are vying for a total of 31 pledged delegates in Montana and South Dakota.

Although senators are popularly elected, two are chosen (in staggered terms) from each of the 50 states, regardless of population.

The smallest states (with only one representative and two senators) have only three electoral votes.

How are senators chosen Senators are chosen by the prime minister and appointed by the Governor General .

His comments came as both Democratic and Republican senators on the committee took turns to attack China's exchange rate policy.

As winter turns to spring, senators will begin to focus more on the November mid-term elections than on outstanding legislation.

When the Senate Banking Committee took up my nomination in July and again in November, three Republican senators voted for me each time.

Aides of President-elect Barack Obama are polling senators, seeing if Holder could be confirmed.

By that standard, businessman Warren Buffet, one-quarter of U. S. senators and four Supreme Court justices are over the over-72 hill.

Rural senators today ensure that wasteful, trade-distorting, ally- enraging farm subsidies will never die.

Senior US senators have warned congress that "too many trades" are occurring without regulatory oversight.

Suddenly all hell broke loose . Senators Goldwater and Jackson reacted with expressions of grave concern .

He has also told senators he is considering making an Oval Office address to try to build public support behind the economic rescue plan.

The bill probably needs Republican support, because Democratic senators from coal-rich states may vote against it.

If two-thirds of the senators vote to sustain the articles of impeachment, the person is removed from office.

Lots of senators, more or less across the political spectrum, are at fault.

But the prospect of voting for two very expensive and not very effective packages will make a few Democratic senators swallow hard.

Mme. Chiang Kai-shek was greeted with prolonged applause, Senators and guests of the Senate rising.

Senators tend to vote along party lines during confirmation hearings often launching harsh attacks on the nominee.

By convention, many "presidential" nominees are first suggested by their home-state senators.

Mr Tedisco is urging New York's two senators to promote a bill in Washington, dc, in the hope of taking his movement national.

Senators and congressmen, Republican and Democrat alike, join in the hymn to the virtues of bipartisan effort.

Senators will be appointed to serve a term ofsix years with a limit of two full terms.

The senators are to meet top Pakistani government and military leaders in Islamabad later in the week.

There, his best intentions and eagerness to serve were exploited by scheming Senators and others in positions of power.

Congress may take action, too, with key senators discussing ways to address the issue in the pending financial reform bill.

But both senators made it clear that their patience even with Mr Paulson's efforts was limited.

Company executives have since faced angry lawmakers, U. S. senators who accused them of "unbridled greed. "

The Senate marches to a different drum than the House does, with senators facing re-election only every six years, not every two.

She worked closely with Bail Organa of Alderaan to organize fellow Senators who shared similar ideals and outrage.

After trading barbed accusations, senators from both parties now say they are near a deal that would preserve the framework of Mr.

Many senators and reporters had already turned their attention to the rollout of an immigration bill.

But it needs the Senate support of either the Coalition, or all seven minor party senators to pass any new laws.

The senators are now on their way home, and that will wait for the new year.

"Call your congressman, call your senators, " actress Jennifer Connelly said.

BC Julius Caesar is murdered by a conspiracy of Senators who want the Republic to return. Civil War is the result.

Well, coming up next in Washington, senators are demanding to receive royalties each time a law they wrote is enforced.