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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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The opening night of the convention featured seven of our women candidates for the U. S. Senate.

Confirmation: The act of the U. S. Senate approving a presidential nominee to an executive branch post or federal judgeship.

That uncertainty comes courtesy of the U. S. Senate, which is still locked in debate over carbon cap-and-trade legislation.

The only good news that came so far this week is that Rand Paul was elected to the U. S. Senate.

Financials also weakened as new trading restrictions in Europe and the U. S. Senate's debate over financial legislation continued.

California U. S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina, a breast cancer survivor, is criticizing a recent recommendation by the U.

In coming days, the U. S. Senate is expected to pass a spending bill for the remainder of the current fiscal year.

The U. S. Senate is a very peculiar institution. It was not when it started.

The U. S. Senate Judiciary Committee starts confirmation hearings Monday for President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan.

That has brought an outcry from Republicans, including the newest member of the U. S. Senate, Scott Brown of Massachusetts.

The U. S. Senate Antitrust Subcommittee will ``closely examine'' the arrangement, said Chairman Herb Kohl, a Wisconsin Democrat.

A recent penetration of the U. S. Senate computer system fit this pattern, as did an apparent attack Wednesday on the CIA's website.

A key U. S. Senate committee has approved the nomination of Senator Hillary Clinton as the next secretary of state.

This visit by Biden is his first as vice president, but Biden's first visit to China was in 1979 as a member of the U. S. Senate.

The U. S. Senate is seeking to pass a new version of a financial rescue plan - with some modest changes.

The New START must be ratified by both the U. S. Senate and the Russian Duma before formally coming into effect.

Approval of the treaty by the U. S. Senate requires a vote of two-thirds of the membership, or 67 votes.

The full text of Gutierrez's prepared testimony is available on the Web site of the U. S. Senate Judiciary Committee.

Hiram Revels, a Mississippi Republican, was sworn in as the first black member of the U. S. Senate.

The U. S. Senate has begun debate on legislation aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming.

On another topic, Durbin criticized the Republican minority in the U. S. Senate, saying it's held up progress on numerous issues.

Rumsfeld has agreed to remain in charge of the Pentagon until the U. S. Senate confirms Gates, Bush said November 8.

The U. S. Senate has scheduled a vote for Wednesday night on a new version of the $700 billion financial rescue plan.

The U. S. Senate, which must endorse the appointment, typically acts swiftly to confirm key Cabinet nominees.

The U. S. Senate has already passed legislation threatening to penalize China over its currency policies.

The U. S. Senate has voted to lift a key restriction by President Bush on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.

Five Southerners resigned from the U. S. Senate, including Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, the future president of the Confederacy.

The U. S. Senate has drastically revised a guest worker program that is a key provision of a controversial new immigration reform bill.

Johnson was accused of having broken the law, but on May 16, 1868, the U. S. Senate failed to convict him by one vote.

If approved by the U. S. Senate, Verveer will report directly to the secretary of state.

This is an appointed position, so she didn't have to be confirmed by the U. S. Senate.

His appointment must be approved by the U. S. Senate.

A U. S. Senate committee held a hearing Wednesday on the planned cuts and the tens of thousands of jobs that could be lost.

This is a first: A candidate for the U. S. Senate emails me to apply for membership in the Pigou Club.

He was a state senator gunning for the U. S. Senate, not yet famous.

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

The U. S. Senate Environment Committee is holding hearings on a new climate bill this week.

Currently, the U. S. Senate is controlled by the Democrats by one vote.

But backed by the Tea Party and the taxophobic Club for Growth, her candidacy for the U. S. Senate took off this spring.

The bill is before the U. S. Senate, after being approved by the House of Representatives on a party-line vote last week.

More than $13 million has been spent on ads to block ratification of the treaty by the U. S. Senate.

But the U. S. Senate has not ratified the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

He wore a dark blazer and the same snowman tie he would wear exactly two yearslater as a U. S. Senate candidate in Logan County.

Any future bilateral agreement, coming after the U. S. Senate and the Russian Duma ratify this one, will be harder to achieve.

Signed in 1979, the agreement was never ratified by the U. S. Senate, though its terms were honored by both sides.

The U. S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved the treaty on Thursday.

He's a Republican who served 12 years in the U. S. Senate and he's also a veteran who fought in the Vietnam War.

Kerry heads the U. S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee and is in China this week meeting with officials.

In 2001, Hillary Clinton (1993-2001) became the only former first lady elected to public office, the U. S. Senate.

But the U. S. Senate voted 90-6 on Wednesday to deny the president the money to close the facility.

The U. S. Senate will have to confirm the nomination.

Marco Rubio is the Republican candidate running for a U. S. Senate seat in Florida. He is also a favorite of Tea Party activists nationally.

The impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson began in the U. S. Senate.

The U. S. Senate may debate financial reform legislation in the coming week.

The U. S. Senate may take up a similar bill in November.

UBS is due to appear before a U. S. Senate committee next week to answer questions about its offshore banking practices.

It's Thursday, and today the U. S. Senate could start debating the issue of guns.

A U. S. Senate subcommittee this week brought together some experts to review the evidence and focus on whether more research is needed.

She twice has been overwhelmingly confirmed by the U. S. Senate.

The U. S. Senate has approved a three-trillion dollar budget plan.

And that power belongs to the U. S. Senate.

AP 21, the U. S. Senate voted to terminate the new US-Russian nuclear disarmament treaty debate.

In 1974 he was elected to the U. S. Senate as an Ohio Republican, serving until 1999.

The U. S. Senate approved ratification December 22, 2010, and Russia's parliament gave its final approval in January.

There are no term limits for those who serve in the U. S. Senate or House of Representatives.

House of Representatives in 2000, he announced his campaign for the U. S. Senate in January 2003.

On Aug. 5, the U. S. Senate adopted Resolution 322 expressing concern for religious minorities in Iraq.

The U. S. Senate must approve the commander.

Wirth was elected to the U. S. Senate in 1986, where he focused on environmental issues.

Webster, then 48, had served several terms in the House of Representatives before being elected to the U. S. Senate in 1827.

But the U. S. Senate also has a say in the final stimulus package.

While the U. S. Senate rejected the CTBT in 1999, President Obama has pledged an aggressive new effort to win its approval.

1999, in Washington, an impeached American president goes on trial before the U. S. Senate for only the second time in history.

In the words of one U. S. Senate staffer who we interviewed, "What happens when you unleash communists into free market capitalism? "

Director George Tenet made his comments before a U. S. Senate panel Tuesday.

MIT associate professors Lawson and Gabriel Lenz evaluated data from the 2006 U. S. Senate and governor's races.

Soon after Security Council Resolution 1769 was approved, the U. S. Senate passed Resolution 276 on July 31.

Suspicious envelope found in U. S. Senate office building.

According to some, the letdown can be explained in three words: the U. S. Senate.

On Nov. 2, 2004, Obama won election to the U. S. Senate from Illinois.

The U. S. isn't legally obligated to implement the Kyoto accord because the U. S. Senate didn't ratify it.

I think that among all the members of our U. S. Senate and the Congress of the United States, he has been preeminent.

U. S. Senate ratifies nuke arms treaty with Russia.

U. S. Senate passed on Sunday a 1. 1-trillion-U. S. dollars spending package for fiscal year 2010, except for the Defense Department.

U. S. senate is set to debate the issue of guns.

On August 2, the U. S. Senate voted 74 to 26 to raise the debt limit.

China news agency, Washington, October 11 (Reporter Wu Qingcai) - U. S. Senate voted to pass 11 bills related to the RMB exchange rate.

The House is to vote Sunday on the health care bill that passed last year in the U. S. Senate.

This year, there are three budget proposals - one from the White House, one from the U. S. Senate,

The U. S. Senate passed a resolution extending condolences to the victims of China's earthquake,

The U. S. Senate voted to give the green light to the health care reform bill,

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