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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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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. "

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

"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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Obama, the hate figure for the American right, who lost one of the safest Democratic seats in the Senate in Massachusetts.

The U. S. Constitution mandates that the executive branch will seek the "advice and consent" of the Senate to treaties with foreign powers.

Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, said the report proved that Mr Bush's strategy was failing.

He is trying to win back in 2012 the Senate seat he narrowly lost to Jim Webb, a Democrat, in 2006.

They found a supporter in Andrew Murray, then a member of the Senate.

In general, Mr. Schumer said, the Senate Democrats' proposal would not increase taxes for households with incomes of $200, 000 or $300, 000.

It's just that the Republican leaders in the Senate won't even allow it to come up for a vote.

The Finance Committee measure is expected to push the total cost of the Senate version well over $1 trillion.

The President also urged the Senate to remain strong and resist the pressure of those who wish to preserve the status quo.

Lowenthal chairs the Senate's transportation committee, which is beginning to examine the projected ridership figures .

Information network through the analysis of the spread of the Senate the status quo, pointing out that the characteristics of its spread.

Lautenberg is one of the Senate's leaders when it comes to fighting Big tobacco and protecting Americans from the dangers of smoking.

The two returned to Coruscant, where Ki-Adi-Mundi addressed the Senate, updating the ruling body on the progress of the war.

His speech for the campaign failed to convince the voters that he was the right person for the senate seat.

It was also conditional on getting climate change law through the Senate, which could be a struggle.

However, he did not go so far as to support the proposals currently before the Senate.

Due to a political squabble over immigration reform, the Senate energy and climate change bill is now on hold.

Similar noises were made by Olympia Snowe of Maine, the lone Republican to vote for the bill passing out of the Senate's finance committee.

Democrats in the White House and the Senate say they will not give in to this policy extortion, and we hope they do not weaken.

"Lobbyists will attempt some changes. But they'll probably be pushing to keep the Senate language instead of the House language, " she said.

Like the House, the Senate aims to broaden coverage with a mixture of mandates, regulation and subsidies.

If the text includes a phrase like "Bush killed the last bill in the Senate, " does the rest of the text include coherent concepts?

Some members of the Senate Armed Services Committee objected to what they see as an "open ended" pause in U. S. withdrawals.

Exerting almost limitless effort to ensure the Senate would legislate on this or that pet project of his, his zeal was legendary.

His election speech failed to convince the voters that he was the right person for the senate seat.

But before that there must be a final struggle as the legislation, in slightly different form, is put before the Senate.

Although the Senate approved the bill and it is now back in the House, its final approval by the Congress is not expected until next year.

The reforms have passed through the lower house of parliament and are expected to be passed by the Senate within days.

Commendably, the Senate Judiciary Committee is trying to bolster the government's power to enforce intellectual property protections.

Mrs Clinton achieved more as a conciliator in the Senate than when she tried to force through healthcare reform in her husband's first term.

Lawmakers must now reconcile differences between the Senate bill and a similar measure that passed the House of Representatives in December.

One of his greatest friends and collaborators in the Senate was Orrin G. Hatch, the Utah Republican.

When Calhoun finished his speech to the Senate, southern lawmakers crowded around the old man, congratulating him.

A bill that would, among other things, solidify their land claims has passed in Brazil's lower house and is now in the Senate.

However, President Obama and Democrats in the Senate hope to have Elena Kagan confirmed in the next few months.

I've struggled with it at times, but I've realized that being five-five can't stop me from joining the Senate.

He was still seeking to renegotiate details right up to the eve of the Senate debate.

The Senate referred the case to the Justice Department, which convened a grand jury that never indicted the company.

It failed. Mr McCain said he was "frankly surprised" that his colleagues in the Senate would want to try it again.

The Senate has so far refused to pass a bill that would extend unemployment insurance or send aid to ailing state governments.

Filibusters , of course, are the age-old procedural obstacles used to slow down or stop the Senate from debating and voting.

Some members of the Senate and Houseintelligence-oversight committees are also believed to have had limited accessto the report.

Of course the governors of the different parts of the Roman Empire were appointed either by the Senate or by the emperor himself.

In his early 40s, after a series of low-profile political jobs, he ran for the Senate from his home state of Kentucky.

However, the United States of America wants to control the Senate, Republicans may be a difficult task.

It would take two-thirds of the Senate vote to do so. So Tyler proposed other action to make Texas a state.

But analysts say the bill has no chance of passing the Senate, which the Democrats narrowly control.

But retiring Senator George Voinovich of Ohio tells the Washington Post that he plans to help push a bill through the Senate next week.

John McCain's attempt to reduce earmarks in an omnibus spending bill was defeated in the Senate.

But nearly everyone has been shocked to hear the ads of Glenn Miller, a write-in candidate to replace the retiring Kit Bond in the Senate.

Three weeks later, the Senate heard another southern leader, Senator John C. Calhoun. For years, Calhoun was the voice of the South.

At least $3 million in advertising later, the chamber's effort has had only marginal success, though the fight continues in the Senate.

Kit Bond, the leading Republican on the Senate's intelligence committee, told reporters it was a "virtual treasure map for terrorists. "

S. ambassador to China, said he backs the Senate bill even though he warns that "slapping penalties" on China could ignite a trade war.

Even if they cling on, Mr Obama will not be able to muster the 60 votes in the Senate needed to surmount Republican procedural obstacles.

Meanwhile, a comprehensive climate bill is hopelessly stalled in the Senate, and its prospects of approval in an election year are dim.

The Senate is expected to start looking at the issue when it comes back in session soon.

The state GOP's executives are even rumoured to be contemplating resigning and endorsing Chris Coons, the democratic pick for the Senate.

The US House of Representatives approved a cap-and-trade bill to fight climate change in 2009, but the Senate never approved such a measure.

I thought Hillary would do a great job in the Senate and that she would enjoy it.

Daniel Webster spoke to other members of the Senate. His speech was an appeal to both sides in the dispute.

The Senate vote takes Obama close to the finish line and he hopes to sign the bill, which could make or break his presidency, on Monday.

The Senate resolution must be reconciled with a similar budget plan approved by the House of Representatives.

Durbin was considered one of the most serious members of the Senate, and he had earned great respect in Washington.

The U. S. House of Representatives approved the housing plan on Wednesday afternoon, with the Senate expected to vote on it later.

Biden distinguished himself in the Senate in foreign affairs.

So the reins are firmly in the hands of two senior Democrats: Mr Baucus and Edward Kennedy, the head of the Senate's Health Committee.

Instead, he easily won a third full term in the Senate, and Jimmy Carter, a former one-term governor of Georgia, moved into the White House.

The American people deserve a full hearing. They deserve to see this legislation go to the Senate for a full vote.

Clinton appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee January 13 for her confirmation hearing.

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

Most of this legislation passed without debate in the House, and with only the briefest consideration in the Senate.

Wow. Thank you so much for explaining that. Hey, we were just discussing The senate committee on appropriations.

I'm hoping over the next several days that the House and the Senate can reconcile their differences and get that bill on my desk.

Yet by itself, this bill, whose passage in the Senate is still not quite secure, is an incomplete remedy (see article).

But he told the Senate Finance Committee he now has paid all that he owes .

The House and the Senate will convene at noon to hear an address by the President.

There are usually six commissioners on the FEC, appointed by the president with the consent of the Senate, to staggered six-year terms.

The Senate willingly relinquished more executive powers to Chancellor Palpatine, all in the name of increased security.

In the interest of the nation and the U. S. Constitution, the Senate must once again become a democratic institution.

After years of failed attempts to remedy the situation, on March 8th the Senate passed the biggest overhaul to patent law since the 1950s.

Also falling short are climate change bills passed by the U. S. House of Representatives and now being discussed by the Senate.

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

Assuming Mr. Obama goes ahead with the nomination, Mr. Locke still needs to make it through the Senate confirmation process.

Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate banking committee, said "fundamental agreement" had been reached.

Joe Biden, who becomes head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, says that he plans to begin three weeks of hearings on the war.

But it may yet play a bigger role as the Senate, coming back from recess in September, takes up and modifies the bill.

Harry Reid, the majority leader in the Senate, is up for re-election next year and has a popularity rating of less than 50%.

As he recently put it, "I was chairman of the [Senate] Commerce Committee that oversights every part of the economy. "

Mr. Howard acknowledged defections in his own conservative party negated his slim majority in the Senate.

By then, not only should the bill be passed by the Senate, but schools will have broken up for a ten-day half-term.

The means of paying for the bill, a result of difficult negotiations in the Senate, were contentious.

In the Senate, personnel changes also seem to favor the drive for free trade.

The Senate candidate in Illinois was not only young but he had a remarkable, uplifting story to tell.

At least carbon emissions would finally bear a market price under the legislation, and the Senate still has time for major improvements.

With important elections for Congress, the Senate and state governors two months away, the state of America's economy is deeply political.

The House of Representatives has passed only two appropriations bills so far; the Senate, none at all.

As one of the most senior Republicans in the Senate, Specter held powerful positions on the judiciary and appropriations panels.

John Kerry, one of the Senate's cap-and-trade champions, now says he hopes for a vote on the bill only in the spring.

In the Senate, where the Democrats retain a majority, Republican leaders had initially resisted calls for a moratorium.

In an odd twist, the Senate bill passed with an amendment on gun rights tacked on by Republican Senator Tom Coburn.

Fernando Collor, president from 1990 to 1992, resigned to avoid impeachment for corruption but is now back in the senate.

The Senate delayed consideration of its proposal to tax such bonuses punitively after the White House gave the plan a cool reception.

The United States Congress consists of two chambers . The Senate is the upper chamber .

He does not nurse grudges or agonise about vast conspiracies like some of his colleagues in the Senate.

he ran for the Senate from his home state of Kentucky. . .

So declared Max Baucus as the Senate weighed whether to take up a controversial proposal to reform America's bloated health system.