#nato

The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint, upon the advice and consent of a majority of the Senate, and it plainly does not give a minority of senators any right to interfere with that process. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

#any #appoint #consent #constitution #does

In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion. ↗

— John Hume

#class #controlled #difficult #discriminatory #districts

NATO has been a thread throughout my life. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#life #my life #nato #thread #throughout

Far be it from me to denigrate Senator McCain's advice on vice presidential nominees. ↗

— David Axelrod

#denigrate #far #mccain #me #nominees

Filibusters should require 35 senators to... make a commitment to continually debate an issue in reality, not just in theory. The number of votes needed to overcome a filibuster should be reduced to 55 from 60. ↗

— Evan Bayh

#continually #debate #filibuster #issue #just

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man. ↗

— Joe Biden

#good #good old days #i #man #my own

As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years. ↗

— Kit Bond

#chief #commander #did #enough #experience

I was very productive as a senator for my state. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#productive #senator #state #very

McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin. ↗

— Pat Buchanan

#mccarthy #person #senator #wisconsin

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough. ↗

— George W. Bush

#enough #funding #increase #liberal #massachusetts