#senate

There was a Republican majority of the Senate, and it tempered the nature of the nominations being made. ↗

— Spencer Abraham

#made #majority #nature #nominations #republican

I'm the only pro-life woman in the Senate. I take this issue very seriously. I'm the mother of two children. ↗

— Kelly Ayotte

#i #issue #mother #only #pro-life

I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years. ↗

— Michele Bachmann

#back #children #did #done #education

I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver results for the middle class - a leader with the courage to do what's right, no matter how tough the odds or how powerful the special interests we have to fight. ↗

— Tammy Baldwin

#believe #class #courage #decided #deliver

I think I can speak for every Senator, saying that he or she ran for the Senate because we want to help make this a better place; that is, we want to help our States and help America. ↗

— Max Baucus

#because #better #better place #every #help

I look at the Senior Al Gore that I had the chance to serve in the Senate with. A great human being. He went down to defeat to this right wing bunch back at the time. ↗

— Birch Bayh

#al gore #back #being #bunch #chance

President Obama came to visit me in the hospital. He said, 'I wish you were still in the Senate; I need your help.' I'm not certain I can help on everything. Maybe some things. ↗

— Bob Dole

#certain #everything #help #hospital #i

I am proud to be in the Senate. I have always been proud to be a part of our political system. It is a remarkable privilege to participate in this system of ours. ↗

— Byron Dorgan

#am #been #i #i am #our

I'm interested in being part of a majority in the Senate. ↗

— Roy Blunt

#i #interested #majority #part #senate

And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to start its own public hearings. ↗

— Sibel Edmonds

#been #campaigning #committee #get #hearings