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House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans. We hope President Obama will follow through on his support for an earmark ban by pressing Democratic leaders to join House and Senate Republicans in taking this critical step to restore public trust.


John Boehner


#ban #critical #democratic #democratic leaders #earmark

Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.


Barbara Boxer


#another #another day #cannot #day #done

My viewpoint is the Senate is dysfunctional.


Mo Brooks


#senate #viewpoint

The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica.


Frederic William Farrar


#claudius #decision #guilt #his #innocence

This has not been a legislative process worthy of the Senate. Members of the Judiciary Committee, as I just said, were implored to save their amendments for the floor. Then, when we got here, we were told no amendments could be accepted.


Russ Feingold


#been #committee #could #floor #got

Scott Brown may be the last Republican to win a statewide fight in Massachusetts for a very long time. He caught the machine flat-footed in January 2010 when he out-hustled Martha Coakley and stole the Senate seat Ted Kennedy held all those years. And since then, the Democrats haven't lost a single statewide fight.


Howie Carr


#caught #democrats #fight #haven #held

But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.


Carly Fiorina


#california #citizen #come #creation #for the people

That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage.


Jesse Helms


#against #could #defend #doing #everything

Someone has said the best nursing home is the U.S. Senate.


Ernest F. Hollings


#home #nursing #nursing home #said #senate

When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and the Senate becomes incapable of either properly evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public.


Elena Kagan


#appropriately #becomes #ceases #confirmation #discussion