#senate

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

The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#better #campaign #campaign finance #candidates #difficult

Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York. ↗

— Laura Bush

#i #i can #moment #never #new

Joe Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1972 at age 30. Somewhere around 1992, he should have had to go out and get a real job. ↗

— Howie Carr

#around #elected #first #get #get a real

The danger of what's happening right now in terms of using reconciliation is, the purpose of the Senate is going to be defeated. And that is to bring consensus to big issues in this country so that we have a reasoned and thoughtful approach and that the American public buys into it. ↗

— Tom Coburn

#american public #approach #big #bring #buys

Mr. Gonzales' failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General. ↗

— Daniel Inouye

#attorney general #doubts #failure #fitness #general

The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative. ↗

— Eugene McCarthy

#honor #imperative #last #primitive #senate

The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court. ↗

— Ralph Neas

#bush #court #decades #decisions #future

Let's clean up the Senate and return to politics of common ground. ↗

— Mark Pryor

#clean up #common #common ground #ground #politics

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