#senate

Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon Johnson is assistant leader of his party. In four years he is the leader of his party. ↗

— Robert Caro

#believed #could #everyone #four #his

In the executive branch, winning by a whisker is as good as winning in a landslide, but not so in the Senate. ↗

— Lincoln Chafee

#executive #executive branch #good #landslide #senate

I'm used to being cut out of the conference meetings, but now they are cutting us out even before the bill's are written or either the House or Senate Acts. ↗

— John Conyers

#before #being #bill #conference #cut

I find it very difficult to see a scenario where financial regulation doesn't pass the Senate. ↗

— Bob Corker

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Enough of these little kitty cats we keep sending to Washington. David Dewhurst will compromise every day in the U.S. Senate... It's what he's done every day in state government. ↗

— Ted Cruz

#compromise #david #day #done #enough

If you're hanging around with nothing to do and the zoo is closed, come over to the Senate. You'll get the same kind of feeling and you won't have to pay. ↗

— Robert J. Dole

#closed #come #feeling #get #hanging

At that point, which would be around February 2002, they came and they confiscated my computer, because, they said, they were suspecting that I was communicating with certain Senate members and taking this issue outside the Bureau. ↗

— Sibel Edmonds

#because #bureau #came #certain #communicating

I refuse to do anything that would help Republicans win a Senate seat in New York, and give the Senate majority to the Republicans. ↗

— Harold Ford

#give #help #i #majority #new

Obama might do well to remember that his fast rise from the Illinois state Senate was due in large part to an uncanny ability to make friends and find mentors. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#due #fast #find #friends #his

As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law. ↗

— Norman Lamm

#committee #i #invited #judiciary #judiciary committee