#senate

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

Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, said that Republicans' number one priority was the defeat of President Obama. ↗

— Steny Hoyer

#leader #mitch #number #obama #president

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

What this bill says is it reiterates again the deadline, and that the Senate should act before the deadline, and that's what the American people are expecting. ↗

— Eric Cantor

#again #american #american people #before #bill

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

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

Obama has offered no solutions; his Democratic majority in the Senate has failed to produce a budget in 1,200 days; and they have both obstructed the Republicans' proposed remedies. ↗

— David Limbaugh

#budget #days #democratic #failed #his

I think I'm the last Democrat left in the Senate after Russ Feingold was defeated that won't take earmarks. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#defeated #democrat #earmarks #i #i think

When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our Founding Fathers did that was so genius, is that they made the Senate the place where compromises are supposed to happen because of the makeup of the Senate. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#because #beliefs #compromises #did #different

You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery. ↗

— Colin Powell

#about #argued #congress #court #deal