#senate

That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority can be heard, where a minority can stand on its feet, one individual if necessary, and speak until he falls into the dust. ↗

— Robert Byrd

#dust #falls #feet #heard #individual

I think that climatic changes have a natural causes according many geological data... I am very glad to sign the U.S. Senate's report of scientists against the theory of man-made global warming. ↗

— Uberto Crescenti

#against #am #causes #changes #climatic

Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere threat of a filibuster is enough to stop a vote; senators are rarely asked to pull all-nighters like Jimmy Stewart in 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.' ↗

— Evan Bayh

#because #current #determined #enough #filibuster

There's one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and - I'm going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself - I think most respect me. ↗

— Joe Biden

#around #been #everybody #going #having

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot. ↗

— Joe Biden

#i #i came #i have learned #learned #lot

When his nomination comes before the United States Senate, Timothy Batten can count on my strong support... He is the right person for the job. ↗

— Saxby Chambliss

#comes #count #his #job #nomination

What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#common denominator #denominator #happens #lowest #republicans

For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee, and up until about 1923, something like that. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#american #american history #before #come #committee

If the president is failing to disclose material facts with regard to legislation being presented to the Congress on a question as important as war and peace, I think it does impair the level of trust that the House and the Senate have for this administration. ↗

— John Dingell

#being #congress #disclose #does #facts

And I am saying, how about the other two branches? And putting the pressure on our representatives in the Senate and the Congress, and the court system. They should be counter-acting this corruption, but they are sitting there silent. ↗

— Sibel Edmonds

#am #branches #congress #corruption #court