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• Cheerleading gave me a love of sports, which I brought to the Senate. I can talk to the good ol’ boys about college sports because I follow it like they do.

  Kay Bailey Hutchison

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  Tags in Senate, Brought

• The traditional role of the Senate has been to be the adult in the room.

  Kay Bailey Hutchison

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  Tags in Senate, Traditional

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

  Steny Hoyer

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  Tags in Senate, Republican

• Members of the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate are not there by accident. Each managed to get there for some reason. Learn what it was and you will know something important about them, about our country and about the American people.

  Donald Rumsfeld

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• I am proud to be in the Senate. I have always been proud to be a part of our political system. It is a remarkable privilege to participate in this system of ours.

  Byron Dorgan

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• I may fall here in the Senate chamber, but I will. never make any compromise with any such men.

  Benjamin Franklin Wade

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• We believe the Senate language provides for federal subsidies for abortions. Plus there’s a language in there where you have to pay one dollar per month, every enrollee, to pay for a fund for reproductive rights which include abortion. And that’s totally against federal law. So we are saying take that out.

  Bart Stupak

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• I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that would potentially increase Hubble’s power and efficiency by a factor of 10 and allow us to look back almost to the beginning of the universe.

  Barbara Mikulski

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• President Obama’s decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident.

  Chuck Grassley

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• The Senate needs 60 votes to pass anything. They have to compromise with liberal Democrats to spend more money. Even though arguably we have control of the Senate, we really don’t.

  Steve Chabot

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• In the spring of 1994 I decided not to seek reelection to the Senate. I had made the decision 12 years earlier, Christmas Day of 1982, just after I had been first elected to a full term, that I would do the best I could for a limited time.

  George J. Mitchell, Jr.

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  There was a Republican majority of the Senate, and it tempered the nature of the nominations being made.

   

  Spencer Abraham

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• I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.

  George Allen

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  Tags in United States, Senate, Action

• 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

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• Amin hid nothing. Everybody knew everything. Yet the American Senate only introduced a resolution breaking off trade with Amin three months before his overthrow.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

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• President Obama came to visit me in the hospital. He said, ‘I wish you were still in the Senate; I need your help.’ I’m not certain I can help on everything. Maybe some things.

  Bob Dole

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• As long as there are only 3 to 4 people on the floor, the country is in good hands. It’s only when you have 50 to 60 in the Senate that you want to be concerned.

  Bob Dole

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• 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.

  Bob Dole

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• The Senate is an unknowing world.

  Robert Caro

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• I had come to regard the U.S. Senate’s rejection of the League of Nations as a tragic mistake.

  Elliot Lee Richardson

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