There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster.
I worry that the Senate is working to consider a series of little-noticed provisions in comprehensive immigration reform that may provide a pathway to a national ID card for all individuals present in the United States - citizens and noncitizens.
It's great to be in a room full of young people. . . The average age of the Senate, I think, is death.
The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians Homer, though he was not their countryman; the Mytilenaeans Sappho, though she was a woman; the Lacedaemonians actually made Chilon a member of their senate, though they are the least literary of men; the inhabitants of Lampsacus gave public burial to Anaxagoras, though he was an alien, and honour him even to this day.
I admired Eugene McCarthy's courage and although I left his Senate staff after four years to accept a job as the researcher on the editorial page of the 'Washington Post,' I remained an admirer.
It costs about $27 million to win a seat in the United States Senate, so when you win one, you like to sit down.
I'm interested in being part of a majority in the Senate.
It could be clearly proved that by a practical nullification [by the South] of the Fifteenth Amendment the Republicans have for several years been deprived of a majority in both the House and Senate. The failure of the South to faithfully observe the Fifteenth Amendment is the cause of the failure of all efforts towards complete pacification. It is on this hook that the bloody shirt now hangs.
We'll be getting new health insurance and we'll presumably do it through my job with the Senate, and so we'll be on the federal exchange with millions of others on the federal exchange.
When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.
I'm up in the Senate most Tuesdays when they're in session.
I think it's not just Republicans who would like to see the Senate run differently. I think there are a reasonable number of Democrats as well.
What happens in Senate fight club stays in Senate fight club.
When Ronald Reagan nominated Jeff Sessions for federal district court judgeship, the Senate Judiciary Committee rejected his nomination.
We need more Democrats in the Senate -Like Custer needed more arrows.
It sure did kick up some excitement in the Senate when one Senator called the other Senators 'sons of Wild jackasses. ' Well, if you thought it made the Senators hot, you wait till you see what happens when the jackasses hear how they have been slandered.
They say you can never step in the same river twice. New water flows in, replacing the old and continually renewing the river. The Senate is the same.
I would recommend any American who wants to understand where the government is going in the next four years of George W. Bush presidency to get a copy of her confirmation hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. It's a road map, and it's pretty frightening testimony. Their definition of where democracy should go in the Middle East doesn't include Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan; it only includes Iraq, Iran, and Syria.
Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to senate.
My preference would be to remain in the Senate,. . . But you can't say I would refuse to serve in one of those (Cabinet) capacities. It's not the same as vice president.