I’m a big, big reader of pretty much everything that Chuck Colson has written. And I consulted with him when I was making some decisions about running for the Senate in the first place.
It seems like basic principle to me. According to Senate ethics rules, Members of the U.S. Senate, and their families, cannot benefit personally and financially from legislative decisions they make. Senator Feinstein, apparently, either doesn’t agree with this principle, or she has chosen to ignore it.
Let me be clear: There is no stronger advocate for civil liberties in the Senate than myself.
To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing.
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.
As a candidate for Senate, I look forward to offering reforms based on limited government principles that will make our country stronger and more prosperous.
I grew up in a family that nearly lost everything, but I ended up in the United States Senate because I grew up in an America that invested in kids like me and built a real future for us.
Washington faces many challenges these days, and today’s United States Senate needs more trusted conservatives going there to make decisions and choices that put the people first and not the business-as-usual crowd.
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.’
Imagine Texas as a blue state: how hard it would be to carry the presidency or gain control of the Senate.
My job in the Senate is not just to give speeches and do interviews, it’s to solve problems.
National security needs to be priority number one and if you’re willing to play politics with our national security then you have no business serving in the Senate or the House.
The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to bring federal spending under control.
One of the reasons that the Senate was structured and founded the way it is, as opposed to the House, it was designed for gridlock. It was designed to stop massive new laws being passed and voted on daily. It was designed to stop the growth of government.
Now that this legislation has passed the House, I look forward to the vote in the Senate that will bring us to Conference, where we can resolve any outstanding issues and make this postal reform reality – for the Postal Service and for all Americans.
As a Democrat in this Senate, I felt aggrieved by some things the other side has done. I have no doubt they feel aggrieved about some of the things we have done.
The 1994 midterms had been a shocking rout for the GOP, which picked up 54 seats in the House and eight in the Senate. No one had seen it coming. The Democratic Congress was supposed to be a permanent fact of life; it had been 40 years since Republicans had controlled the chamber.
If I have to filibuster on the Senate floor, I’ll even read the King James Bible until the wall is funded.
I am considering running for Senate, as well as other opportunities.
The stronger Hillary is, the weaker she is. The more she seems like a likely presidential winner, the more difficult the senate race becomes in New York. It’s perfect.
On July 2, 1964, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act. Its enactment, following the longest continuous debate in the history of the U.S. Senate, enshrined into law the basic principle upon which our country was founded – that all people are created equal.
When it comes to Senate reform, in general, I’ve always been a believer in an elected Senate and would hope to achieve aspects of Senate reform.
In reality, if Democrats truly cared about solutions to our immigration crisis they would have done so long ago – like in 2009, when they controlled the entire federal government and maintained a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.
Every once in a while, the Senate seems to remember that it belongs to a coequal branch.
I really think the Patriot Act violates our Constitution. It was, it is, an illegal act. The Congress, the Senate and the president cannot change the Constitution.
As a co-founder of the Defend Social Security Caucus in the Senate, you can count on me to continue to stand up for our seniors and fight any back door efforts to cut benefits.
I’ve been in love with Washington ever since renting my very first apartment there many years ago while working as a Senate intern.
William Andrews Clark was caught in a bribery scandal during a campaign for the U.S. Senate – he was said to describe the Montana legislators this way: ‘I never bought a man who wasn’t for sale.’
Unfortunately, actions taken by the Senate ensured that relief from the death tax would only be temporary and that it would come back to life at the full rate again in 2011.
Montanans elected me to the Senate to do away with shady backroom deals and to make government work better.
All of us who serve in the House of Representatives and the Senate pay into Social Security.
When I ran for the Senate the first time, I ran against the wealthiest guy in the state of Vermont. He spent a lot on advertising – very ugly stuff. He kept attacking me as a liberal. He didn’t use the word ‘socialist’ at all because everybody in the state knows that I am that.
I’ve been thinking, in an age of Trump where you don’t know the direction of the country, the person you need most is a steady conservative hand like Mark Kirk in the Senate to be advising the president, especially on national security topics … which is my particular expertise after 23 years in the Navy.
I think I can speak for every Senator, saying that he or she ran for the Senate because we want to help make this a better place; that is, we want to help our States and help America.
My best friends are women in the Senate, but much like Senator Obama, I ran on a platform of change.
We know that the United States Senate has passed comprehensive immigration reform. We know it can happen. And that, to me, is what we need to do. We have a broken immigration system. And I say this because we are a country that has always opened our doors. That’s who we are.
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.
The Senate must approve any deal President Obama negotiates with Iran by a two-thirds majority vote.
The ability of big money to shape perceptions – where you have four anti-climate lobbyists for every single member of the House and Senate – is a big factor.
Let’s get this straight now: a Senate impeachment trial is not a court of law. It’s a court of politics.
What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator.
I am running for the U.S. Senate so that your kids and mine can continue to live in the kind of country that gave my family the blessings of liberty and freedom that only America offers.
If you look at the Constitution, the two clauses of the Constitution make it very clear the president shall nominate, and the Senate shall provide advice and consent. It’s been since 1888 that a Senate of a different party than the president in the White House confirmed a Supreme Court nominee.
Having been on the front lines of the confirmation battles involving Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito, I know firsthand what is at stake when the Senate exercises its ‘advise and consent’ power over federal judges.
House Speaker John Boehner and presumed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell understand the art of politics.
I didn’t get to the Senate by accident.
My father-in-law’s pro-growth policies are clearly working for Mississippi, and keeping Hyde-Smith in the Senate is vital to ensuring that partisan gridlock doesn’t bring our great American revival to a halt.
Even setting aside her checkered record in the Senate and the State Department, it is Mrs. Clinton’s flagrant contradictions on women’s issues that expose her true character.
Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.
So far, Senate Republicans are good at getting Facebook likes and town halls and not much else. Do something.
I hope that the entire Senate votes to say that if you’re on the terrorist watch list – not just the no-fly list, which is a much more targeted list, but the terrorist watch list – you should not be able to buy a weapon.
If passed by the U.N. and ratified by the U.S. Senate, the U.N. Small Arms Treaty would almost certainly force the United States to… create an international gun registry, setting the stage for full-scale gun confiscation.
In the Senate, you can become one of the nation’s leading voices on the issues.
In 1947, the year Clinton was born, there were no women serving in the Senate.
Harry Reid and the Senate haven’t passed a budget. Their pay should be reduced until they do.
