It’s not unusual for someone running for Senate in Illinois to come see me.
I found, in the Senate, you can have significant impact whether you’re in the minority party or the majority party, and a lot of it goes back to… that you really have to be able to count to 60.
For a public option, I voted for that when I was in Congress, and the Senate couldn’t stand up to the health insurance industry and took it out.
Jim, I’m not aware of any formal requests from the Senate Judiciary Committee for these kinds of documents.
We spend millions of dollars every year just for the right to pay our taxes, but once again, do we really need to do that? Why don’t we simplify it? And I’ve certainly looked at fair tax, I’ve looked at flat tax, and if I get to the U.S. Senate, I’d like to review that.
Twenty-six years ago, I became the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. I was the first, but I made sure I wasn’t the only.
It is a privilege to serve the country in the United States Senate and serve the people of New Hampshire. I wake up every day with a sense of purpose.
The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man’s innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica.
If you are the executive, you’re probably going to have more of an impact than if you’re one of a hundred members of the Senate, certainly one of 435 members of the House.
As it became clear that Senator Rubio was likely to run for president, I received encouragement to consider running for the Senate.
I changed to Republican when Reagan became president because I wanted to see a change to years of Democrat-run Senate. And I voted Republican until Obama. I think he’s terrific.
The medical device tax repeal is the only proposal that had the most bipartisan votes coming out of the House and has the opportunity in the Senate to gain tractions, and it fixes a part of ObamaCare in terms of repealing an awful tax. And it’s got bipartisan support.
Guns are part of the Constitution, and no one is willing to have that tough conversation with Congress and the Senate and the president to say maybe that’s got to change. People talk about it – but I mean actual change.
The closest I’ve come to being on a reality TV show is C-SPAN’s live coverage of the Senate floor.
I think if we had eight or 12 of us in the Senate who came from my business background, you’d see a lot of different things in government.
Jon Tester became a multi-millionaire in the Senate, even bought a Cosmopolitan Castle on Capitol Hill. I don’t want a castle in Washington, and I don’t think becoming a senator should make you rich enough to buy one.
What is the purpose of public service? It’s to solve problems for the people you represent and certainly in the United States Senate, thinking about your state and thinking about your country as well.
First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.
I will not seek reelection the United States Senate but will retire from public service in January 2013. There is no reason other than the fact than I think it’s time.
I may fall here in the Senate chamber, but I will. never make any compromise with any such men.
I’ve always been a believer that if you’re not interested in talking to the media, you shouldn’t be running for Senate in the first place, or you’re kind of missing out on one of the key components is to get your message out of what you want to do.
When I’m elected to the Senate, I will continue to meet with all Marylanders, whether we agree on every issue or not.
What’s going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We’re getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you’re in charge.
Tom Daschle and I worked together on Families First every step of the way, making sure that Democrats in both the House and Senate were involved in putting the agenda together.
Hillary Clinton’s time in the Senate indicates she is happier being a policy workhorse than a show horse.
I am running for my Senate district in 2014 and looking forward hopefully to earning the confidence of my community once again and being reelected for that seat.
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.
In America, our differences matter, but our country matters more. That’s the attitude I wanted to take to the Senate.
In the Senate, I will defend the protections in the Affordable Care Act, and expand health care to more Americans.
I have been immeasurably honored to serve the people of Maine for nearly 40 years in public office and for the past 17 years in the United States Senate. It was incredibly difficult to decide that I would not seek a fourth term in the Senate.
There’s a new role that I see for myself with the new Republican majority running the Senate. I am now the premiere ambassador for the state from the Republican majority.
Well, first, if I am fortunate enough to be elected to the U.S. Senate, it won’t be a party that will have elected me. It will be the people of California.
Orrin Hatch is old enough to be my father, and I don’t want my father running the United States Senate Finance Committee.
I have never supported amnesty, and I led the fight against Chuck Schumer’s gang of eight amnesty legislation in the Senate.
Prediction? The Democrats will win. I think it will be a close win, both for the House and for the Senate.
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.
For most governors, we find the United States Senate or the United States Congress very frustrating at the slow pace in which they act. There doesn’t seem to be a lot of discipline and organization to what they do.
Although I will miss serving you in the Senate, I look forward to spending more time with family, especially my sweet wife Elaine, whose unwavering love and support made all of this possible.
If segregationists had their way, I would not be a member of the United States Senate today, I would not be a top contender to be president of the United States.
Remember the Dreamers whose patriotism was praised when the Democratic House passed, and the Senate filibustered – the DREAM Act in 2010? Washington promised a path to citizenship, not just a roadblock to deportation.
Let there be no reservation or doubt that I believe the Senate should vote on each and every judicial appointment made by the President of the United States and that no rule or procedure should ever stop the Senate from exercising its constitutional responsibility.
He’s a nice guy who will never change the Senate. He is the Senate. Eighteen years in politics, and he’s got two cousins who are senators, too. Mark Udall’s dad even ran for president.
I’m never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It’s going to take both of them.
We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the Oval Office and the whole bench of the Supreme Court are filled with people who wish they weren’t there.
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.
Senator Mikulski has done an outstanding job representing Maryland in the U.S. Senate for nearly 30 years.
One of things I have always been open to is making policy in the Senate Commerce Committee.
I like the House. The House is where you can effect the most change. It’s such a fast-moving dynamic body compared to the Senate.
Facts have come to light that indicate that a pivotal, close election was likely changed through voter fraud on Nov. 8, 2016: New Hampshire’s U.S. Senate Seat, and perhaps also New Hampshire’s four electoral college votes in the presidential election.
I was one of the first women partners at my law firm, the first woman in my Minnesota prosecutor job, and the first woman elected from my state to the Senate. So advice from women who had done similar things was important for me.
There is no more an enthusiastic advocate of legal immigration in the U.S. Senate than I am, and that is a message that resonates powerfully in the Hispanic community.
I was returned to the Senate by the people of Alaska, and I have an obligation to all of them – it’s not an obligation to my party; it’s an obligation to Alaskans.
The U.S. Senate already has one Arlen Specter too many.
Obviously the Senate is a federal office, but to get California’s economy moving again we need to do some things in the federal arena.
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.
Improving some of the rules under which the Senate functions can begin to replace some of the bad habits Washington has developed with better ones.
