Senate Quotes - Page 28

The fact is that I'm also friendly with Tom Coburn, one of the most conservative Republicans in the United States Senate, who, during his campaign, once said that it might be appropriate to apply the death penalty to those who carried out abortions.

Barack Obama

Abortion, Friendly, United States

Source: www.truth-out.org

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Senate has to advise and consent. That doesn't mean you have to vote yes; you can vote no. It's not a rubber stamp. But what these guys are doing is, "Wait a minute, we don't have to vote yes or no, and maybe we can trick our voters into not holding us accountable for not voting yes or no."

Tim Kaine

Mean, Yes You Can, Waiting

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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In pre-Trump Washington where the old rules applied, Rudy Giuliani could never survive the Senate confirmation process.

Lawrence O'Donnell

Confirmation, Process, Trump

Source: www.msnbc.com

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Rudy Giuliani would bring conflicts of interest into any Senate confirmation hearing that would be impossible to clear if confirmation hearings operate under the same gravitational forces that they used to in the pre-Trump era.

Lawrence O'Donnell

Would Be, Hearing, Eras

Source: www.msnbc.com

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The question for the Republicans running the confirmation hearings in the United States Senate is whose rules are they going to use?

Lawrence O'Donnell

Running, United States, Use

Source: www.msnbc.com

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According to the old rules, Senator Jeff Sessions could not be confirmed by the United States Senate because in fact he wasn`t.

Lawrence O'Donnell

United States, Facts, Senators

Source: www.msnbc.com

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As I write in the book, I do not regret either of my votes for President [Barack] Obama, nor my support of him when he ran for the Senate before that. I get excited as I ever did when I see that black man on Air Force One. But I won't settle for symbolism, and our President's record should be open for analysis.

Julianne Malveaux

Regret, Book, Writing

Source: www.theskanner.com

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What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.

Barack Obama

Government, Two, Worry

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The unfortunate part is there`s not enough balance in the legislative chambers, and particularly the senate that has to do that confirmation for there to be enough pushback.

Al Sharpton

Balance, Confirmation, Enough

Source: www.msnbc.com

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When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.

Carly Fiorina

Children, Cutting, Thinking

"Carly Fiorina on 'Your World'". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. June 21, 2010.

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Obama might do well to remember that his fast rise from the Illinois state Senate was due in large part to an uncanny ability to make friends and find mentors.

Ron Fournier

Illinois, Mentor, Might

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My take is this. The Republicans control the Senate. They have the majority of the House, and they have the White House. They can do whatever they want to do, really.

Maxine Waters

White, House, Majority

Source: www.npr.org

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The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Political, Detours, Politics

Newsweek, p. 23, January 23, 1978.

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Now that Mr. Trump is the President-elect: If he chooses, he can, by executive order, repeal most of what President Barack Obama brought into existence, including the thawing of the relationship between the United States and the people of Cuba. And because there is a Republican Senate, a Republican House of Representatives, a Republican president, it is more than likely that his legislative program will be accepted; his nominations to the Supreme Court may very well be accepted.

Louis Farrakhan

Order, People, House

Source: www.finalcall.com

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I think the relationships that we [with Donald Trump] developed on Capitol Hill are the reason why he's asked me to be a part of the team that's working to move our agenda forward in the House and in the Senate.

Mike Pence

Team, Moving, Thinking

Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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I will consider my time in the Senate a failure if we don't pass some meaningful legislation to reduce the likelihood that Sandy Hook ever happens again.

Chris Murphy

Meaningful, Hook, Legislation

Source: www.motherjones.com

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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.

Rush Limbaugh

Government, Law, House

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The senate intelligence committee announced it would launch a bipartisan investigation into Russia`s alleged interference in the election.

Donald Trump

Russia, Election, Investigation

Source: www.msnbc.com

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The Constitution says the President shall nominate, not maybe he could, maybe he can't, he shall nominate. Implicit in the Constitution is that the Senate will act on its constitutional responsibility and give its advice and consent. No one is required to vote for the nominee.

Joe Biden

Responsibility, Giving, Advice

Source: www.pbs.org

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I regret that we weren't able to reform Social Security. The fact that we weren't able to when we had majorities in the House and the Senate I think reflected poorly on our political party.

George W. Bush

Regret, Party, Thinking

Source: www.aarp.org

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I entered politics out of a desire to serve, but I have always really wanted to achieve things in the private sector as well. As a father and a husband, that is my primary obligation, and that will always continue, whether I am in the Senate or out of the Senate.

Marco Rubio

Husband, Father, Desire

Source: www.univision.com

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I'm always talking about the issue of Puerto Rico.I also spoke about it on the Senate floor, and I think it should be given the importance, the priority it deserves.

Marco Rubio

Thinking, Talking, Issues

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Voters decided otherwise [on me as a president candidate] and I will focus on my work here in the Senate because I have nine months left. And after that, later, as a private citizen, I will continue looking for a way to contribute to the cause of political conservatism to help our state and our country and the issues that interest me. But I really don't want to be nor do I think that I will be invited to be any candidate's vice president.

Marco Rubio

Country, Thinking, Issues

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We must remember that in the House, Congressman [Carlos] Curbelo has a - the same law, and it has a lot of support in the House. It's possible that it will happen first in the House and then go to the Senate.

Marco Rubio

Law, House, Support

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Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn't been a satirist or a political satirist who's done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign. But I think it's a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.

Al Franken

Thinking, Careers, People

"7 Days: Franken on Franken, Air America, “Senator Maddow” & More". Interview with Mark Green, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2009.

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