Quotes About Senate

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

Despite Sumner's vigorous opposition, the Senate, after an all-night debate, adopted a resolution introduced by Senator Oliver P. Morton of Indiana authorizing the commission, and the House followed suit.51

He thanked me for "engaging so thoroughly in the process." I wondered if that was Senate code for being a pain in the neck, but I thought it better if I didn't ask.

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.

One of the things I do in banking committees is put pressure on them, and one of the other things I do is through my website, through outside pressure, and I ask people to come and help us join that fight where we can get people outside to keep putting the pressure on the Senate to make sure there are no compromises and weakening of Dodd-Frank.

I think I'm pretty politically informed, and I find myself watching Senate hearings on C-SPAN.

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me.

We must return conservatives to the majority in the U.S. Senate.

Our state has a balanced budget. We have to live within our means in the state of Wyoming. I was in the state senate. This country needs a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. We need to live within our means.

We are confident that just like the American people can, the Senate can also multitask and they can do their constitutional duty while continuing to conduct the business of the American people.

There's a learning curve to understanding how the Senate operates.

Where I know my strengths lie, for me, is establishing systems and protocols, finding solutions, and trying to push for results. The Senate is a great institution, but for me, it's not the role that best suits those needs.

Senate Republicans have engaged in a record number of filibusters and other obstructionist tactics.

I've talked to Mitt Romney. He's not going to run for this seat. I would be glad for him if he would.

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.

Many times, the Senate talks of things and never gets anything through.

Benjamin Tillman led the Red Shirts; the massacre propelled him to a twenty-four-year career as the most vitriolic racist in the U.S. Senate

The Senate and House rejected the proposed integration amendments, and the 1949 Housing Act was adopted, permitting local authorities to continue to design separate public housing projects for blacks and whites or to segregate blacks and whites within projects.

LBJ) had what a journalist calls "a genius for analogy"— made the point unforgettably, in dialect, in the rhythmic cadences of a great storyteller. Master of the senate

In that August of 1957, however, the cloakroom was often crowded, with senators talking earnestly on sofas and standing in animated little groups, and sometimes the glances between various groups were not comradely at all—sometimes, in fact, they glinted with a barely concealed hostility, and the narrow room simmered with tension, for the main issue before the Senate that summer was civil rights, a proposed law intended to make voting easier for millions of black Americans

Anyone who held that belief, as Richard Rovere was to explain in The New Yorker, "forgot the wisdom of history, which is that members of the United States Senate almost invariably come to grief when they try to win Presidential nominations for themselves or to manipulate national conventions for any purpose whatsoever. For many reasons—patronage is one, and control of delegations is another—the big men at conventions are governors and municipal leaders.

But this belief demonstrated only that Lyndon Johnson simply had not grasped that there was another world, a world in which Douglas and Lehman were not crazies but heroes, in which principles mattered far more than they did in the Senate. In addition, Lyndon Johnson had not fully appreciated that it didn't matter what he did for the liberals in Social Security and housing so long as he was not on their side on the "great issue." He should have appreciated this.

Russell called the move "a lynching of orderly procedure in the Senate." Johnson's angry response—that "this was the only kind of lynching he had ever heard Russell object to"—was blurted out only in private