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We can write the book on how to run a successful write-in campaign for the United States Senate.
Lisa Murkowski
Book
States
Run
Write
How
Campaign
Senate
Successful
United
United States
United States Senate
I was advised by my assistant that the women of the Senate don't do potlucks. To which I responded, 'Of course we do.'
Lisa Murkowski
Women
Course
Advised
Senate
Which
Assistant
Sen. Sessions' commitment to public service is nearly unparalleled in Alabama history, and his departure from the Senate leaves tremendous shoes to fill.
Luther Strange
Service
History
Commitment
Shoes
Tremendous
Unparalleled
Leaves
His
Senate
Departure
Public
Public Service
Fill
Alabama
Nearly
If I have to filibuster on the Senate floor, I'll even read the King James Bible until the wall is funded.
Luther Strange
Bible
King
Until
Read
Wall
Senate
James
Filibuster
Even
Floor
There's a learning curve to understanding how the Senate operates.
Luther Strange
Learning
Understanding
Learning Curve
How
Senate
Curve
As a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, my first priority is to ensure the readiness of our military.
Luther Strange
First
Military
Our
Ensure
Member
Armed
Armed Services
Readiness
Priority
Senate
Committee
Services
When I first got asked to run for the state Senate, I was asked by a number of legislators I had worked with, and I thanked them and declined.
Maggie Hassan
First
State
Run
Had
Got
Senate
Legislators
Them
Declined
Worked
Asked
Number
He took pride in belonging to the world's most exclusive club: the United States Senate.
Margaret Truman
World
Pride
Club
Took
States
He
Exclusive
Most
Senate
United
United States
United States Senate
Belonging
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.
Mark Kirk
Myself
State
Running
See
New
Majority
Am
Ambassador
Role
Senate
Republican
Premiere
Now
For Tammy Duckworth to blame the junior senator from Illinois for Islamic terror shows that she is a naive fool not fit for office in the Senate.
Mark Kirk
Blame
Fool
Naive
She
Islamic
Terror
Fit
Junior
Office
Senate
Senator
Illinois
Shows
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.
Mark Kirk
You
Age
Conservative
Country
National
Thinking
President
Mark
Topics
Security
Steady
Kirk
Direction
Particular
Like
Know
Most
Advising
Been
Years
Trump
Hand
Person
Senate
National Security
Where
After
Expertise
Which
Navy
Need
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.
Mark Pryor
Doubt
Other
Side
No Doubt
Some
Some Things
About
Feel
Democrat
Felt
Senate
Done
Things
You might have noticed Harry Reid is a little upset with Americans for Prosperity. Let me tell you, when the Democrat leader is complaining about you on the Senate floor, you know you are doing something right.
Marsha Blackburn
Me
You
Prosperity
Complaining
Leader
Harry
Harry Reid
Tell
About
Something
Know
Democrat
Doing
Senate
American
Upset
Little
Might
Noticed
Reid
Floor
Right
Though the views of members of the House and Senate are as divergent as the people we represent, we bear the responsibility to work through our political differences and get things done. That's our job.
Martha Roby
Work
People
Political
Job
Responsibility
Differences
Our
Though
Members
Divergent
Bear
Through
House
Get
Senate
Done
Represent
Views
Things
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.
Matt Rosendale
Buy
You
Rich
Think
Enough
Cosmopolitan
Castle
Jon
Bought
Hill
Make
Became
Becoming
Senate
Senator
Want
Should
Capitol
Capitol Hill
Even
Washington
The Senate is a remarkable institution. It is unique. There is no other body, no other political body, no other democratic legislature in the world quite like the U.S. Senate.
Max Baucus
World
Political
Other
Remarkable
Institution
Like
Democratic
Senate
Quite
Legislature
Body
Unique
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.
Max Baucus
Saying
Speak
Better
Every
Think
Our
Ran
States
Better Place
He
He Or She
She
Make
Because
America
Senate
Senator
Want
Place
Help
In theory, the filibuster helps whichever party is in the minority in the Senate. In practice, it is the Republicans who have disproportionately used it to engage in cynical and anti-democratic obstructionism whenever they find themselves in the minority.
Mehdi Hasan
Minority
Practice
Party
Cynical
Find
Senate
Whenever
Republicans
Themselves
Engage
Used
Theory
Who
Filibuster
Helps
Disproportionately
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.
Mercedes Schlapp
Character
Women
Setting
State
State Department
Record
True
True Character
Issues
Clinton
Contradictions
Senate
Department
Flagrant
Aside
Expose
Even
Her
Before I was in the Senate, I was a superintendent of the Denver Public Schools, and before that, I was in business.
Michael Bennet
Business
Before
Public Schools
Schools
Denver
Senate
Public
I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years.
Michele Bachmann
Work
Education
Me
People
Result
Thought
State
Back
Our
Run
Minnesota
Had
Involved
Education Reform
Years
Up
Leg
Reform
Senate
Did
Done
Getting
Six
Children
Anyone
Urged
Foster
Foster Children
Started
Need
By all accounts, the senate race I ran in was a quality race in the wrong year.
Mike McGavick
Quality
Year
Ran
Wrong
Accounts
Senate
Race
Today, Democrats not only have the White House; they have the Senate too. So we have to be realistic about what we can and cannot achieve, while at the same recognizing that realism should never be confused with capitulation.
Mitch McConnell
Today
Confused
Achieve
Realistic
White
White House
Too
Recognizing
About
Only
Never
House
Democrats
Senate
Same
Cannot
While
Realism
Should
Capitulation
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.
Olympia Snowe
Service
You
People
Problems
Country
Thinking
State
States
Solve
About
Purpose
For The People
Well
Senate
Represent
Public
Your
Certainly
Public Service
United
United States
United States Senate
What happens is that, you know, on Mondays, at least in the Senate, you know, Monday night we'd have what you'd call a bed-check vote. Just to get, you know, the machinery of the Senate up and running so they can start the committee process; on Tuesday morning, things go. By Thursday, you know, jet fumes, the smell of jet fumes.
Olympia Snowe
Morning
You
Vote
Smell
Monday
Jet
Machinery
Running
Thursday
Know
Call
Least
Go
Up
Get
Senate
Committee
Tuesday
Just
Happens
Process
Monday Night
Things
Start
Night
You can never solve a problem without talking to people with whom you disagree. The United States Senate is predicated and based on consensus building. That was certainly the vision of the founding fathers.
Olympia Snowe
You
People
Problem
Vision
Disagree
Building
Fathers
States
Solve
Never
Talking
Without
Senate
Certainly
Whom
United
Based
United States
Founding
United States Senate
Founding Fathers
Consensus
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