The biggest under-the-radar political story is the Republican Party's tenuous hold on 85003 legislative chambers in eight blue or purple states: Arizona (House/Senate), Florida (Senate), Iowa (House), Michigan (House/Senate), Minnesota (Senate), North Carolina (Senate), Pennsylvania (Senate) and Wisconsin (Senate).
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You could see calls for all these races if they haven't happened: North Dakota Senate, Florida governor, Florida Senate, Georgia governor, Pennsylvania House races, New Jersey Senate, New Jersey House races, close Virginia races, Missouri Senate, Texas Senate, Tennessee Senate, Indiana Senate, Ohio governor.
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Democrats also took control of a total of seven legislative bodies -- New Hampshire's House and Senate, Colorado's Senate, Connecticut's Senate, Maine's Senate, New York's Senate and Minnesota's House.
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I mean look at the Florida Senate, and the Colorado Senate, the Minnesota Senate.
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John Barrasso, Senate (Wyo.) Mike Braun, Senate (Ind.); 4 rallies with Trump Mitt Romney, Senate (Utah) Sen.
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Today, the Texas Senate Committee on State Affairs passed Texas Senate Bill 25 to the full state senate.
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Here is the schedule: * No Senate session * No Senate session * The Senate trial will resume at 11 a.m.
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In 2014, and for the fourth straight year, every Senate Republican was more conservative than every Senate Democrat, and every Senate Democrat was more liberal than every Senate Republican.
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A bipartisan pair of senators on the Senate Intelligence Committee is requesting that the Senate sergeant at arms quickly inform Senate leadership of any cyber breaches of Senate computers. Sens.
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The special election in Senate District 13 is what puts the Senate in play (otherwise, there are no Senate elections this year — the next regular Senate elections are in 2020).
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The Democrats picked up the Maine Senate, the New Hampshire Senate and House, the Colorado Senate and the Minnesota House.
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Republicans may now change Senate rules Senate Judiciary Committee votes to send Neil Gorsuch's Supreme Court nomination to the full Senate.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer walk to the Senate floor from McConnell's office on Wednesday.
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Meanwhile, Senate Democrats are objecting to committee meetings Wednesday in protest, using Senate rules that require unanimous consent for Senate committees to meet after the Senate has been in session for two hours.
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Senate Democrats already do disclose, but Senate Republicans do not.
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What the Senate proposed: The Senate would keep the deduction.
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J.) Lou Barletta, Senate (Pa.); 2 rallies with Trump Leah Vukmir, Senate (Wis.); 1 rally with Trump A.G. Patrick Morrisey, Senate (W.
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The Indiana Senate race isn't the first competitive Senate race this year with ads attacking a Republican Senate candidate on Social Security.
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According to the data, there were no black staffers on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senate Armed Services Committee or Senate Agriculture Committee.
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Today, the questions will come from two different Senate committees: The Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee.
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The fight drew both Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to the hearing room of the Senate Rules Committee for an unusual battle of words off the Senate floor.
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Lindsey Graham, one of McCain's closest friends in the Senate, tweeted: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced he wants to rename one of the Senate office buildings after McCain: Rep.
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Also on Wednesday, Senate Republicans and Democrats re-elected Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to their positions.
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Stabenow was elected to the Senate in 2000, and is a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, Senate Energy, Finance and Budget Committees.
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CBS News battleground tracker: Florida Senate race tied; Dem has small lead in Arizona Senate; Republican has narrow lead in Indiana Senate race.
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The Senate majority leader is tasked with a few simple responsibilities: managing the Senate floor schedule, and solidifying and growing the Senate majority.
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The Senate returns to work and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is expected to speak from the Senate floor at noon.
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Senate Leader Phil Berger, a Republican, blamed Senate Democrats and Gov.
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Senate Banking Committee, faces four opponents in his Senate primary, most
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What the Senate proposed: The Senate would also leave it intact.
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What the Senate proposed: The Senate did not propose any changes.
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Senate committees approved the bill on Wednesday, a senate spokesman said.
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It was the old Senate chamber, not the official Senate chamber.
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The Senate bill cleared the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday night.
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This is for the Senate, and the Senate only, to decide.
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Senate Democrats immediately pounced on the split among Senate Republicans. Sen.
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Senate Republicans blocked witnesses, and the Senate voted to acquit Trump.
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The Senate bill was co-sponsored by 85033 other Senate Democrats.
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Roy Moore wins, gets expelled from the Senate by the Senate Yes, the Senate can by law vote to expel one of its own.
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House Republicans, and some Senate lawmakers, repeatedly criticized Democratic leadership when they controlled the Senate, launching a "Stuck in the Senate" hashtag on Twitter.
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Senate Democrats, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Maryland Sens.
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A Senate Republican aide had purloined it from Senate Democratic computer files.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously passed him on to the Senate floor.
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In the Senate, 20 of the 52 Senate Republicans worked alongside Bush.
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And in the Senate, four women will join the Senate Democratic caucus.
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Step Six: The Senate VotesFinally, the full Senate votes on the nomination.
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Senate Democrats rejected Cruz's proposal as a direct violation of Senate precedent.
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He's managed several other Senate campaigns, including Handel's failed 2014 Senate bid.
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Schumer is the Senate minority leader and Sanders caucuses with Senate Democrats.
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The committee includes two state Senate Democrats and two state Senate Republicans.
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He's chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Senate Republicans have a narrow margin to clear Puzder through the Senate.
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More Americans voted for Democratic Senate candidates than for Republican Senate candidates.
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What the Senate proposed: The Senate would take away this tax break.
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Here's Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell talking about the likely Senate trial.
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And that is for the Senate, and the Senate only to decide.
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The state's Senate and House both passed Senate Bill 23 on Wednesday.
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This is a Senate impeachment trial, not send Senate best friends trial.
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The Senate Math The current breakdown in the Senate is 51-49.
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" He offered a command to Senate Republican leaders: "The Senate must vote!
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In the Senate Across the Capitol, Senate Republicans' views are also evolving.
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That's his 5th run -- Senate, governor, 2 presidentials, Senate again -- since 1994.
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He (eventually) went to the Senate, and the Senate Judiciary Committee, instead.
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Most major Senate bills need 60 votes in the Senate to advance.
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That would allow a Senate abolition amendment to (mostly) bypass the Senate.
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Republicans allied with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republican campaign arm, which warred with Bannon in the Alabama Senate race, were ebullient.
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And I'm going to work hard to elect a Democratic Senate, because I think with a Democratic Senate we can get something outta the Senate.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer have each called on the Senate ethics committee to review Tweeden's account against Franken.
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Hallway interviews will still be allowed if approved by the Senate Rules Committee, the Senate Sergeant At Arms or the Senate Radio and TV Committee.
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Senate leaders are working out the timing of a Senate vote, likely next week, which is complicated by Trump's Senate impeachment trial starting within days.
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His focus is now on his Senate reelection and the impending Senate impeachment trial of Trump, for which he will part of the Senate jury.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, among other lawmakers, urged Paul to allow a vote.
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The full results aren't in, but control switched from Democratic to Republican in the Kentucky House, Iowa Senate, and Minnesota Senate and from Republican to Democratic in the New Mexico House, Nevada Assembly, Nevada Senate, and Washington Senate.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer displayed a blown-up image on the Senate floor, and Senate Homeland Security Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wisconsin, appeared to choke up when referring to the photo during a Senate panel's immigration hearing.
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Trump Jr. testified before the Senate Intelligence, House Intelligence and Senate Judiciary Committees in 2017, and the Senate Judiciary panel released a transcript of its interview.
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The Senate parliamentarian has ruled that another big piece of the GOP health care bill violates Senate budget rules, Senate Budget Committee Democrats announced this afternoon.
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"Today, the Senate would like to specifically acknowledge (Biden's) efforts to help Americans struggling with cancer," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in the Senate chamber.
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The House and Senate have squabbled over the Senate bill, which Ryan vowed to freeze unless the Senate agreed to take up provisions from the House.
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When the Senate passed the stimulus legislation last week, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the Senate would not take any votes until the same day.
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The terms of the Senate trial are set by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, with McConnell having the final say.
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He currently represents Maine's 20th Senate District in Maine State Senate, where he serves as the Senate Chairman for the Committee on Health and Human Services.
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Senate Majority PAC, the chief super PAC of Senate Democrats, dumped $3 million worth of TV ads into the New Jersey Senate race, where Democratic Sen.
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Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer took to the Senate floor to excoriate Trump.
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Dean Heller, Senate (Nev.); 3 rallies with Trump Corey Stewart, Senate (Va.) Rep.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer leaves a meeting with Senate Democrats on Jan.
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She worked for Clinton in the Senate and worked for her Senate campaign.
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H., at the Senate Democrats' weekly press conference just off the Senate floor.
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"The Senate needs to do its job," Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said.
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EDT: Senate Republicans, followed by Senate Democrats, brief reporters after their weekly luncheons.
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Ryan, Brady, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and Senate Finance Committee Chair Sen.
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Senate Democratic leaders have promised to fight Kavanaugh's nomination, which requires Senate confirmation.
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Senate Bill 3 had passed the state Senate earlier during the special session.
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Mississippi Senate runoff The midterms are over, in the US Senate, at least.
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In the Lazy Senate, it looks the same as the Senate doing nothing.
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Chuck Schumer, the Senate' Minority Leader, said on the Senate floor Friday evening.
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The Russell Senate Office Building is the oldest of the three Senate offices.
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It was tendered to the Senate and the Senate did not counter offer.
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The Senate candidate took aim at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
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Charles Schumer of New York, the Senate minority leader, on the Senate floor.
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The waiver now goes to the Senate floor for a full Senate vote.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refuses to let the Senate healthcare bill die.
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What the Senate proposed: The Senate would keep things as they are now.
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They need to win the Senate so that they can fix the Senate.
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SB 1 passed a Senate committee Wednesday and heads to the Senate floor.
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The Senate passed a special resolution to allow screens on the Senate floor.
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Senate rules are just that — rules the Senate chooses to impose on itself.
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Senate 2020: Senate Democrats are recruiting Abrams to run against Republican freshman Sen.
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With 67 Senate cosponsors, it is expected to pass the Senate as well.
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It gave $164,000 to Republican Senate candidates, and $20153,000 to Democratic Senate candidates.
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Because the Senate of the Framers is not the Senate we have today.
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On the Senate side, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell drew up plans Thursday to keep the Senate in session through the weekend if Senate Democrats block a short-term spending bill before the Friday deadline expires, according to two GOP aides.
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A large majority also see the Senate Republicans and Senate Democrats as having already made up their minds about the impeachment process, rather than being open minded (222% say so of the Senate Republicans, 13% say so of the Senate Democrats).
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For their part, many DREAMers and activists are pinning the splintering of Senate Democrats on Senate leadership, including Durbin and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
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In the Senate: On Thursday evening, Senate Republicans announced their committee assignments, which are expected to be ratified next week by the Republican Conference and full Senate.
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Press restrictions in the Senate went into full swing Tuesday, with the installment of a metal detector outside the Senate chamber in the Senate Daily Press Gallery.
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She first came to the Senate as a page and worked as an assistant in the Senate Republican Cloakroom under Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole (R-Kansas).
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Under this interpretation, Senate rules would prevent the House from sending their tax bill to the Senate until both the House and Senate passed the health bill.
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Television reporters will now need permission from senators, the Senate Rules Committee, the Senate sergeant-at-arms or the Senate Radio and TV Gallery, depending on location, before conducting an on-camera interview with a senator anywhere in the Capitol or in the Senate office buildings, according to a Senate official familiar with the matter.
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Television reporters will need permission from senators, the Senate Rules Committee, the Senate Sergeant at Arms or the Senate Radio and TV Gallery, depending on location, before conducting an on-camera interview with a senator anywhere in the Capitol or in the Senate office buildings, according to a Senate official familiar with the matter.
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In the Senate he served as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
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According to the Senate Historical Office, the Senate has only ever expelled 15 members.
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But the Senate, you know, I would like the Senate to be Republican too.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, welcomed the bill on the Senate floor.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Monday to send Gorsuch's nomination to the full Senate.
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Speaking on the Senate floor Tuesday morning, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
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Ten Senate Republicans joined with 43 Senate Democrats in the failed veto override attempt.
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Ten Senate Republicans joined with 43 Senate Democrats in the failed veto override attempt.
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Senate Democrats can mount a filibuster, requiring 60 votes in the Senate for approval.
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The Senate made that decision, wrongly or rightly, but the Senate made that decision.
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"Working in the Senate is the best way to know the Senate," Popp said.
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Nobody ever talks about the Senate," Trump said, adding, "We won the Senate easily.
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They don't control the Senate: The majority leader of the Senate sets the schedule.
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Senate leadership has added a version of it to the most recent Senate bill.
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On Friday, 45 Senate Democrats and five Senate Republicans voted against the bill. Sens.
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Both the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Senate Banking Committee, chaired by Sen.
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The Pennsylvania U.S. Senate race could well decide which party captures a Senate majority.
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What the Senate proposed: The Senate bill would make no changes to alimony rules.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.).
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The US Senate gavels into session for the Senate impeachment trial at 1 p.m.
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She wrote that he wants a "Senate cover-up" instead of a Senate trial.
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U.S. Senate Briefing On July 26, 85033, an historic briefing occurred in the Senate.
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The Senate Agriculture Committee, which Loeffler joined following her Senate confirmation, oversees the CFTC.
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Senate Currently, 13 Democratic women and six Republican women have won their Senate primaries.
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Markey co-sponsored the Senate legislation along with fellow Senate Commerce Committee member Sen.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has called for Mulvaney to testify before the Senate.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refused to take up the issue in the Senate.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.
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Senate Democrats discussed their next steps at a lunchtime meeting off the Senate chamber.
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Simpson has testified before the House and Senate Intelligence committees and Senate Judiciary Committee.
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And over in the Senate, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) added Sen.
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We've got to go to the Senate, we'll see what happens in the Senate.
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The tribute, to be held on the Senate floor, will feature a number of lawmakers including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid. Sen.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr and Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham have read it, along with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Rep.
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Cindy Hyde-Smith, Senate (Miss.); 1 rally with Trump Not called: Matt Rosendale, Senate (Mont.); 48 rallies with Trump Martha McSally, Senate (Ariz.); 1 rally with Trump Gov.
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The House and Senate were unable to come to a resolution during talks on Saturday, and the Senate will reconvene after Christmas, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate will vote Tuesday on whether to open debate on a healthcare bill, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on the Senate floor.
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Meanwhile in the Senate: A bipartisan quartet in the Senate introduced their own bill Thursday to explicitly prohibit the president from withdrawing from NATO without Senate approval. Sens.
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The Senate voted 63-37 late last month to move the issue from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to the full Senate, despite most Republicans opposing the measure.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell could potentially invite Trump to deliver the State of the Union from the Senate, but the Senate would have to vote on that.
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If articles are approved, the president will be put on trial before the Senate, unless Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans move to block a trial.
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Senate Debates a Segregationist's Legacy The Senate is weighing whether to rechristen the Russell Senate Building, named after a senator who promoted racial segregation, to honor John McCain.
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Later on Thursday, the candidate will meet with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other members of the Senate Republican leadership, a Senate Republican aide said on Monday.
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After the Senate receives the House resolution, the Senate tells the House when the managers can present the articles of impeachment to the Senate and commence the trial.
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Historically, when the Senate received unanimously passed bills from the House, the Senate majority leader would frequently bypass assigning it to a Senate committee and put it directly on the Senate floor for passage by voice vote; assuming it wasn't a contentious issue.
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Following the adjournment of the Senate on Friday, McConnell called a recess in the Senate, likely in order to continue ongoing negotiations between the White House, Senate Republicans and, to a lesser extent, Senate Democrats, over the next steps in the trial.
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"In my view, the Senate Judiciary Committee should immediately pause the consideration of the Kavanaugh nomination," Schumer, the Senate minority leader, said on the Senate floor, according to CNN.
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Cotton serves on the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the Joint Economic Committee and the Senate Committee on Armed Services.
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The Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, the House Rules Committee and the Senate Appropriations Committee will all move forward legislation, starting with a markup of the Senate VA bill Tuesday.
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"This becomes the defining issue in many of the closest Senate races this fall," said Steven Law, who runs the Senate Leadership Fund, the leading Senate Republican super PAC.
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Tuesday night, the Senate voted that Elizabeth Warren had broken Senate rules by impugning U.S. attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions during a speech she gave on the Senate floor.
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In addition to joining the Senate Judiciary Committee, Ernst of Iowa has also now become a member of Senate GOP leadership as vice chair of the Senate Republican conference.
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Orrin Hatch, chairman of the Senate tax committee and one of the bill's chief authors, said the Senate would probably vote on a final Senate-House measure on Monday.
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But the tradition appears to go back further: Riddick's Senate Procedural, an encyclopedia of Senate rules and precedents, dates the allowance of milk on the Senate floor to Jan.
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The Senate Health Committee typically holds hearings on the HHS nominee, but the Senate Finance Committee is the panel that votes to send a confirmation to the full Senate.
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The House and Senate intelligence committees and the Senate Judiciary Committee have been conducting their own Russia probes, although only the Senate Intelligence Committee has managed to remain bipartisan.
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That prospect -- given his past track record -- makes Senate Republicans nervous and Senate Democrats joyous.
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US Senate Who knew that quoting a civil rights icon would elicit a Senate smackdown?
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Skelos served in the Senate from 1985 to 2015 and became Senate leader in 2008.
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"Senate Democrats should stop blocking the Senate from taking up other, urgent matters," McConnell said.
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"The House is blaming the Senate and the Senate is blaming the House," he said.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ken.) said Saturday that the Senate will reconvene Dec.
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Currently serves as Senate Republican Conference chairman, the third-ranking lawmaker in GOP Senate leadership.
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Then the congressmen and women and the Senate will be coming over — the Republican Senate.
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He's served in the Senate for two terms and is on the Senate Intelligence committee.
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House or Senate: The most common route to the vice presidency is through the Senate.
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House and Senate races A series of House and Senate races are also underway Tuesday.
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Leadership: Senate Republican Conference chairman John Thune and Senate Republican Policy Committee chairman John Barrasso.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has also urged Comey to testify before the Senate panel.
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"Early next week," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on the Senate floor last night.
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Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch released the revisions to the Senate tax plan tonight.
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This is the current Adobe Flash livestream of the Senate floor, provided by the Senate.
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Florida's Senate race could be pivotal in determining which party controls the Senate next year.
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Senate conservatives, and ObamaCare opponents broadly, have panned the Senate healthcare bill as a charade.
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According to the Senate Black Legislative Staff Caucus, only 4.9% of Senate staffers are Black.
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"Running for Senate is no excuse for violating the rules of the Senate," said Sen.
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The Senate majority leader believes the Senate can complete this work sometime in the fall.
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Further, I believe Senate Republicans are mostly to blame for the unraveling of Senate decorum.
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The key factor in the Senate is to pass a bill that meets Senate rules.
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Senate, at least, he was a token: The average age of the Senate was 55.
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The Senate Health Committee sent a bipartisan opioid package to the Senate floor last month.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) ripped Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.
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I mean we have the Senate; we have a great Senate, we have great people.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) expressed confidence that the Senate would confirm Kavanaugh.
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"When you're in the Senate, you have to go vote in the Senate," Trump said.
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Five Senate Republicans, including Cruz, have publicly voiced their opposition to the current Senate draft.
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Like the Senate appropriations bill, the Senate defense authorization measure sticks to the budget agreement.
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This is particularly true of both the Senate Finance Committee and the Senate Appropriations Committee.
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Like the Senate appropriations bill, the Senate defense authorization bill sticks to the budget agreement.
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Two lost in Indiana's Senate primary, while one fell in the West Virginia Senate primary.
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Should the Senate investigate allegations of child molestation that predate Moore's position in the Senate?
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And it means the Senate presidency is the most powerful senate presidency in the nation.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has suggested renaming the Russell Senate Office Building after him.
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"I'm begging you to come back," said Senate President Peter Courtney on the Senate floor.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is leading the charge against Democrats in the Senate trial.
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The Senate that existed in Hamilton's era is a far cry from the Senate today.
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Chuck Grassley, the president pro tempore of the Senate (a lawmaker who oversees Senate sessions).
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The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing was moved to the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
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Today there are four women on the Senate Judiciary Committee and 23 in the Senate.
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And we, the Senate and the Senate Finance Committee, are allowing ourselves to be marginalized.
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Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and the ranking Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee Sen.
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The Senate version has 31 cosponsors, and a modified version will easily pass the Senate.
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"His election to the Senate chairmanship gave the Senate an altogether different dynamic," he said.
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Susan Collins' letter to Senate leaders asking them not to change Senate rules any more.
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Senate Democrats have acted, and Senate Republicans and the House of Representatives should follow suit.
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In the Senate, 32 Democratic women and 22 Republican women are running for Senate seats.
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Few think Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will allow the Senate proceedings to drag on.
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One-fifth of the Senate — all members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee besides Sen.
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With approval from the Senate Intelligence Committee, Nakasone's nomination will advance to the Senate floor.
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As frustrating as the filibuster may be, it is what makes the Senate the Senate.
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Cillizza: What's the political impact here -- for Kemp and for the Senate appointee/Senate race?
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So far, however, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has blocked that legislation in the Senate.
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Senate Democratic leader Charles Schumer of New York criticized AT&T on the Senate floor.
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The Senate GOP has yet to rally around the bipartisan Senate Finance package from Sens.
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McConnell and other Senate Republicans repeatedly blocked Senate Democrats from passing such legislation in July.
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"The Senate bill is a good bipartisan bill that passed overwhelmingly in the Senate," Rep.
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"It's really a rogue agency," Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn said on the Senate floor.
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SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE - The U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is conducting its own investigation.
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Key section from the Senators' letter to Trump: Senators who signed the letter include: John Barrasso, chair of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Jim Inhofe, former chair of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority Leader John Cornyn, Senate Majority Whip Roy Blunt, Vice Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference Orrin Hatch, Senate Finance chair High-profile conservative senators: Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, and Mike Lee
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" Gwen Moore concluded her letter by asking that the Senate Sergeant at Arms be "proactive in protecting Senate Pages" and requesting more information regarding possible "preventive steps" that are being taken to protect Senate Pages from "predatory conduct of US Senators and Senate staff.
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According to CNN's Manu Raju, the inspector general will meet with the following committees: House Foreign Affairs Senate Foreign Relations House Appropriations Senate Appropriations House Oversight Senate Homeland Security House Intelligence Senate Intelligence Go deeper: House chairmen accuse Pompeo of "stonewalling" in Ukraine investigation
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Roger MarshallRoger W. MarshallKobach says he discussed his Senate bid with Trump Senate Democrats outraise Republicans, but GOP has cash edge Pompeo tells McConnell he's not running for Senate MORE (R-Kan.), who is also running for the Senate seat being vacated by retiring Sen.
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The Gang of Eight includes the House Speaker, House minority leader, Senate majority leader, Senate minority leader and the chairmen and ranking members of the House and Senate Intelligence committees.
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If the Senate chooses to normalize lawlessness, if the Senate chooses to normalize corruption, if the Senate chooses to normalize presidential abuse of power, then America is in the wilderness.
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Senate Republicans have the upper hand Thanks to $21.5 million from the Adelsons, groups backing Senate Republicans have more to spend in the homestretch than do those backing Senate Democrats.
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This attitude had been pushed by the Senate in the 1997 Byrd-Hagel Senate Resolution, passed 95-0, which had signaled that the Senate would not ratify the Kyoto Protocol.
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WASHINGTON, July 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate will vote Tuesday on whether to open debate on a healthcare bill, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on the Senate floor.
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After Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's change to Senate rules during Gorsuch's confirmation, Kavanaugh will need only a simple majority of votes in the Republican-majority Senate to be confirmed.
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Its speedy passage in the House and Senate represented a rare showing of partisan unity, although Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Senate Republicans were critical of the legislation.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell urged Democrats to stop considering abolishing the filibuster Thursday, arguing "America needs the Senate to be the Senate" in a New York Times op-ed.
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Where Senate Republicans stand Top Senate GOP aides expect Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to keep his conference together, but the final number is far from a sure thing. Sen.
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Washington (CNN)Senate Minority Leader Schumer wrote a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Sunday evening, calling for at least four witnesses to testify in a Senate impeachment trial.
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The Senate still hasn't taken up the measure, and women in the Senate have had enough.
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McCain's colleagues — including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and Arizona Sen.
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McCain's colleagues — including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and Arizona Sen.
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The Democratic Senate campaign arm is not advertising on Gorsuch; the Republican Senate campaign arm is.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee voted along party lines Monday to send Gorsuch to the full Senate.
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The proposal that passed the Senate was one of three measures the Senate voted on Tuesday.
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Senate President Davi Alcolumbre said the Senate would reconvene on Wednesday to finish voting on amendments.
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Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Richard Burr speaking at a Senate hearing alongside Vice Chair Mark Warner.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has called for the Senate Ethics Committee to review Franken's conduct.
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Dick Durbin, the No. 2 Senate Democrat, on Friday urged the Senate to pass the legislation.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell needs 50 of the 52 Senate Republicans to back the bill.
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Worth a shrug: The Senate polling — not everyone will be voting for the Senate in 2018.
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Tough crowd in Senate And Trump is up against an even tougher audience in the Senate.
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Shortly before McConnell spoke, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer urged Senate Republicans to oppose Trump's declaration.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to vote on sending the nomination to the Senate floor.
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Senate GOP leadership aides, however, vigorously disputed that it was a light week in the Senate.
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Arizona's Senate race is a top priority for both parties in the battle for the Senate.
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Following the Senate votes, Trump told reporters he would support a "reasonable agreement" among Senate leaders.
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McWilliams's nomination was cleared by the Senate Banking Committee in February and is pending Senate confirmation.
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In recent years, North Carolina Senate Republicans consistently outraised Senate Democrats by four to five times.
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Which raises the question -- if the Senate passes this, is a House-Senate conference even necessary?
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There's 36 years in the Senate versus two years in the Senate before running for president.
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But the Senate Judiciary Committee held confirmation hearings and sent the nomination to the Senate floor.
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Three states pick Senate candidates The Senate landscape is becoming more settled Tuesday night as well.
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Senate Democrats are urging Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellAre Democrats turning Trump-like?
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The Senate Intelligence, Senate Judiciary and House Oversight panels have also issued requests for Comey's memos.
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They vetted a one-line repeal and faced resistance from the Senate Parliamentarian, a Senate staffer.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said the Senate will begin debating immigration legislation next week.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee approved him in June, and sent his nomination to the full Senate.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer should do their opening remarks.
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Ted Cruz amendment, which failed to pass Senate rules and handily failed to pass the Senate.
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Under Senate rules, ending such a filibuster will require three-fifths of the Senate: 2023 votes.
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Democratic Senate candidates have a strong chance to take Republican Senate seats in Arizona and Nevada.
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Alabama Senate race President Trump embraced controversial Senate candidate Roy Moore even tighter over the weekend.
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Meanwhile, while Republicans controlled the Senate in 2016, they did sole solely due to Senate malapportionment.
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This is not the Senate Judiciary Committee I saw when I came to the U.S. Senate.
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The Senate Banking Committee approved Calabria's nomination in February, and he is awaiting full Senate confirmation.
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All Senate Democrats and 21994 Republicans voted for the Senate immigration bill that passed in 2013.
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Earlier this month, the Democratic Senate caucus made Chuck Schumer, 65, the party's Senate majority leader.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the Senate will vote and pass the legislation later Wednesday.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's plan after holding on to the Senate: push through more judges.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ken.) has refused to bring either to the Senate floor.
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His two sons grew up among his Senate colleagues, often accompanying him to the Senate floor.
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A different kind of Senate Today's Senate is different from the one Biden left in 2009.
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A Senate precedent was set in the 1960s allowing the dairy product on the Senate floor.
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Senate procedure is murky generally and Senate procedure with respect to impeachment trials is murky squared.
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Senate Democrats lauded Mr. Schiff's appearance, but Senate Republicans called the material old news and unpersuasive.
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The Senate will appoint an escort committee to escort the chief justice into the Senate chamber.
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His nomination, which is subject to Senate confirmation, was backed by Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer.
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With Democrats facing a tough Senate, the Texas Senate race would likely not receive national resources.
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"The president still doesn't get it," Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said on the Senate floor.
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THE CASES: SENATE DEMS SLAM SHELBY ON BANKING NOMINEES: Senate Democrats say they're tired of Sen.
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Still, the chairman of the Senate Republican Conference predicted the bill will ultimately pass the Senate.
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Ernst serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee and Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
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California sent two women to the US Senate, one who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Ultimately senators -- specifically Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell -- will determine how the Senate trial is conducted.
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Trent Lott (R-MS) represented Mississippi in the U.S. Senate and served as Senate Majority Leader.
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Senate Bill 49 attempted to void the SDHSAA policy, but the Senate Education committee killed it.
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SENATE CONCERNS The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate is not expected to take up USMCA until January.
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H.R. 1761 now sits in the Senate and has been referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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The Rick Scott Senate campaign and the Bill Nelson Senate campaign also stopped their negative ads.
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And the support among Senate Democrats is "strong," said Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.).
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Elected to the US Senate in 22000, after Fred Thompson retired, he saw the Senate change.
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Carson is widely expected to be confirmed by the Republican-controlled Senate committee and full Senate.
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The working Senate draft would: The current Senate draft notably does not repeal Obamacare's individual mandate.
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And then in the Senate, you have to then have one in the Senate, who there?
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell opened the Senate on Monday urging completion of a spending bill.
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Over the weekend, Axios posed that very question to Republicans Mike Coffman (CO-06), John Culberson (TX-07), Carlos Curbelo (FL-26), Mimi Walters (CA-45), Pete Stauber (MN-08), Kevin Cramer (challenging for North Dakota Senate), Josh Hawley (challenging for Missouri Senate), Martha McSally (challenging for Arizona Senate), Leah Vukmir (challenging for Wisconsin Senate) and Mike Braun (challenging for Indiana Senate).
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The National Republican Senate Committee, a group that is devoted to strengthening the Republican Senate Majority and electing Republicans to the Senate, which is led by Senator Cory Gardner, did not.
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The Senate HELP Committee called off a health care markup this morning after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer asked all Democrats to be in the Senate chamber at 9:30 a.m.
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When Trump formally submits Moore's nomination to the Senate, the Senate Banking Committee will be responsible for reviewing Moore's nomination and for forwarding it for a vote to the full Senate.
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Commentary by Senator John Thune (R-SD), the chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and No.3 in Senate Republican leadership.
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In the Senate, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is holding hearings on the issue, but so far Senate leadership hasn't indicated a desire to pivot to the issue on the floor.
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SENATE PANEL ADVANCES FDA NOMINEE The Senate Health committee on Tuesday advanced to the full Senate the nomination of Dr. Robert Califf to be commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.
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Both the US House of Representatives and the Senate adjourned after Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, said there would not be a vote Friday night in the Senate.
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The hearing in the Senate Health Committee is considered a courtesy hearing, since the Senate Finance Committee is the panel with the power to send his nomination to the Senate floor.
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Jones became the first Democrat to win a Senate seat in Alabama since 1992, and his victory tightens Senate Republicans' margin in the Senate, giving them just a 51-49 edge.
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Reid represented Nevada in the Senate from 1987 to 2017 and served as leader of the Senate Democrats from 2005 to 2017 and as Senate majority leader from 2007 to 2015.
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Speaking on the Senate floor after McConnell, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer fired back, calling Trump a "lawless president" and accusing the Senate Republican leader of wanting to bury any congressional investigations.
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Republican Rick Scott, running for Senate after two terms as Florida governor, beat Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson in 2018's most expensive Senate race, boosting the GOP and expanding their Senate majority.
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But their idea has hit a snag when the Senate parliamentarian — the person in charge of ensuring the tax bill complies with Senate budget rules — said a "trigger" would break Senate rules.
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HATCH: SENATE WON'T REMOVE IRS HEAD: The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee says a House effort to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen has no chance of moving through the Senate. Sen.
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Senate rules mandate that a cloture vote has to "ripen" for one full day before it the Senate can vote, unless the currently quarreling Senate unanimously decides to hold a vote sooner.
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During the Clinton trial, some of this was done in the Old Senate Chamber down the hall from the Senate chamber but this time they plan to stay on the Senate floor.
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Graham's remarks come as Senate Republicans plan to meet Tuesday to discuss options to repeal and replace ObamaCare, as the Senate GOP's healthcare working group considers the details of the Senate plan.
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Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee had protested the hearing, which took place while the Senate is in recess, and requested that it be postponed until the Senate came back into session.
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The same is ultimately true of any of the rules discussed below: They are imposed on the Senate by the Senate, and could be changed by a majority vote in the Senate.
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No final legislation has been released, and the Senate parliamentarian was reviewing an earlier version of the Senate repeal-and-replace bill that has already failed to advance on the Senate floor.
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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley even took to the floor of the Senate to criticize Roberts.
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The president nominates principal officers to come to the United States Senate and the Senate must confirm.
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Similarly, if multiple Senate races swing the Democrats' way, the party could pull off a Senate upset.
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Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell said the Senate would meet in a "pro forma" session on Monday.
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Jerry Moran in the Senate Republican primary this year, but the Senate Republicans scrambled to prevent that.
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Senate could vote tomorrow on bill without real score and critical provisions that can't pass Senate rules.
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John Thune, chair of the Senate Commerce Committee, said Wednesday on the Senate floor, echoing Pai's argument.
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Although the Senate security services offer trainings for offices on the Hill, some Senate offices, like Sen.
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Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn says Senate Republicans will meet this afternoon to discuss the new developments.
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The president of the senate, Eunício Oliveira, and the party's chief, Romero Jucá, lost their senate seats.
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Senate leaders are expected to unveil their final bill at the end of the Senate floor debate.
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"A handful of Republicans and 48 Senate Democrats are the majority party in the US Senate," Sen.
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As a senator, Kaine sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Senate Armed Forces Committee.
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The Senate intelligence committee is expected to vote Wednesday to recommend that the full Senate confirm her.
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Yet more strikingly, his colleagues in the Senate voted to make Elisabetta Casellati the new Senate president.
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Also joining them soon after were key Senate Democrats: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Sen.
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The Senate has passed all nine appropriations bills, but the House and Senate only agree on three.
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Senate Democrats shut down this government, and now Senate Democrats need to open this government back up.
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In short, you're not going to support the Senate bill, because that's what the Senate bill does.
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The House bill contrasts with one in the Senate championed by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley.
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"The bill is going nowhere fast in the United States Senate," said Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer.
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Republicans also wrested control of the Iowa Senate and the Minnesota Senate from Democrats, according to NCSL.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell did not address Obamacare in remarks on the Senate floor on Tuesday.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters he was in talks with Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid.
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Pat Roberts, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee and a leading pro-NAFTA voice in the Senate.
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When she entered the Senate in 2000, she sought a place on the Senate Armed Services Committee.
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The Senate Banking Committee approved their nominations in June, and the full Senate confirmed Clarida in August.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said that "virtually all" Republicans in the Senate support the legislation.
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Senate Republicans Realistically, the night could not have gone much better for the GOP in the Senate.
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" A senior Senate Republican aide said that overall, "the summer for the Senate played out pretty well.
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SENATE PANEL UNITES ON RUSSIA: Elsewhere in the Senate, the Foreign Relations Committee heard from retired Gen.
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"It will be a real big challenge on the Senate side," said Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell.
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Senate Dems aren't happy: Senate Democrats urged the administration to take election security "more seriously" on Thursday.
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The report summary was made available to the Senate Intelligence Committee members, but not the full Senate.
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It was introduced in the Senate and referred to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where it stalled.
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He is a former Republican Senate staffer and the Senate Republicans have a healthy majority in 85033.
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Senate aides tell CNN that the hope is to get it passed this week in the Senate.
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The Senate voted Thursday to advance their nominations after a controversial Senate Finance Committee vote Wednesday morning.
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The bill passed the state's House and Senate earlier this year, with the Senate version passing unanimously.
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Under Senate rules, any one senator could object to quickly moving the bill across the Senate floor.
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Ron Wyden of Oregon, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said on the Senate floor Thursday.
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Manafort has also offered to be interviewed by the Senate Intelligence Committee, according to a Senate source.
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A Senate Republican leadership aide sidestepped a question on what Senate leaders thought about the CR date.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell urged the Senate not to vote for the Yemen War Powers resolution.
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The Senate is expected to vote first on Thursday on the agreement, according to a Senate source.
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The Senate Banking Committee is expected to vote on Kraninger's nomination when the Senate reconvenes next week.
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The Senate Finance Committee approved Lighthizer on Tuesday, moving his nomination to the full Senate for approval.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who would set the agenda for an impeachment trial in the Senate.
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Franken apologized for his behavior and resigned from the Senate in a speech on the Senate floor.
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Senate Democrats like Bob Menendez and Republican Russia hawks, particularly in the Senate, may oppose the waiver.
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But the Senate parliamentarian may decide the waivers do not comply with Senate budget rules, Axios reported.
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A Lethal Bill in the Senate A different approach is being floated in the Senate by Sen.
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"The calls need to be nonstop to Senate and senate regional offices," said Angel Padilla of Indivisible.
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Microsoft also found websites imitating the United States Senate, but not specific Senate offices or political campaigns.
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Bullock delivers 'absolute no' to Senate run Democrats are all but begging Bullock to run for Senate.
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SENATE STAMP: The Senate Intelligence Committee confirmed it's belief that there was Russian interference in the election.
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According to her Senate biography, she concluded her only Senate speech with a nod to gender equality.
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Senate Republicans are all but ready to acquit President Donald Trump and end the Senate impeachment trial.
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Blunt, the vice chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, was easily elected to the Senate in 2010.
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Trump has also reportedly urged Senate Republicans to end the Senate Intelligence Committee's investigation into Russian meddling.
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Debate will begin on the Senate floor on Wednesday, bypassing the Senate Budget Committee to speed passage.
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Graham, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has represented the Palmetto State in the Senate since 2003.
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Republicans on Tuesday night expanded their Senate majority, though several Senate races remain too close to call.
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During the Senate trial, Democrats called for Tillis and other Senate Republicans to vote for new witnesses.
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So the question is, does the Senate, the Senate is on trial as well as the president.
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"One of President Obama's most loyal 'yes men' in the Senate," said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
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When the Senate does receive a bill, members of the conservative Senate Steering Committee, chaired by Sen.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell also confirmed that the vote would take place in the full Senate.
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MORE (R-Ariz.) is absent from the Senate, that would be enough to win a Senate vote.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee voted unanimously to send Wray's nomination to the full Senate late last month.
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He also chaired the Senate Small Business Committee and held a post on the Senate Banking Committee.
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In the 103 election, Republicans won control of the Senate -- and McConnell became the Senate Majority Leader.
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In 2013, the Senate Democrats, then in the majority, dragged the Senate out onto a slippery slope.
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Senate Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has scheduled a Senate vote for Friday at 10:30 a.m.
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However, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked the resolution from coming to the floor in the Senate.
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Mitch McConnell, the GOP's leader in the Senate, used filibusters to grind the Senate to a halt.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell suggested Wednesday that the Senate would not cut short an impeachment trial.
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SENATE WAR OVER ENERGY BILL: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellAre Democrats turning Trump-like?
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As for Vitter, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to advance her nomination to the full Senate.
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Republicans, because they control the Senate, can move the nomination to the Senate floor on their own.
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Republicans actually took the Senate majority in 2014 in large part on claims to restore the Senate.
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"A state senate race isn't as sexy as a presidential or big U.S. Senate race," Schauer said.
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In a deal reached among Senate leaders, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced Friday night that the Senate would allow six hours for debate on Pompeo's nomination before a vote on confirmation. Torture?
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Oudea will meet Senate Finance Committee chief Michele Andre as a prelude to broader Senate hearings of leading bankers and the supervisory authorities on activities in tax havens, according to a Senate statement.
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After the Senate rejected two proposals to end the partial shutdown, now in its 34th day, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer met to discuss a possible solution.
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J.), the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Mark Warner (Va.), the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee; and Sherrod Brown(Ohio.), the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee.
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" The Senate Democrats pointed to efforts by McConnell and other Senate Republicans to block election security efforts in the Senate, accusing McConnell of "threatening the integrity of, and faith in, our democratic institutions.
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The Senate has traditionally deferred to first-term presidents assembling their teams; according to the Senate Historical Office, only once has the Senate rejected a cabinet nominee for a president just starting out.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York announced during a Senate floor speech Monday afternoon that he and other Democratic lawmakers in the Senate would back a measure to reopen the government.
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Bradley ByrneBradley Roberts ByrneRepublican senators open to comeback bid from Sessions GOP senator says he'll endorse Sessions if he runs for Senate seat Trump takes pulse of GOP on Alabama Senate race MORE (R-Ala.) and Roy MooreRoy Stewart MooreGOP senator says he'll endorse Sessions if he runs for Senate seat Trump takes pulse of GOP on Alabama Senate race Jeff Sessions calling Alabama lawmakers about 85033 Senate bid MORE, who lost the 2017 Senate race to Democrat Doug Jones.
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A Senate aide confirmed to Vox that the Senate committee will continue to interview witnesses and review documents.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee could vote to recommend Kavanaugh to a full Senate vote as soon as Friday.
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Senate Republicans and Democrats, especially on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, are understandably pretty spun up against Putin.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will not bring anything to the Senate floor that doesn't have Trump's approval.
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Democratic super PACs active in the House and Senate races include House Majority PAC and Senate Majority PAC.
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Marsha Blackburn, Senate (Tenn.); 3 rallies with Trump A.G. Josh Hawley, Senate (Mo.); 3 rallies with Trump Sen.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and a majority of Senate Democrats eventually joined the call for his resignation.
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For the Senate-confirmed spots, it's also their relationship with the Senate — that includes both Republicans and Democrats.
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The California Democrat suggested four unspecified changes to the Senate measure, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday.
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Crapo attributed the absences to conflicting hearings, including a Senate Finance Committee hearing and a Senate Judiciary Committee.
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The Senate hopes to vote this week on Wheeler, an aide to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said.
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Hopefully, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will support this legislation and make sure it passes the Senate quickly.
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Most Senate Democrats, like many Senate Republicans, have promised to push for a deal to protect the DREAMers.
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Meanwhile, Trump still has to get his names through the Senate, although Flynn's appointment doesn't require Senate confirmation.
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The Senate Finance Committee cleared the bill Thursday, 19 to 9, advancing it to the full Senate floor.
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Then Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the Senate would instead vote soon on the repeal-only legislation.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 11-383 along party lines to move Gorsuch's nomination to the full Senate.
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John Cornyn, R-Texas, is the Senate Majority Whip and serves on the Senate Finance and Judiciary Committees.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell continues to aim for a Senate floor vote before the July 4 recess.
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McConnell typically uses offices reserved for members of Senate leadership, which are located in the main Senate building.
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A Senate Democratic leadership aide told CNN "the overwhelming majority" of Senate Democrats would vote against Lieberman. Sen.
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A few days later, he delivered an update to Senate Republicans on the progress of the Senate investigation.
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Democrats control Delaware's state Senate by just one seat, and they hold the Oregon Senate by just four.
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Senate Republicans defied the odds Tuesday and beat back Democrats' all-out push to win the Senate majority.
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Jeff Flake (Ariz.), Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker (Tenn.) and Senate Armed Services Chairman John McCain (Ariz.).
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The Senate Judiciary Committee is advancing the bill, despite opposition from Republican leadership in the House and Senate.
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Changing the BCA requires 60 votes in the Senate, and Senate Democrats are signaling they will not agree.
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"The President can and should send the Senate a nominee right away," said Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer echoed Pelosi and Ryan's calls for unity.
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The GOP is expected to hold 52 seats in the Senate after next month's Louisiana Senate runoff election.
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"If we lose the Senate in Florida, that means we probably lose the Senate," Rubio said in Tallahassee.
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"Senate rules are a matter for the Senate and a lot of other people have opinions," McConnell said.
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There's also a companion bill in the Senate, and the top Democrat on the Senate Health Committee, Sen.
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His nomination was approved unanimously by the Senate Intelligence Committee and sent to the full Senate last month.
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Also, this legislation has special treatment under House and Senate rules and can't be filibustered in the Senate.
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Senate Majority PAC has already poured millions into a handful of Senate battlegrounds where Democrats are playing defense.
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BREAKING- -a joint senate judiciary & senate commerce hearing with mark zuckerberg has been scheduled for april 10 pic.twitter.
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"They remember what they liked about the Senate," said Donald A. Ritchie, a historian emeritus of the Senate.
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"Senate Republicans stand ready to move forward with this important agreement now," McConnell said from the Senate floor.
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He's a member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs and the Senate Finance Committee.
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Chuck Grassley on the Senate Judiciary Committee, was nominated by Trump and confirmed by the Senate in September.
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Nominations The Senate is set to take up three of Trump's nominees this week on the Senate floor.
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Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch plans to take the wraps off the new Senate bill on Thursday.
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The Senate Agriculture Committee supported moving his bill to the full Senate by a 14-6 bipartisan vote.
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But the legislation is unlikely to move in the GOP-controlled Senate or in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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The Senate and House Intelligence committees, as well as the Senate Judiciary Committee, are all pursuing parallel probes.
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Senate Republicans on Tuesday approved letting Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellAre Democrats turning Trump-like?
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Senate – marijuana protection: The Hill: The Senate Appropriations Committee approved a measure that would protect medical cannabis operations.
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Still, Senate Democrats and the White House had indicated some willingness to go along with the Senate plan.
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Currently, the House and Senate Intelligence committees as well as the Senate Judiciary Committee are probing Russia's efforts.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee has already delayed a vote to move Kavanaugh's nomination to a Senate-wide vote.
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According to a senior Democratic senate aide, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York and California Sen.
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But shortly after the verdict, Senate Majority Leader McConnell, R-Kentucky, called for a Senate Ethics Committee investigation.
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President Trump early Monday endorsed GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore, saying his vote is needed in the Senate.
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Feinstein, the leading Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, is seeking her fifth full term in the Senate.
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MAKE-UP OF THE SENATE A lot of the angst focuses on the future role of the Senate.
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The Senate Trump shocked Senate Republicans when he said he'd take responsibility for any shutdown over the holidays.
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That deal will require approval in the Senate, meaning some Senate Democrats will have to come on board.
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The same Senate map that benefits rural interests also tends to make the Democratic Senate caucus more conservative.
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Sometimes they pass the Senate but they never get to the president, sometimes they don't pass the Senate.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee voted to recommend Kavanaugh to the Senate floor for a full vote Friday afternoon.
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Daschle served in the Senate from 1987 to 2005 and as Senate majority leader from 2001 to 2003.
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SENATE ADVANCES ZIKA FUNDING: The Senate is inching closer to a showdown with the House over Zika funding.
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In the Senate, a hold means that McConnell cannot expedite the process for a full Senate confirmation vote.
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Murray's nomination was approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in August and he awaits full Senate confirmation.
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No Democrat voted for the House bill, and all Senate Democrats are expected to oppose the Senate version.
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What the Senate proposed: The Senate wishes to double the exemption but has not proposed any full repeal.
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The measure passed 51-48, with every Senate Democrat present opposing it, and every Senate Republican except Sen.
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One was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee in April, making it eligible for a full Senate vote.
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He breathed all over unsuspecting aides, worked out in the Senate gym and swam in the Senate pool.
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Earlier Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer also targeted airline stock buybacks in comments on the Senate floor.
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The rules of the Senate and the power of the filibuster give the Senate minority leader significant leverage.
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More than a dozen Senate Democrats sat silently at their desks when the group arrived at the Senate.
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The remaining Senate procedures on the books spell out the conduct of the Senate trial once it begins.
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And Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer also called for Equifax executives to agree to testify in the Senate.
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Right, it was the Senate Republican leader wanted to coordinate with the Senate Democratic leader 203 years ago.
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Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey, a Republican, declined to comment Tuesday on McMorrow's complaint and the Senate investigation.
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And in the Senate chamber, the Senate controls the cameras and only the person speaking can be shown.
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The managers are then escorted to the front of the Senate chamber by the Senate Sergeant-at-Arms.
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The controversy could complicate Senate confirmation of Adam Szubin to head Treasury's sanctions enforcement arm, Senate aides said.
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To get around Senate opposition, Mr. Trump chose to accord Mr. Grenell only "acting" status, circumventing Senate confirmation.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell after the Senate voted on Friday to block witnesses in the impeachment trial.
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Meanwhile, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called for the firm's executives to agree to testify in the Senate.
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In June, it passed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and was hotlined to go to the Senate floor.
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Senate Majority PAC, a group that supports Democratic Senate candidates, released an ad that linked Hawley to Greitens.
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In a 49-85033 vote, the Senate agreed, preventing Warren from speaking on the Senate floor on Wednesday.
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Begich represented Alaska in the Senate from 85033-2015 where he served on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee.
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A Senate official then marched toward Chuck Grassley, the Senate president pro tempore, to formally deliver the articles.
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On Tuesday, the Senate Budget Committee advanced the chamber's GOP tax bill, sending it to the Senate floor.
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Senate committee advances Trump's Labor pick: President Trump's Plan B on labor cleared a key Senate hurdle Thursday.
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" Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell: "Today is a deeply sad day for the Senate and for our nation.
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In addition to the Senate Judiciary and House Intelligence Committees, Simpson has testified before the Senate Intelligence panel.
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Senate Democrats called on the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday to hold a hearing on universal background checks. Sen.
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Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois specifically called out Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Republican Sen.
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Under Senate rules, Rehnquist's specific impeachment files are closed to the public along with other Senate trial materials.
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It began with then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid changing the Senate rules on confirming judges in 2013.
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Georgia Senate Candidate Sarah Riggs Amico: Control of the Senate in 2020 lies in Georgia Presidential candidate Rep.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) basically declared he wouldn't seek a fair Senate trial on Tuesday.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said the Senate would take up the bill after its impeachment trial.
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What to watch: All eyes on how Senate Majority Leader McConnell structures the Senate floor debate next week.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee chairman and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellAre Democrats turning Trump-like?
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" But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) defended Menashi and urged the Senate to confirm him. "Mr.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Trump will probably be acquitted by the Senate in any impeachment trial.
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The Nevada Senate seat is the only Senate race this year that Republicans could flip to their control.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) arrives to open the Senate after the summer break on Monday.
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They don't want to lose a Senate seat and, thus, their already slim 52-48 U.S. Senate majority.
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Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer accused the President of "blatant hypocrisy" in remarks on the Senate floor Tuesday.
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"Senate Republicans' frustrations with Trump are starting to boil over," said Alex Conant, a former Senate Republican aide.
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Senate Republican leaders hoped to bring the measure to the Senate floor for a vote this coming week.
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There are currently 11 Democrats in Senate leadership — far more than Senate Republicans, the party that in power.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had initially hoped to begin the Senate trial immediately upon returning from recess.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said last week he did not expect that was likely in the Senate.
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Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight Senate forecast gives Republicans a 2-in-3 chance of holding on to the Senate.
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Gardner, the head of the Senate Republican campaign arm, said Moore was unfit to serve in the Senate.
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Both are running for Senate reelection, with Rubio's Florida race feasibly having the ability to determine senate control.
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A less pessimistic Senate Republican aide said Senate control still "could go either way" but sketched out problems.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, rather than promise a replacement path, suggested the Senate might wait and see.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell urged Senate passage of a government funding bill until Feb.
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Hirono was part of a group of Democrats to introduce the new bill Thursday that included Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin, Assistant Senate Minority Leader Patty Murray and Sen.
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Republican Martha McSally has officially lost the Arizona Senate race to Democrat Kyrsten Sinema, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnnell may still find a way for her to serve in the Senate next year.
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The Senate Appropriations Committee will mark up the agreement on Wednesday and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said he plans to put it on the Senate floor by the end of next week.
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Greg Abbott, Governor (Texas) Ron DeSantis, Governor (Fla.); 3 rallies with Trump Kevin Stitt, Governor (Okla.) Karin Housley, Senate special election (Minn.); 13 rally with Trump John James, Senate (Mich.) Bob Hugin, Senate (N.
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Scaramucci's Democratic contributions have otherwise focused on the campaigns of New York elected officials and top Democrats, including former Senate majority leader Harry Reid, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and Hillary Clinton's Senate campaigns.
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Despite garnering 85033 co-sponsors in the Senate, only four were Republicans, and in the Republican held Senate, the bill was never even brought up for a vote in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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House conservatives, though, are frustrated with the Senate rules and say that if need be, the presiding officer of the Senate should simply overrule the Senate parliamentarian, who rules on what can be included.
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Cuccinelli began his new job as acting director of USCIS on Monday, a controversial move that came despite opposition among Senate Republicans to giving the former Senate Conservatives Fund leader a Senate-confirmed position.
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Cory GardnerCory Scott GardnerFemale Democratic Senate candidates in Colorado ask DSCC to rescind Hickenlooper endorsement Nervous Republicans focus energy on protecting Senate 'firewall' Hickenlooper day-old Senate bid faces pushback from progressives MORE (Colo.).
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Cornyn — the Senate majority whip, the second-ranking position among Senate Republicans — served on the Texas Supreme Court and as Texas attorney general before he was elected to the United States Senate in 22016.
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But you know, the last two senators expelled from the Senate were the two Missouri senators in 1862, so expulsion is not something that the Senate has thought was the business of the Senate.
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In an unusual letter, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the 52 other Republican members of the Senate took issue with a friend-of-the-court brief filed earlier this month by Senate Democrats.
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On the Senate floor on Monday, Mr. Schumer asked the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, if senators would have more than 10 hours to review the Senate bill before voting on it.
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But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has made no secret of his desire to conclude the Senate trial as soon as possible, and Schiff's offer was never seriously entertained by Republicans in the Senate.
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The Senate parliamentarian is the only person on the Senate payroll whose fundamental responsibility is to represent the interests of the Senate as an institution in the thousands of disputes between and among senators.
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Senate Majority PAC, the super PAC aligned with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, raised $61 million in 2019, a record sum that will boost Democrats as they seek to recapture the Senate this year.
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Last week, Democrats were worried that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell might decline to permit video displays during Trump's trial — it required a special Senate resolution to allow video equipment on the Senate floor.
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Franken explained to USA Today that he described such private interactions because Cruz had already broke Senate protocol by saying Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told a "lie" on the Senate floor.
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Roger Marshall launches Kansas Senate bid MORE (R), former Kansas City Chiefs player Dave Lindstrom, conservative commentator Bryan Pruitt and Kansas state Senate President Susan Wagle are also running in the GOP Senate primary.
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Richard ShelbyRichard Craig ShelbyLawmakers run into major speed bumps on spending bills Senate Democrats block government spending bill Senate Democrats demand wall-free spending allocation MORE (R-Ala), who chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee.
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What's next: After the Senate receives the House resolution, the Senate informs the House when it can present the articles of impeachment to the Senate — which is charged in Constitution with trying the president.
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The Senate contest pits two contrasting pols: Feinstein — at 85, the oldest member of the Senate — and De León, 43, a former state Senate president pro tem and son of a single immigrant mother.
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Doug CollinsDouglas (Doug) Allen CollinsCollins Senate bid sets off game of musical chairs for GOP Doug Collins fires back at head of Senate GOP's campaign arm: 'Fake news' Senate GOP campaign arm rips Collins as selfish for entering Georgia race MORE's (R-Ga.) Senate bid threatens a GOP rift in Georgia.
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Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiGraham predicts Senate will take up impeachment trial next week Pressure building on Pelosi over articles of impeachment Trump trade deal faces uncertain Senate timeline MORE (D-Calif.) has yet to send the articles over to the Senate amid negotiations over the terms of a Senate trial.
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"Marlow Cook gave me my first real opportunity in politics, as state youth chairman for his successful Senate campaign," Mr. McConnell, now the Senate majority leader, said on the floor of the Senate on Thursday.
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On Wednesday, 22 women senators, both Republicans and Democrats — every single sitting female member of the Senate — wrote a letter to Senate leadership demanding the legislation go up for a vote on the Senate floor.
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Senate aides said Republicans were hoping the Senate Judiciary Committee holds hearings and votes on the nomination by late March, paving the way for approval by the full Senate in the first week of April.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Senate Republicans believe the former U.S. congressman from Kansas would be a strong candidate should he decide to run for one of the state's Senate seats in 2020.
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Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer told the New York Times that Senate Democrats will make climate change an election issue by giving daily floor speeches and proposing a special Senate committee to focus on it.
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This is a striking comment from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer - he says he disagreed with Harry Reid's effort to change the Senate rules to get Barack Obama's judges through the Senate in 2013-2014.
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Under Senate reconciliation -- the process that allows the Senate to pass a bill with just 51 votes -- Senate Republicans are more limited than they were in the House as to what policies can be considered.
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McConnell faces pressure to bring Senate back for gun legislation Criminal justice reform should extend to student financial aid MORE (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Health Committee, said last week on the Senate floor.
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McConnell's comments come as protesters have increasingly confronted Senate Republicans and some Senate Democrats as they've made their way from the Senate office buildings, which are public, to the Capitol for votes or committee hearings.
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As the political website 913 reported yesterday, Voters cast 44.7 million votes for Democratic Senate candidates and 32.9 million votes for Republican Senate candidates — in other words 57 percent of Senate votes went for Democrats.
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In 1986 then-Senate Parliamentarian Robert Dove outlined guidelines for the Senate's actions to Howard Greene Jr., who was then Secretary of the Senate, according to a memo shared by the GOP Senate leadership aide.
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"It was a function of norms of the Senate, not rules of the Senate," said Martin B. Gold, a former senior Senate staff member who is considered an authority on the body's procedures and protocols.
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"The Senate has a much different map — I wish I had the Senate map, unfortunately for Chuck [Schumer] it doesn't benefit him, but each cycle is different," he said, referring to the Senate Democratic leader.
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Congress, specifically the Senate, traditionally exercises that power to veto a nominee through either a full Senate vote of disapproval or by using its processes to refuse to recommend the nominee to the full Senate.
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"The Senate has been very sensitive to these matters for a long time, and the Senate Ethics Committee will handle this in the regular order way that we do this in the Senate," he said.
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Some political strategists and Senate Republican aides see a potentially weak field of Republican candidates for the Florida Senate seat and think Rubio could help Republicans hold their Senate majority if he entered the race.
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The Senate Historical Office listed Merkley's speech at 15 hours and 26 minutes, the eighth longest in Senate history.
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He will appear before the Senate Health Committee this week, but must also appear before the Senate Finance Committee.
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The bill has passed the House and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, but has never reached the Senate floor.
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Warner is a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and co-founder of the Senate Cybersecurity Caucus.
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The vote sends the bill to the Senate, where the Senate Appropriations Committee approved a similar measure this week.
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Luther Strange, who has been backed by Senate leadership and President Trump, in the Alabama Republican Senate primary runoff.
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On the Senate floor, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell vowed the chamber would vote "this fall" on Kennedy's successor.
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Closed Senate Intelligence committee hearing A closed-door Senate Intelligence Committee hearing will take place at 2:30 p.m.
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The two Senate Democrats and two Senate Republicans were split along party lines, so the Republicans got their way.
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Top Democrats have urged Republican Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell to reconvene the Senate to vote on the bill.
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Cornyn read aloud the Senate rule stating that a senator who disclosed confidential information faced explusion from the Senate.
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He did so as a top-ranking Democrat in the Senate: the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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Anna Caballero during a Senate committee hearing this week on the poverty reduction measure she authored, Senate Bill 25.1.
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Schiff was voted out of the Senate Judiciary Committee and is waiting for a vote by the full Senate.
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Leaving a closed-door Senate Republican lunch earlier in the day, Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Richard Shelby, R-Ala.
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Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid blasted Rubio Monday in a speech before the Senate, after hearing about Rubio's comments.
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Ms. Hagan served in the North Carolina Senate from 250 to 22016 before running for the United States Senate.
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But with key minority Senate Democrats opposed, the bill may not clear the procedural hurdle, Senate Democratic aides said.
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As the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, Graham has been asked by Senate Democrats to hold hearings over the call.
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"The Republican Senate will be remembered for how little it did," Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said last week.
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A senior Senate Republican source says the Senate may remain in session to work out nominations, but not appropriations.
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A companion bill in the Florida Senate was approved by the Senate Rules Committee, 11-6, on Tuesday night.
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The House was forced to vote again after the Senate parliamentarian ruled three minor provisions violated arcane Senate rules.
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She interned for Hillary Clinton in her U.S. Senate office and previously worked on Clinton's 2000 campaign for Senate.
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Trump "won coal country big, that's for sure," incoming Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said on the Senate floor.
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Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid's allied super PAC, Senate Majority PAC, is ramping up spending in Indiana as well.
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Senate Democrats are likely to point to the report as reason for the Senate to pass election security legislation.
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Naturally, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has refused to let the bill come to a vote in the Senate.
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He made the Senate his priority, and this looks like a surprisingly strong showing for Republicans in the Senate.
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Kevin de León, the son of undocumented immigrants and the leader of the California Senate, authored Senate Bill 54.
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Senate Democrats, by contrast, for months have described vulnerable Senate Republican incumbents as loyal foot soldiers in Trump's army.
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Senate polls With some exceptions, the final polls in key Senate races were fairly close to the actual results.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement that the bill will go "nowhere fast" in the Senate.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has suggested he will change Senate rules if needed, a move Trump has backed.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to clear Gorsuch's nomination on Monday, with a full Senate vote by Friday.
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On her Facebook page she blasted Senate Republicans who she said "took an oath" just like Senate Democrats did.
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His nomination was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, sending him to the full Senate for consideration.
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Senate Budget Committee Chair Mike Enzi (R-WY) has already announced he's going to postpone any Senate budget resolutions.
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Gottlieb received a positive vote from a Senate committee last week, and now awaits confirmation from the full Senate.
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The bill passed the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations this week and will now move to the Senate.
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"The Senate should take up the matter immediately," Lew said in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
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Yes, the Constitution requires the advice and consent of the Senate, but the Senate wasn't willing to do either.
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She attended Senate GOP policy lunches and sat in on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's individual meetings with lawmakers.
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The two bills, Senate Bill 189 and Senate Bill 190, came to be known as the riot-boosting bills.
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Washington (CNN)California Democratic state Senate president Kevin de León intends to enter California's 2018 Senate race against Sen.
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More: Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, said that he would not prevent an impeachment trial in the Senate.
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Senate Republicans passed the fiscal 2018 budget on Thursday night after a long voting marathon on the Senate floor.
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Chuck Schumer, the soon-to-be Senate Democratic leader who worked alongside Clinton when she served in the Senate.
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You know, you have Senate meetings, you have Senate hearings and nobody has asked us to do interviews anywhere.
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Paraguay's Senate voted on Friday during a special session in a closed office rather than on the Senate floor.
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Senate GOP Releases Its Healthcare Bill Senate Republicans finally released their proposal for repealing and replacing Obamacare on Thursday.
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But on Thursday, Walden appeared to offer support for the Senate-passed bill, and laid blame on Senate Democrats.
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Senate Republicans still oppose ending the legislative filibuster, said David Popp, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
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But that would require changing Senate rules, something for which Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has shown no enthusiasm.
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If the Senate approves Kavanaugh's nomination on Friday, the Senate will set up a rare procedural vote on Saturday.
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House and Senate majority and minority leaders, as well as the Senate president pro tempore, earn more, at $193,400.
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She testified against Senate Bill 5 at two state Senate committee hearings, explaining how it impacted women like her.
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But the bill never moved to the Senate floor, as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said it was unnecessary.
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Senate: Solid all the way There are four women who have won their primaries in Senate races so far.
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The South Carolina Republican faced two Senate Committees today – appearing before the Senate Budget Committee at 10:30 a.m.
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As chairman of the Senate GOP conference, the South Dakota lawmaker is the third-ranking Republican in the Senate.
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Johnson could end up voting for the Senate bill, as it still may change before the full Senate votes.
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Senate Democrats, pointing to various statements by House members praising the Senate border bill, argue they didn't undercut Pelosi.
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But the conversation between Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.
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Shah is the communications director for Senate Majority PAC, an organization dedicated to electing Democrats to the U.S. Senate.
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McConnell and Senate Republicans routinely criticized Reid's running of the Senate, arguing that he shut down the legislative process.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell worked more closely with big insurance company lobbyists than many of his Senate colleagues.
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On the 30-minute Senate call, the secretary did not answer a single question, according to a Senate source.
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They don't have the votes to pass the Senate, and McConnell won't give them time on the Senate floor.
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Battle moves to Senate Unfortunately for Trump, the changes that helped win over House conservatives alienated Senate moderates. Sen.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) suggested earlier this week that the Senate could soon take up legislation.
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Moreover, with Jones in the Senate, the Democrats have a much better chance of regaining the Senate in 2018.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called on members to support Esper as he opened the Senate on Tuesday morning.
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Go Deeper: How the Senate health bill would change Medicaid fundingHow premiums would change under the Senate health bill
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If he had launched a Senate bid, Vilsack would have entered the Senate race with an outsize public profile.
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But Democrats face a daunting Senate map in 2018, defending 10 Senate seats in states Trump carried in November.
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Duckworth's resolution must first pass the Senate Rules Committee and then approved on the Senate floor to take effect.
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Democrats need to keep the Senate seats they have and gain two more to take control of the Senate.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the full Senate would vote on confirming Gorsuch before lawmakers' mid-April recess.
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Senate aides said no briefing had yet been scheduled for the full Republican-controlled Senate, despite appeals from Democrats.
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We do think the Senate is the last line of defense, we need to stop it in the Senate.
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He appeared at a joint hearing before the Senate Judiciary and Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation committees on Tuesday.
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U.S. Senate: In 10 of the 48 Senate elections since 1918 the president's party lost seven or more seats.
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Senate Republicans plan to fix those issues before the Senate votes, but it will necessitate a new House vote.
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The bipartisan Senate resolution has 16 cosponsors and was referred to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
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The Senate majority leader, John Flanagan, should reconvene the Senate for a vote before the program expires next week.
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I have been progressive my entire life, before I was in the State Senate and during the State Senate.
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The bill passed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee but needs approval from the Senate Republican leadership to go forward.
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The legislation passed the Senate in January and the House on Friday, with a final Senate vote remaining. Gov.
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"We all understand that's what makes the Senate the Senate," McConnell told reporters on Tuesday about the legislative filibuster.
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And you know, it's very interesting because when you talk about not Senate-confirmed, well, Mueller's not Senate-confirmed.
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Asked repeatedly whether the Senate Ethics Committee is equipped or responsible for allegations that predate a Senate term, Sen.
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Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, brought the Green New Deal to a vote in the Senate on Tuesday.
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And you know, it's very interesting because when you talk about not Senate confirmed, well, Mueller's not Senate confirmed.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell responded to Garland's nomination on the Senate floor shortly after the president's announcement Wednesday.
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Senate Democrats said they have "serious issues" with a package being pushed by Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
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Both are running for State Senate against Democrats who belonged to a breakaway group that caucused with Senate Republicans.
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The Senate Banking Committee was expected to send his nomination to the full Senate in a vote on Thursday.
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"There's no chance of us persuading the Senate, the Senate Republicans, in an impeachment trial," he said on Sunday.
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More attention is being focused on the Missouri Senate race recently as Democrats try to regain the Senate majority.
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It does not specify that the Senate must hold a trial, but current Senate rules indicate that it would.
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In the same way that Commodus tussled with the senate in the film, Trump tussled with the U.S. Senate.
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Partisanship: Nixon resigned in the face of likely Senate conviction, and multiple Senate Republicans told him conviction was coming.
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His trip to the Hart Senate Office Building, where the Senate panel has its offices, was a return journey.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell would say he intended to bring a real immigration debate to the Senate floor.
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Pete Sessions of Texas, GOP Senate nominee Josh Hawley of Missouri and GOP Senate nominee Mike Braun of Indiana.
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The Senate stakes: A vote on a Supreme Court nominee could pose a tough challenge for vulnerable Senate Democrats.
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Donna Edwards in the Maryland Senate race, California Attorney General Kamala Harris in the California Senate race, former Sen.
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But before the nomination goes before the full Senate for a vote, the Senate Judiciary Committee holds a hearing.
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The bill was unanimously approved on Monday by a state Senate committee and will now move to the Senate.
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Senate trial focused on witnesses In the Senate, Democrats knew the votes were never there to remove the President.
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However, a departure after the midterm elections — with 33 Senate seats in the mix — could change the Senate itself.
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A Senate aide told The Hill that the Senate briefing was planned prior to the reports of Russian interference.
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The "50-vote Senate" might seem more democratic than the normal Senate, since a majority can enact its priorities.
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Supporting players include Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas), and Sens.
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He said on the Senate floor that the California Democrat has no leverage to influence the Senate impeachment trial.
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"The chief justice is supposed to preside, not make decisions for the Senate," said a senior Senate GOP aide.
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Simpson testified last year behind closed doors with the House and Senate Intelligence Committees and the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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It also put a non-Senate-confirmed staffer (Whitaker) above a Senate-confirmed staffer (Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein).
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He led the fight for the legislation in the Senate, with Senator John Cornyn, the No. 2 Senate Republican.
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Seven members from the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate Intelligence Committee have collectively reviewed the material as well.
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A simple majority approval by both the Senate and the House — not two-thirds of the Senate — is needed.
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The Senate trial cometh Phil Mattingly has an extremely informative piece on what to expect in a Senate trial.
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Senate leadership is currently negotiating over how many nominees will get a vote before the full Senate on Friday.
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During his time in Congress, Biden served on both the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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The Senate should defeat and destroy the healthcare travesty that Senate Republican leaders are pressuring Republican Senators to support.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, however, wants to hold off a potential Senate trial until after the Christmas recess.
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In the Senate, the bill must be introduced by the majority leader and referred to the Senate Budget Committee.
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Senate Democrats have refused to amend the bill and insist that additions could doom the measure in the Senate.
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By 2012, there were 73 public relations aides in Senate Leadership, roughly 45 percent of total Senate leadership staff.
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Schumer said he made his request for a Senate investigation in a letter to Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell.
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Once the House sends its continuing resolution over to the Senate, the Senate will prepare to move onto that.
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So why hold a hearing on the Senate bill that had bi-partisan support and passed the Senate unanimously?
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While Senate Judiciary chairman, Grassley nixed a Senate procedure that let senators block appellate nominees from their home state.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced Saturday that the Senate would delay consideration of the bill until after Sen.
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The Senate must also consider Mr. Trump's cabinet picks, and Senate Democrats are already trying to slow the process.
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Doug Jones (D-Ala.), the most endangered Senate Democrat, all supported it last year along with all Senate Republicans.
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But it was clear that fissures — both within the Senate, and between the Senate and the governor — had emerged.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee voted along party lines on Thursday to send Mr. Barr's nomination to the full Senate.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to vote on sending the nomination to the Senate floor on April 3.
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We don't know which immigration bill, or bills, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will bring to the Senate floor.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on the Senate floor on Thursday that he would support the emergency declaration.
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But the Constitution says the Senate shall advise – everyone got a vote on the Senate floor, even those we could have blocked by a filibuster, because one only got 003 votes, because it says the Senate shall advise and consent and not use Senate rules to avoid the intent of the Constitution.
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The Senate Parliamentarian provided guidance, released Friday by Senate Democrats, that provisions to effectively defund Planned Parenthood for a year and prevent tax credits from being used to buy insurance plans that cover abortion violate Senate budget reconciliation rules, meaning each would require 60 votes to be maintained on the Senate floor.
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This bill would have gone to the Senate, the Senate then passes something, and then the House would have one of three options: accept it as is, amend it and send it back to the Senate, or go to conference with the Senate to hash out what the final bill would look like.
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Senate Minority Whip Dick DurbinRichard (Dick) Joseph Durbin Senators push for deal on impeachment trial rules to avoid political brawl Democrats unifying against Joe Kennedy Senate bid Senate Democrats raise concerns about ISIS strategy after closed-door briefing MORE (Ill.), the No. 2 Senate Democrat, told The Hill he's also backing Markey.
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Television reporters had been told they could not conduct on-camera interviews in hallways, outside personal offices or outside committee rooms without permission from the Senate Rules Committee, the Senate Sergeant at Arms or the Senate Radio and TV Gallery, depending on location, according to another Senate official involved in the matter.
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Kelly LoefflerKelly LoefflerCollins Senate bid sets off game of musical chairs for GOP Doug Collins fires back at head of Senate GOP's campaign arm: 'Fake news' Senate GOP campaign arm rips Collins as selfish for entering Georgia race MORE (R-Ga.), whom McConnell is backing in a Senate primary race against Rep.
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Senate Majority Whip John CornynJohn CornynThe Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy O'Rourke says he will not 'in any scenario' run for Senate MORE (R-Texas) suggested that the bill could see a significant makeover in the Senate.
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Earlier Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer spoke on the Senate floor and used the women's team challenge Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to urge Congress to pass legislation aimed at ending gender-based discrimination generally.
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"Running for president is no excuse for violating the rules of the Senate or the confidentiality of the documents we are privy to," said Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn shortly after Booker proposed breaking Senate rules.
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While all 47 Senate Democrats support the anti-corruption bill, they've already run up against Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who has openly mocked the bill and vowed not to bring it to the Senate floor.
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Democrats are hoping to wrest control of both the House and Senate from the GOP in this fall's midterms where 20123 House seats and 35 Senate seats are up for grabs, including two Senate special elections.
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Senate passage of S. 2155 will set the stage for a Senate-House conference to reconcile the Senate bill with several narrower, but collectively more ambitious, House-passed bills that address numerous aspects of DFA reform.
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On Wednesday, 22 women senators, both Republicans and Democrats — every single sittin g female member of the Senate — wrote a letter to Senate leadership demanding the legislation go up for a vote on the Senate floor.
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But Senate Democrats insisted they would reject any of those modifications, and Hensarling relented after securing a promise from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a fellow Republican, that the Senate would consider some of his measures.
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Joe ManchinJoseph (Joe) ManchinWhite House, Senate reach deal on trillion stimulus package Some Democrats growing antsy as Senate talks drag on Senate fails to advance coronavirus stimulus bill for second time in two days MORE (W.
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Republicans silenced Elizabeth Warren in the Senate — so she took to Facebook Republicans silenced Elizabeth Warren in the Senate — so she took to Facebook Senate Republicans cited a rarely used point of order to silence Sen.
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From the House, where moderates signed on to a bill in hopes that the Senate would fix it, to the Senate, where GOP leadership is hoping to pass on the problems to a House-Senate conference.
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In addition to being the No. 2 Senate Republican, Cornyn also serves on the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, one of the key Senate committees with the power to subpoena and call people to testify.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats have pushed for the Senate to hear from four witnesses, including Bolton and Mulvaney, and to subpoena documents that the White House blocked from the House's impeachment inquiry.
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Bolton's statement is likely to put new pressures from Democrats on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to allow witnesses in the Senate trial, which Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and Democratic House leaders have pushed for.
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On Thursday afternoon, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York attempted to bring the Mueller report resolution to the Senate floor by asking for unanimous consent and calling for the Senate to pass the measure.
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