In February,Senator Lamar Alexander warned higher education leaders that they risk rejection unless they lower the cost of attending college.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

Buchanan's chief opponent on the statehood bill was a member of his own Democratic Party, Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

Pakistan denies that. And Senator John Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,says: "These are not new allegations."

VOA: special.2010.07.31

This was because of efforts by Patrick Leahy, a senator who has represented Vermont for more than 30 years.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

During the struggle over the bank bills, the Whigs did not forget the other parts of Senator Clay's legislative program.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

Senator John C.Calhoun of South Carolina said the committee should write a declaration explaining the position of the South.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

Two business leaders, Horace Moses and Theodore Vail, joined with Senator Murray Crane of Massachusetts to start the group.

VOA: special.2009.11.27

The legislation was first proposed in two thousand seven by Joe Biden, then a senator, now the vice president.

VOA: special.2009.10.24

So,Senator Nelson created an independent nonprofit group called Environmental Teach-In,Inc to help organize what would become an environmental revolution.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

The vote was delayed in part because of the death of longtime Senator Robert Byrd, a Democrat from West Virginia.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

Senator Nelson did not want the campaign to be about the changes and actions he wanted for the environment.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

As a congressman and a senator, he had voted against every attempt to give more power to the federal government.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

In September of nineteen sixty-nine Senator Nelson announced his aim to create a national version of an environmental teach-in.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

Senator Joe Lieberman says the jury's decision makes it highly unlikely there will be many more civilian trials of Guantanamo detainees.

VOA: special.2010.11.20

John Glenn, the former astronaut who was then a senator from Ohio, put it this way: "I know the Great Lakes.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

Republican Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee said cutting health care costs step by step is better than the Democrats' plan.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

Senator Lodge continued. "A literacy test will bear very lightly, if at all, upon English-speaking immigrants or Germans,Scandinavians and French.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

One newspaper in Calhoun's state of South Carolina said: "The senator's death is best for the country and his own honor.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

One senator said the administration should not have been called the Pierce administration, because Pierce did not lead it.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

Then a senator from Delaware agreed to be chairman of a special committee on the question of slavery in the new territories.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

On Wednesday, Democratic Senator Charles Schumer of New York suggested that the price could reach 850 billion dollars.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

He was thrown from a taxi. After recovering, he moved to the state of Kansas, and met United States Senator Sam Brownback.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

After the debate, she said that Senator Morse's actions were the result of him being "kicked in the head by a horse."

VOA: special.2010.08.08

Senator Kennedy worked closely with President George W.Bush to pass an important education bill in two thousand one.

VOA: special.2009.09.13