Obama has come out against both bills, which killed SOPA and puts pressure on senators come January 24th.
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He said senators "come and go, " but changing Senate rules would "devalue" a 200-year-old tradition.
Sotomayor predicted senators would come to see her as an ordinary person who has had some extraordinary opportunities.
McCain said he's been working with fellow Republican senators to come up with a plan that eliminates policy changes that have nothing to do with job creation.
Several Republican Senators have come out in support of ratification.
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Still, a Democratic leadership aide suggested the chances those senators could come up with something acceptable -- with the votes to pass the Senate and eventually the House -- are not very good.
As I said before, he has -- I think there has been an increase in the number of senators who have come out in support of him, not a decrease, since the hearing.
Obama has come under intense pressure from several leading senators to follow McChrystal's recommendation, a move vehemently opposed by many liberal Democrats.
The first key measure of how much the political ground has shifted could come as early as Tuesday, when senators consider an amendment from Sen.
As we have laid out -- for the last couple of months, we have seen a bipartisan Group of Eight senators working to trying to come together around a compromise to reform our broken immigration system.
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The financial disclosure forms House members and senators were already required to file only come out once a year, making it tough to track any relationship between legislative action and a stock trade.
Senators defenseman Sergei Gonchar had his 10-game point streak come to an end Monday.
Hatch said senators need three months to consider Sotomayor and that a vote should come in September, after the Senate's August break.
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Politicians these days, especially Senators Obama and Clinton, routinely bash the oil companies and call for more efforts to come up with cleaner alternative fuels.
That's why it is so important for me to open up these doors, to have you guys come from all over the country to sit in the same chairs that kings and queens and ambassadors and senators have sat in, right?
"We've come a long way in the past four years, and we cannot afford to retreat now, " Clinton told senators.
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