When Romney attacked him for being, gasp, a career politician he raised a laugh by pointing out Mitt himself would have been one if he had won his first senate race.
When my first Senate boss, Phil Hart, was in the last stages of his battle with cancer, Kennedy spent hours by his side offering humor, Irish tales and Senate banter almost endlessly, as Chris Dodd and many others have now done for him.
Shortly thereafter, first the Senate and ultimately the full Congress voted to ensure that such options were preserved.
It was in November of 2007 when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid first declared the Senate to be in pro-forma session for the two-week Thanksgiving break.
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That November brought the modern GOP its first majority of governorships in the South, its first majority of Senate seats in the South and its first majority of House seats in the South.
And, David, this is not the first time the Senate has debated such an amendment.
First, the Senate is not voting on any more legislation until the lame-duck session in mid-November.
Mr. Lautenberg emerged from a crowded field of Democratic candidates to first win a Senate seat in 1982.
The House will take this action on whatever the Senate can pass, but the Senate first must act.
Jeffrey Klein, leader of the Independent Democratic Conference that for the first time shares Senate majority control with Republicans.
He made sure this was the first bill the Senate passed this year.
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First a Republican Senate seat gets lost to an independent, Angus King, and now voters are set to allow for gay marriage.
Mr Smarth also denounced Mr Aristide's friends on the electoral council for rigging the first round of Senate elections that were held last April.
The oversight hearing is the first since the Senate Judiciary Committee last month passed a bill that could subject freight railroads to a bevy of anti-trust lawsuits.
Clinton, who is expected to formally announce her candidacy early next year, rejected the idea that she could not juggle the roles of first lady and Senate candidate.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will deliver his monetary policy report to Congress, first to the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday and then to the House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday.
Flanagan is the first openly gay Senate candidate of either major party, and the issue of gay civil unions has been a factor in this race as it has in other statewide contests.
"This nomination is too important to proceed without the Senate first knowing what happened during Brennan's tenures at the CIA and the White House, and whether all of his conduct was within the law, " Laura W. Murphy, director of the ACLU's Washington Legislative Office, said in a statement.
In 1797 when Thomas Jefferson was preparing to become president of the Senate, the first rules he wrote were rules of comity -- how the Senate could work together effectively.
" Jesse Nichols, a librarian on the Senate Finance Committee and the first black appointed to a clerical position in the Senate, recalled that "Senator Gore used to come in and out of the clear blue sky he would say, 'Jesse, bring me a Coca-Cola.
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He is still in his first term in the Senate and held no prior political post.
Coleman was first elected to the Senate in 2002 and has served one term.
The Republican Speaker of the House, John Boehner, has insisted that the Senate act first.
And that's something that I've always admired about Harry, ever since I first got to the Senate.
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Akaka, 82, was first elected to the Senate in 1990, after serving 14 years in the House.
Thompson was first elected to the Senate in 1994, winning the seat vacated by Vice President Al Gore.
They cite an analysis of the first draft of the Senate bill by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.
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Biden, 65, was first elected to the Senate at age 29 in 1972.
Kerry was first elected to the Senate in 1984 after serving as Massachusetts' lieutenant governor and as a state prosecutor.
Kennedy, 72, who was first elected to the Senate in 1962, was making his eighth address to a Democratic convention.
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