At a second Senate hearing, before the Armed Services Committee, lawmakers tussled over the role of the federal government in guarding against threats.
All that's changed in the last two weeks is that our party has gone from having the largest Senate majority in a generation to the second largest Senate majority in a generation.
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Second ranking Senate Republican Mitch McConnell says this session of Congress is not over.
But that doesn't mean for a second that Senate Republicans don't wish that Gonzales would simply go away.
Bowles, 59, who served as President Clinton's chief of staff during his second term, made his second run for the Senate this year.
And we're going to start debate next week in the Senate, the second part of that process already having gone through the House.
But such a move would be contingent upon the Senate passing a second piece of legislation to make major changes to the first bill.
Don Nickles, the Senate's second-ranking Republican, called a group of G.
Richard Durbin of Illinois, the Senate's second-ranking Democrat, denounced the proposal.
This amounts to a field day for opposition research teams: Few things are easier to twist in a 30-second campaign spot than a Senate voting record.
The debate over the nomination of a Texas Supreme Court judge to be a judge on the federal Court of Appeals enters a second day today in the Senate.
In New York you have Hillary Clinton winning re-nomination for a second term in the United States Senate.
The House narrowly passed its health care bill last month, and the Senate is in the second week of debate on its version.
Assuming that Mr Uribe is not simply bluffing, and that his supporters in the Senate do not have second thoughts, would he really win?
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As Mr. Taylor serves his prison term, his rival warlord, Prince Johnson, will serve a second term in Liberia's senate, protected by his country's refusal to try war perpetrators.
This past weekend, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid brought up the idea for the second time in favor of filibuster reform, and that was seconded by various Senate candidates who are running for office, as well as senators themselves.
Meanwhile, Gordon Smith, their second cousin, is already in the Senate representing Oregon.
"In some cases, they need to get more capital, " he told the Senate Banking Committee during the second day of his semi-annual testimony before Congress.
Trent Lott, who, four years ago, was ousted from the Senate majority role because of making racially insensitive comments, has been reborn as the number two job - second in command to Senator Mitch McConnell - of Republicans in the Senate.
Last week, for the second time this month, Republicans in the Senate blocked a jobs bill from moving forward.
Can Republicans match the modern average gain for the opposition party in the Senate in a president's second midterm?
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Obama, who's embraced immigration legislation as a top second-term priority, also praised the Senate bill Tuesday even though it is stricter in some areas than his own approach on immigration.
Last week, for the second time this month, Republicans in the Senate blocked a jobs bill from moving forward -- a bill that would have meant nearly 400, 000 teachers, firefighters, and first responders being back on the job.
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When, after a period of mounting tensions, a U.S. sentry fired on Filipino soldiers outside Manila in February, 1899, the second war erupted, just days before the Senate ratified a treaty with Spain securing American sovereignty over the islands in exchange for twenty million dollars.
This is the second time Ms. McMahon has won the Republican Senate nomination.
Projections also showed Beppe Grillo's Five-Star Movement winning 24.6% of the vote in the Senate, which would make it the second-largest party in Italy.
On Friday, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations holds its second recent hearing on offshore tax evasion, hauling in shopping mall magnate Peter Lowy for questioning.
And second, during his time in the United States Senate (which preceded his present tour at the Justice Department), Senator Ashcroft was among that chamber's staunchest advocates of privacy rights and civil liberties.
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