In Congress, Republican Senator Sam Brownback is considering legislation that would expand the SEC's role in investigating foreign companies seeking to list in New York.
And we do that, the President does that in this dealings with Senator McConnell and Speaker Boehner and other leaders in Congress.
The principal activists in Congress are Senator William Proxmire (D-Wis.), Senator Lee Metcalf (D-Mont.) and Representative John Moss (D-Cal.).
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The conservative three-term senator, who has represented Idaho in Congress for more than a quarter-century, is up for re-election next year.
The BBC's Justin Webb in Washington says that Senator Kennedy's effort will get a far better hearing in Congress than it would have done when the Republicans were in charge but it faces significant hurdles.
We at the Center have been admirers of Senator Thompson for his entire service in the Congress, and for that matter his service on the silver screen, as well.
Talks are planned between Mr Cameron and defeated Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain and senior figures in the US Congress.
This should come easily to a man who, when he was a senator from New Jersey, won a reputation in Congress as someone who thought through every aspect of the policy he espoused.
Mr. ESQUIVEL: Well, it's been a lot of e-mails from my magazine in terms of election saying that they need to hear more about other candidates like when they're talking about experience, they say, why all the Americans are forgetting that they have two senators who have been a long time in Congress, it's Senator Joe Biden and Senator Christopher Dodd.
Senator Edward Kennedy said he would seek another vote in Congress before American troops went into action.
The usually industry-friendly leaders in Congress, Speaker Dennis Hastert and Senator Bill Frist, have asked the White House for an investigation into possible price gouging.
At the very least, this caper plays into the hands of CAIR as it promotes another piece of legislation, the End Racial Profiling Act (ERPA) of 2005 whose original co-sponsors were two prominent leftists in Congress, U.S. Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) and Rep. John Conyers (D-MI).
Senator BILL FRIST (Majority Leader): In the last Congress, the minority destroyed 214 years of Senate tradition, defied the clear intent of the Constitution and undermined the democratic will of the American people.
Important legislation to reform UNRWA has also come from U.S. Senator Mark Kirk but has not yet succeeded in passing through the Congress.
The Wisconsin senator observed that Congress could bring U.S. involvement in Iraq to a quick end if it so desired, simply by refusing to fund operations.
Craig's apology moved some of the same Republicans in Congress who had criticized him to say the senator should be remembered for his three decades of public service.
Despite the attorney-general's appointment of a respected ex-senator from Missouri, John Danforth, to investigate Waco, Republicans in Congress still want to conduct their own inquiry.
Lately, however, voters and Congress have veered off message, electing a Republican senator in Massachusetts and threatening to drive a stake through the health reform Mr Obama had put at the heart of his first term.
In Congress, a predatory-lending bill sponsored by Senator Paul Sarbanes would prohibit balloon payments, among other things, in which the bulk of a loan is left unpaid at maturity, often without the full understanding of the borrower who then cannot repay.
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Meanwhile, in Congress, the few remaining pragmatic Republican centrists, like Senator Richard Lugar, are being hunted down by tea-party activists.
Now we have a reverse situation, where at least some in Congress want to build a kinetic energy ASAT, as Senator Smith told us this morning.
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The money we taxpayers and consumers provide to support any and all energy industries does not belong to Senator Bingham, to Nancy Pelosi, or to anyone in the White House or Congress-on either side of the aisle.
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He has served in the Congress since 1995, first as a Representative and now as a Senator.
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Senator Enzi offered a similar proposal in a health insurance reform bill he sponsored in the last Congress.
One senator with a proposal that might conceivably bridge the gap between the White House and Democrats in Congress is Olympia Snowe, the Maine Republican.
The former Republican senator who was sworn in on 27 February after a bitter fight with his own party in Congress, said his main priority was to thank the troops currently deployed there.
Senator Feinstein told reporters she would introduce the legislation when the new Congress met for the first time in January.
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