C. area, as there was a team there in the late 1800s and early 1900s called the Washington Senators.
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The Rangers have never drawn 3 million in their 50 year franchise history that includes a stint as the Washington Senators.
Notes: Miller had a major-league best 1.39 ERA his first eight career starts, counting one in 2012, bettering Milo Candini's 1.09 ERA in 1943 for the Washington Senators.
Walter Johnson had won both of these awards while pitching for the Washington Senators (1913, 1924) and Dazzy Vance of the Brooklyn Robins had won the League Award in 1924.
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By that measure, Clemens ranked No. 2 on the all-time list, just behind the great Walter "Big Train" Johnson, who won 417 games for the Washington Senators from 1907 to 1927.
Boston started a season by scoring seven or more runs in consecutive road games for the first time since 1919 when they beat the Yankees 10-0 at the Polo Grounds and defeated the Washington Senators 8-0 at Griffith Stadium.
Also here in Washington, two key senators plan to unveil a bill to overhaul the nation's immigration system.
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Brownback is now one of the most conservative senators in Washington.
In theory, if just two senators in Washington change their minds, there will be enough votes in the country's legislatures to amend the constitution for only the 28th time in two centuries.
And over the last few weeks, Senators here in Washington have listened and taken some big steps forward.
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The magazine Portfolio reports that several prominent Washington figures, including two senators, got favorable treatment from mortgage giant Countrywide Financial.
And yet, there are already some senators back in Washington floating the idea that they might use obscure procedural stunts to prevent or delay any of these votes on reform.
While senators are in Washington, their days are scheduled in fifteen-minute intervals: staff meetings, interviews, visits from lobbyists and home-state groups, caucus lunches, committee hearings, briefing books, floor votes, fund-raisers.
Eschewing better-known Washington types, such as Senators John Kerry, Joe Lieberman and John Edwards, and Congressman Dick Gephardt, keen activists have flocked to the standard of the fiery former governor of Vermont, the only candidate to condemn the Iraq war unambiguously.
The rallies came two weeks after a bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation in Washington that could overhaul US immigration rules.
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Washington (CNN) -- Senators are a lot like college students.
Its stock has dropped 13% since the SEC filed its lawsuit. (The stock bumped up the day Goldman Sachs execs got grilled in Washington so it seems U.S. senators did not contribute to this decrease.) The Wall Street Journal reports that Goldman employees have been told to keep a low profile and not be seen having too good a time in public.
Passage was nearly delayed again Monday by a winter storm in the Northeast, leaving aides worried that not enough senators would be able to travel to Washington in time for the vote.
Senators are high-profile politicians with Washington smarts.
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On the return trip to Washington, he brought back 12 of the victims' family members, who have been meeting with senators.
Lobbying firms in Washington are said to be engaged in frenetic activity on behalf of private insurers, encouraging congressmen and senators to resist radical reform.
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The hold, for example, was a courtesy extended to senators in the days of horse travel, when they needed time to get back to Washington and read a bill or question an appointee before casting their vote.
Indeed, when, after 33 years without a big-league baseball team, Washington was awarded one for the 2005 season, the owners, probably wisely, went with Nationals, not Senators, for a name.
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