Two senators who opposed the bill heard the noise as they walked down the steps of the capitol building.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

The optimates, meaning "the best," tended to support the interests of the wealthy senators and the few wealthiest families.

贵族派，是指精英“,主张保护元老院议员的利益,以及少数富裕家庭。

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or people who want to work in State government, State Senators.

有人想去州政府，当州参议员，

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He was one of only twenty-three senators who voted in two thousand two against supporting the invasion of Iraq.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

Traditionally,the president does not fill federal jobs in a state until he discusses them with the senators from that state.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

Supporters in the senators' home states were told to write hundreds of letters demanding that Johnson be found guilty.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

Clay said he did not want to debate, but wished that the senators would think carefully about his proposals.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

Earlier this week, two American senators proposed legislation for three times as much non-military aid as Pakistan now receives.

VOA: special.2009.05.09

Voters also elected nine House members and two Senators from a new political organization -- the People's Party.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

But what was worse was the fact that it was caused by the votes of two southern senators.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

Throughout the south and middle-west, they succeeded in electing agricultural candidates as governors, state legislators,Senators, and members of the House of Representatives.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

Both parties -- the Whigs and the Democrats -- had the same number of senators on the committee.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

Some of those leaders, especially senators Henry Clay of Kentucky and Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, believed they could control the newly elected president.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

Many senators opposed it. They said taking control of the Dominican Republic would cost too much money.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

Alaska Senator Mark Begich is leading a group of other United States senators, organizations and businesses to try to stop the FDA approval process.

VOA: special.2010.10.05

In the final days before the vote, six of the seven remaining Republican senators let it be known that they would vote not guilty.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

Senators can threaten a bill with unlimited debate unless sixty senators vote to prevent it.

VOA: special.2010.01.23

Some Republican senators began criticizing it even before Wilson's ship reached the port of Boston.

VOA: special.2010.11.04

If two-thirds of the senators find the president guilty, he can be removed from office.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

News of the rebel attack caused some Senators to change their minds about the Philippines.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

Failure to put senators on the negotiating team,they say, cost him valuable support later on.

VOA: special.2010.11.04

And he said the necessary 2/3s of the senators would approve the statehood treaty.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

Last week the Senate voted final approval with the aid of three Republican senators.

VOA: special.2010.07.23

Some senators said there had not been such a crowd in the capitol building since the day Clay said goodbye to the Senate eight years earlier.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

He told the senators not to think of themselves as members of any court.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

He often worked with senators from the Republican Party to get laws passed.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

But in nineteen ten it was the Washington Senators against the Philadelphia Athletics.

VOA: special.2010.04.10

And not all the Republican senators would support the party on every issue.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

On the first charge, thirty-five senators voted that President Johnson was guilty.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

But I ask the honorable senators whether their duty will be done by simply limiting themselves to opposing any one or all of the resolutions I have offered."

VOA: special.2009.03.19