A funny thing happened on the way to the election - I got to the Senate first.
Pierre Salinger

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.
Will Rogers

Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.
Patricia Ireland

All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing.
Robert Welch

All of us who serve in the House of Representatives and the Senate pay into Social Security.
Virgil Goode

Americans simply ask for, not just Democrats in the House but also the Senate has asked the President for a clear plan as it relates to dealing with the issue of Iraq and our troops and making sure that we can bring families together in the very near future.
Kendrick Meek

Amin hid nothing. Everybody knew everything. Yet the American Senate only introduced a resolution breaking off trade with Amin three months before his overthrow.
Ryszard Kapuscinski

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
Will Rogers

And I am saying, how about the other two branches? And putting the pressure on our representatives in the Senate and the Congress, and the court system. They should be counter-acting this corruption, but they are sitting there silent.
Sibel Edmonds

And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to start its own public hearings.
Sibel Edmonds

And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee.
Stephen Breyer

Apparently there are some Democratic leaders in the Senate that are running for office who now believe in tax cuts.
Jeb Bush

As a Democrat in this Senate, I felt aggrieved by some things the other side has done. I have no doubt they feel aggrieved about some of the things we have done.
Mark Pryor

As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law.
Norman Lamm

As long as there are only 3 to 4 people on the floor, the country is in good hands. It's only when you have 50 to 60 in the Senate that you want to be concerned.
Robert J. Dole

At that point, which would be around February 2002, they came and they confiscated my computer, because, they said, they were suspecting that I was communicating with certain Senate members and taking this issue outside the Bureau.
Sibel Edmonds

But if I had committed a breach of privilege, it was the privilege of the Senate, and not of this House, which was violated. I was answerable there and not here.
Preston Brooks

Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority.
Robert Caro

First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.
Pat Roberts

For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee, and up until about 1923, something like that.
Fred Thompson