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The traditional role of the Senate has been to be the adult in the room.
It's a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it's true.
No one knows the Senate better than Joe Biden; he lived there for 35 years.
I never thought Oregon would elect to the U.S. Senate a Mormon, but it did.
It's not unusual for someone running for Senate in Illinois to come see me.
The frustration of the Senate is that it's slow. It looks like an aquarium.
The U.S. Senate - an old scow which doesn't move very fast, but never sinks.
The floor of the U.S. Senate isn't a place that usually sees a lot of drama.
I think there's bipartisan support in the Senate to pass a good reform bill.
Senator, we just don't use that kind of language on the floor of the Senate.
I'm no one's pet, and I intend to be an independent voice in the U.S. Senate.
Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
In 1947, the year Clinton was born, there were no women serving in the Senate.
A funny thing happened on the way to the election - I got to the Senate first.
I've said that we need to elect Democrats from the school board to the Senate.
Senator Wyden continues to be the Senate's truest champion of an open Internet.
In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
I promise to fight against any attempts to undermine Roe v. Wade in the Senate.
Serving in the United States Senate has been the greatest privilege of my life.
When I do my hiring in the United States Senate, I look at issues of diversity.
By all accounts, the senate race I ran in was a quality race in the wrong year.
Unlike Obama and the Senate Democrats, I respect the will of Wisconsin's voters.
I'm not running for the U.S. Senate because I think Lincoln Chafee is a bad man.
The Senate is where the issues are, and most people there are career politicians.
I've assembled a team with a broad variety of experiences to lead my Senate office.
I was entirely comfortable reaching across the Senate aisle to work with Democrats.
Maine farmers are critical to our state, and they deserve an advocate in the Senate.
What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator.
My husband is the first man to consistently be involved in the Senate Spouses group.
I will fight hard for my constituents in Congress as I have done in the state Senate.
When a member of the House moves over to the Senate, he raises the IQ of both bodies.
I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me.
The bottom line is, there have been a lot of nuts elected to the United States Senate.
I think everyone acknowledges Teddy is the person in the Senate who speaks for Ireland.
Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work.
The single biggest surprise about arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here.
I think dealing with the U.S. Senate is very different from dealing with the electorate.
He took pride in belonging to the world's most exclusive club: the United States Senate.
Every once in a while, the Senate seems to remember that it belongs to a coequal branch.
Prior to that I testified before the Senate subcommittee addressing mountaintop removal.
I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate.
The Appropriations Committee in the Senate is out of control, out of control on spending.
I may be leaving the Senate, but the next chapter in my public service is just beginning.
When you run for the U.S. Senate, it's a full game on. This is not for the faint of heart.
One of things I have always been open to is making policy in the Senate Commerce Committee.
Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.
The Senate should refuse to confirm nominees who do not take Congressional power seriously.
My job in the Senate is not just to give speeches and do interviews, it's to solve problems.
All of us who serve in the House of Representatives and the Senate pay into Social Security.
If we had known we were going to win control of the Senate, we'd have run better candidates.