Synonym: Senate, U.S. Senate, US Senate, United States Senate. Similar words: senator, donate, resonate, dominate, eliminate, laminated, coordinate, fortunately. Meaning: ['senət] n. 1. assembly possessing high legislative powers 2. the upper house of the United States Congress.
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151) The AFL-CIO waged a million-dollar television campaign against the measure, and threatened to target House and Senate lawmakers who supported it.
152) The 35-year veteran of Capitol Hill can not brag that he knows how to pass bills through the Senate.
153) The Senate would even have required citizen participation in the execution of the program.
154) After speaking on the Senate floor in the morning, he stepped on the chartered campaign plane in a dark suit.
155) He will need to sell his candidacy and meet the Democratic air attack with regularly televised speeches from the Senate floor.
156) The Senate had already approved the treaty on Sept. 17 by 176 votes to 16 with one abstention.
157) The Senate gave President Clinton a victory Thursday when lawmakers sustained his veto of a bill banning certain late-term abortions.
158) The House and Senate voted overwhelmingly last month to repeal the tax break only after it had become public.
159) The Senate has passed a similar bill[sentencedict.com], which will be combined with the House version.
160) We have an attorney general who was a leading opponent of gun control in the Senate.
161) Occasionally, the Senate rejects a nominee.
162) His unsuccessful senate run was his last hurrah.
163) In nearly 50 years in the Senate, Kennedy, a liberal Democrat, served alongside 10 presidents, his brother John Fitzgerald Kennedy among them.
164) Theoretically, the president could appoint anyone reading this book to a federal judgeship as long as the Senate concurs.
165) The elder Mr. Paul, 74, dispensed behind-the-scenes advice during his son's bid for the Senate seat, in which he upset the favorite, Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson.
166) The new president's appointee for Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Michele Flournoy, was asked about that at her Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday.
167) Ms. Merkel is the first German leader to speak before a joint meeting of Congress, and the first to address the House or Senate since Konrad Adenauer in 1957.
168) Both Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D) of Nevada and Sen. Patty Murray (D) of Washington face close races that are shaping up as a referendum on earmarking.
169) We had a lot of those folks back then and Johnson promised them and all the rest of us that when he got to the Senate there would be no more Commie shoes invading America.
170) But after helping run her husband's first State Senate campaign in 1996, Michelle Obama largely withdrew from politics for years, fully re-engaging only for the presidential campaign.
171) In the summer of eighteen fifty-eight, two candidates campaigned across the state of Illinois for a seat in the United States Senate. That seat belonged to Stephen Douglas from the Democratic Party.
172) I remember heading toward the Senate floor one day in early March and being stopped briefly by a dark-haired young man.
173) And yet there are political forces in the Senate unwilling to pass such legislation, instead trying to force the House to accept the Senate's watered-down bill.
174) John McCain has served his country longer in a POW camp than his opponent has served in the United States Senate.''
175) This tribune was appointed by the Emperor or the Senate.
176) Now, he'll go down in history as the guy who lost two entirely winnable Senate races in Virginia.
177) He submitted a record deficit budget for 2012 that no one in the Senate—Democrats included—could go on the record voting for.
178) Kaine said Democrats can expect some loses on Tuesday, but not enough to loose majority control of either the House or the Senate.
179) OnFebruary 24th the Senate voted to begin debate ona bill enfranchise Washingtonians.
180) The House and the Democratic-controlled Senate must pass a joint resolution to assemble Congress for Obama's presentation.
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