Unfortunately, actions taken by the Senate ensured that relief from the death tax would only be temporary and that it would come back to life at the full rate again in 2011.
Tonight, you are hearing from the Democratic women of the Senate... We stand together on so many issues: economic prosperity, quality education for all, protecting a woman's right to choose.
In the United States Senate, we cannot do great things without reaching across the aisle and working together - and I look forward to the challenges ahead.
John Danforth, I thought, was a great senator and did a great job with the United Nations. I think he's a good man.
In 1998, I was screening 'Good Will Hunting' at Camp David. And I was saying, 'Nice to meet you, Mr. President. Nice to meet you, Mrs. Clinton.' Madeleine Albright, Sandy Berger, Senator Daschle. It was an extraordinary day.
Members of the Senate and House, if they want to send troops into war, should be forced to send a family member. That would really make everyone stop and go, 'Ohhh-kaaay.'
Orrin Hatch is old enough to be my father, and I don't want my father running the United States Senate Finance Committee.
Senators say they fear the N.R.A. and the gun lobby. But I think that fear must be nothing compared to the fear the first graders in Sandy Hook Elementary School felt as their lives ended in a hail of bullets.
The joke I always make is I'm either running for reelection, running for Senate, running for governor, or running for my life. The latter is also a viable possibility.
I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.
It's tempting, because as one senator said to me, 'We know if we invite baseball down, we'll draw a crowd'.
If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.
Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.
Well, first, if I am fortunate enough to be elected to the U.S. Senate, it won't be a party that will have elected me. It will be the people of California.
I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
The NRA grades senators and representatives based on their votes on gun issues - and even on issues that have little-to-nothing to do with guns.
Economic conservatives like immigration reform, and in fact, many of them supported the bill that John McCain and I put together in the Senate.
People in Nevada know me from the street to the ring to the Senate chambers. I've never had to prove my manhood to anyone.
Today I am announcing my support for Senator Barack Obama for President of the United States of America.
You need the House, you need the Senate and you need the administration. And absent one of them, you're not going to get a heck of a lot done.
I'm used to being cut out of the conference meetings, but now they are cutting us out even before the bill's are written or either the House or Senate Acts.
