During Dulles's first two years in office, while Republicans ran the Senate, the Department was at the mercy of men who had thirsted for its blood since 1945.

During 32 BC, a third of the Senate and both consuls allied with Antony.

During regular sessions, the Emperor sat among the Senate body, speaking in turn.

During Hillary Clinton's campaign for election to the U. S. Senate, the couple's daughter Chelsea took over much of the First Lady's role.

During his term in the Senate, Schmitt sat at the chamber's Candy desk.

During the Reagan presidency, when Kemp was able to effect tax cutting, a leading United States Senate tax-cutting proponent was Democrat Bill Bradley, a former basketball star.

During this enquiry, the Senate of the University of Sydney put in a submission which highlighted ‘ the immediate need to establish a third university in the metropolitan area ’.

During the reforms of Sulla in 81 BC, the minimum age for a quaestorship was set at 30 for patricians and at 32 for plebeians, and election to the quaestorship gave automatic membership in the Senate.

During a Senate debate in 1917, as Senator Joseph L. Bristow cataloged a long list of what he felt the country needed, Marshall leaned over to one of his clerks and said, " What this country needs is more of this ; what this country needs is more of that.

During recesses of the Senate, the President may appoint officers, but their commissions expire at the conclusion of the Senate's next session.

During his limited time in office, Garfield managed to initiate reform of the Post Office Department's notorious " star route " rings and reassert the superiority of the office of the President over the U. S. Senate on the issue of executive appointments.

) During his successful 1896 U. S. Senate campaign, he raised a quarter million dollars within 48 hours.

During the following Polish elections the Communists won 65 percent of the seats in the Sejm, though the seats won were guaranteed and the Communists were unable to gain a majority, while 99 out of the 100 seats in the Senate freely contested were won by Solidarity-backed candidates.

During the twelve years he served in the Senate, he became the leader of the Democrats in that body.

During the last hours of the session, when the Senate was immersed in the rush of last minute business before its adjournment, Senator Wilson introduced the bill.

During the Vice President's absence, the president pro tempore is empowered to preside over Senate sessions but usually appoints another senator to do so.

During his 40 years in national politics, Webster served in the House of Representatives for 10 years ( representing New Hampshire ), in the Senate for 19 years ( representing Massachusetts ), and was appointed the Secretary of State under three presidents.

During the financial crisis of 2007 – 2010, a poster of a Hello Kitty pre-paid debit card expanded to roughly 1 meter in length was displayed on the floor of the US Senate by Senator Byron Dorgan as a demonstration of extreme methods used by credit companies to attract " children 10 to 14 years of age ".

During the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, several people holding offices in the line of succession ( among them Speaker Dennis Hastert and Senate President pro tempore Robert Byrd ) were taken to " secure locations " in order to guarantee that at least one officer in the line of succession would survive the attacks.

During his time in the Senate, he was chief author of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978, served as chairman of the Committee on Governmental Affairs from 1987 until 1995, sat on the Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees and the Special Committee on Aging.

During the Second World War, the colleges of the university ( with the exception of Birkbeck ) and their students left London for safer parts of the UK, while Senate House was used by the Ministry of Information, with its roof becoming an observation point for the Royal Observer Corps.

During her Senate confirmation hearings, Sonia Sotomayor revealed that she first became interested in the law while watching Perry Mason on television with her mother.

During World War II, when first elected to the Senate, Capehart supported efforts to compromise with the Japanese on terms of surrender in the Summer of 1945 when Senate Minority Leader Wallace H. White, Jr. stated that the war might end sooner if President Truman would state specifically in the upper chamber just what unconditional surrender meant for the Japanese.

During the McCarthy Era in 1947, when US Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin claimed that the federal government and other institutions were riddled with Communists, the US House began hearings about purported communist influence in Hollywood.

During the hearings, Landis admonished the parties, " Both sides must understand that any blows at the thing called baseball would be regarded by this court as a blow to a national institution ".

During the hearings, North admitted that he had lied to Congress, for which he was later charged among other things.

During hearings in the South regarding the Voting Rights Act, Washington asked questions that shed light on tactics used to prevent African Americans from voting ( among them, closing registration early, literacy tests, and gerrymandering ).

During the 1960s and 1970s psychosurgery became the subject of increasing public concern and debate, culminating in the US with congressional hearings.

During the hearings, Woods said the new network would not sell airtime to the American Federation of Labor.

During the Wen Ho Lee scandal, involving stolen nuclear secrets from Los Alamos National Laboratory, hearings were called in Congress regarding the Department of Energy's handling of the matter.

During 2004, the committee reviewed 730 submissions and conducted hearings in all state capitals.

During the day, people from all across the county flock in for court hearings and government affairs, but in the evening, the town is pretty much empty.

During the McCarthy Era, Losey was named during hearings of the HUAC for his supposed ties with the Communist Party.

During the Kefauver hearings, Costello became the star attraction, being billed as America's # 1 gangster and the de facto leader of New York's Tammany Hall.

During the J. P. Morgan hearings Senator Glass dismissed the Pecora Investigation as a “ circus .”“ Bored by Senatorial exhibitionism ” Glass had not attended the earlier National City hearings.

During Congressional hearings to consider the various Leach bills to repeal Sections 20 and 32, consumer and community development advocates warned against the concentration of “ economic power ” that would result from permitting “ financial conglomerates ” and argued that any repeal of Sections 20 and 32 should mandate greater consumer protections, particularly free or low cost consumer services, and greater community reinvestment requirements.

During Roberts ' confirmation hearings, Senators Joe Biden ( Delaware ), Orrin Hatch ( Utah ), and Roberts himself brought up Ginsburg's hearings several times as they argued over what questions she answered and what Roberts was expected to answer.

During his case hearings, Spaggiari devised an escape plan.

During US congressional hearings on the constitutionality of DOMA, on February 23, 2011, the Attorney General of the United States wrote to the Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives indicating it is a growing scientific consensus that sexual orientation is an immutable characteristic.

During his first year at the Lawyers Committee, Helton secured the release of some 2, 000 fugitives from Haiti held in Florida after convincing a federal judge that he would find volunteer lawyers to represent them at formal asylum hearings.

During the Army – McCarthy hearings in 1954, Eisenhower used the claim of executive privilege to forbid the " provision of any data about internal conversations, meetings, or written communication among staffers, with no exception to topics or people.

During the hearings, a photograph of Schine was introduced, and Joseph N. Welch, the Army's attorney in the hearings, accused Cohn of doctoring the image to show Schine alone with Army Secretary Robert Stevens.

During the Army – McCarthy hearings, Cohn denied having any " special interest " in Schine or being bound to him " closer than to the ordinary friend.