During the election United States Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald was looking into the hiring practices of Governor Blagojevich.

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 Senate hearings in 1921, the commandant of the Marine Corps reported that, in the twenty months of active resistance, 2 250 Haitians had been killed.

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 next decade, Palestrina held positions similar to his Julian Chapel appointment at other chapels and churches in Rome, notably St John Lateran, ( 1555 – 1560 – a post previously held by Lassus ) and Sta Maria Maggiore ( 1561 – 1566 ).

During his short pontificate he played the part of a peacemaker ; he came to terms with the Emperor Frederick I in the vexing question of the appointment to the See of Magdeburg and closed the long quarrel, which had raged through four pontificates, about the appointment of William Fitzherbert ( commonly known as Saint William of York ) to the see of York by sending him the pallium in spite of the continued opposition of the powerful Cistercian order.

During the reign of Pope Innocent X ( 1644 – 55 ), who was hostile to the Barberini and their adherents, Rospigliosi continued his appointment as papal nuncio to the court of Spain.

During part of the time that she served as Mayor, she worked on a half-time appointment for UC Berkeley Undergraduate Admission and Relations with Schools and the Office of Admissions.

During this two or three year period, the provisional elder is granted sacramental ministry in their local appointment.

During the Phanariot epoch, however, any man could be a prince if appointed by the Sultan ( and rich enough to buy this appointment from the Grand Vizier ).

During the filming of one scene Cherrill asked Chaplin if she could leave early so that she could go to a hair appointment.

During an emergency, the Senate ( and only the Senate ) could authorize the appointment of a dictator.

During Wilfrid's absence Alhfrith seems to have led an unsuccessful revolt against his father, Oswiu, leaving a question mark over Wilfrid's appointment as bishop.

During the 1930s, his career as a conductor took off with his appointment with the Vic-Wells ballet ( later The Royal Ballet ), but his career as a composer stagnated.

During the Elizabethan wars martial law was commonly exercised, and the object of Loftus's appointment as judge of the Irish marshal court was to secure that its decrees should be " orderly and judiciously examined and determined ".

During the 1921 – 22 school year, Carothers held a one-year appointment as a chemistry instructor at the University of South Dakota.

During his time as Manitoba's premier, Schreyer was entitled to the accordant style of The Honourable, the same style he received again upon his appointment on June 3, 1984 into the Queen's Privy Council for Canada.

During this year Star Alliance also announced the appointment of their new CEO, Jaan Albrecht.

During his appointment at BBC Radio Oxford, Humphrey met his future wife, Mari Prichard ( whose father was Caradog Prichard, the Welsh novelist and poet ); they married in 1973.

During this appointment he tried to assist long-time friend and fellow marshal Ney by providing him a jury of four other Napoleonic Marshals, but was disgraced when Marshal Moncey refused to even sit in it.

) During his appointment, he focused attention on education and youth issues.

During his term as Governor-General, on 29 May 1970, Queen Elizabeth II appointed him a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order ( GCVO ), an appointment within her personal gift.

During his early appointment as the Huwu Chief, he attempted to execute Jiang Qin's civil clerk but was stopped by Sun Quan.

During the 2007 scandal involving Senator Larry Craig ( R-ID ), Simpson was openly considered for an appointment to the U. S. Senate in the event that Senator Craig resigned.

During his appointment, he and his cabinet operated at a level that was unprecedented in Egypt's modern history.

During the first millennium BC, when the holder of this office exercised her largest measure of influence, her position was an important appointment facilitating the transfer of power from one pharaoh to the next, when his daughter was adopted to fill it by the incumbent office holder.

During that appointment he became embroiled in even more controversy.

During this three-year appointment he not only consolidated his reputation as a practical, fair jurist but became a prominent supporter of public education.