During the 1992 election, Bush and Quayle were challenged in their bid for reelection by the Democratic ticket of Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton and Tennessee Senator Al Gore, as well as the independent ticket of Texas businessman Ross Perot and retired Admiral James Stockdale.

The United States presidential election of 1996 was a contest between the Democratic national ticket of President Bill Clinton from Arkansas and Vice President Al Gore from Tennessee and the Republican national ticket of former Senator Bob Dole of Kansas for President and former Housing Secretary Jack Kemp from New York for Vice President.

* Senator Al D ' Amato of New York

* August 14 – August 17 – The Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles nominates U. S. Vice President Al Gore for President and Senator Joe Lieberman for Vice President.

** Al Franken, United States Senator from Minnesota

In addition, Senator Al Gore refused to seek the nomination due to the fact his son was struck by a car and was undergoing extensive surgery as well as physical therapy.

Clinton chose U. S. Senator Al Gore ( D-Tennessee ) to be his running mate on July 9, 1992.

On July 9, 1992, Clinton chose Tennessee Senator and former 1988 Presidential candidate Al Gore to be his running mate.

The same went for Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut in 2000 after Al Gore lost to George W. Bush.

She was arrested on the first day of US Senate hearings for the confirmation to the Supreme Court of the United States of Sonia Sotomayor after she and another protester started yelling during the opening statement of Senator Al Franken ( D-Minn .).

* Comedian, commentator, and Senator Al Franken briefly lived in Albert Lea where he attended Hawthorne Elementary.

It is the birthplace or childhood home of movie directors Joel and Ethan Coen, musician Peter Himmelman, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, Senator Al Franken, songwriter Dan Israel, guitarist Sharon Isbin, writer Pete Hautman, football coach Marc Trestman, and American film director Joe Nussbaum.

* Al D ' Amato-United States Senator from New York from 1981 to 1999 lived in Island Park.

It is the county seat of Smith County, and perhaps best known as the hometown of former Vice President Al Gore, and his father, Senator Albert Gore, Sr.

* Senator Al Franken and Tom Davis's One More Saturday Night is set in St.

Northfield is served by Minnesota State Senator Al DeKruif ( GOP ) in District 25 and State Representative Kelby Woodard ( GOP ) in District 25B.

Senator Al Franken was a young lighting apprentice brought in by Sid Strong.

The committee was founded by four women: Tipper Gore, wife of Senator and later Vice President Al Gore ; Susan Baker, wife of Treasury Secretary James Baker ; Pam Howar, wife of Washington realtor Raymond Howar ; and Sally Nevius, wife of former Washington City Council Chairman John Nevius.

U. S. Senator Al D ' Amato said the Ferguson case demonstrated the need for capital punishment in New York because " that is the only fitting punishment for this cold-blooded killer ".

Among the Young Global Leaders are: Shai Agassi, Bandar bin Khalid al Faisal, Anousheh Ansari, Maria Consuelo Araujo, Lera Auerbach, Fatmir Besimi, Ian Bremmer, Sergey Brin, Tyler Brûlé, Patrick Chappatte, Olafur Eliasson, Roger Federer, Jens Martin Skibsted, Rahul Gandhi, Kenneth Griffin, Kelly Chen, Scott J. Freidheim, Crown Prince Haakon of Norway, Abdulsalam Haykal, Drue Kataoka, Silvana Koch-Mehrin, Irshad Manji, Princess Mathilde of Belgium, Greg McKeown ( author ), Aditya Mittal, Euvin Naidoo, Gavin Newsom, Mohnish Pabrai, Larry Page, Lewis Gordon Pugh, Senator Mar Roxas of the Philippines, Christopher Schläffer, Anoushka Shankar, Aaron McCormack, Premal Shah, Peter Thiel, John Mihaljevic, Jimmy Wales, Adrian David Cheok, Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum, Stephan Morais, Kimmie Weeks and Niklas Zennström.

Other entertainers who have traveled to the Middle East to perform include Al Franken ( who made six USO tours in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan before being elected a United States Senator from Minnesota ), Craig Ferguson, Gary Sinise, Zac Brown, Jessica Simpson, Carrie Underwood, Drowning Pool, Toby Keith,

* April 1995: On the Don Imus radio show, US Senator Al D ' Amato put on a comical Asian accent and criticized judge Lance Ito for personal interest in allowing television cameras in the O. J. Simpson murder trial.

Koch endorsed Tennessee Senator Al Gore, who had run well in his native south, but hadn't won 20 % in a northern state.

The phrase " Yellow Dog Democrat " is thought to have achieved popularity during the 1928 Presidential race between the Democratic Al Smith and Republican candidate Herbert Hoover, when Senator J. Thomas Heflin ( D-Alabama ) crossed party lines to support Hoover.

Alan Stuart " Al " Franken ( born May 21, 1951 ) is the junior United States Senator from Minnesota.

Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them is a satirical book on American politics by comedian, political commentator and now Senator Al Franken, published in 2003 by Dutton, a subsidiary in the Penguin Group.

For the 2008 senate elections, incumbent Republican Senator Norm Coleman was defeated by Democratic-Farmer-Labor candidate Al Franken by 312 votes out of over 2. 5 million cast after a long series of dramatic and contentious re-counts.

Franken is a comedian, satirist and now United States Senator who has written several books, including the 2003 Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.

Later, after Franken made a bid for a United States Senate seat that ended in success but also in controversy-he would not be officially declared the winner, and therefore under Minnesota law could not be seated, until a full eight months after the election itself-he would be dubbed " Senator Stuart Smalley " by critics and fans alike.

She criticized Democrats during the 2008 general election campaign, particularly presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama and Minnesota U. S. senatorial candidate ( and fellow SNL alumnus ) Al Franken.

For example, in the 2008 Minnesota senate election, challenger Al Franken accused Senator Norm Coleman of omitting 1. 1 seconds of the required visual of the candidate, a mistake that could potentially double the advertising rates and costs millions to Coleman's campaign.

After the 2010 U. S. midterm elections, Senator Al Franken invited the members of the Minnesota congressional delegation to a friendly hotdish-making competition, to come together in celebration of the state before the beginning of the legislative session.

The Inside Story of the Making and Unmaking of the Franken Presidency is a satirical novel by comedian ( and future United States Senator ) Al Franken, detailing his unlikely candidacy to become the President of the United States in the 2000 Presidential Election.

In the winter of 2005-2006, U. S. Senator Al Franken, a former St. Louis Park, Minnesota resident, moved his radio show from New York City to downtown Minneapolis, originating his show from studios in the Foshay Tower.

Neither has Congressman Martin nor Senator McClellan been heard from on the matter ; ;

He is married to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has served as the United States Secretary of State since 2009 and was a Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009.

In the three-part episode " Foresight ," Magneto has Mystique pose as Senator Kelly and unleash the Sentinels on Genosha.

In spite of Dunn's skepticism, this version has been accepted by Evan Bayh, who has served as Indiana governor and senator, and by Senator Vance Hartke, who introduced this story into the Congressional Record ( 1975 ), according to Graf.

However, the elite Delta Force and other special operations units have fielded the HK416 in combat, and Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn has called for a " free and open competition " to determine whether the army should buy the HK416 or continue to purchase more M4 carbines.

The SEC is focusing resources on investigating insider trading by hedge funds, though a statement by SEC Enforcement Director Robert Khuzami put some of its impact in question and Senator Chuck Grassley has asked for an explanation of Khuzami's remarks.

* 1954 – McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, " You've done enough.

The play opens with Roderigo, a rich and dissolute gentleman, complaining to Iago, a high-ranking soldier, that Iago has not told him about the secret marriage between Desdemona, the daughter of a Senator named Brabantio, and Othello, a Moorish general in the Venetian army.

This vision greatly influenced Senator J. William Fulbright in the goal of the Fulbright fellowships to promote international understanding and peace, and has guided many other international fellowship programs.

On 15 July 2009, Senator Jim Webb of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee declared that only the " United States has both the stature and the national power to confront the obvious imbalance of power that China brings " to situations such as the claims to the Spratly and Paracel islands.

" This decision came under attack by Family Voice Australia ( formerly the Festival of Light Australia ), the Australian Christian Lobby and Liberal Party of Australia Senator Julian McGauran, who tried to have the lifted ban overturned, but the Board refused, stating " The film has aged plus there is bonus material that clearly shows it is fiction.

Senator Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband and Communications, has stated to Telstra that the company can either " break itself up or ( the government ) will do it for them ".

However, it has yet to reach a vote by Senate as a hold has been placed on the bill by Senator Tom Coburn ( R-OK ).

** In Omaha, Nebraska, in the only vice presidential debate of the 1988 U. S. presidential election, the Republican vice presidential nominee, Senator Dan Quayle of Indiana, insists he has as much experience in government as John F. Kennedy did when he sought the presidency in 1960.

* June 9 – McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy, during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army, saying, ' Have you, at long last, no decency?

Since 2001, the honorary title of president pro tempore emeritus has been given to a Senator of the minority party who has previously served as president pro tempore.

For example, the region had never sent a Democrat to Congress until 2009, and has not sent a Democrat to Albany as a Senator or Assemblyperson since the 1960s.

One biographer suggests he was " the greatest intelligence gatherer Washington has ever known ", discovering exactly where every Senator stood, his philosophy and prejudices, his strengths and weaknesses, and what it took to break him.

Senator Lowell Murray wrote in 2003: " The Crown has become irrelevant to most Canadian's understanding of our system of Government ," which he attributed to the " fault of successive generations of politicians, of an educational system that has never given the institution due study, and of past vice-regal incumbents themselves.

Senator Robert Menendez ( D-NJ ) introduced the amendment symbolically at the end of the 111th Congress and has supported it in the 112th Congress.