In May 2011, McAleese was appointed as a Senator by the Taoiseach Enda Kenny.

The first panel featured Minister for Health Mary Harney, Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny, Labour spokesman on justice Pat Rabbitte, tax lawyer Suzanne Kelly, and Senator David Norris.

Succeeding the vaguely similar but not nearly as popular Senator Bloat from the earliest " Allen's Alley " routines, Senator Claghorn, portrayed by Allen's announcer, Kenny Delmar, was a blustery Southern politician whose home was usually the first at which Allen would knock.

Roberts ’ pressed for State legislation, which eventually was introduced by State Senator Bernie Kenny and signed into law ( P. L. 2006, c. 46 ) by Governor Jon Corzine, which ultimately allowed Hoboken to take over the hospital.

James Colin Ramsey Kenny ( born December 10, 1943 ) is a Canadian Senator.

A Navy veteran, Senator Kenny is a partner at the law firm of Florio & Kenny.

Speaking at the launch were independent Senator David Norris, writer Mary Kenny and Trinity College professor Robert Martin, all of whom stated their support for the Republic re-joining the Commonwealth.

Some of the guest stars were: Senator Ted Kennedy, Bob Hope, Anthony Quinn, Ilie Năstase, Martina Navratilova, Bo Derek, Angie Dickinson, George Hamilton, Kenny Rogers, Alan King, and Telly Savalas.

In truth, we can say that this broke the power of Senator Joseph McCarthy, who was finally exposed in full light to the American people.

she also went to Washington and appealed to Senator George William Norris of Nebraska, the Fighting Liberal, from whose office a sympathetic but cautious harrumphing was heard.

United States Senator Royal S. Copeland was wearing the robes of Santa Claus and a great white beard ; ;

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

More splenetic was Senator Edward Carmack of Tennessee, a Parker man.

The principal mauler, however, was Senator Joseph McCarthy.

In Senator Joseph McCarthy's phrase, it was the most unheard-of thing ever heard of.

The Republicans some weeks ago served notice through Senator Thruston B. Morton ( R ) of Kentucky, chairman of the Republican National Committee, that the Kennedy administration would be held responsible if the outcome in Laos was a coalition government susceptible of Communist domination.

One factor was the statement of Senator J. W. Fulbright ( D ) of Arkansas, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

The Senator was shocked by stoppages over allegedly trivial disputes that delayed our missile program.

Paradoxically, the same week in which Senator McClellan was attempting to extend the anti-trust act to labor in transportation, the Civil Aeronautics Board was assuring the airlines that if they met in concert to eliminate many costly features of air travel, the action would not be deemed a violation of the anti-trust act.

but, in Senator Gore's words, it was `` not a very encouraging '' situation that would confront John F. Kennedy on Inauguration Day.

A year ago today, when the Democrats were fretting and frolicking in Los Angeles and John F. Kennedy was still only an able and ambitious Senator who yearned for the power and responsibility of the Presidency, Theodore H. White had already compiled masses of notes about the Presidential campaign of 1960.

there was much to grok, loose ends to puzzle over and fit into his growing -- all that he had seen and heard and been at the Archangel Foster Tabernacle ( not just cusp when he and Digby had come face to face alone ) why Bishop Senator Boone made him warily uneasy, how Miss Dawn Ardent tasted like a water brother when she was not, the smell of goodness he had incompletely grokked in the jumping up and down and wailing --

Seward's initial reaction to the Trent affair, however, was too bellicose, so Lincoln also turned to Senator Charles Sumner, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and an expert in British diplomacy.

When Tennessee seceded from the Union in 1861, Johnson was a Democratic U. S. Senator from Tennessee and was dedicated to Jacksonian Democracy, nationalism and limited government.

His failure to make the National Union brand a genuine party made Johnson an independent during his presidency, though he was supported by Democrats and later rejoined the party briefly as a Democratic Senator from Tennessee in 1875 until his death that year.

When Tennessee seceded, though the vote did not win a majority in East Tennessee, Johnson was forced to flee from the state with armed security ; he was in fact the only Senator from the seceded states to continue participation in Congress.

Senator Lyman Trumbull of Illinois, leader of the moderate Republicans and Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, was anxious to reach a compromise with the President.

* 1926 – Keith Davey was a Canadian politician, Senator, and campaign organizer ( d. 2011 )

Aquino, a former Senator and a leading figure of the political opposition, was assassinated in 1983 at the Manila International Airport ( now the Ninoy Aquino International Airport ) upon returning home from exile.

Retired Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General John Shalikashvili and former Senator and Secretary of Defense William Cohen opposed the policy in January 2007: " I now believe that if gay men and lesbians served openly in the United States military, they would not undermine the efficacy of the armed forces " Shalikashvili wrote.

Notable graduates include former U. S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell, U. S. Senator John McCain, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe Wesley Clark, former Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Peter Pace and Hugh Shelton, former National Security Advisor and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe James L. Jones, former U. S Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki, former U. S. Chief of Naval Operations Elmo Zumwalt, retired Air Force General Arnold W. Braswell, U. S. Ambassador to Russia John Beyrle, World War II submarine officer and best-selling novelist Edward L. Beach, Jr., former military aide to President John F. Kennedy Godfrey McHugh, murdered U. S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens, and U. S. Air Force Chief of Staff Norton A. Schwartz.

However, concerning children born in the United States to parents who are not U. S. citizens ( and not foreign diplomats ), three Senators, including Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lyman Trumbull, the author of the Civil Rights Act, as well as President Andrew Johnson, asserted that both the Civil Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment would confer citizenship on them at birth, and no Senator offered a contrary opinion.

The amendment proposal finally accepted was Senate Joint Resolution No. 40, introduced by Senator Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island, the Senate majority leader and Finance Committee Chairman.

One of his childhood friends was J. William Fulbright, the future United States Senator from Arkansas and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Senator Nelson W. Aldrich ( R-RI ) was largely responsible for the Aldrich-Vreeland Currency Law, and he became the Chairman of the National Monetary commission.

At the time, however, the Chairman of that Committee, Senator Paul Sarbanes ( D-MD ), was preparing his own proposal, Senate Bill 2673.

Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver ( the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments ), a long-time advocate for addressing the disability question, spearheaded the effort until he died of a heart attack on August 10, 1963.

On January 6, 1965, Senator Birch Bayh ( Kefauver's successor as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments ) proposed in the Senate and Representative Emanuel Celler ( Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee ) proposed in the House of Representatives what would become the Twenty-fifth Amendment.

* Sam Ervin, ( 1896 – 1985 ), U. S. Senator from 1954 to 1975 ; famed Chairman of the Senate Watergate Committee in 1973.

* Dr. Maurice Hayes, the former Northern Ireland Ombudsman, Chairman of the Ireland Funds and Taoiseach-appointed Senator in Seanad Éireann, was born and still lives in Downpatrick.

The program was then authorized by JCS Chairman John Vessey, and sanctioned by the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence ( SSCI ), with the sponsorship of Senator Jesse Helms ( R-NC ) and Senator Goldwater ( R-AZ ).

* C. Wesley Roberts — Chairman of the Republican Party, father of U. S. Senator Pat Roberts.

Town Alderman, 1904, Louisiana State Senator 1916-1920, District Attorney 1920-1924, Chairman of the Louisiana State Democratic Central Committee, four-time delegate to the Democratic National Convention 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, Democratic National Convention Rules Committee Member 1945, Louisiana Public Service Commissioner 1928-1936 ( PSC chairman 1932-1936 ), Federal Prosecutor for the Western District of Louisiana 1937-1941, Chairman of the Ouachita Valley Farmers Association, Law partner of Huey Long and Earl Long and Robert O ' Neal.

* Larry Pressler, United States Senator for South Dakota and Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation

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.

Both bills were sponsored by Democratic Senator Carter Glass of Lynchburg, Virginia, a former Secretary of the Treasury, and Democratic Congressman Henry B. Steagall of Alabama, Chairman of the House Committee on Banking and Currency.

Senator William Proxmire ( D-WI ), the new Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, took up this topic in 1987.

After the Proxmire Financial Modernization Act of 1988 failed to become law, Senator Proxmire and a group of senior House Banking Committee members ( including future Committee Ranking Member John LaFalce ( D-NY ) and future Committee Chairman Barney Frank ( D-MA )) wrote the Federal Reserve Board recommending it expand the underwriting powers of Section 20 affiliates.

Politicians that have graduated from Penn Law include Joseph Sill Clark ( Mayor of Philadelphia, and U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania ), Charles Robert Miller ( Governor of Delaware ), Charles A. Heimbold, Jr. ( former Chairman CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and U. S. Ambassador to Sweden ), Raul Roco ( former presidential candidate and Secretary of Education in the Philippines ), Oscar Goodman ( Mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada ), Harry Arista Mackey ( Mayor of Philadelphia ), Martin J. Silverstein ( U. S. Ambassador to Uruguay ) and Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky ( member of the U. S. House of Representatives and women's rights activist ).

As Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator Graham opposed the War in Iraq for fear it would divert U. S. attention from the fight in Afghanistan.