Sandoval was unanimously confirmed by the U. S. Senate on October 24, 2005, by a vote of 89-0 ( with 11 Senators not voting ).

Qasım-Jomart Kemelulı Toqayev () or Kassym-Zhomart Kemelevich Tokaev ()-born on 17 May 1953-has served as the Chairman of the Senate of Kazakhstan since Senators unanimously elected him on 11 January 2007.

A resolution on rules and procedure for the trial was adopted unanimously on the following day ; however, Senators tabled the question of whether to call witnesses in the trial.

It passed the Senate on Sunday afternoon unanimously, 3-0, with 97 of 100 Senators not present.

In 2005 over 50 reforms were approved, which eliminated some of the remaining undemocratic areas of the text, such as the existence of non-elected Senators ( appointed senators, or senators for life ) and the inability of the President to remove the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces.

Nevertheless, all Australian Senators and Members of the House of Representatives continued to swear " to be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty " before taking their seats in parliament ; as a part of the constitution, any changes to this oath could only be approved by a referendum.

The Senate does not originate most legislation ( although a small fraction of government bills are introduced in the Senate and Senators may introduce private members ' bills in the same way as MPs ) but acts as a chamber of revision almost always passing legislation approved by the House of Commons, made up of Members of Parliament ( MPs ) who are elected.

Truman said the leading Democrats in Congress approved, but they warned him, " it would defeat Democratic Senators and Congressmen in the Bible Belt.

The petition was approved at the Upper House through the sponsorship of Senators Vicente Sotto III and Juan Flavier.

In addition, any changes to clauses of the constitution guaranteeing indigenous Fijian ownership and control of most of the land must be approved by 9 of the 14 Senators chosen by the Great Council of Chiefs, as well as by a majority in the Senate as a whole.

All student clubs and organizations must be approved by the Undergraduate Student Association and its Senators.

The change was introduced by Representatives Fred Upton ( R-MI ) and Edward Markey ( D-MA ) and added to the Energy Policy Act of 2005 ; the House had originally approved a motion that would have extended DST even farther from the first Sunday in March to the last Sunday in November, but Senators Jeff Bingaman ( D-NM ) and Pete Domenici ( R-NM ) agreed to scale back the proposal in conference committee due to complaints from farmers and the airline industry.

Such consolidation was not universally approved, as it consolidated more and more land into fewer and fewer hands, mainly Senators and the Roman emperor.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved his nomination with only Republican and conservative Senators Jesse Helms and John Ashcroft opposed.

In March 2005, Cohen was one of three Tennessee Senators to vote against the Tennessee Marriage Protection Amendment, which Tennessee voters approved via a referendum in November 2006.

The Senate first approved the bill ( S. 686 CPS ) on Palm Sunday, March 20, on a 3-0 voice vote of Senators Bill Frist ( R-TN ), Rick Santorum ( R-PA ), and Mel Martinez ( R-FL ).

After having faced opposition from Republican Senators such as Sam Brownback, John McCain, and Lindsey Graham, Hill was approved on April 20 to be the U. S. Ambassador to Iraq by the Senate with 73 votes for, and 23 against.

* Ottawa Senators Hockey ( 20 regular-season games a year of the Canadian capital city's NHL team, which were usually, but not always, broadcast on Thursday evenings )-with Dean Brown as play-by-play announcer and Gord Wilson as commentator.

It met with stronger resistance in the Senate — some Senators objected to the change of name ; Ernest Manning, who argued that the rationale for the change was based on a misperception of the name, and George McIlraith, who did not agree with the manner in which the bill had been passed and urged the government to proceed in a more " dignified way "— but finally passed.

Of the 60 Senators, 11 are nominated by the Taoiseach, so there is rarely a majority opposed to a government bill.

The Senate debated its bill until March 1930, with many Senators trading votes based on their states ' industries.

In 1964, as Southern Democratic Senators staged a filibuster that ran 54 days to block passage of the Civil Rights bill of 1964 ( see Civil Rights Act of 1964, Senators Dirksen, Thomas Kuchel ( R-CA ), Hubert Humphrey ( D-MN ), and Mike Mansfield ( D-MT ) introduced a substitute bill and slightly weaker bill that they hoped would attract enough Republican swing votes to end the filibuster.

At a suggestion of the Conservatives, Trudeau's government thus agreed to a committee of Senators and MPs to further examine the bill of rights as well as the patriation plan.

The nine dissenting Democratic Senators, along with Senate Minority Leader Thomas Daschle ( D-SD ), proposed as an alternative ( S. 753 ) the text of the 1998 Committee bill with its CRA provisions and the repeal of Sections 20 and 32, modified to provide greater permission for “ operating subsidiaries ” as requested by the Treasury Department.

During the Senate debate of the bill that became the Dodd-Frank Act, Thomas Hoenig wrote Senators Maria Cantwell and John McCain ( the co-sponsors of legislation to reinstate Glass-Steagall Sections 20 and 32 ) supporting a “ substantive debate ” on “ the unintended consequences of leaving investment banking commingled with commercial banking ” and reiterating that he had “ long supported ” reinstating “ Glass-Steagall-type laws ” to separate “ higher risk, often more leveraged, activities of investment banks ” from commercial banking.

Senators Olympia Snowe ( R-ME ) and Byron Dorgan ( D-ND ) cosponsored and spoke on behalf of an amendment that would have inserted strong network neutrality mandates into the bill.

The bill came before the full Senate for debate on March 30, 1964 and the " Southern Bloc " of 18 southern Democratic Senators and one Republican Senator led by Richard Russell ( D-GA ) launched a filibuster to prevent its passage.

After 54 days of filibuster, Senators Everett Dirksen ( R-IL ), Thomas Kuchel ( R-CA ), Hubert Humphrey ( D-MN ), and Mike Mansfield ( D-MT ) introduced a substitute bill that they hoped would attract enough Republican swing votes to end the filibuster.

Most Democrats from the Southern states opposed the bill and led an unsuccessful 83-day filibuster, including Senators Albert Gore, Sr. ( D-TN ), J. William Fulbright ( D-AR ), and Robert Byrd ( D-WV ), who personally filibustered for 14 hours straight.

On November 21, 2009, Landrieu voted with fifty-nine other Senators to bring the health care bill up for debate.

There was even a suggestion that some Liberal Senators should vote to " guillotine " debate and force an immediate Senate vote on the CPRS bill.

In January 2007, Reid brought a Senate ethics reform bill to a vote to bar congressional members from accepting gifts, meals, and trips from lobbyists and organizations employing them, as well as barring Senators from borrowing corporate jets for travel and compelling them to disclose the names of sponsors, or authors, of bills and specific projects.

:: During committee and floor consideration, CRS can assist Representatives and Senators in several different ways, in addition to providing background information to assist Members in understanding the issues a bill addresses.

Several times in the legislative process the bill had appeared to have failed, but each time was saved when a couple of Congressmen and Senators switched positions on the bill.

The bill was sponsored in Congress by Senators Conrad Burns and Ron Wyden.

In February 2009, a bill was filed in the Philippine House of Representatives by Rep. Antonio Diaz seeking to confer honorary Filipino citizenship on Filner, Senators Daniel Inouye, Daniel Akaka and Ted Stevens, for their role in securing the passage of benefits for Filipino World War II veterans.

Throughout 1970, Ellsberg covertly attempted to persuade a few sympathetic U. S. Senators — among them J. William Fulbright, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and George McGovern, a leading opponent of the war — to release the papers on the Senate floor, because a Senator could not be prosecuted for anything he said on the record before the Senate.

The county was named in honor of George W. Jones, one of Iowa's first United States Senators.

* George Bradshaw ( 1924 – 1994 ), Major League Baseball catcher for the 1952 Washington Senators

During the Senate debate to ratify the treaty, Senators George Frisbie Hoar and George Graham Vest were outspoken opponents of the treaty.

In addition, the Club for Growth also makes independent expenditures to pressure certain moderate Republicans to vote more conservatively ( e. g. running ads against Senators George Voinovich of Ohio, Olympia Snowe of Maine, and Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island after these Senators objected to certain aspects of President Bush's tax cuts ).

He approached Nixon's National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger, Senators William Fulbright and George McGovern, and others, but none was interested.

In 1972, Hartke was also an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in 1972 against fellow Senators Edmund Muskie and George McGovern.

However, after the 1848 elections gave the Democratic Party a greater share of Iowa legislators, Dodge ( and George W. Jones ) were elected as Iowa's first two U. S. Senators.

George Wallace Jones ( April 12, 1804 – July 22, 1896 ), a frontiersman, entrepreneur, attorney, and judge, was among the first two United States Senators to represent the state of Iowa after it was admitted to the Union in 1846.

* Coleman, James P. " Two Irascible Antebellum Senators: George Poindexter and Henry S.

Storm has interviewed major newsmakers such as President George W. Bush, First Lady Laura Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Senators John McCain, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, as well as many sports and pop culture icons, including Elton John, Paul McCartney, Peyton Manning, Tiger Woods, Jamie Foxx, Halle Berry and Jennifer Aniston.

After ruling out a promotion of a sitting Associate Justice to Chief ( despite much lobbying from the legal community for prominent Justice Samuel Freeman Miller ), Grant offered the Chief Justiceship to Senators Oliver Morton of Indiana and Timothy Howe of Wisconsin, then to his own Secretary of State, Hamilton Fish, before finally submitting to the Senate his nomination of Attorney General George H. Williams on December 1.

Following the 1968 convention, in which many reformers had been disappointed in the way that Vice President Hubert Humphrey, despite not having competed in a single primary, easily won the nomination over Senators Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern ( who announced after the assassination of another candidate, Senator Robert F. Kennedy ), a commission headed by Senator McGovern reformed the Democratic Party's nominating process to increase the power of primaries in choosing delegates in order to increase the democracy of the process.

In February 2003, Tunney joined with other former Senators, including George McGovern and Fred Harris, in opposing a war with Iraq.

For example, Senators Robert M. La Follette and George W. Norris supported such legislation, applicable to both individual and corporate returns, and public disclosure for wealthy taxpayers was required from 1923-1926.

There were seven members: Nye, the committee chair ; and Senators Homer T. Bone ( D-WA ), James P. Pope ( D-ID ), Bennett Champ Clark ( D-MO ), Walter F. George ( D-GA ), W. Warren Barbour ( R-NJ ), and Arthur H. Vandenberg ( R-MI ).

In 2003, he " named " Greens Senators Bob Brown and Kerry Nettle after they interjected during George W. Bush's speech to Parliament.

The members were baseball figures, not historians: Spalding's friend Abraham G. Mills, a former National League president ; two United States Senators, former NL president Morgan Bulkeley and former Washington club president Arthur Gorman ; former NL president and lifelong secretary-treasurer Nick Young ; two other star players turned sporting goods entrepreneurs ( George Wright and Alfred Reach ); and AAU president James E. Sullivan.

The policy was put together by Jim Connaughton, Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality, and involved the work of Senators Bob Smith and George Voinovich and Congressmen Billy Tauzin and Joe Barton.

Prominent U. S. Senators actively associated with attempts to enact a food stamp program during this period are George Aiken, Robert M. La Follette, Jr., Hubert Humphrey, Estes Kefauver and Stuart Symington.

The chief force for the Democratic Administration was Robert Greenstein, Administrator of FNS ; in Congress, major players were Senators George McGovern, Jacob Javits, Humphrey, and Dole and Congressmen Foley and Richmond.