Before Gore's selection, other politicians were mentioned as a possible running-mate, e. g. Bob Kerrey, Dick Gephardt, Mario Cuomo, Indiana Representative Lee H. Hamilton, Pennsylvania Senator Harris Wofford, Florida Senator Bob Graham, and Massachusetts Senator John Kerry.

U. S. Senator Joe Lieberman from Connecticut, Gore's 2000 Vice Presidential running mate, had previously promised not to run should Gore seek their party's nomination.

Other notable speakers included Gore's opponent for the Democratic nomination, Senator Bill Bradley, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, Senators Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, and the Reverend Jesse Jackson.

However in 2000 Gore's running mate was Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman.

He was also campaign manager in U. S. Senator Tim Johnson's ( D-SD ) winning re-election campaign in 2002 and Al Gore's 2000 Iowa Caucus victory.

" With no public notice, Senator Orrin Hatch tacked on to the proposed exclusionary subsection the words " or for any course of instruction the substance of which is Secular Humanism ".

* June 12 – Senator Huey Long of Louisiana makes the longest speech on Senate record, taking 15½ hours and containing 150, 000 words.

The same year he directed, produced, and starred in Good Night, and Good Luck, a film about 1950s television journalist Edward R. Murrow's famous war of words with Senator Joseph McCarthy.

As a result, the Senate added to its rules the provision that " No senator in debate shall, directly or indirectly, by any form of words impute to another Senator or to other Senators any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming a Senator.

Although, in the words of Senator Everett Dirksen, Burger " looked, sounded, and acted like a Chief Justice ," Woodward and Armstrong's The Brethren depicted Burger as a weak chief justice who was not seriously respected by his colleagues due to alleged personal eccentricity and lack of legal acumen.

During an interview with " Morning Joe " on MSNBC on Feb. 21, 2012, Reverend Graham said that Rick Santorum was most closely aligned to Christian values in his words and deeds and that Senator Santorum was certainly a Christian at heart.

In January 1878, Senator Sargent introduced the 29 words that would later become the 19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, allowing women the right to vote.

In 2005, Senator Raymond Lavigne uttered the words " and to my country, Canada ," at the end of the Oath of Allegiance, which raised questions from other senators and Lavigne was instructed to take the oath again, without the amendment.

Septimus explains he was a Senator until he heard the " words of the Sun " and was made a slave.

Inside the system, the U. S. remains ( to borrow the words of Senator Marco Rubio ) “ the only place in the world where it doesn ’ t matter who your parents were or where you came from .”

In 1867, he asked State Senator Allen C. Fuller to introduce legislation requiring a new seal, and suggested to Fuller that the words of the state motto be reversed, from " State Sovereignty, National Union ", to " National Union, State Sovereignty ".

Haradinaj received much praise for his actions and words at that time, which were perceived by many, including the International Crisis Group ( ICG ), US Senator Joe Biden and the late British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook as having prevented violence and civil unrest.

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.

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.

Adams, as a Senator, had supported the Louisiana Purchase and Jefferson's Embargo Act, actions which made him very unpopular with Massachusetts Federalists.

In the 1972 presidential campaign, Senator George McGovern called for a ' demogrant ' that was very similar to a basic income.

The Romulan military and government also have positions very similar to those of the Roman Republic: Proconsul, Praetor, and Senator.

Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas pointed out as late as 1966, " The very word ' Yankee ' still wakens in Southern minds historical memories of defeat and humiliation, of the burning of Atlanta and Sherman's march to the sea, or of an ancestral farmhouse burned by Cantrill's raiders.

Support for impeachment was very high, but the result was in doubt due to forebodings about the value of President pro tempore, U. S. Senator Benjamin Wade, a Radical Republican, as successor to President Johnson.

Senator Syvret is quoted as saying ' I can sense a very large pair of bolt-croppers beginning to approach the cables of the Jersey corruption tensegrity structure '.

Senator Payson was very instrumental in the establishment of the Post Office.

When Blandy proposed an all-Navy board to evaluate the results, Senator McMahon complained to President Harry Truman that the Navy should not be " solely responsible for conducting operations which might well indeed determine its very existence.

State Senator Charles R. Hawkins ( R-Pennsylvania ) stated the moment of silence is " a very small measure to address a very large problem.

His father, John H. Bankhead, was a very active politician, who had served in the Alabama legislature, and later served as U. S. Representative and Senator.

Robinson became the very last U. S. Senator elected by a state legislature rather than by direct popular vote.

Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein remembered that "( Coverdell ) was not only a good senator, he was a good and decent man ... a very nice man.

" Later he blatantly parodied Senator Joseph McCarthy with " Point of Order " ( taken from his frequent objection ), about which Capitol's legal department was very nervous.

Between 1904 and 1906, the temple ceremony received very public scrutiny during the 1904 Senate investigation of LDS Apostle and U. S. Senator, Reed Smoot.

" William Colmer, another Mississippian and the mentor of later Representative and U. S. Senator Trent Lott, described Rayburn as a " very strong parliamentarian " who was far more effective than his successor, John McCormack of Massachusetts, whom Colmer found " wanted to be liked " by his colleagues.

Ensign decided to retire in order to run against U. S. Senator Harry Reid in the very close and competitive 1998 senate election.

An over-scaled new " Maldron " hotel built in conjunction with Senator Donnie Cassidy now sits on the site of the former National Wax Museum, and is one of the very few new buildings.

Burks ' widow, Charlotte, ran for his seat and won, becoming the first Tennessee State Senator to win as a write-in candidate and one of very few American politicians to win as a write-in candidate ever.

In 1982, Thompson was very narrowly re-elected over former U. S. Senator Adlai E. Stevenson III ; Thompson decisively defeated him in their re-match four years later.

Previously, Senator Cray had been blackmailing Amanda Waller in order for her to ensure Cray's reelection, threatening her with the exposure of the Suicide Squad to the public, something potentially very dangerous for the existence of the Squad and Waller's career.

He was very narrowly defeated — by only 273 votes — by State Senator Lloyd Doggett of Austin, who was later a long-term Democratic congressman.

Gretchen is introduced as a very intelligent girl from Boston who, at the age of 19, has already completed her bachelors degree, and is working for Senator Eugene McCarthy's presidential campaign.

But he became a very active, popular and outspoken Senator, and North Dakotans elected him to three full terms, in 1926, 1932, and 1938.