Sentences with phrase «senate floor speech»

This becomes obvious when anyone watches his Senate floor speech in its entirety, particularly where he continues after the snowball toss on a major fault about recent «record» temperature claims.

-- Inhofe used a Senate floor speech to attack my book for young adults on Arctic climate change without reading it.

WASHINGTON — Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D - Mass., called for bipartisan action against Equifax during a Senate floor speech on Tuesday, criticizing the credit bureau for waiting several weeks after a massive data breach to reveal it to the public.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D - Mass., called for bipartisan action against Equifax during a Senate floor speech on Tuesday, criticizing the credit bureau for waiting several weeks after a massive data breach to reveal it to the public.

The New York Times reported today on a Senate floor speech by Senator Mark Udall (D - CO) in which he criticized the CIA's actions on torture and mentioned a secret internal report.

Last month, Flake delivered a second Senate floor speech likening Trump's words to those of 20th century Russian dictator Josef Stalin.

As part of the campaign, they have released a minute long video that features excerpts from several of Gillibrand's senate floor speeches where she advocates for changes in the Health Care reform bill to provide more protections for women's reproductive rights, more coverage for pregnant women, and funding for women's health clinics.

WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton goes for walks in the woods near her Westchester County home now, and Sen. Bernie Sanders is back to doing what he's been doing for 10 years: giving Senate floor speeches on behalf of the little guy.

You are probably too busy writing up Senator Ellen Anderson's senate floor speeches on her kids» fears of global warming.

Not exact matches

No. 2 Senate GOP leader John Cornyn of Texas, on the Senate floor as Warren spoke, criticized her for making «a political speech» and launching «personal attacks» on senators and called her comments «beneath the dignity of the United States Senate.»

«Today I am announcing that in the coming weeks I will be resigning as a member of the United States Senate,» he said during a speech on the chamber floor.

Sen. Ron Wyden (D - OR), who wrote Section 230, warned that changing it would «punch a hole in the legal framework of the open internet» in a speech on the Senate floor.

In a speech on the Senate floor, Arizona Senator Jeff Flake compared Trump's attacks on the media to the rhetoric of the late Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.

Schneiderman won kudos from the group for voting to pass the Hate Crimes bill and SONDA, sponsoring the Dignity for All Students Act, which recently passed the Senate, and delivering a «passionate and emotional speech» on the floor before voting «yes» on same - sex marriage last December.

Update: A couple of Loyal Readers sent in articles about a Rand Paul fundraising video released Friday that may have broken Senate rules by using footage from a speech on the Senate floor.

Here's footage of Sen. Kevin Parker's lengthy speech on the Senate floor this afternoon, during which he sort of, kind of, apologized for the his outburst last week during the Finance Committee meeting and subsequent claim that his GOP colleagues are «white supremacists.»

Senate Commerce Chairman John Thune of South Dakota, who led the opposition to the Markey resolution, said in a floor speech that the appropriate remedy would be to enact legislation through regular order.

Sen. Eric Adams, who drew widespread criticism for his «show me the money» speech on the Senate floor in 2007 while debating a legislative pay raise, has shelved his call for a salary boost — at least for the time being.

You may recall Duane's powerful, emotional speech on the bill on the Senate floor from July of last year.

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer lent his backing to the agreement during a speech on the chamber's floor.

Flake, who announced he would not seek another term during a speech on the Senate floor last month, made the comments after a town hall event in Mesa, Ariz., on Friday when Mayor John Giles asked the Republican lawmaker if he had any White House ambitions in 2020.

Compared to some of his colleagues, Latimer is usually a relatively subdued speaker on the Senate floor (one speech for which he's most widely remembered was a middle - of - the - night discourse in which he badmouthed kumquats).

«If my colleagues destroy the Affordable Care Act, it will have real, direct, and painful consequences for millions of American women and their families,» Gillibrand said during a speech on the Senate floor Wednesday.

Despite the lengthy floor speeches by lawmakers, nearly all from a mainline group of Democrats in the Senate's minority, the bill ended up passing easily by a vote of 53 - 4.

«To the patients, to the families, to the mothers, we would not be here if it weren't for you,» Savino said in a floor speech addressing supporters of the bill sitting in the Senate gallery.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand delivered a speech on the Senate floor today urging Congress to pass her bipartisan legislation to help combat the opioid epidemic.

U.S. Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota, in an emotional speech on the Senate floor, announced that he would resign from Congress, the most prominent figure in a growing list of lawmakers felled by charges of sexual harassment or indiscretions.

There's also a clips of Sen. Eric Adam's infamous «show me the money» speech on the floor of the Senate back in December 2007 during a debate over legislative pay raises.

After Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R - Ky., gave his opening speech on the Senate floor on the year - end spending and tax package, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D - Nev., sought to clear the air after Politico reported that the relationship between the two leaders had reached a «new low.»

House Republican leaderships decision to not vote on the Senate's bill providing $ 60 billion in aid to areas impacted by Super Storm Sandy has led to a barrage of floor speeches from both Democratic and Republican lawmakers from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

U.S. Senator Chris Murphy, D - Conn., defended the Affordable Care Act in a speech on the Senate floor on Thursday.

Senate President Donald Williams, another Democrat, called McKinney courageous in a speech on the Senate floor earlier this year.

Alabama Sen. Doug Jones delivered his maiden speech on the Senate floor on Wednesday, tackling a topic that would seem anathema to most Southern Democrats — gun control.

The two leaders may find more common ground on their shared rejection of strictly limiting or outright banning outside income, something that both Senate Democratic Conference Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins and Senate Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein recommended in their speeches from the floor.

After moving speeches from many supporters on the floor of the New York State Senate, the body voted 24 — 38 to defeat the marriage - equality bill passed three times by the State Assembly.

Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins added in a closing floor speech: «Progressive would have been passing the Dream Act.

extensively uses footage from his lengthy speech on the Senate floor on May 20 against bulk data collection and surveillance in the PATRIOT Act.

Sen. Al Franken (D., Minn.) announced his resignation in a speech on the Senate floor Thursday after accusations of sexual misconduct against him surfaced over the past month and he lost the support of his Democratic colleagues.

On Tuesday night, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) invoked a rare, obscure Senate rule to stop Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) during a speech on the Senate floor in which she attacked colleague Sen. Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.).

She noted that lawmakers sometimes use letters they have received in their speeches on the House or Senate floor or have them posted online.

From a July 2007 speech on the floor of the Senate: «I know that when it comes to the word «carbon,» the range of views among my colleagues is varied and complex.

The Senate education chairman, Lamar Alexander, predicted in a floor speech that the new law would «unleash a flood of innovation and student achievement across America.»

Wells asked during his speech on the senate floor, «It's not AFT, it's not WVEA.»

«Here, as shown in this picture, is a beautiful creature, the polar bear,» she said in a speech on the Senate floor.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode Island who has endorsed the use of RICO against fossil fuel industries since May, made a similar argument in his weekly climate speech, delivered Tuesday on the Senate floor.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D - R.I.) said in a speech on the Senate floor on Tuesday that those who stand in the way of regulations meant to control «climate change» are guilty of three grave «sins.»

According to her email, Whitehouse and his allies, including Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.), have crafted a schedule for floor speeches on Monday and Tuesday that assigns each participating Senator at least one group to go after by name.

Nineteen Senate Democrats will attack specific organizations in what they are calling a «web of denial,» according to a schedule of floor speeches circulated by Emily Enderle, a top environmental policy adviser to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D., R.I.), who is spearheading the effort.

In a speech on the Senate floor this past June, he said, «Climate change is one of two or three of the most serious threats our country now faces, if not the most serious, and the silence that has enveloped a once robust debate is staggering for its irresponsibility.»

In a speech on the Senate floor, US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse cited UCS research tying effects of climate change — such as sea level rise — to specific companies.