Sentences with phrase «long floor speech»
(He's skipping the conference despite taking direct heat in a YouTube message to Rio from Senator James Inhofe, the Republican of Oklahoma and steadfast ally of big coal, and indirect heat from Senator John Kerry, the Democrat of Massachusetts who gave a long floor speech on global warming and the Rio meeting yesterday, decrying «the conspiracy of silence that now characterizes Washington's handling of the climate issue.»)
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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.