Sentence examples for Senate from inspiring English sources

Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 5.16pm AEST08:16 Back to the Senate, Nationals senator John Williams is taking offence at the Labor suggestion that the Coalition looks after "the big end of town".

The bill passed by the Senate, with 89 senators in favour and eight against, is a messy, short-term deal that raises taxes on the wealthiest but postpones for two months any consideration of spending cuts.

Among the more irate has been the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, who happens to be Kentucky's other senator.

At the end of April, Heitkamp introduced bipartisan legislation in the Senate to re-write the rule, with the backing of other Democratic senators, including Senator Joe Manchin from West Virginia, which produces around 15% of America's fossil fuel energy, according to the region's department of commerce.

Carr, who served as NSW premier for 10 years, entered the Senate and became foreign minister at the request of former prime minister Julia Gillard in March 2012, when Kevin Rudd returned to the backbench after losing a leadership challenge.

Sweeping US surveillance powers used by the National Security Agency expired at midnight after a dramatic showdown in the Senate.

Two years on, the US senate has just passed a bill to end the mass collection of phone records and the whistleblower says he is working harder than ever before.

Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 10.53am AEST01 53 Immigration minister Scott Morrison is expected to have another crack at introducing temporary protection visas in the senate after Labor got rid of them in the last parliament.

Photograph: Mike Bowers Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 10.41am AEST01 41 There is a little bit more honest assessment by Liberal backbenchers of their own legislation in the senate this morning.

He stood for another six-year term in the number one position on the NSW Senate ticket, but announced his resignation a few weeks after the election.

Environment minister Greg Hunt has been out and about this morning on the ABC and on the doors at Parliament, "hoping and expecting but not presuming" the new senate will pass the carbon tax repeal bills, driving the final nail into the heart of Labor's emissions trading scheme.