Sentence examples for back senate from inspiring English sources

By 51 percent to 40 percent, Americans appeared to back Senate efforts to grant employers an exemption on religious or moral exemption grounds.

After attempts at persuasion and withholding their paychecks failed to bring the Democrats back, Senate Republicans decided to separate the collective-bargaining measure from the budget bill and vote on it immediately.

* In bid to take back Senate, party can afford few missteps.

The deal only applies to the health care reform bill itself, meaning the White House could back Senate Democratic attempts to push for more savings from drug makers in separate, future legislative attempts, a White House aide said.

Closed over 60 times during the past two years to correct problems!" And finally, in one of his last Senate votes, Byrd joined a narrow majority of the senate in turning back Senator Lisa Murkowski's effort to suspend Clean Air Act rules requiring the clean up of carbon dioxide pollution from, most notably, the burning of coal in power plants.

Winning enough seats to take back the senate, even temporarily, would encourage Democrats to recall Governor Scott Walker as soon as November.

And then two years later, oh, we've gotta take back the senate.

Mr. Powers did not join Mr. Lazio at the microphone for his speech, and one Republican suggested that the back-to-back Senate defeat might lead to pressure on Mr. Powers to step aside in the days ahead.

If "we beat McConnell, we can prove we can do back-to-back Senate races and we can take anybody out if we work together," he told U.S. News.

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The Democrat recently touted a list of 100 Democratic politicians who were backing his senate run, though several later disputed reports they had given a formal endorsement.