Sentence examples for declared on the floor from inspiring English sources
In 2002, he declared on the floor of parliament that it was time for Iran to repair relations with the United States.
Representative Bill Thomas, the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, declared on the floor Saturday: "Medicare isn't a Democratic program.
He declared on the floor of Parliament that because the way in which Kashmir became part of India (by decree from its Hindu sovereign more than 60 years ago) was unusual, Kashmiri demands required a unique solution.
But Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, declared on the floor that he would vote against confirming Mr. Mukasey, whom he called a good man and a brilliant lawyer, because of the torture question.
"We will be spending, in this fiscal year, $167 billion on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan," Mr. Obey declared on the House floor.
"Last November, the American people, as I am keenly aware, voted for change," Mr. McCain declared on the Senate floor.
"The American people are fed up with the death and violence brought on by these assault weapons," Senator Howard M. Metzenbaum, an Ohio Democrat, declared on the Senate floor.
Mr. Colbert minted that disclaimer last month and has had a lot of fun with it on Twitter, after Jon Kyl of Arizona declared on the Senate floor that more than 90 percent of Planned Parenthood's budget was spent on abortions — and then had an aide explain, when confronted with the real number (3 percent), that his boss had never intended his statement to be understood as being actually true.
Before he voted to give Mr. Bush the authority to use force in Iraq, he declared on the Senate floor: "I will support a multilateral effort to disarm him by force, if we ever exhaust those other options, as the president has promised, but I will not support a unilateral U.S. war against Iraq unless that threat is imminent and the multilateral effort has not proven possible under any circumstances".
If it does, Ill be taken out of here on a stretcher," he declared on the Senate floor.
declared on the Senate floor.
