Sentence examples for empty senate from inspiring English sources

If they do not step up and show strong leadership and fight on demanding these resignations immediately, Democrats just lose again….without anything to show for it except moral bragging rights that mean nothing to Republicans, and an empty Senate seat where a great Senator who fought for the people once sat.

While nominally in recess over Thanksgiving, Reid enlisted senators to return to the empty Senate chamber every few days to conduct pro forma sessions.

WASHINGTON — An hour before her colleagues gathered for their first vote of a new Congress, Senator Kelly Ayotte slipped into an empty Senate chamber to savor the grandeur of her legislative home.

Page A30 HOW TO FILL A SENATE SEAT Most Americans probably gave little thought to how empty Senate seats are filled until this year -- but what a year it's been.

By Thursday night, that legislation with the cash for the wall was on its way to an empty Senate chamber, as Majority Leader Mitch McConnell scrambled to get senators back to Washington to vote on a bill that's essentially dead on arrival.

One of the few congressional hold-outs was Republican senator Rand Paul, who sat in lonely vigil reading newspapers in the empty Senate debating chamber – not as a snub but to make a protest on a procedural point.

Illinois is not the only place going through empty-Senate-seat turmoil.

On Wednesday, in a speech on a near-empty Senate floor, Vitter (R-La). returned to a lonely quest that has obsessed him since September.

And legislation to hold a special election to fill President-elect Obama's now-empty Senate seat (rather than have that person picked by the governor, who, prosecutors say, was seeking money or a job in exchange for his selection) was never brought to a vote in the Senate on Tuesday.

He spoke to a near-empty Senate chamber, save for several dozen staff members, some observers in the galleries and a Democratic senator who was presiding.

In December 2008, President-elect Barack Obama nominated Hillary Rodham Clinton as Secretary of State, leaving an empty seat in the New York senate delegation.