"Hillary's got good plans," Mr. Clinton kept saying as he worked through a hoarse-voiced litany of why his wife, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, is a "world-class change agent".
But it will take a massive effort by ordinary citizens to call their Senators with a litany of demands: a prohibition on all forms of bulks surveillance, no more secret law and a privacy advocate in the secret Fisa court.
Senator Bill Nelson, Democrat of Florida, said the litany of budget votes gave him a great opportunity to go "eyeball to eyeball" with both of the Democratic presidential contenders.
Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, has a litany of structural advantages to help him.
Gone are the days when Mr. Obama articulated a litany of specific differences he holds with his lone remaining Democratic rival, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York.
His interrogator at the moment, Senator Maria Cantwell, Democrat of Washington, was reciting a litany of new surveillance powers assumed by the administration and asking for regular briefings on how they were being used.
Ms. Chao thanked a litany of friends and relatives today for supporting her, most notably her husband, Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, whom she called "the love of my life".
It's not clear if Gustafson will follow the senators' admonitions, but if she does it will add to the litany of other inspector general investigations open into Trump Cabinet members and their use of private or military planes.
During that afternoon's run-through, Senator McCain portrayed the Pounder School's principal, tasked with enunciating a litany of shoehorned sex puns.
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah is where the Tea Party slew one of its first giants, toppling a three-term Republican senator in a 2010 electoral coup that scrambled party politics and heralded a litany of fierce contests between establishment Republicans and conservative upstarts.
