Sentence examples for senators help from inspiring English sources

Rather than enlist the senators' help directly, he hired a lobbying firm, Patton Boggs, which then asked members of Congress to sign a letter supporting the state's case.

Aides to the three men talk regularly, but all sides agree that when Mr. Christie wants things from Washington, he is much less likely than his predecessors to seek the senators' help.

Business support and strong security measures might be enough to win over ten or fifteen Republican senators, helping them when they faced their donors and their voters.

Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, whose letter endorsing Ms. Yellen and signed by a third of Democratic senators helped turn the tide against Mr. Summers, said in a statement late Tuesday, "Today is a historic moment for the Federal Reserve, for women everywhere and for all of us who care about job creation".

Thirty GOP senators helped raise money for the 34-year-old at one of the fundraisers.

Republicans did not complain, he said, when a Democratic state senator helped elect a Republican Senate speaker in 2007, and then, in what was widely viewed as a quid pro quo, became the speaker pro tempore.

The Republican senator helped usher a White House-backed overhaul of U.S. immigration law through the Senate and most recently negotiated a plan to clear the way for votes on several stalled Obama nominees.

The senator helped lead negotiations on a background check proposal that fell apart earlier this year.

The senator helped the aggrieved aide — a longtime friend — into a lobbying career.

The former senator helped write the original rules in 1990 that made food labels clear and accurate.

Harris Wofford Washington, Nov. 29, 2007 The writer, a former United States senator, helped organize the Peace Corps with R. Sargent Shriver during the Kennedy administration.