Sentence examples for senators responsible from inspiring English sources

He exposed the efforts of Charles F. Keating, the director of Lincoln Savings and Loan to influence senators responsible for regulating the industry.

bill to provide benefits to veterans -- one that had 54 sponsors in the Senate -- (including telling Obama that he did not have to defend his position to him because Obama did not serve in the military), McCain then embraced the passage of the GI Bill as part of the war funding legislation (and was thanked by Bush as being one of the senators responsible for its passage).

As a member of the Judiciary Committee and the senator responsible for winning Republican Senate races next year, Mr. Cornyn worried that such disparaging attacks on the first Hispanic Supreme Court candidate would not only poison the confirmation hearings, but also undercut his party's standing with an increasingly important voting bloc.

A key senator responsible for the oversight US intelligence programs has questioned the Obama administration's truthfulness about its widespread spying on Americans' communications, as the White House continued to insist it "welcomed" debate on the issue.

The presentation Cityfox gave to Community Board 1 in February included 24 letters of support from local politicians, community organizers, and business owners ranging from the senator responsible for the district, to charity groups looking for places to hold fundraisers, to the organizers of dog owners' meet-up the Brooklyn Dog Day.

In 1998, he was one of the senators most responsible for blocking anti-smoking legislation that would have stiffened federal regulations on tobacco and raised cigarette prices.

In 1998, he was one of the senators most responsible for blocking legislation that would have stiffened federal regulations on tobacco and raised cigarette prices.

Soft money, the unregulated donations by corporations, unions and rich individuals to the political parties, has always been the main target of the two senators most responsible for this bill, John McCain, Republican of Arizona, and Russell Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin, ever since they began their journey toward reform in 1995.

The senator's allies said the daylong display of presidential prowess, from Canton to Dayton to an Army tank plant in Lima, would not sway a famously frugal man who has lived in the same house for 40 years and who is one of two mutinous Republican senators most responsible for a vote that could force Mr. Bush to nearly halve his tax cut, to $350 billion from $726 billion.

The fact that GOP senators were responsible for filibustering all three of Obama's D.C. Circuit nominees, all of whom were qualified and non-controversial, has "galvanized" Democrats to make changes, Boxer said.

But by fracturing the SEC, quarrelling openly with two fellow commissioners and losing the support even of the mild-mannered Paul Sarbanes, the Democratic senator mainly responsible for the Sarbanes-Oxley act, Mr Pitt has shed most of his remaining credibility.