Sentence examples for single senators from inspiring English sources

The Senate's rules, devised in a less acrimonious time, allow disproportionate power to single senators and the minority party to fend off legislation.

They were two single senators around the same age, always being spotted coming out of rooms together, attending events together and sharing smoking breaks (Ms. Savino has since quit).

Given the current climate of the U.S. Senate, a single Senator can filibuster a bill and prevent a vote on any piece of legislation.

Senate rules allow a single senator to block a nomination from going forward indefinitely.

In this senate there was no single senator representing industrial workers or agricultural workers.

In the clubby world of Senate policy-making, a single senator in a critical position can effectively bring legislation to a standstill.

Obama announced the appointments during a period in which no Senate business was being conducted but a single senator was present to conduct a so-called "pro forma" session once every three days.

[A] single senator can do virtually no damage to Roe, while a Democratic Senate can, and will, do much to protect it.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y). said "not a single senator" would be able to review all the documents before the start of Kavanaugh's hearing.

However, Coburn uses the "hold" power that each Senator has, that provides for a single Senator to stall a bill, more frequently than anyone else in the Senate.

Worse, any single senator can put a "hold" on anything, indefinitely, for any reason.