Sentence examples for statements on the floor from inspiring English sources

Senator James M. Inhofe, Republican of Oklahoma, spoke Spanish in brief statements on the floor in 2003 and 2005, and former Senator Mel Martinez, Republican of Florida, did the same in 2005.

Throughout the day, Democrats in both houses held news conferences and made statements on the floor to denounce the stalemate that has held up the checks for poor families, saying the contrast illustrated Republican economic priorities.

I've been pretty clear based on my statements on the floor that what we did was not accurately or fairly represented in those statements".

They made such bigoted statements on the floor of Congress--and they demanded farm workers be excluded from all the important labor laws enacted during the New Deal.

But in a statement on the floor of the Senate on Friday, Mr. Reid, a Nevada Democrat, praised the auction.

Eden caved in to Eisenhower on the afternoon of the 6th, and made a humiliating statement on the floor of the Commons.

The committee said if he had not been a new MP at the time they would have considered ordering him to make a personal statement on the floor of the Commons to apologise.

"I get tired of people saying, 'Let's make our statement on the floor and take our case to the voters in the next election,' " said Senator Olympia J. Snowe, Republican of Maine.

Todd Rokita, a Republican freshman from Indiana, in his first statement on the floor, said, "Health care is not a right," as Representative Mike Pence, also of Indiana, looked on proudly, like a father who just saw his son take off down the street without training wheels.

In a bombshell statement on the floor of the US Senate, Feinstein, normally an administration loyalist, accused the CIA of potentially violating the US constitution and of criminal activity in its attempts to obstruct her committee's investigations into the agency's use of torture.

"When President Obama was a senator and he decided to vote against both now-Justice Alito and Justice Roberts, he made a statement on the floor, and he said that in 95percentt of the cases, judges agree, but that last 5percentthereere may not be precedent, there may not be law that dictates the result," Mr. Kyl said.