| 单词 | senator |
| 例句 | Caesar’s former friends and colleagues, led by two senators named Brutus and Cassius, stabbed him to death on the steps of the Senate. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z President Cleveland arrived with his vice president and a retinue of cabinet officials, senators, and military leaders and their wives, children, and friends. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Bill turned up the television and watched as some senator complained about the military budget. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Vanessa was older than us by six months, and she ran in social circles that included girls and guys who were likely to become senators, ambassadors, and Nobel Prize winners. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z A senator who had spoken earlier had come up to him after the rally and had enthusiastically shaken his hand, promising him his complete support. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Nicolas was removed in a police van and the senator in a Red Cross ambulance. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The senator’s wife paused, letting a delicate beat pass. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Obinze’s friend Chidi said he didn’t chase women in Abuja because he didn’t want to step on a minister’s or senator’s toes. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Simpson had spent eighteen years in the Senate, including ten as the Republican whip, the second-ranking senator in his party. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Later, John Palmer, the half-Sioux lawyer, sent a letter to Charles Curtis, a U.S. senator from Kansas; part-Kaw, part-Osage, Curtis was then the highest official with acknowledged Indian ancestry ever elected to office. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The senator paused and brushed the hair from his forehead in a nervous gesture. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The senator’s entourage laughed, but he shushed them with an irritable wave of his hand. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The edge of his toga was lined with the crimson of a senator or a praetor, but the stripe rippled like a river of blood. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Percy didn’t notice they’d reached the city limits until the senators in front of him started slowing down. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Besides Grant and Blaine, the other candidate seeking the nomination was John Sherman of Ohio, a former U.S. senator and the current secretary of treasury under President Hayes. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “Do we dare go down that path? My fellow lawmakers. My esteemed senators. Can we take that chance?” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z “The Post just broke the name of the Independent senator joining Richards’s cabinet,” she says. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Jill had recently earned her doctorate in education and had managed to teach English at a community college in Delaware not just through Joe’s years as a senator but also through his two presidential campaigns. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “That impertinent youngster of mine thinks it’s time your daughter was given the greatest experience in the known world,” the senator mentioned, as the masseur pummeled him. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z The senators read newspapers, jumped up and down opening and closing doors and windows, gazed at the ceiling, sharpened pencils, clipped their fingernails, stretched, and yawned. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The powerful Democratic senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan called for the CIA to be disbanded. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “What is that even going to do? Huh? Really. Say you walk into the senator’s office. Say you actually talk to a giant room of politicians. How does that change anything?” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The senator waved again, cleared his throat—somebody handed him up a glass of water, which he sipped—and then he started to talk. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “My mom drove me nuts with her citizenship test. She doesn’t know even the basic facts, like each state has two senators.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z A Republican senator from Pennsylvania called the Mercury capsule-Atlas rocket pairing “a Rube Goldberg device on top of a plumber’s nightmare.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “If you don’t come out voluntarily, they’re going to send the mobile unit in and drive you out with clubs,” the senator concluded. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I had heard of it—I knew that Mayor Schmoke, President Clinton, and our state’s senior senator, Paul Sarbanes, were all Rhodes Scholars, but I didn’t know much else about the award. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Included in the historic development was the election of Carol Mosely Braun, the first African American woman US senator in history. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I knew there were other senators with spouses who chose to live in their hometowns rather than in D.C. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “Of course, I sit in the best seats, the ones reserved for senators’ families. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z “Our Navy played absolutely no part in, was not associated with, was not aware of any South Vietnamese actions, if there were any,” he told the senators. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Not him—what, a senator’s son swallow such an insult? Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Iowa senator Clyde Herring announced that he planned to introduce a bill in the U.S. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Only a few claps from the senators who are still present and awake. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z His place was dead center, between Marcus’s father and another privileged senator. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z She had two sisters and a brother, and they all had a comfortable upbringing as the children of a senator who was also a deacon in the Catholic Church. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The senator wasn’t the only one concerned about the broadcasters’ judgment. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z The fear of Communism was a bonanza for segregationists like Virginia senator Harry Byrd. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The senators seemed supportive—with the exception of Wayne Morse. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z What their fate would be, when everything was revealed to the senator, Aurelia didn’t dare to think—she didn’t bother to think. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z In the first Democratic primary in New Hampshire, the president barely squeaked past Eugene McCarthy, an antiwar senator who had not been expected to pose a serious challenge. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z You could borrow someone’s back tires and return them later, but you could not do this in Washington, D.C., and you could especially not do this to a senators car. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z The senators came marching into the forum with Reyna at the lead. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “And what do you hope to even get out of this, huh? What happens when you get there? You just knock on some senator’s door?” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z More than a third of the senators abstained from voting. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z A few weeks after the election, I’d gone with Barack to Washington for a daylong orientation offered to newly elected senators and their spouses. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Two white senators from North Carolina say that Dr. King isn’t important enough to have a day honoring him. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “Wait here, but don’t touch anything. The senator will be in shortly,” the maid said brusquely, leaving him alone. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The senators shifted and muttered as Frank returned to his seat. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Two years ago when they drove to Washington, D.C., they were arrested for stealing the back tires off a senators car. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z ‘We were only borrowing the senators tires. We were going to return them.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Georgia talks about her internship with some senator, and then Mrs. Darcy asks me questions. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “Delegates, state senators—the governor. All the political pooh-bahs. And all those media people, too—the newspapers, TV. This is a big issue, Brady!” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Jamison was present, Martin told Cora, in his capacities as a senator and local planter. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Late that night, Wayne Morse, a senator from Oregon, got a call from a man he knew in the Pentagon. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The senator’s villa, much more modest, of course, but still spacious and luxurious, had been recently built, and was on the outskirts. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z The senator frowned and looked worried, and I felt sorry for him. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z As one senator put it: “Our national honor is at stake. We cannot and we will not shrink from defending it.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z And on came the voice of this senator’s wife, pleasant and warm. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The senators became more and more alarmed for the future of the Republic. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Later, at the table, I listen to him make idle conversation with the old senator about the various ailments they have both suffered. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There are some senators and politicians in the pictures with us. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The senator drew in his breath at the honor. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z “Do you think the senator will be able to light a fire under them and get people in here to save us?” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “You do realize you’re talking to a United States senator,” he says placidly. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I’d spent hours making calls to senators and representatives, trying to convince them that our children deserved better than what they were getting. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Reyna and Octavian led the procession of senators out of camp, with Reyna’s metal greyhounds dashing back and forth along the road. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z There was a young Abuela sitting at one of the tables with a US senator and his wife, and another picture where she was sitting with the famous musician Celia Cruz. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “These senators don’t seem to think it’s worth the risk,” she said. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He borrowed more money to bribe senators who could help him reclaim his throne. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Here are three I noticed in just a few days of reading: The senator plans to introduce legislation next week that fixes a critical flaw in the military’s handling of assault cases. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Only a few days later, however, a similar package arrived at the Atlanta, Georgia, home of US senator Thomas W. Hardwick. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z After this astonishing political loss, Conkling and fellow New York senator and Stalwart ally Thomas Pratt dramatically resigned their Senate seats in mid-May. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z It was reintroduced dutifully every year, but the full Senate did not vote on it until 1887, when it was defeated 16 to 34, with twenty-five senators not even bothering to vote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Much as he loved power, he was more comfortable leading troops than trading barbs with senators. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z I was a senator’s wife, but beyond that, and more important, I had a career that mattered to me. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He’s been texting Luna all week, ever since the Richards campaign leaked that they’ve tapped an Independent senator for his prospective cabinet. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z She had to explain the scientific method she had used in order to overcome the senator’s pragmatic resistance. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s a shame he was a Communist!” the senator told his granddaughter. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Queen Hylla, Frank, and Hazel sat in the front row with the senators. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The implication was that I was making a dangerous choice, that there was only one correct way to be a senator’s wife and I was choosing wrong. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “We could really use an endorsement from another Independent senator. Do you think he’s close to making one?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Dubbed “Project Greek Island,” in the event of an attack on Washington, DC, senators and congressional representatives were to be evacuated from the nation’s capital by railroad and delivered to the Greenbrier’s bunker. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The next morning, on Capitol Hill, Senator Morse cornered several senators before the joint hearings of the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees began. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The senator’s aide who planned the bombing with Diana had told the authorities that it had been her idea to demonstrate how vital the Safety Through Education law was. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z He hadn’t done as she’d asked, and spoken to his father the senator. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z On the advice of his lawyer, the senator’s aide wasn’t talking anymore, but everyone was speculating that he had always intended for Diana to die. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z A slow bolero starts, and I feel myself being led towards where Trujillo is now dancing with the attractive, blond wife of the old senator. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The senator turned out to be a state senator, a hack politician, now serving a five-year jail term for bribery. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z A senator losing a daughter to the kind of violence his bill was trying to prevent was far more sympathetic than one whose daughter had lived. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z She’s intent on it even though he’s much too good- looking for me, not to mention a state senator’s son. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z His shirts were white, his collars high and stiff, and he affected narrow black string ties, like those which once were the badge for Southern senators. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Her presence in Rome was having the desired effect on Caesar even if it was making his fellow senators tense. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z In January 1960, the newspapers ran small articles about the arrival in Charleston of a senator from Massachusetts who was running for president of the United States. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It was the guardsmen, the journalists, and the peasants, who were finishing off the last of the senator’s bottles. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Fry’s rooms were in the west wing of the building, not very far from where the senators and representatives met. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Those morning games satisfied the senator’s need for human contact. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Throughout these months, the senator had learned that not even his own record as a supporter of the coup was any guarantee against terror. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He held the furious boy away, but he was frightened of what the consequences might be of defying a direct order from the son of a senator, let alone manhandling him. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z I want to lean over and whisper in Ethan’s ear in one breath and weave my fingers into Allys’s hand in the next, and I don’t want to listen to the senator at all. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z The senators made their way to a big white-domed building on the west end of the forum. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Senate is in session, and she meets her senators from Washington, who invite Annabelle to the State of the Union address in February. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I want to define my place in their worlds and not try to understand the definitions the senator spews forth about his own. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Former juvenile offenders who had later become well-known public figures filed supporting documents, including very conservative politicians like former U.S. senator Alan Simpson from Wyoming. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Bread, circuses, and something to worship are all they need,” the senator concluded, regretting in his conscience that there should be a lack of bread. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Jones kept putting Ellsberg off, saying the senator was still weighing options. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He rolled his head to face the senator. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z The senator didn’t know that Maria had kissed Matt on several occasions, just as she kissed Furball and anything else that pleased her. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “The two great divisions of society are not the rich and poor, but white and black,” said the great South Carolina senator John C. Calhoun. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z His favorite senator is Rafael Luna, an Independent from Colorado and the newest kid on the block at only thirty-nine. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He looked me over, as if maybe I had two heads, and then said, “The senator’s going to make a speech right here in Welch. He’ll be here any minute.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I was now, like her, the wife of a U.S. senator—Mrs. Obama, she’d called me throughout the conversation—but that didn’t mean I had to drop everything to support him. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Until about a year before, Truman had been a senator from Missouri. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Barack had met him six years earlier, as a senator, when Mandela had visited Washington. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He called out the national guard to rescue the senator. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In some cases, blacks have forged alliances with whites and Latinos to elect black mayors, senators, and congressmen. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He was the only senator in the room. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z While the first Red Scare was fueled by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, the second was brought to its height by the actions of US senator Joseph McCarthy. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Along the passage behind them ran two of the senator’s servants. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z A U.S. senator from Oklahoma called Palmer “the most eloquent Indian alive.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z McNamara was blatantly misleading Congress, but aside from Morse, no other senators knew it. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Barack had a life in Washington now, operating with some of the gravitas that came with being a senator, but I was still me, living my same normal life. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “How many senators and representatives serve in Congress?” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The senators stampeded out of the auditorium—whether from excitement or panic, Percy wasn’t sure. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Out of a hundred and fifty Freedom Writers, I have been chosen to speak in front of Barbara Boxer, our senator! The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The son of a senator, perhaps, or an officer in the Praetorian Guard. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z They’d read it right away, the senator said, and set up a public hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee—a dramatic setting in which to unveil the Pentagon Papers to the American people. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It was from a woman in D.C.—someone I’d never met, the wife of a fellow senator—who’d tried a few times already to reach me. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He studies every bill trickling through Congress and considers making rounds to sweet-talk senators, but can’t muster the enthusiasm. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z There were senators and famous actors, generals and world-renowned doctors, a few ex-presidents, and half a dozen dictators from places Matt had heard about on TV. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The statue checked the tattoos on their forearms and called each senator by name. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “Well, of course I know that,” said the senator impatiently. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z He was writing in response to a letter Leila had written to him a few weeks earlier, asking the senator to take on texting and driving. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Among the witnesses were cabinet members, some senators and congressmen, and former Presidents Hayes and Grant. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Washington, DC, where she’ll spend three days meeting her senators and the members of the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, thanks to Olivia. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, Democrats were quickly narrowing themselves toward what would become a choice between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, the liberal, longtime independent senator from Vermont. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He and the American senator greeted each other as old colleagues and they were to be seen together for much of the remainder of that day, laughing over reminiscences. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z One senator denounced the various “illegal plots, counterplots, espionage, decoys, dictographs” that were being used not to “detect and prosecute crime but...to shield profiteers, bribe takers and favorites.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z On the line was our state senator in Austin calling to congratulate our town as we hurtled toward the twentieth century. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Russell then organized eighteen Southern Democratic senators in filibustering this bill.4 I thought, This man must be a friend of George Wallace. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z After being denounced by McCarthy, the highly respected Murrow responded with a profile of the senator that showed him to be the unjust bully and coward that he was. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z That night the senator called a special session of his Subcommittee on Buildings and Grounds—just about the least prestigious subcommittee in the Senate. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Perot had routinely rubbed shoulders with the most powerful men in the world—presidents, senators, heads of state, chief executive officers of Fortune 500 companies. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I still can’t see why they chose me to speak to a senator, instead of a Freedom Writer who deserved it. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Rukia had so much information on the first woman governor and senators from the encyclopedia, she couldn’t stop talking. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z This time the device exploded as intended, severely wounding the senator’s maid when she unwrapped the package. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z This was where the senator preferred to hold his meetings, weave his intrigues, forge his deals, and, in his lonely hours, closet himself to release his rage, his frustrated desire, or his sorrow. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The senators’ eyes moved back and forth between Octavian and Reyna, watching the test of wills. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z His attempts failed, however, and senators supported Garfield. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z A lot of other senators seemed to be having trouble with their togas, too—hiking up their hems, trying to keep the cloth from slipping off their shoulders. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Janey, the wife of Michigan senator Philip Hart, was familiar with the workings of Washington, DC, and she knew many of the big names in government. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Several of them waved at the senators as they passed. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “It doesn’t matter. My dada says servants have a right to privacy, and he’s a United States senator, so his opinion is worth more.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z As attorney general and later as a senator, he had supported racial and educational equality—and asked the American people to do the same. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z My husband was a senator, but somehow people seemed to want to vault right over that. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “And that’s what you expect people to do, because your father is some big-shot senator with a lot of money, and that makes you important.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Back in spring, when I was in the fifth grade, just months before he, like his brother, was assassinated, Big Ma put on a church outfit to hear the senator speak. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z The English papers carried excerpts of the senator’s speech and briefly mentioned my father. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z It had been Johnson, as a senator in the late 1950s, who had pushed the Space Race. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z He had been a carpenter, janitor, teacher, preacher, college president, lawyer, state senator, and general. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He wanted a full scholarship to Georgetown and summer internships with United States senators. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z A senator from Missouri named Harry Truman began to get curious. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Panpipe music is playing lightly from the speakers, and reporters and photographers are snapping photos and talking to the more-famous guests—senators and city council members. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Her father would become the brave senator who continued to work to make sure everyone else in the country could be protected the way his daughter had not been. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “Hopefully, you will understand when your state senator tries to live up to those values as best he can.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The Chicago Tribune’s editorial page criticized the group of senators who hadn’t managed to vote that day, calling them “a bunch of gutless sheep.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z In Congress, North Carolina senator Sam Ervin Jr. drafted a racist polemic, the “Southern Manifesto,” which vowed to fight to maintain Jim Crow by all legal means. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Papa used to joke that if he hadn’t met Mama he might have ended up a senator. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z He knows exactly what to say to each Democratic senator to make them dish about bills, exactly when Zahra’s running low on nicotine gum, exactly which look to give Nora for the rumor mill. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Hamilton was aware of the Federalist plot, which was no half-baked scheme hatched by marginal figures, involving as it did several Federalist senators from New England and Timothy Pickering, the former secretary of state. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In one instance, a group of Klansmen stabbed to death a prominent state senator inside his county courthouse. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I signed petitions and wrote letters to United States senators. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They put their feet up on the furniture, drank the senator’s Scotch straight from the bottle, and broke his classical records one by one. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Every day my parents listened to audio recordings of questions and answers: How many senators are in Congress? How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z His nominal goal was to end backbiting about the bomb program from Roosevelt’s director of war mobilization, James F. Byrnes, a former senator and Supreme Court justice. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Sullivan told senators the behavior in Colombia wasn’t representative of the agency’s nearly 7,000 employees. Library of Congress taps 25 sounds for registry 2012-05-23T14:47:00Z The son of a Fortune 100 executive and grandson of Ethiopia’s first female senator, Brown grew up vacationing on Martha’s Vineyard. What It Means to Be the ‘Token’ Black Kid in a Rich, White World 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z The culture minister’s declaration came on the heels of pressure from Corinne Bouchoux, a French senator in the Green Party, who had issued a legislative report on the recovery efforts. Despite Pledge, France Lags in Hunt for Looted Art 2013-08-28T22:15:50Z Rand Paul, 51, is a Republican senator from Kentucky. Just Asking: Rand Paul on why helping people see again is easier than politics 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Offended Southern honor also lay behind the most famous violent congressional incident of the era, the near-deadly assault in May 1856 on the Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner by the South Carolina representative Preston Brooks. Congressional Bloodshed: The Run-Up to the Civil War 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z A senator from Iowa who protected subsidies for pig farmers, for dairy producers, and now he's slowly saying, "Okay." Moby is happily boring now: "I look at the desperation that I had ... I don't glorify the past" 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z “That reminds me of a math problem: Betsy has $200m, she needs 50 votes. How much money can she give to each senator to make sure public schools get less?” Late night roundup: hosts weigh in on 'the real president' Steve Bannon 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z “As I said,” the senator insisted, “I’m not getting involved in presidential politics.” Last stand of the Republican moderate 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z Vance has already shown he’s got what it takes to be a U.S. senator. ‘Hillbilly’ to Capitol Hill? Author eyes Senate bid in Ohio 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z The late senator wrote in his 2009 memoir, "True Compass," that "I had never seen a more beautiful baby, nor been happier in my life." Kara Kennedy, oldest child of late Sen. Ted Kennedy, dies 2011-09-17T18:43:00Z He was the son of a U.S. congressman and the grandnephew of a U.S. senator, who was his namesake. 1951 flood painting to be auctioned in NYC 2011-05-17T18:35:09Z I love when I hear Those senators cheer, And prate how they hate States talking straight Out of their rear. Style Invitational: The an(n)als of civilization 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z In February, a group of Democratic senators introduced the Families Fly Together Act, which would require every airline to seat children 13 and under next to an accompanying adult without a surcharge. New ‘Dashboard’ Allows Travelers to See Which Airlines Seat Families Together 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z Her design initially caused intense controversy — typical of the opposition was the Vietnam veteran and future Virginia senator James Webb, calling it “a nihilistic slab of stone.” Where to See — Really See — the Art of Maya Lin 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z "Such an agreement would protect the health of players and be a great gift to your young fans," the senators wrote. Chew on this: No tobacco in baseball 2011-10-19T00:42:00Z “To marry a senator,” fake-future Hillary replied, “and settle down in Georgetown.” Always running, always prepared: Hillary Clinton as a high school politician 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z Whoopi Goldberg defended Joe Biden on Thursday over comments the former vice president made about his working relationship decades ago with fervent segregationist senators in an effort to stress the importance of "civility" in Congress. Whoopi rips Democrats for suggesting Biden is a racist 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Jill knew what she was getting into when she married a senator in 1977, but saw herself as wife, mother and teacher — not a political figure. Jill Biden has never wanted to be first lady, but Joe can’t win the White House without her 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z Reality check 2: Hester’s lover is the married senior senator from Virginia. What really happened at those famous Georgetown dinner parties 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z Turns out, one of them ends up being a senator. Review | The best books to beat this year’s special brand of Valentine’s Day blues 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z It is in the end a profile in courage, even if Johnson has to win votes by backing senators’ pork projects. In Washington, the drama never ends A group of senators charged that the film misled viewers for suggesting that torture provided information that helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden. Passing reference in 'Argo' rankles New Zealand 2013-03-21T14:41:09Z And there’s more: Jeff Flake, the ineffectual — but square-jawed — former Republican senator, who was the occasional darling of the Trump resistance, benefited when he signed on with CBS as a contributor this week. Perspective | The media feel safest in the middle lane. Just ask Jeff Flake, John Kasich and Howard Schultz. 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z “I say this for people who loved the senator,” he tells me. What is it like to be the brother of Robert Kennedy’s assassin? The life of the other Sirhan. 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z An Oklahoma state senator wants to make abortion not just illegal, but classified as a felony homicide. The “Baby It’s Cold Outside” fight is back — but why?! 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Similarly, in 2007 most systems did not yet contain the name of an up-and-coming Illinois senator but did store the name of OsamaObama| bin Laden, the international terrorist, resulting in an unfortunate correction. When Autocorrect Goes Wrong (And So, So Right) 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z Obama also quoted Robinson in his remarks at the funeral for Clementa Pinckney, the South Carolina state senator and pastor who was slain with eight others at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston. President Obama interviews author Marilynne Robinson 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z A twist on that theory even suggests that backers of one or another of Ms. Bigelow’s politically connected professional rivals helped prod several powerful senators into criticizing “Zero Dark Thirty.” Directors Guild vs. Oscars: An Unusual Year 2013-01-24T13:33:49Z The state’s two U.S. senators, both Republicans, said the flag should go. In Mississippi, defenders of state’s Confederate-themed flag dig in 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z Or maybe it was the moment she blew up at senators questioning her handling of Benghazi. ‘Madam Secretary,’ ‘State of Affairs’ and Other Series Channel Hillary Rodham Clinton 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z As with any conflict of interest—a senator who takes gobs of money from an industry she favors, a journalist who accepts gifts from a company he covers—the appearance matters. Better Referees: Why College Football Needs to Herd Its Own Zebras 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Coulter wrote about how MSNBC's Martin Bashir suggested Republican senators wouldn't support stronger gun control legislation until a member of their family was killed. Fox removes Coulter column with McCain reference 2013-04-11T21:02:13Z Last fall, the New Jersey senator announced a plan in which the government would create a trust account for each new infant in the United States. The Democratic Presidential Debates: The Candidates in The New Yorker 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z “Is this the moment to reform gun laws?” a British reporter from Sky News asked Cruz the next day, and the senator’s face fell in somber exasperation. Perspective | Only in America: enduring one mass shooting while bracing for the next 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Casanova got his entry into this shining world after saving the life of a grateful senator, and he took to it like a gondola to water. On the Trail of a Lover Boy in the Age of Enlightenment 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Now George J. Mitchell, the former senator from Maine, is trying to bring peace to the Midwest, as the mediator in the Minnesota Orchestra’s bitter labor dispute. Minnesota Orchestra Calls in Big Gun in Dispute 2013-08-30T23:17:14Z Abedin was at Clinton’s side as first lady, senator, secretary of state and presidential candidate. Hillaryland celebrated Huma Abedin’s new memoir — and relived the haunting question of ‘What if?’ 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z He grew up in Scranton, Pa., but made his name in Delaware, which he served as a U.S. senator for 36 years, riding the train into Washington every day. Joe Biden still wants to be president. Can his family endure one last campaign? 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z Milk is the only thing, aside from water, that senators are allowed to drink on the floor. The Milk Situation 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z Most of the yelling at Sasse — the rare senator with a natural feel for social media — takes place online. As the GOP’s anti-Trump, Ben Sasse picked a big fight. What would it mean to win? 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Other Twitter users shared that they appreciated the Vermont senator’s level of self-awareness. Bernie Sanders debuts viral Inauguration Day ‘chairman’ sweater for charity 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator with a populist streak and a penchant for wearing sweater vests, is sounding like a candidate who realizes he must win Ohio to retain credibility as the main Romney rival. On "Super Tuesday," Romney and Santorum in fierce Ohio battle 2012-03-06T06:06:08Z He was named ambassador to India and at the United Nations, and ended up serving four happy terms as senator from New York, back in the Democratic mainstream. The odd couple 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z Some senators filed through the Capitol basement at the end of Saturday’s proceedings, boarding congressional subway cars that whisked them toward their offices and whatever passed for a weekend. Keep your mouth shut, except to yawn: Oh, the trials of impeachment 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z In dramatic testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, former FBI director Comey admits, under intense questioning from Democratic senators, that he cannot say “with absolute certainty” that Vice President Pence is not a Russian citizen. Dave Barry’s Year in Review: Russia Mania, covfefe and the Category 5 weirdness of 2017 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z It was my first week as the Georgia senator’s driver, a job I leaped at after interning in Isakson’s office. Perspective | Johnny Isakson was a truly likable politician. That’s rare. 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has testified previously that she would be surprised if there were other examples, but senators have been skeptical. Library of Congress taps 25 sounds for registry 2012-05-23T14:47:00Z In impeachment trials, the senators serve as jurors, but they also set the rules. Watch Live: Donald Trump’s Impeachment Trial Begins in the Senate 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z "Chuck, 35 years ago, you were 50 and a senator!"Bee reminded Grassly. Samantha Bee has a message: “It’s never OK to try to rape somebody – not even in high schoo... 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z The senator emphasized the need for maintaining “cultural infrastructure.” If You Like the Arts, Save the N.E.A., Advocates Tell Lawmakers 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z They were both first graders and Paul leveled the future senator within seconds. Tested by Tragedy, Two Politicians Review Their Records — Mistakes Included 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Nearly three dozen senators closed ranks, including many in his party, and called for him to step down. Al Franken has a new comedy tour. His targets? Former Senate colleagues. 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z What will Republican senators confirm as a federal judge if President Trump nominates it? Style Invitational Week 1360: The lyin’ about winter — a fictoid contest 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Another option would allow a bipartisan group of five Democratic and five Republican senators to force a vote in that body on recommendations it develops if the new congressional committee stalls. Debt crisis focus shifts to Senate 2011-07-30T03:46:00Z When you return to your states, invite your local governor, state legislator, congressman and senator to your theater and fill it with those who work with you along with video store employees and their families. Hollywood "terrible" at marketing itself: lobbyist 2011-03-29T23:32:58Z But he couldn’t back the senator because she doesn’t really stand a chance in the 2020 contest. Perspective | Trump won’t stop coining nasty nicknames for his foes — but the media must stop amplifying them. 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Kerry, the former Massachusetts senator and Democratic presidential nominee, has signed a book deal with Simon & Schuster, the publisher told The Associated Press on Thursday. John Kerry to Write Memoir for Simon & Schuster 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z I also enjoyed the synchronicity of this detail: he was a senator from Connecticut, which was true of the only other Jew ever offered the vice presidency. Bullied, autistic and obsessed with presidents: How the 2000 presidential election changed my life 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z He points out that, in all of its history, America has elected only three black senators and two black governors. Books of The Times: One Nation, Still Divisible by Race 2011-08-11T22:00:15Z She was comforted through the night by Elizabeth Dixon, the wife of a U.S. senator. Abraham Lincoln’s assassination: Great joy, then a gunshot 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z The song tells of a senator with a lisp who covets a reluctant female gondolier. Opera Review: Anna Netrebko in Bel Canto Mode, for ‘L’Elisir d’Amore’ 2014-01-19T22:04:19Z Durbin, the state’s senior senator, said he backs a plan by Senate Majority Leader , D-Nev., that would create a 12-member bipartisan panel, made up equally of senators, representatives, Democrats and Republicans, to consider deficit reduction. Durbin: 'Gang of 6' plan not part of debt talks 2011-07-20T19:57:00Z In July, the senator from Texas stood onstage at the Republican National Convention and told a dyspeptic crowd to “vote your conscience” — essentially giving them license to defect from the imminent nominee. How America became a grudgeocracy 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z And though she lost to the suave senator in 2008, Hillary Clinton, not being a guy, approaches the art form with an uninformed enthusiasm that, if not smooth, plays relatable with voters: Dancing with the political stars: A deep analysis of the candidates’ usually terrible dance moves 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z When Richard decides to run for state senator as a strict law-and-order candidate, he abruptly ends the affair and for a while sends Virginia cash in the mail to try to keep her quiet. Movie Review: Schizophrenia in Dustin Lance Black?s Film ?Virginia? 2012-05-17T23:03:55Z As a senator, she initiated nothing of substance, and as Secretary of State, she stumbled into one disastrous fiasco after another, escalating the destabilization of North Africa and the Mideast. “Sexism has nothing to do with it”: Camille Paglia on Hillary Clinton, Gloria Steinem — and why New Hampshire women broke for Bernie Sanders 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z The museum’s heart is a splendidly restored courtroom, where the Senate’s Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce held its seventh hearing in 1950, led by Estes Kefauver, a Democratic senator from Tennessee. Museum Review: Mob Museum Opens in Las Vegas 2012-02-14T00:58:51Z Many authors who signed on with the site’s publishing arm, including former Republican senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, are fuming about allegedly not receiving royalties owed to them. Inside the spectacular fall of the granddaddy of right-wing conspiracy sites 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z It’s up to presidents and senators to make that distance shorter, to turn visions into policy and actually govern. Born in the U.S.A.: When the president met the Boss 2012-05-28T18:00:00Z Both the senator’s and Ms. Reinstein’s efforts languished, but Mr. Sokolowski said the resulting national media coverage helped put the word on a trajectory to eventually join the dictionary. Attention, New Englanders: Fluffernutter Is Now a Word 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Specifically, the G.A.O. accepted a request from two Democratic senators to look into the E.P.A.’s dismissal of scientists from agency boards that advise on health and scientific matters. Expenses, Emails and a Phone Booth: The Investigations Faced by Scott Pruitt 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z He served longer than all but three senators in history. Funeral Mass under way for Ted Kennedy's daughter 2011-09-21T15:51:07Z Twenty-one senators have urged him to stop his “reckless acquisition and destruction of newspapers,” and mayors bemoan his papers’ shrinking coverage of their cities. Heath Freeman is the hedge fund guy who says he wants to save local news. Somehow, no one’s buying it. 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Since Tuesday, she has been described as the “youthful daughter of Indian immigrants,” and by one slightly confused GOP senator from Wisconsin, Ron Johnson, as simply, “an immigrant.” For Nikki Haley and other politicians, immigrant ties are a dual-edged sword 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z In May, the New York Times reported — before McCain's death — that his family had requested that Trump not attend the senator's funeral. Conan O’Brien joked about Trump not being invited to McCain’s funeral, but suggested an alter... 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Helms, of course, was the segregationist and Cold Warrior who served as a North Carolina senator between the early 1970s and into the 21st century. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z The gloves are off at tonight’s Republican debate, with even the rhetorically flaccid senator from Florida trying to get a few licks in. The GOP hopefuls are getting beyond ugly in the most entertaining debate to date 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z The former U.S. senator from North Carolina was acquitted in 2012 in a case involving nearly $1 million to help hide Hunter's pregnancy. John Edwards' former mistress says she'll always love him 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z But “the role of senator’s spouse? That wasn’t as natural a fit,” she recalled in her conversation with the governors’ spouses. Jill Biden is getting right to work — on both her jobs 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z Doodles and giggles: Some senators spend impeachment trial in distraction = I scanned phone, Googled at “presidential transgressions committed,” dismal! Style Invitational Week 1427: Rocky of ages, or Badenov for you? 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z There’s some progress to be made: Just four years ago, when Ms. Jayapal was a state senator, she celebrated India’s Independence Day by bringing in samosas for the Republican and Democratic caucuses. On Capitol Hill, the Caucus Grows for Diwali 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z “You can block a bill in the Senate with 41 senators representing something like 11 percent of the population,” says Dionne, citing an example of rural America’s disproportionate influence. Do Democrats hate cities? 2012-09-08T17:00:00Z A close friend of the Kennedy family, Williams sang "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" at the funeral of Robert F. Kennedy after the New York senator was assassinated during the 1968 presidential campaign. Singer Andy Williams reveals he has cancer: CNN 2011-11-06T20:37:55Z Talmadge, meanwhile, once declared that "God advocates segregation" and boycotted the Democratic National Convention, along with a dozen other southern senators, after former President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Whoopi rips Democrats for suggesting Biden is a racist 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Louis, 55, a captain with the New Orleans Fire Department, picked the former Pennsylvania senator through the process of elimination. Louisiana primary voters hardly enthusiastic 2012-03-24T22:27:00Z “The senator gave his whorehearted support to the plan to route the oil pipeline through the bald eagle sanctuary.” Style Invitational Week 1090: Talk undirty to us, in a poem with a ‘rude-sounding’ word We're defining political action in terms of voting, protesting, signing petitions, and contacting representatives and senators. Did the “The Daily Show” make us smarter voters or not? Two satire experts face off 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z But that the senator continued to do so as she ascended the political ranks served two purposes. Kyrsten Sinema’s Style Keeps Us Guessing 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z She typed up everything she had learned about Opana and the role of the FDA, and dropped it off at senators’ offices. These mothers saw the opioid epidemic before anyone else. No one listened 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z Kamala Harris’s new memoir, “The Truths We Hold: An American Journey,” begins with a prologue set on Nov. 8, 2016, the night Harris was elected a United States senator from California. With a Possible Presidential Bid in 2020, Kamala Harris Talks About Her New Book 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Below are the names of the new members of the 114th Congress, along with many incumbent senators. Style Invitational Week 1107: Bill us now — our biennial ‘joint legislation’ contest 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z “Mark Warner is the culinary Cousteau for senators hoping to find new hip places in Washington,” Mr. Schumer said. Restaurants in D.C. Are Moving Into Residential Neighborhoods 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z Late last month, two New Jersey state senators introduced a bill that would ban tall buildings along the Palisades, prohibiting buildings taller than 35 feet within 2,000 feet of the Palisades cliffs. ArtsBeat: More Opposition to the LG Headquarters Beside the Palisades 2014-05-09T23:54:10Z Do you think your colleagues are more able to hear that because you say it as a fellow senator? Sen. Tammy Duckworth says it was food stamps that allowed her to stay in high school 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z “Rules, what little bit we have left, that maybe makes us take pause before we jump off of that bridge,” the West Virginia senator cautioned that day, on the Senate floor. Freshman blues: Inside the new House Democrats’ unsettling first year 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z Historian Joshua Zeitz offers Henry Clay, the senator and big Whig who ran for president in three separate decades of the 19th century. Ron DeSantis has reached a perilous point: Inevitability 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z Sittenfeld didn’t become a senator, but his voice mail is full of Democrats urging him to run for the House of Representatives. Jason Kander lost a big Senate race. In today’s Democratic Party, he’s still a rising star. 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z The Abscam sting lead to the conviction of a senator and five members of the House of Representatives on charges of bribery and conspiracy. Robert De Niro booked for David O Russell's Abscam FBI thriller 2013-04-09T14:32:13Z Mr. Dean and Barry Jr. would visit the senator in Washington, and Mr. Dean was captivated. John Dean, Who Worked for Nixon, Sizes Up Trump 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z "The Tonight Show" announced Friday that the former Pennsylvania senator will appear on Leno's Burbank stage on May 8. Consolation prize: Santorum heads to Jay Leno show 2012-04-28T00:08:08Z The senator from Vermont discusses capitalism’s negative effects on society. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z The late-night host marveled at how for most Republican senators, Kavanaugh's "poor performance" was irrelevant, because they had already decided to stand by him. John Oliver dedicates entire episode to exposing hypocrisy of GOP on Brett Kavanaugh 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z The senator garnered respect from members of both parties, and cross-aisle relationships were therefore typical. The surprising and enduring friendship of Warren Beatty and John McCain 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z “Make sure to maintain an egress to allow movement of other senators and staff at all times,” it read. Inside the heaving, jostling Capitol media mob: ‘We are one tripped senator away’ from disaster. 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z At Monday’s confirmation hearings, Republican senators seemed to want to be congratulated for refraining to treat Jackson the same way that Kavanaugh was treated. Perspective | Indelible in the hippocampus is Brett Kavanaugh 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z But by placing blame on the wives, these commentators get to spread harmful messages against the president and senator while having plausible deniability against charges of ableism. Perspective | How Gisele Fetterman became the right wing’s favorite super villain 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z As for the senator in question, Sanders took his headline mitten moment in stride. Bernie Sanders’ mittens trend on Inauguration Day, Twitter reacts: ‘We want to keep warm’ 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z In December, it sent a letter to island senators, predicting tourism losses in the wake of same-sex marriage restriction. How Reversal on Same-Sex Marriage Could Affect Bermuda Tourism 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z The senators and the Facebook founder spoke different languages, and there was no simultaneous translation. Perspective | Members of Congress can’t possibly regulate Facebook. They don’t understand it. 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z The senator cautiously sympathizes with Travis, perhaps unknowingly leading to his later violent deeds. Leonard Harris, TV Critic With Star Turn, Dies at 81 2011-08-31T04:38:59Z No wonder the senator wrote this book in secret. Senator Flake, a Republican, Explains Why He Didn’t Vote for Trump 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z "Not the voice of the generation of the senators who are voting, but for the youth of this country -- the generation affected by this law and whose children will be affected." Lady Gaga urges repeal of gay military ban 2010-09-17T21:39:00Z I did speak to that Utah state senator, and we have very different beliefs about all this. There's no shame in "A Sexplanation," a fun, honest documentary that steps in where sex ed left off 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z The normally voluble, white-haired senator was convivial, then, as Kennedy got going, fell silent. Robert Kennedy Jr.’s belief in autism-vaccine connection, and its political peril The former North Carolina senator and his wife are now separated. Estranged aide to John Edwards reaches movie deal 2010-07-16T14:43:00Z The senator duly beamed like someone who knows spring is just around the corner. Iowa's unreliable polls are like Groundhog Day all over again 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z A package emitting a foul odor was sent to a senator. Just Asking a bomb tech: ‘Don’t take me to a movie theater when there’s bombings’ When I arrived, Isakson — who, by the way, was a multimillionaire real estate executive in addition to being a senator — seemed almost apologetic, as if he were imposing on a friend for the ride. Perspective | Johnny Isakson was a truly likable politician. That’s rare. 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z There was a senator suggesting you’d taken inspiration for your charges from “The Exorcist.” Anita Hill Has Some Perspective to Offer 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z Ellis took a moment to confirm she made Sanders’ mittens hours after the senator went viral. Bernie Sanders’ mittens trend on Inauguration Day, Twitter reacts: ‘We want to keep warm’ 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z At the same time, some GOP senators spoke of the need to pull together. Senate debt vote delayed, Reid optimistic 2011-07-31T03:08:00Z The senator from Vermont wrote that, “while the abortion issue must remain on the front burner, it would be political malpractice for Democrats to ignore the state of the economy.” Perspective | This is your regular reminder that abortion access is an economic issue 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z He’s found common ground with such staunch conservatives as David Vitter of Louisiana, considers the present attorney general, Jeff Sessions, a personal friend and once wrote a country song with the Utah senator Orrin Hatch. Al Franken Has Been Sitting on Jokes for a Decade. Now He’s Ready to Tell Them. 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z On Wednesday, Pryor's spokeswoman called the internship listing "a hoax" and alleged that the perpetrator was "fraudulently impersonating a U.S. senator." APNewsBreak: Donor says he offered internship 2012-04-26T19:07:08Z “The Secret Service’s efforts to date in investigating its own employees should not be discounted,” Edwards told senators. Library of Congress taps 25 sounds for registry 2012-05-23T14:47:00Z Survival in Washington requires enough self-awareness to distinguish between the sincere and the suck-ups, says former senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming, who spent 18 years in Washington. Sucking up has always been part of Washington culture. In the Trump era, it’s a sport. 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z A while ago, Cory Booker, the New Jersey senator and 2020 Presidential candidate, caused a flurry on Twitter when he said that if he wins the Democratic nomination he “will have a woman running mate.” Female Trouble: The Debate Over “Woman” as an Adjective 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z A dedication to “all 52” — Republican senators, presumably — prefaced the new “Turtleneck,” arguably the National’s punkiest tune ever. Review | The National stay suave while shaking things up 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z This new biography complicates the legacy of Benjamin, a 19th-century New Orleans lawyer and one of the first Jewish senators in America, who used his nimble legal mind to defend slavery and the Confederacy. Newly Published, From the Extraterrestrial to East Jersey State Prison 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z She says she’s been in contact with her senators, the CDC and even the Coast Guard. Cruise ship worker says she's stuck on boat, spends '21 hours a day' in '200-square-foot' room 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z She sat with Hillary for 35 hours of interviews, going back over her various – and often conflicting – incarnations as lawyer, first lady, senator and globe-trotting secretary of state. 'As guarded as Fort Knox': the inside story of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z Under law, in the event of a shutdown, senators and representatives still receive salaries. The government doesn’t need a shutdown. But it may need a timeout. 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z He also recalls how he once — unknowingly — performed a private gig with Texas Republican senator Ted Cruz in attendance. Jason Isbell’s interview with “Pod Save America”: 6 things we learned 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z Ornstein agreed, if only because senators would start feeling like filibusters were cramping their style. No standing, no marathon speeches, no catheter bags: How filibustering got way too easy 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z His boss, a Democrat, lost his race to be the next senator from Iowa earlier this month. Your boss lost an election, you lost a job — but Tom Manatos is here to save the day. The 56-year-old California senator, the daughter of immigrants from Jamaica and India, celebrated an evening of history-making firsts, including being elected as the first Black vice president and first South Asian vice president. Chef reveals menu of Kamala Harris victory dinner at Delaware restaurant: 'It was very last-minute' 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z "I am a senator from New York," she said. Democrats Focus on Iraq In Contentious Second Debate 2007-06-04T10:00:00Z Picture this: A communist Chilean poet who served as a senator and diplomat and later went on to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Director Pablo Larraín is this awards season's double threat with 'Jackie' and the poet caper 'Neruda' 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Then it showed the senator in a different setting voicing opposition to universal background checks for gun buyers. The TV Watch: John Oliver Steps in as ‘Daily Show’ Replacement 2013-06-12T20:45:03Z Free of media moguls, high-profile martyrs, would-be senators, billionaires and all their junior staff hustlers, it’s a lot easier to see things clearly. Is it possible to recover from narcissism? 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Revealing her harassers would satisfy our curiosity and expose some senators for the jerks they are, but it’s much better in the long run for Gillibrand to keep their names secret. Why Kirsten Gillibrand Should Keep Her Harassers' Names Secret 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z “I’m not sure he would be a good senator,” she laughed. Mickey Kaus Seeks to Correct the Flaws of Liberalism 2010-06-04T21:43:00Z In the 2006 documentary “Al Franken: God Spoke,” Mr. Franken, the comedian, activist and future senator from Minnesota, offered a quote that would prove prescient for more than its choice of verb: “Celebrity trumps ideology.” Franken and Trump, Hiding Behind Their ‘Jokes’ 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Some criticized Mr. Biden for tactically employing the term to appeal to Muslim voters, despite his history of endorsing American military interference in the Middle East as a senator and vice president. The Perfect Phrase for This Relentless Year 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z The good-looking son of the local newspaper publisher and state senator, Bill glided through life protected by the unseen forces of wealth and privilege. Even in Hemingway’s Woods, Sometimes a Man Needs to Cry 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z Abedin never describes it as an assault, and doesn’t name the senator. Huma Abedin, loyal aide and betrayed wife, picks up the mic 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z The seventy-three-year-old senator laughed gamely but tried to move the conversation along. Swingin’ Bernie Sanders 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z She earned this position by becoming one of the first Galactic senators to publicly object to Emperor Palpatine’s rise to power during the Clone Wars. A Guide to the Returning Star Wars Characters in Rogue One 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z Among the audience members was Chuck Schumer, the U.S. senator from New York, who waved to the crowd and gestured thumbs up as he exited the theater. Beautiful! Carole King shows up as herself in Broadway bio 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z Tester experienced this after he and nine other moderate senators took a meeting with him at the White House. Jon Tester could teach Democrats a lot about rural America — if he can keep his Senate seat 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z That killer clown postcard turned out to be bankrolled by dark money, which the Republican state senator Llew Jones defines here as “advertising where you don’t know who’s paying for the ads.” Review: Tracking ‘Dark Money’ in Montana Elections 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Regardless, the senator was quickly put in his rightful place by "The View" panel, who slams Cruz for assuming he knows anything about women. “The View” slams Ted Cruz for questioning Pete Davidson’s sex appeal: “This gives me heebie-jeebies" 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Stewart went on to call Mr. Graham, a foreign-policy hawk, “delusional,” but the senator said in an interview on Wednesday that he harbored no ill will. They’ll Just Hate to See Jon Stewart Go (So They Say) 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z He was one of 43 GOP senators to sign a letter Friday indicating they will not vote for the Democratic plan. Durbin: 'Fate of American economy' at stake 2011-07-30T18:57:00Z The old joke about senators is that when they look in the mirror, they all see presidential candidates. This is Joe Biden’s biggest moment. Why does he feel so small? 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z One of his most influential actions as senator was his recommendation in 1970 that James R. Thompson become first assistant U.S. attorney inChicago. Former U.S. Sen. Charles Percy dies 2011-09-17T12:43:00Z Instead of a partner to the first female president, one of a hundred senators. Tim Kaine is back at his old Senate job. It’s never seemed more important. 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z On the same wavelength as Le Chansonnier in terms of style, if not food, is Atelier, housed in the Vedado mansion of a former Cuban senator and also decorated with Cuban art. Journeys: Private Restaurants Try to Expand Cuba?s Menu 2012-03-16T21:28:01Z Television talk-show host and comedian Bill Maher drew harsh criticism on Saturday for using a racial epithet on his HBO series "Real Time" in an interview with a U.S. senator from Nebraska. HBO's Bill Maher faces backlash after using racial epithet 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z Public announcer: "Ladies and gentleman, will you please welcome the next senator of the great state of Michigan, Kid 'motherf---ing' Rock." Read Kid Rock's R-Rated Speech on Welfare, Gay Rights and His Political Aspirations 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z Kavanaugh was relentlessly civil, and so were the senators trying to get him to explain his opinions on reproductive law. Perspective | ‘Civility’ vs ‘hysteria’ at the Kavanaugh hearings, and what they truly mean 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z These ribald notes were written while Harding was lieutenant governor of Ohio and later through his stint as senator, stopping before his presidential inauguration in 1921. The sappy, poignant, and risqué love letters of 7 world leaders 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z Dole, a former senator from Kansas, agreed to lead the private fundraising effort, and notable figures such as Tom Brokaw and Tom Hanks were recruited. With groundbreaking, elusive Eisenhower Memorial moves from dream to reality 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z That this protest came at a moment in which a bipartisan coalition of United States senators had recently proposed legislation threatening fines for participating in a boycott of Israel suggests how fractious these issues remain. Review: In Two Israeli Plays, the Promise of Peace Keeps Receding 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z An actor made up as Trump played Caesar, who, as every high school student knows, is assassinated by Roman senators alarmed by his growing tyranny. Perspective | The president opens his mouth daily, and the American theater bites back 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z Or that virtually the entire field of climatology is perpetrating a “hoax,” as senator James Inhofe claims, in order to undermine capitalism and impose a one-world government. Is aggression genetic? 2012-05-28T22:00:00Z Civil: A parade of senators, at a stopwatched 30 minutes a pop, questioning the Supreme Court nominee about hot-button matters, including abortion. Perspective | ‘Civility’ vs ‘hysteria’ at the Kavanaugh hearings, and what they truly mean 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z She later made headlines with a prickly statement referring to her uncle not by name, but as the “junior senator from Utah,” while criticizing him for taking on the president. RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel is trying to hold together a party that Donald Trump might want to tear up 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z “We are one tripped senator away from losing our access,” the reporter said. Inside the heaving, jostling Capitol media mob: ‘We are one tripped senator away’ from disaster. 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z The senator’s publisher, Simon & Schuster, announced Thursday that it was canceling his upcoming book, “The Tyranny of Big Tech.” Perspective | Conservatives crying ‘Orwell’ are downright Orwellian 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z Instead of pursuing justice as a lawyer or saving lives as a doctor or doing nothing as a senator, she toils in a cramped office handling locker assignments and complaints about cafeteria food. ‘Tracy Flick Can’t Win’ Catches Up With a Hard-Luck High Achiever 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z Sam Brownback of Kansas, then a senator, who was among those attending on Wednesday. Groundbreaking for the Museum of African American History 2012-02-23T00:34:36Z “We’ve reached a point where senators don’t so much brag about what they’ve passed as brag about what they are going to obstruct,” Oliver lamented. John Oliver: filibusters make US Senate 'a giant non-functioning roadblock' 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z “Those who believe in nothing must bring you down, must destroy you, to achieve their own goals,” Luther is told by his father, played by Fred Dalton Thompson, the actor and former senator. 'Persecuted' Focuses on a TV Evangelist 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Thankfully, one of the senators from New York is indeed a woman. Miss America 2015 is Kira Kazantsev, who channeled Anna Kendrick 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Fuller himself appears briefly as a blackmailed American senator, but mainly “Dead Pigeon” is a valentine addressed to Mr. Fuller’s wife, the German actress Christa Lang, playing an actress turned femme fatale named Christa. Cursed Films, Blessed on Blu-ray 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z The senator swayed on the stage, her long cardigan coat flowing behind her, as she made direct eye contact with Phillips through tortoiseshell glasses. Claire McCaskill’s balancing act: How to be a moderate in immoderate times 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z Q. How did the senator explain his cowardly vote to his constituents? Style Invitational Week 1341: Portmanteautapping E to R 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z The domain name for the website is donaldjtrump.com; and if you had even perfunctorily Googled “Mark Zuckerberg’s personal senator” at 9:30 p.m., this would have been your results page. CNBC’s GOP debate dumpster fire: The moderators were no match for the lying liars on stage 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Yet because the president best positioned to deploy Hart’s gifts — Bill Clinton — was notorious for exactly the same personal weakness that scuttled Hart’s career, his administration shied away from association with the disgraced former senator. The sex scandal that wrecked American politics 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z Eight years later, Wisconsin voters sent Tammy Baldwin to Washington as the first openly gay U.S. senator. Former New Jersey governor "falls to grace" in post-scandal documentary 2013-01-19T00:25:27Z His first try to win office, in 2012, was stunningly quixotic, and he lost badly to the incumbent Maryland Democratic senator, Ben Cardin, after a surprise victory in a large Republican primary field. Dan Bongino isn’t just taking over where Rush Limbaugh left off — he’s building a conservative media universe 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z The author of this combination memoir/manifesto is the “other” Booker, not Cory Booker, the two-term United States senator from Newark. Civil Rights Memoirs 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z Their work has been repeatedly criticized for intentionally deceptive editing, though, and O’Keefe has a criminal record from an effort to illegally infiltrate a Democratic senator’s office. Analysis | What the latest James O’Keefe video leaves out 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z "And I think it will and should be reassuring" to people who like their current coverage, said Gene Sperling, an economic adviser in the Clinton White House now working for the senator from New York. Clinton Presents Plan For Universal Coverage 2007-09-18T10:00:00Z The nomenclature of the city seemed to encourage men to imagine greatness for themselves as generals, captains of industry, presidents, senators. Rebecca Solnit: if I were a man 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z He has continued his political ascent – he’s now a California state senator, authoring social-justice legislation. She was a crack addict. He was a rising political star. Then their worlds collided 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Notable omissions from the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction include the bipartisan Gang of Six senators who forged a $4-trillion deficit reduction package modeled on the fiscal commission, and Rep. GOP announces 'super committee' selections 2011-08-11T03:10:00Z Her delivery is even, serious, passionate but containing a quiet, justifiable rage, even as she asks senators to be brave. Sarah Silverman still loves you, America: “This is a show about trying to be open” 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Franken, the “Saturday Night Live” star who later became a Democratic senator from Minnesota, largely avoided the national press during his first years in office as he tried to redefine himself as a serious lawmaker. Celebrity politicians test voter interest in post-Trump era 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z “Absolutely not,” replied the former senator, presidential candidate and secretary of state. Perspective | The enduring Bill Clinton dilemma 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z The state’s political orbit is so minuscule that it’s possible for one man, Tom Carper, to hit an elective trifecta in less than two decades: congressman, governor and now U.S. senator. Delaware is famous for corporations, chemicals, chickens — and now, finally, a president 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z The senator tells the Martians that Texas is always ready to welcome “self-supporting and well-behaved guests.” This Week in Fiction: Robert Coover on How Real Events Can Color Fiction 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z Trump, he notes, has publicly attacked allies such as Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Republican senators and others, only to later embrace them. Bannon may have lost his fight with Trump — but what does that mean for Breitbart? 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Last summer, Georgia's senior senator, Johnny Isakson, announced he was leaving office because of ill health. The young and eventful Senate career of wealthy Georgia businesswoman Kelly Loeffler 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z He also told senators that Obama’s security was never at risk. Library of Congress taps 25 sounds for registry 2012-05-23T14:47:00Z There, he was fortuitously thrown together with a relative of Mr. Javits, who is a great-nephew of the late senator Jacob K. Javits. Di Mondo May Be the Most-Photographed Man in New York 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z Two new Democratic senators were sworn into office Wednesday, making the Republican majority in the U.S. Two Democrats join the Senate, which is now split, 51-49 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z Still, the senator said he believes the policy should balance thorough verification with accessibility. Durbin seeks help reducing lunch fraud risk 2012-01-14T00:03:00Z Now they know to listen to women senators and leaders in Congress. Table For Three: Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Nancy Pelosi: A Power Lunch, Times Two 2014-04-04T22:47:29Z A year ago she was nobody, a small-town Republican state senator with a vision of filling a U.S. Joni Ernst, trumpeting ‘the Iowa way,’ shakes up her state More than two dozen senators, both male and female, joined her. Perspective | Kirsten Gillibrand didn't just play the gender card. She defiantly played the whole deck. 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z Ms. Pelosi begins “Meet the Donors” with scenes of Jimmy Stewart as the boy-scout senator in “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” and ends it with archival, black-and-white film of people voting. Review: ‘Meet the Donors: Does Money Talk?’ Explores Campaign Contributors 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z "The Golden Globes celebrates entertainers who are an influence on young fans," the four Democratic senators wrote on Tuesday. U.S. senators slam 'glamorization' of e-cigarettes at Golden Globes 2014-01-15T01:28:21Z “In his quest to win votes from a younger generation, Congressman Michaud has gone way over the line by participating in this depraved insult to Maine’s senior senator.” Republicans Condemn Maine Gubernatorial Candidate for Controversial Video 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Democrat Hillary Clinton, a former secretary of state and U.S. senator, is married to former president Bill Clinton. Campaign 2016: Understanding the presidential election 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z Bernstein said he wasn’t violating any confidentiality pledges in listing the senators. Carl Bernstein says 21 GOP senators contemptuous of Trump 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z The junior senator from Pennsylvania could do his job, and stay comfortable — even though he got there late. A look under the hoodie: Inside Sen. John Fetterman’s first week back 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z On Tuesday, Kasie Hunt, a correspondent for NBC, tweeted a series of reactions from senators when she asked them about Trump’s photo op: ‘This can’t be happening’: An oral history of 48 surreal, violent, biblical minutes in Washington 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z As the senator concluded her remarks, however, Collins suggested that this year's race had been uniquely disturbing. Last stand of the Republican moderate 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z The Wisconsin senator was just getting started with his reckless charges of vast communist conspiracies inside the U.S. government. The Man Who Made Presidents Cringe: HBO’s Herblock 2014-01-27T10:45:19Z Consider the Republican senators who said they couldn’t remember whether they heard Trump use his atrocious words in the meeting they attended, or denied he said them. Perspective | The words Trump uses, and the words the media must use in response 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z This resulted in the comedian and the senator sharing a heartfelt telephone exchange and making headlines. Who Are the Women of ‘A Black Lady Sketch Show’? A Quick Primer 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z To which, the senator responded with urgency, “Yes! Your world is on fire!” Ted Cruz mercilessly skewered by Seth Meyers in amazing late-night interview 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z Bin Laden is a UAS senator — and influential chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee. 'The Mirage': Matt Ruff's novel of 9/11 role reversal 2012-02-02T21:03:04Z The former U.S. senator and one-time Republican presidential hopeful was a small-town Southern lawyer early in his career, long before he turned to acting. John Grisham's 'Time to Kill' adapted for Broadway stage 2013-09-16T23:18:57Z And, there was hardly a glimmer of the angry Graham from last week’s hearing, a version of the senator that even Trump seemed surprised by. Why is Lindsey Graham acting like this? 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z He represented the senator’s most strident supporters, painted in broad strokes as unwashed anti-capitalists with bad manners and a mob mentality. Online agitator. Leftist know-it-all. Is the Bernie Bro back? 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Meetings with senators, your toxoplasmosis drug returned to a reasonable cost, that sort of thing. Martin Shkreli, poor little rich bro: The most hated man in pharma is “furious” he couldn’t meet with Bernie Sanders 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z “If it weren’t for Barack Obama, it would have been a very good year,” was how he put it, after maxing out for the junior senator from Illinois. Hollywood Celebrities Choose Sides in Presidential Race 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z The French turned aside pleas from the Cornbleet family, the state's U.S. senators and the U.S. Life sentence in slaying of Loop dermatologist 2011-11-29T19:44:00Z The gallery presented the Vermont senator’s minimal manlo in various incarnations, including “When it gracefully flowed in the Washington air” and “When it puffed itself out like a glorious mane.” What’s the Deal With That Guy’s Fluffy Hair? 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z Later, when she orders the Athenian senators to step down or die, their unlikely answer — “We no longer are defensible” — is cadged from “Henry V.” Review: Shakespeare’s ‘Timon’ Gets an Occupy Athens Makeover 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z Senator Lindsey Graham, the senior senator from South Carolina, was not on “The Daily Show With Trevor Noah” for any reason except because he felt like it. Comedy Central, hire Lindsey Graham! The trash-talking senator upstages Trevor Noah with unflappable ease 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Before the fallout, the Republican senators Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Richard Burr of North Carolina had sat her down in Mr. Burr’s office to discuss a future congressional run, she said. Paula Broadwell, David Petraeus and the Afterlife of a Scandal 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z I think it's about time that in the political discourse, our presidents-to-be, our congressmen, our senators, to start bringing food-talk forward. José Andrés has no beef with Impossible Burgers, he just wants you to roast a whole cauliflower, too 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z When the American Advisors Group finally chose Mr. Thompson, a former senator from Tennessee and star of “Law & Order,” the company gave him the hard sell. New Career for Aging Celebrities: TV Pitchman 2012-03-07T23:30:00Z Both senators described the attack in the very same way on social media: “a modern-day lynching.” Perspective | Cory Booker and Kamala Harris wade into pop culture — and experience the age-old drawbacks 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z The Smithsonian Institution will not remove the Sackler name from its Asian art museum, despite a senator’s letter requesting that it do so. Smithsonian says no to senator’s request to strip Sackler name from museum 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z Two Democratic senators have asked the G.A.O. to investigate the raises as well, though that inquiry is pending the full outcome of the inspector general’s report, aides said. Expenses, Emails and a Phone Booth: The Investigations Faced by Scott Pruitt 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z And, to their shame, the senators, shamefacedly, caught him. ‘It was just awful’: The Clarence Thomas hearings, in the words of those who were there 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Sinatra and Kennedy started spending time together at the singer's home in Palm Springs and the young senator's hotel suite in Washington. When the Rat Pack ruled supreme 2010-10-07T19:29:00Z In his 40s, as a senator, Gore dove into the Caribbean to touch dead coral, and peered through a submarine periscope at the translucent underside of the Arctic. Al Gore is near the end of his quest to save the Earth. Nina Barrett just got started. 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z In July 2019, unnamed GOP senators privately expressed doubts to the New York Times about Trump’s pick for his director of national intelligence, then-Rep. Republicans have ‘concerns’ about Trump — but won’t let reporters quote them by name about it 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z Dodd said that as a senator, he supported closer economic ties between the U.S. and China, noting he backed China's entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001. Hollywood rep conciliatory in 1st China speech 2011-06-13T11:39:14Z His staff protested; the senator finished his beer, anyway. A look under the hoodie: Inside Sen. John Fetterman’s first week back 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z The senators did so this week with little fanfare. Meet the antsy kids who were also stuck at the Capitol this week 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z When asked by hosts what she was listening to in general and what she was listening to while getting high in college, the senator said, “Oh, yeah, definitely Snoop. Tupac, for sure.” Perspective | Cory Booker and Kamala Harris wade into pop culture — and experience the age-old drawbacks 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Here’s a brief look at POTUS’ many other visits on the show, from his days as a rising Illinois senator back in 2005 through his historic campaign and tumultuous presidency. Obama on “The Daily Show”: A History 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Shakespeare portrays the killing of Caesar by seven of his fellow senators as an unmitigated disaster for Rome, no matter how patriotic the intentions. Review: Can Trump Survive in Caesar’s Palace? 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z Mary O’Brien, who also serves as one of the country’s senators, was in the racehorse industry in 1992 when she fell into the business after a trip to South Africa. In Ireland, Milk Chocolate Reigns 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Gabler relates how the youngest Kennedy brother overcame ridicule and scandal to become one of the most effective senators in U.S. history. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z Yes, the Fighting Bob Fest is named for La Follette, a truly great U.S. senator who was renowned for battling the corruption of American politics by corporate money. Putting the party back in politics: The progressive legacy is revered each year in Wisconsin as corporate pols are dismissed 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z India was a "raucous democracy", the senator was told by the embassy in the Indian capital in another briefing paper, with a government that was "a true partner" of the US. WikiLeaks cables show warming relationship between India and US 2010-12-16T21:30:23Z I have some very exciting stories of having met Princess Diana or Michael Jackson or Barack Obama when he was a senator, hundreds of Nobel laureates. Producer Brian Grazer stays curious and writes about how he does it 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z When I started the book, Barack Obama was a newly elected senator from Illinois. ArtsBeat: Noah Hawley Talks About His New Novel, 'The Good Father' 2012-03-21T15:29:13Z Mrs. Clinton, 69, is the first female presidential nominee of a major political party and a former secretary of state, senator from New York and first lady of the United States and Arkansas. Hillary Clinton and America Ferrera on Pain and Progress (and Hiking) 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z The junior senator from Nebraska and author, most recently, of “Them” says he and his wife would like their children to love books: “We want them to be addicted to reading.” Ben Sasse: By the Book 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z As Jackson responded to questions from U.S. senators on Tuesday, watch parties were also a safe space to give unfiltered commentary on the proceedings, Black women said, and to cheer on Jackson’s responses. Black women are leaning into joy throughout Jackson’s hearings: ‘We need to celebrate this’ 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z Why the senator was compelled to make “TDS” his first national TV interview after an extended absence from the limelight, and not on a run-of-the-mill news program, we may never know. “Daily Show” classics: John Kerry completely bombs, Jon Stewart cleans up the mess 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z Klobuchar, the senior senator from Minnesota, is the chair of the Senate subcommittee overseeing antitrust enforcement. 15 New Books to Watch For in April 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z “Earmarks” and “compromise” aren’t necessarily dirty words for a senator who, unlike the newer legislators of tea party bent, happily fights for government spending back home. Jim Inhofe is a small-plane-flying, global-warming-denying senator. And now he’s got a gavel. 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z A ninth senator, Democrat of , won his recall election last month. Wis. victory may give GOP a national boost 2011-08-10T11:47:00Z The senator and his wife celebrated his 86th birthday in January at a Gaga show at New York's Radio City Music Hall. NJ's Lautenberg to hold fundraiser with Lady Gaga 2010-08-13T16:01:00Z The modernizing helps: Fops and poseurs and senators and generals are more easily recognizable in pinstripe suits than Greek chitons. A First-Time Visitor Inhales Stratford’s Theatrical Perfume 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z The senator begs for help, lest he be ruined by scandal, and rejects the lawyer’s advice to call the police and report an accidental drowning. Allan Topol’s ‘The Washington Lawyer’ abounds with Beltway skullduggery 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z Olivia is a Black lawyer who starts dating a hotshot White senator, which gets complicated when their relationship goes public. 15 feel-good books guaranteed to lift your spirits 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z There are only two black U.S. senators out of 100 right now, and there have only been nine in our history. Is America more racist, or more sexist? Admittedly, it’s a tough call 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z Duckworth recalls being her family’s main breadwinner as a teenager, surviving the rocket-propelled grenade that almost killed her and becoming a U.S. senator from Illinois. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z Excavation at the site found human bones with very high concentrations of lead, according to Sir Henry Fraser, a former Barbados senator and a leading advocate for the preservation of the island’s heritage. Slavery Was Part of Barbados Life for Centuries. But Its History Can Be Hard to Find 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z A delegation of American senators which visited Vietnam last year said allowing for special needs adoptions would be seen as a first step to resuming all adoptions. US and Vietnam to resume adoption program after six-year ban 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z As an Illinois state senator, Obama helped get whistleblower protection legislation passed. What happens when a whistleblower returns to work after a decade’s fight 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z The numbers for women are much better, but still not impressive — 46 women have served as U.S. senators and 37 have served as state governors. Is America more racist, or more sexist? Admittedly, it’s a tough call 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z After decades as a senator and then vice president, Biden is no stranger to the city. Joe Biden’s Washington: How the president might engage with the city Trump ignored 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z The senator, a Democrat, said he hoped other carriers would follow. Five Airlines Pledge No Carry-On Fees 2010-04-19T12:27:00Z He placed second there behind in 2008 and scored the Arizona senator’s endorsement earlier this year. High stakes for Rick Santorum at tonight's GOP debate 2012-02-22T13:47:00Z “There are so many congressmen and senators here,” he added. Exhibition Review: ?Hope for America? at the Library of Congress 2010-06-11T22:47:00Z “Everybody—senators, medical doctors, people at the grocery store—all told me, ‘Pratt helped me’ . . . fill in the blank,” she said. The Librarian of Congress and the Greatness of Humility 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z The former senator doesn’t think Manchin is doing anything wrong by wielding his vote this way. One year of ‘President Manchin’: For the Democratic agenda, all roads go through West Virginia 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z “That is not true, senator,” Tanden replied, maintaining an even tone. Neera Tanden’s confirmation fight is the first morality play of post-Trump Washington 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z And by “commoners,” Meredith means Betsy Wallace, that new senator’s wife. Review | Christina McDowell’s satire ‘The Cave Dwellers’ belongs among the essential books about Washington 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z Typically on hand in the senator’s fridge and pantry: blueberries, avocados, 1 percent milk and preserves for those English muffins — a stash seemingly ordered up by a dietitian. He likes smoothies, pinot noir, tandoori pork. Does that make Bernie a foodie? 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z On a phone call with his fellow pastors, they prayed for America’s well-being, and that one of their own, the Rev. Raphael G. Warnock, would become the state’s first Black U.S. senator. Perspective | The enduring moments of 2021, as told by Post reporters But in a private meeting with Nixon, the Illinois senator took himself out of contention for the nomination, saying that he lacked experience for the presidency. Former U.S. Sen. Charles Percy dies 2011-09-17T12:43:00Z Wherever a senator flings out an archaic racial slur, or a congressman from the Midwest insults farmers, trackers will be there. Tracking the trackers: What it’s like to have the most mind-numbing job in a campaign But what people remember isn’t that she was right, say when she gifted an anti-reproductive rights male senator a chastity belt. Seeing Allred: the life of the outspoken equal rights lawyer 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z Kennedy, a liberal standard bearer and consummate congressional dealmaker known as "the lion of the Senate," died of cancer last year, aged 77, after 47 years as a senator. Film shows Kennedy battle for immigration reform 2010-03-23T22:19:00Z Mike Gravel, a former Democratic senator from Alaska, said Hollywood had brainwashed its audiences into thinking negatively about Iran. ‘Argo’ just another insult by Hollywood, Iranians say 2013-02-19T06:28:19Z So on Tuesday, your city or county will choose one representative and your state may choose one of its two senators. On Election Day, cast your vote for the best book about elections A semi-circular hedge is home to a group of Roman senators, their stone robes mouldered by time. Britain's garden state 2010-06-08T20:29:00Z The award was created by Jean Kennedy Smith, a former United States ambassador to Ireland, in honor of her brother, Edward M. Kennedy, the former senator from Massachusetts. Ayad Akhtar Wins Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Once, in an Oklahoma airport, she bumped into Arlen Specter, the Pennsylvania senator who had accused her of perjury and who died in 2012. Anita Hill Is Celebrated in the Documentary ‘Anita’ 2014-03-12T11:00:02Z Alex Smith, a Phi Mu alum and former Machine student senator, said that "something just felt really dark and ugly about" The Machine. "Bama Rush": The 7 biggest revelations from Max's University of Alabama sorority rush documentary 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Watch as the senators begin their debate over the process and hear the opening arguments in the live stream above. Watch Live: Donald Trump’s Impeachment Trial Begins in the Senate 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z Tuesday's election — an attempt to recall six Republican state senators — was the first test of voter sentiment since the summer's debate over the national debt and the renewed stalling of the economy. Wisconsin recall election a test of voter sentiment 2011-08-11T07:03:00Z Seven United States senators — including Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts — expressed their views on the case in behalf of the heirs. After 75 Years and 15 Claims, a Bid to Regain Lost Art Inches Forward 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z They’ve helped to raise $1.8 million in the last five days for charitable organizations in Sanders’ home state of Vermont, the independent senator announced Wednesday. Bernie Sanders’ mittens, memes help raise $1.8M for charity 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z In January, just before his inauguration, he told a Republican senator that he wanted to investigate it and didn’t think it was his voice. Who’s taping now? In Trump’s world, everything is recorded. 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z Jefferson Davis, the man who would eventually become the Confederacy's first and only president, was originally a senator from Mississippi who opposed early calls for secession. 7 misconceptions about the Civil War 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z When her former colleague was accused of sexual misconduct, Gillibrand was the first senator to call for his resignation. Perspective | Kirsten Gillibrand didn't just play the gender card. She defiantly played the whole deck. 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z In July, a government senator said he was drafting a private member's bill aimed at legalizing same-sex marriage, but Turnbull said he would not allow the bill to be voted on. Australia to hold postal vote to decide on same-sex marriage law 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z Comcast, in a statement, took issue with several of the senators' characterizations. U.S. senators oppose Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z In their letter to Wheeler and Holder, the six senators said Comcast was in a unique position. U.S. senators oppose Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z “Information got out because of the senators’ ability to say anything.” Anita Hill reflects on her fateful testimony, 23 years later 2014-03-26T21:44:39Z After abandoning a brief campaign to oust a Republican senator in Wyoming, Ms. Cheney founded a new advocacy group with her father, called Alliance for a Strong America, to promote tough national security policies. Review: In ‘Exceptional,’ the Cheneys Make Obama the Villain 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z In yet another sign of 's rising status, President Obama's campaign is taking aim at the former Pennsylvania senator. Obama campaign memo targets Santorum 2012-02-21T18:02:00Z The series was Page’s idea, and it involves them going to parts of the world where coming out doesn’t win you a standing ovation: Jamaica, Japan, or lunch with a US Republican senator. Ellen Page: ‘Being out became more important than any movie’ 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z The comedy portrays four Republican U.S. senators cohabiting a Washington, D.C., house while facing various hurdles in an election year. Amazon tests techie comedy 'Betas' in original programming push 2013-11-21T22:58:40Z Today Harry wouldn’t be spending his millions to buy himself a senator. | 'Born Yesterday': Daffy Blonde Gets Wise to Washington 2011-04-25T02:01:07Z The senator also said the show set to begin airing Jan. 3 plays to ugly, inaccurate stereotypes about the people of his home state. W.Va. senator to MTV: Cancel 'Buck Wild' series 2012-12-08T13:38:11Z On “One Life to Live,” Dorian Lord, a United States senator, gets herself into a vaguely defined scandal that has something to do with C.I.A. black ops. Critic’s Notebook: ‘All My Children’ and ‘One Life to Live,’ on Hulu and iTunes 2013-05-03T21:37:46Z While introducing Sanders at an Atlanta rally last month, the rapper explained that he spent five hours with the Vermont senator, including a shared meal at a local soul food restaurant. “Talking Shop with Bernie Sanders”: Watch Killer Mike’s full 6-part interview 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z The senator said he had been "pro-life all of my life" but also believed in "some exceptions to abortion bans." "The View" slams Joe Manchin’s opposition to abortion bill, says "these fools" need to be voted out 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z It is true, however, that in the late 1990s, as state senator of Illinois, Obama wrote him "a personal reference, stating that he knew me" when Siddiqi was applying for jobs in the dotcom industry. Barack Obama and his wild, drug-taking roomie 2012-10-03T15:08:57Z Now Mr. Hoylman, as a novice state senator, is in a position to do something about it. In New York, a Push for Compensated Surrogacy 2014-02-19T21:59:45Z It’s because the hearings are theater, enacted largely for the benefit of the viewers: the famed “American public,” the senators kept addressing. Pearls, Pumps and Precedent in the Case of Amy Coney Barrett 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z When she was a state senator, she fought, albeit unsuccessfully, for an amendment to the state constitution to prohibit . Michele Bachmann and the Making of an Acolyte 2011-09-23T21:25:59Z Then she seamlessly pivoted to his history, when he was a Delaware senator, of opposing federally mandated school integration, including busing. Democratic debate night 2: Kamala Harris knew she was on TV and it paid off 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z He’s the former Alaska senator who, in 2006, described the Internet as “a series of tubes.” Books of The Times: ‘Tubes,’ by Andrew Blum, Explores Physical Reality of the Web 2012-06-19T14:31:24Z But in the race for a spot in Fontanez’s dating profile, the former senator from Delaware emerged from a crowded field as the winner. Analysis | Why is Joe Biden all over Tinder? How the former vice president became the Internet’s favorite wingman. 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z Southern politicians find themselves especially at a loss; their only platform had been white supremacy, one senator laments. Two Classic American Novels About the Madness and Beauty of Race 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z She officially canceled her run as the senator's wife in 1982 and moved to Bel-Air, Calif. By the end of 1983, she was burned out, bloated and abusing alcohol and pills. Obituary: Elizabeth Taylor, of movies and men 2011-03-24T02:49:21Z At the hearing, Hill sat alone at a table in front of a long row of white male senators. Anita Hill and her 1991 congressional defenders to Joe Biden: You were part of the problem 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z In 1993, the country had just put the former Arkansas governor Bill Clinton in the White House, with the former Tennessee senator Al Gore as his vice president. When John Grisham Movies Were King 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z The characters are rounded out by Lyssa’s father — a Republican senator from Indiana — and Lyssa’s black Jewish doctor friend and confidante, Judith, who’s on some sort of psychotic edge after years of fertility drug treatments. The political wrath of Wendy Wasserstein 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z “Your father was a collaborator, a criminal, a symbol of what haunts the nation to this day,” says the senator who recruits Jakub for the journey. Meet an Intergalactic Spider in ‘Spaceman of Bohemia’ 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z “The senator, he drives this train,” Mr. Weaver said. Will This Guy Shut Off the Lights in the Sanders Campaign? 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z Until recently, Mr. Sandico said he was only slightly aware of Mr. Sanders, whom he had seen on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” and was torn between the senator and Mrs. Clinton. The House D.J. of the Bernie Sanders Campaign 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z They noted that nearly two dozen Democratic senators, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi and tens of thousands of party activists already backed the idea. Obama gets party pressure on gay marriage 2012-04-10T01:42:00Z He is head of the newly formed Republican delegation in a bipartisan group of senators, led by Murphy, that is trying to hammer out a piece of legislation both parties could agree on. Chris Murphy’s gun-control crusade has arrived back where it began 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z I knew that I’d get some tough questions from some senators. Ketanji Brown Jackson on being a ‘first’ and why she loves ‘Survivor’ 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z Both campaigns appear hellbent on clinching the 20 electoral votes in this state, where Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden was born and where he was long known as its “third senator.” One week in the life of Philadelphia: A death, protests, the pandemic and election mayhem 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z Why, the digital Fourth Estate demanded to know, wasn't the African American senator from Illinois, Barack Obama, wearing an American flag lapel-pin 24/7? William Pope.L sets the U.S. flag waving at the MOCA/Geffen 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z As a United States senator, Kennedy no longer lorded over King and had fewer plums to dispense. Book excerpt: The untold story of MLK and RFK 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z The event that propelled Duckworth into the public eye is the one for which she is still best known; it also ties to her public image, the rare senator in a wheelchair. Tammy Duckworth Was a Survivor Long Before Her Helicopter Was Shot Down 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z “He would make himself accessible to any reporter anywhere who wanted to talk about the Keating Five, and he wouldn’t let the controversy detract from his work as a senator.” John McCain knew how to make journalists love him 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z On ABC, Jimmy Kimmel called Cruz “a snake on a plane,” highlighting the senator’s past support for Trump’s aggressive security measures on the U.S.-Mexico border. Late-night hosts, TV pundits slam Cruz for taking ‘the world’s shortest spring break’ to Cancún 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z But on that same day, a quarter-century after her troubling statements on equality, senators asked her whether she still believed that same-sex relationships were “immoral,” as she’d once implied. Perspective | Was everyone terrible 30 years ago? 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z The New York Times, among others, sent a sketch artist to capture images, including a senator nodding off only a few hours in. Perspective | Senate press restrictions have an ugly goal: Putting distance between the public and Trump’s impeachment trial 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z “Ivanka Trump met with Republican senators today to talk about paid family leave. The senators were like: ‘We’ll totally pay for your family to leave! Late-Night TV Highlights in 2017: Trump, Russia, Weinstein and More 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Cory Booker, 46, is the junior U.S. senator from New Jersey and former mayor of Newark. Cory Booker on the perils of heroism 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z "She gets to be the first female senator in Tennessee, and she's Trump in a wig," Swift says. Taylor Swift skewers Marsha Blackburn for representing "no female interests": “She’s Trump in a wig" 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z Subsequent installments cover her time as the first lady of the United States, as a United States senator and ultimately as a presidential candidate. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Hillary’ and ‘Spenser Confidential’ 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z Among those who came calling was the senator from New York, Hillary Clinton; she sat for several interviews with him and described him as “a personal friend.” How Ed Schultz transformed from MSNBC lefty to the American face of Moscow media 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z “I for one am tired of being afraid,” a Southern senator says in the play, reversing his stance on gun control after a massacre at his children’s school. The Pen and the Trigger Finger: Examining Gun Violence Onstage 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Maine, which has two moderate Republican U.S. senators, has not voted Republican in a presidential election since 1988. Narrow Maine caucus win for Romney 2012-02-12T02:37:02Z After the second senator, Andrew Maynard, followed suit, there was no longer enough votes to repeal Connecticut’s death penalty and the bill never made it to the Senate floor. Death Penalty opponents’ unlikely allies 2012-08-20T18:52:00Z Right now, with his life upside down, the senators are Priority 1. A conservative Parkland student’s whirlwind trip to D.C. ended in the Oval Office 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z He expressed concern that reading it could corrupt even the morals of U.S. senators, which is possibly the funniest thing anyone has ever said in Washington. Perspective | ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ was banned 90 years ago. Now we’re — yawn — bored by obscenity. 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z But Nucky’s hoped-for transition from murderous gangster to upstanding entrepreneur is “tricky,” the senator cautions, because “your hands aren’t the cleanest.” 'Boardwalk Empire' recap: Nucky wants out of gangster biz 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Hill: They also had the benefit of Republican senators who were feeding stories to the media. Anita Hill and her 1991 congressional defenders to Joe Biden: You were part of the problem 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z The difference between running for president and governor or senator is the difference between playing junior high school football and being in the Super Bowl. “She’s going down”: Star GOP strategist Stuart Stevens on why Hillary Clinton won’t be the Democratic nominee 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z There was even a plan to persuade senators, if Clinton won, to confirm Garland in the lame-duck session before the inauguration. Merrick Garland was historically snubbed — but he’s emerged more respected than ever 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Our senators stayed in town, did their jobs…. GOP tries to maintain power in Wisconsin 2011-08-09T21:36:00Z As a senator he’d directed, in a practical initiative to lessen the suffering of his poorest constituents, the development of the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn. 50 years after Robert Kennedy’s assassination: Don’t get caught up in conspiracy theories 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z The groom, 34, is a state senator in New York, representing the 22nd district in southern Brooklyn. Laughter the Key to a Winning Strategy 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z And then in my mind, they were sort of like Roman senators in the Republic. From logos to gender fluidity, what "Station Eleven" costumes reveal in the aftermath of apocalypse 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z Simon & Schuster’s Painton says she bought McCaskill’s forthcoming “Plenty Ladylike” because the senator “is so blunt on the page, it’s scary. She talks honestly about her mistakes, her ambition, her divorce.” Every candidate an author: The ceaseless boom in books by politicians 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z Andy does everything by the book and winds up a senator; Melissa strays from the beaten path, trying to be an artist. Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal, 45 years later: 'Love Letters' loaded with nostalgia 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Bayard is descended from five Delaware U.S. senators, one governor and a congressman, the sort of thing that can happen in Delaware. Delaware is famous for corporations, chemicals, chickens — and now, finally, a president 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z The so-called Graham-Cassidy bill is likely to face a close vote in Congress, where several Republican senators remain undecided or as likely no votes. Republicans Defend Health Bill Against Another Adversary: Jimmy Kimmel 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z He said he didn’t expect to vote for Vance to be senator. ‘Hillbilly’ to Capitol Hill? Author eyes Senate bid in Ohio 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z The senator has won in 18 states and is banking on a big victory in California, even though Clinton’s delegate lead is near insurmountable. Socialism vs. barbarism: Only social democracy can defeat the right-wing radicalism of Donald Trump 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z After senators would ask a first question, and when Mr. Zuckerberg would answer, they were unable to push further in exploring the issue. ‘So did the world explode?’: An oral history of another insane week in the Trump era. 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z If the Justice Department decides to act on the senators’ request, it would be the latest in a series of moves by lawmakers and major government agencies to try to tame the ticketing market. Senators Ask for Antitrust Probe in Concert Ticketing 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z A detailed summary prepared by the senator’s office of the couple’s stock sales shows they add up to $1.8 million, a figure closer to the low end of the range she’d reported. The young and eventful Senate career of wealthy Georgia businesswoman Kelly Loeffler 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z And before his murder, Antinous, defending the Jews against attacks from sniping Roman senators, sings a paean to inclusion: “We are each in all, all in each.” Review: Rufus Wainwright’s ‘Hadrian’ Is a Step Forward, but Still Frustrating 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z He also was the first senator to call for a special prosecutor to investigate Watergate, the political dirty tricks scandal that brought down Richard Nixon’s presidency. Former U.S. Sen. Charles Percy dies 2011-09-17T12:43:00Z Maybe the items will be used to illustrate the tedium of the marathon sessions and the challenge of keeping senators/jurors alert and focused on the proceedings. The Smithsonian is already hunting for impeachment artifacts. Senators, please hand over your fidget spinners. 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z Exhibits: placing his hand on the thigh of a state trooper, appearing to nuzzle former senator Al Franken’s ear. Perspective | How gross is Joe Biden’s touching? There’s no point system for determining harassment. 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z But Game of Thrones will continue to draw a massive audience, no matter how many senators boycott the show. The Emmy Nominations Prove Controversy Can’t Hurt 'Game of Thrones' 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z In her new book, the Democratic senator from Massachusetts explains how her many facets — as a mother, teacher, planner, fighter, learner and American woman — influence her continued vision and advocacy. 10 books to read in May 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z Second, the filibuster’s defenders, such as Oklahoma senator Robert Kerr, in a video from 1952, claimed that the measure protected “minorities” and gentlemanly debate in the Senate. John Oliver: filibusters make US Senate 'a giant non-functioning roadblock' 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z The powerful senator, who faced declining approval ratings and a difficult re-election race, retired from the Senate last year. Former senator Dodd to lead Motion Picture Association 2011-03-01T19:36:45Z From the corner of my eye I saw an older black woman one row in front of me tell my son, “Young man, that’s the only black United States senator.” Lonnae O’Neal: I wish everyone could see history the way my son and I did 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z The incident was particularly important to him, the senator said Wednesday in a telephone interview, because of the 33 Florida residents who died on the cargo ship El Faro last October. After Stormy Royal Caribbean Cruise, Seeking Answers 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z He called his replies “dismissive or outright hostile” and said he was “deeply disrespectful” in how he chose to speak to senators. John Oliver on Brett Kavanaugh: 'We should never forget what he represents' 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z The crash dented the brand-new vehicle, forcing Inhofe’s staff to exchange information with the owner as the senator galloped on to the parade. Jim Inhofe is a small-plane-flying, global-warming-denying senator. And now he’s got a gavel. 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z But you mean to tell me that the testimony of one crooked cop brought down Wilson Fisk's entire criminal empire, and a sitting state senator? 'Daredevil' Season 1 finale review: King of Hell's Kitchen 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z When the senator was dissatisfied with alliance staff members, Mr. Hindy said, the group hired a production manager for the concerts at a cost of $40,000. Schumer Has Big Role in Pool Parties Concerts 2010-06-04T18:33:00Z “But then life goes on, and you make your phone calls to senators and you feel like, ‘Am I even getting through to anyone?’ Did they make a difference? One year later, Women’s March attendees look back. 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z The senator made her rounds, popping by a booth of people who said they were all veterans and police officers and were excited to meet her. Last stand of the Republican moderate 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z Seven GOP senators would need to join Democrats to allow a final vote no later than Tuesday, when the Treasury Department has said the federal government will run short of money to pay its bills. Debt crisis focus shifts to Senate 2011-07-30T03:46:00Z The company responded to the senators’ letter by claiming that the real barrier to naloxone access is “lack of insurance coverage or unreasonable coverage restrictions”. How price-gouging of opioid overdose cure costs lives: 'There's never enough' 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z She set up her eight-by-ten view camera—her favored instrument throughout her career—just as a congressional photographer was finishing a shoot with the senator and two high-school students. The Photographer Who Searched for the Humanity in Strom Thurmond 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z “And I had to pick the first story. And the first story I picked was a young senator running for president in Wisconsin.” Robert L. Drew, Pioneer in Filmmaking, Dies at 90 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z In 2018, Scott Wiener, a California state senator representing San Francisco, introduced a co-authored bill that detonated a debate over housing. The Plight of the Urban Planner 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z “I’m a United States senator from New Jersey.” ‘Why do you look so familiar?’: In Detroit, presidential wannabes try to make themselves worth recognizing 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z To start the interview, Colbert noted that the Minnesota senator was a successful comedian before he entered Congress. Al Franken tells Stephen Colbert which senators have a sense of humor 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z A one-term senator from Montana, he made his fortune principally mining copper, but also in manufacturing, railroads and real estate. ‘Empty Mansions’: preying on the pocketbook of an heiress 2013-08-28T22:21:51Z What about running for senator of New York? For Al Franken, a Comeback Attempt Goes Through Comedy Clubs 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z And then there was longtime New York senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who grumbled, “Washington National Airport is already named after a president—the first one.” They’re trying to deify Ronald Reagan: Inside the right-wing plot to turn the Gipper into a modern-day God 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z When Rice called Biden to tell him, the senator “burst out laughing,” according to a Rice biography by Washington Post reporter Glenn Kessler. John Bolton’s been a political brawler for decades, but his rumble with Donald Trump is extreme — even for him. 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z In protest of their party’s takeover at the tiny hands of a demagogue, Republican senators’ names are dropping like flies from the guest list. Don’t expect to be starstruck at the GOP convention: Donald Trump’s famous friends probably won’t be in Cleveland next week 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z How did Bernstein know what these senators have said about Trump? Republicans have ‘concerns’ about Trump — but won’t let reporters quote them by name about it 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z At Monday’s hearing, Jackson’s face was inscrutable, set with a resolute smile through the bloviations of Republican senators whose approval she will almost certainly not receive no matter what happens in the hearings. Perspective | Indelible in the hippocampus is Brett Kavanaugh 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z With the French law, politicians like Brigitte Gonthier-Maurin, a senator, seized the opportunity to criticize the company for minimizing its taxes in its markets by setting up operations in Luxembourg. France Gives Cold Shoulder to Amazon 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z Weaver urged senators at a hearing to pass climate change legislation that would limit carbon emissions. Sigourney Weaver urges action to protect oceans 2010-04-22T19:36:00Z In terms of saying "Merry Christmas" or "Happy Holidays," the senator makes her thoughts clear. Sen. Marsha Blackburn's Christmas cheer for family and friends includes a delicious toffee crunch 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z Based on Osnos’s reporting for The New Yorker, this biography covers the candidate’s career as a senator and vice president as well as his life on the campaign trail. New & Noteworthy, From Joe Biden to a Rock Novel in Verse 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z Ailes filmed a now-infamous spot in which a pack of baying bloodhounds were set loose to find the “absentee” senator, highlighting the fact that he’d missed some votes to give paid speeches. Mitch McConnell doesn’t care what you think. He just wants to win. 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z The former state senator served one term in the U.S. Jackson coasts to win over Halvorson 2012-03-21T01:57:00Z Q. Do you admit, senator, that your drinking interferes with the performance of your duties? Style Invitational Week 1353: What’s playing at the retroplex 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z But like the senator, Charles Booker is an African American who grew up in “the hood,” in his case an impoverished neighborhood in the west end of Louisville. Civil Rights Memoirs 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z And several senators — or their staff members — appeared to have prepared Swift references for the fans they knew would be watching, including Senator Amy Klobuchar and the judiciary committee itself. Closely watching the Ticketmaster hearing today: Swifties. 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z "I followed the race pretty closely," the 52-year-old said, explaining that he was impressed by his conservative record as a congressman and senator. Louisiana primary voters hardly enthusiastic 2012-03-24T22:27:00Z But if you watch it, you can click to a link that will patch you directly to your United States senator's office to voice your support, as a constituent and sentient human, for healthcare rights. Scarlett Johansson stands with Planned Parenthood 2011-04-08T14:53:00Z HC has been a calculating person who tied her fate to Bill Clinton and for her aiding and abetting ended up as a US senator and secretary of state. The Walls That Hillary Clinton Created 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z His quarter-century as a senator gets a somewhat backloaded treatment in a movie organized more around his ideas and personality than the jobs he held. Review: ‘Moynihan’ Is a Conventional, Entertaining Political Documentary 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z But a subsequent interaction with a New Republic senator dissolves the assumption that the Empire has cornered that market. How "Ahsoka" takes the sexist subtext of "Star Wars" and brings it to the fore through Hera Syndulla 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z He met Obama when the future president was a mere state senator; Obama sought Jordan’s counsel when he was mulling a 2008 run for president. How Vernon Jordan became a one-of-a-kind Washington presence 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z There are four current or former governors running — including Republican Bill Weld — and eight current or former senators. Whose uncles are these? 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z He also took a sweeter turn as the title character’s father in Gerwig’s “Lady Bird,” after playing an ambitious United States senator in Showtime’s “Homeland,” a role that leads us back to “The Minutes.” Tracy Letts Can’t Fight With His Playwright 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Virginia Stanton is a New York senator who, in her noble quest for the presidency, inspires millions of women but ends up suffering a precipitous loss to a charismatic male opponent. Hillary and Bill Clinton Inspire Musical Theater 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Yet, few senators were willing to publicly acknowledge what changes to the agreement were needed to secure their votes. Debt crisis focus shifts to Senate 2011-07-30T03:46:00Z Is that a good experience for a U.S. senator? Tim Kaine talks Hillary and the harmonica 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z At the same time, the senator found himself the subject of an attack ad financed by a Jewish businessman from California who portrayed Percy as a chameleon, changing his colors on various issues. Former U.S. Sen. Charles Percy dies 2011-09-17T12:43:00Z But her second husband, Henry, a New York state senator, is faithful, kind and emotionally available to both her and her children — he is "everything that Don wasn't," as Jones put it. Women of 'Mad Men' make a strong impression amid their fight for change 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z He’s now a married military veteran and senator who is pushing for more gun control in Riverdale. Here's How Archie Will Die 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z The nation's oldest senator will hold a fundraiser at the pop singer's Monster Ball Tour at the Verizon Center in Washington on Sept 7. NJ's Lautenberg to hold fundraiser with Lady Gaga 2010-08-13T16:01:00Z The former Pennsylvania senator called for relaxing restrictions on energy production in order to hold down gasoline prices. Romney and Santorum get down to business in Michigan 2012-02-25T06:00:00Z After the most recent presidential campaign, the scandal involving Gary Hart and Donna Rice seems almost quaint: he was a married Colorado senator seemingly on the path to the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘This Is Us’ and ‘Barbara Walters Presents’ 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z The political malleability of the Robin Hood myth was recently underlined by, of all people, Republican senator Ted Cruz. How the Robin Hood myth was turned on its head by rightwingers 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z "Better that than having the senators watching their tablets during the session or continually sneaking out to watch snippets of the game," a party spokeswoman said. France, Germany switch off economies, switch on TVs for crunch tie 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z Sixteen of the incoming senators are Democrats, four are Republicans. Sawyer interviews women senators, to air Jan. 3 2012-12-12T21:00:11Z Fetterman walked through the Capitol to a set of windowless rooms in the basement of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, a temporary workspace for new senators awaiting renovations on their regular offices. A look under the hoodie: Inside Sen. John Fetterman’s first week back 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z He was not bowed by the future senator’s anger. ‘He’s not that kind of fighter.’ Can play-by-the-rules Chuck Schumer win on Trump’s turf? 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z At least three Biden Cabinet secretaries have spent time on Almost Heaven, as have the White House chief of staff and dozens of senators. Washington’s hottest club is Joe Manchin’s houseboat 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z When the book opens, both Republican and Democratic aspirants have privately asked popular centrist Wendy Upton, a Republican senator from Arizona, if she might consider being a running mate. Review | Set during presidential primary season, ‘Oppo’ is about as timely as political thrillers come 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z The victory means a trifecta tonight for the former Pennsylvania senator, who also won in Minnesota and Missouri. Santorum sweeps Tuesday with Colorado win 2012-02-08T06:10:00Z In memorable phrases: “Transparently bogus,” was how he reacted to a claim by some Republican senators that the FBI’s Russia investigation would simply proceed apace without any real problem. Perspective | Jeffrey Toobin went ballistic about Trump and Comey. It was great TV. 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z She had four children with Robert, the son of assassinated U.S. senator and Attorney General Robert Kennedy, but the couple separated years ago. Mary Kennedy remembered at private NYC gathering 2012-05-21T22:50:15Z On television, Clinton supporters continue to gingerly humor the senator, insisting he should take his time. Will This Guy Shut Off the Lights in the Sanders Campaign? 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z One such race, he said, was the contest between the Democratic senator Raphael Warnock and his Republican opponent Herschel Walker, who he was shocked to report are currently “neck and neck.” Trevor Noah Brings ‘The Daily Show’ to Georgia 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z Ron Paul's son, Rand, a senator from Kentucky, raised it on a network talk show on Sunday. In Iowa, endorsement haunts Santorum 2012-01-02T18:59:00Z Elizabeth Marvel as Marc Antony brings down the house with the funeral oration, spicing its pentameter cadence with the gumbo drawl of a southern senator. Review: Can Trump Survive in Caesar’s Palace? 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z "That stuff happened when Barack Obama was a state senator from Illinois," he mutters. Ben Affleck: 'It's in the hands of the movie gods' 2010-09-23T21:00:00Z “If you look back in our family tree, the survival of this clan is literally rooted in squiredom. We are all related to senators too,” she writes. Mom cancels baby shower after family ridicules name choice 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z “They sort of reported in a narrative, and senators or congressmen would submit what they had said.” The Carpetbagger: Writers Rethink Words for the Big Screen 2013-01-02T23:34:49Z The 35th president grew up in Brookline, Mass., and served as a congressman and senator before winning the White House in 1960. A surprisingly modest birthplace for the country’s youngest elected president 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z The former senator from North Carolina has pleaded not guilty to six criminal counts related to campaign finance violations. John Edwards' trial to begin on Monday 2012-04-22T22:18:00Z “Sometimes people wonder if Congress can come together,” the Democratic senator said to laughter during the dedication ceremony Monday. Detroit posthumously honors Franklin with post office naming 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z On Wednesday, 19 senators signed onto a statement urging that local journalism be included in any future economic stimulus plans designed to tackle the economic fallout of the coronavirus crisis. The coronavirus crisis is devastating the news industry. Many newspapers won’t survive it. 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z The biggest threat facing the country, the former senator from Pennsylvania says, is a big government in Washington that is bent on expanding its reach ever more deeply into the lives of ordinary Americans. Santorum and Romney fight their own class war in Michigan 2012-02-27T05:08:00Z So, to paraphrase a future senator: Will a thoughtful man use the law for good? What does Josh Hawley think he’s doing? 2021-01-16T05:00:00Z The coroner’s report stated that the shot that killed the senator was fired from no more than three inches from the back of his head, on the right. What is it like to be the brother of Robert Kennedy’s assassin? The life of the other Sirhan. 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z Weaver and the senator from Arizona were joined at the hip for many, many years. The fall of John Weaver, a Lincoln Project co-founder whose political career was shrouded in mystery 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z Republicans unseated Democratic incumbent senators in Arkansas, North Carolina and Colorado, and held onto their contested seats in Georgia, Kansas and Kentucky. 11 things that will make you feel a little bit better about the world 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z The challenge for Mr. Bell is the same for a senator or governor looking to run for president: Can he grow in front of a national audience without losing the integrity of his voice? Critic’s Notebook: Comedy and Politics, Uneasy Bedfellows but Snuggling 2012-10-03T20:05:01Z Among those in attendance were about 100 alumni of Kennedy’s highly regarded Senate staff, a dozen or so current and former senators, Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer and a sprinkling of Kennedy kin. Ted Kennedy’s bricks-and-mortar legacy taking shape The senator promptly arrived with his suit-wearing agents and demanded to know who was in charge. Hunter S. Thomspon in Chicago, 1968: The battle for the Democratic Party’s soul 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z But the senator does try to explain why his fellow conservatives did, tracing the winding path of how “gamesmanship replaced statesmanship” in Washington. Senator Flake, a Republican, Explains Why He Didn’t Vote for Trump 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z Obama shot back that Edwards, as a senator, had supported the 2002 resolution authorizing the war. Democrats Focus on Iraq In Contentious Second Debate 2007-06-04T10:00:00Z Mitt Romney’s bid for the GOP presidential nomination on Monday, sources close to the political operation of the first-term Illinois Republican senator said Sunday. Kirk to endorse Romney 2011-12-19T02:24:00Z Gates shares a local paper's obituary listing his achievements as a state legislator, publisher and senator. Angela Davis shows us why "Finding Your Roots" complicates and strengthens the American story 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z Bayh was considered a moderate within the Democratic Party and regularly appeared on Fox News as a senator. Fox News hires ex-Ind. Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh 2011-03-14T22:40:16Z One can’t help noticing some passing similarities between Tammy Duckworth’s new memoir and “Dreams From My Father,” the memoir Barack Obama published two years before he became a state senator. Tammy Duckworth Was a Survivor Long Before Her Helicopter Was Shot Down 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z She has been a first lady, a United States senator, a secretary of state, a Democratic nominee for president, and, most recently, a podcaster and a Columbia University professor. ‘Suffs’ Heads to Broadway With Hillary Clinton as a Producer 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z The senators sent the agency a similar letter last month. Lawmakers say CIA may have misled filmmakers 2013-01-04T01:23:07Z He teaches ancient civilizations and prides himself on being the sort of principled educator who flunks senators’ kids and says stuff like, “Such are the vicissitudes of life” and “Listen, you hormonal vulgarian!” ‘The Holdovers’ Review: Three Sad Souls Stranded for Christmas 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z Republican senators, poisoned by partisan spleen, dispatch an unsolicited letter to the leaders of Iran and treasonously subvert President Obama’s bona fide negotiations to thwart the possibility of that country’s developing nuclear weapons. David Brooks just makes God up: More horse-and-buggy priggishness from deeply unserious NYT writer 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z Not even the Liberal senator Cory Bernardi, played by a woman, singing angelically from a stained glass window about creepy people and their sexual predilections got me over the line. The Major Minor Party - review 2013-05-30T02:59:26Z "You are the future presidents, the future senators," she added, clutching the show's trademark surfboard award. Celebrities Aimed to Inspire at Teen Choice Awards 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z Watts, who spoke at the June march, says that he considers Manchin a friend but that the senator’s unwillingness to break with the Republican line on voting rights has been disappointing. Black voters in West Virginia are tired of being invisible 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z She was ready to be part of a chorus of senators, and not the star attraction. Clinton fashion: The styles, they were a-changin’ 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z For his part, Radney believed deeply in the values of liberalism, had tried to advance them as a state senator, and had his life threatened because of it. Review | Harper Lee tried to turn a murder trial into a true crime masterpiece. What happened to the book? 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z Then a senator took on hotel resort fees, and another put airline surcharges in his crosshairs. More legroom? Fewer surprise fees? Wave of consumer-friendly legislation gives travelers new hope. 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z Handsome and thoughtful, the senator is a rugged intellectual, conversant in the minutiae of policy and the grand themes of literature. Review: A Sex Scandal Upends a Campaign in ‘The Front Runner’ 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z His father was a senator and grain merchant, and when he died his family lost its power and influence and much of its money. Colm Toibin’s ‘The Magician’ Intimately Recaptures a Literary Giant 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z He called him a friend to generations of Massachusetts politicians, including senators, congressmen, governors and mayors, regardless of their party affiliation. Al Vega, Boston jazz pianist, dies at 90 2011-12-03T09:01:05Z She called Ford the “best witness central casting could find” and decried that even that “was not enough” to convince Republican senators of her allegations. The Sexual Harassment Defense Industrial Complex is growing in the #MeToo era 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z And chief among those senators was Seneca, Nero’s most trusted adviser. Seneca Could Have Written the Anonymous Times Op-Ed About Trump 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z "This proves this was not a hoax and I think the senator owes me an apology," Francis told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday. APNewsBreak: Donor says he offered internship 2012-04-26T19:07:08Z In his letter the senator noted the importance of the National School Lunch Program, which “provides more than 31 million children with low-cost or free meals.” Durbin seeks help reducing lunch fraud risk 2012-01-14T00:03:00Z The house of the title is shared by four moderate Republican senators in Washington: a closeted gay man, an African-American dealmaker facing indictment, a cynical good old boy and a womanizing Latino. Watch List: Original Pilots, Judged by the Masses 2013-04-22T21:43:18Z Leech told the senator she should drink it "in a week or two when you can put your feet up and say, 'I'm done.' " Last stand of the Republican moderate 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z “Now we got thrown into this crazy world of politics. Eighty hours a week of Zooms with mayors, senators, congressmen.” Stimulus Offers $15 Billion in Relief for Struggling Arts Venues 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z It was this pervasive culture of lying that made it politically untenable for so many Republican senators, in the end, to vote their underdeveloped consciences. Perspective | ‘A moment of truth’? After years of Trump’s lies, amplified by MAGA media, that proved impossible for most Republicans 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z Things became much worse for Moynihan when word got out that he was a senator’s son. Books of The Times: John Moynihan?s ?Voyage of the Rose City? ? Review 2011-09-29T22:01:35Z “It’s good to be seen,” says Hogan Gidley, a former campaign staffer for both former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee and former senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania and now a regular cable guest. Cable news, a welcoming home for the weary ex-campaign staffer 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z The former first lady, U.S. senator and secretary of state had some help on her new memoir, “Hard Choices.” Who wrote that political memoir? No, who actually wrote it? These were colleagues from his weekly prayer meeting, a private bipartisan breakfast Kaine attends, where senators share stories from their lives and faiths. Tim Kaine is back at his old Senate job. It’s never seemed more important. 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z While presidents Bush and Obama remain mostly offstage, an unnamed New York senator, “perpetually pancaked” and “psychologically incapable of declining any request that involved a camera,” makes a late yet notable entrance. Rep. Steve Israel, finding the funny in Washington’s corridors of power 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z In more recent years, through her career as a New York state senator and Secretary of State, she’s endured endless and increasing commentary about how “fat and old” she apparently is. Hillary Clinton: The first presidential candidate of the trolled 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z “My plan until then is to help the senator do whatever he wants to do to further the political revolution.” Will This Guy Shut Off the Lights in the Sanders Campaign? 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z The former New York senator isn’t mentioned in the novel, but she told Israel that she’s reading it after listening to her husband’s abundant laughter. Rep. Steve Israel, finding the funny in Washington’s corridors of power 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z "House of Cards" stars Kevin Spacey as a diabolical former U.S. senator now risen to vice president. Netflix drama 'House of Cards' scores 3rd season 2014-02-05T06:31:14Z “There’s a tiny chance that money played a role since DeVos’s family gave around $200m to Republican causes, including donations to four senators on the committee overseeing her confirmation,” he said. Late night roundup: hosts weigh in on 'the real president' Steve Bannon 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z The senator brings the attorney onto his staff; he has to travel to Louisiana to do some digging under her guidance, and their professional relationship soon becomes a love affair. Early Meryl Streep and Peak Alan Alda in “The Seduction of Joe Tynan” 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Debora, five years older than I, was a political activist who had spent years working for the senator and Democratic presidential candidate Gary Hart. ‘Kadian Journal’: A father tries to survive the loss of his son, 14 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z Another state senator, Katie Muth, said, “Sadly, this latest story is yet another example of how institutions fail to address workplace misconduct.” Philadelphia Mayor: Museum Should ‘Strengthen’ Sexual Harassment Policy 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z I mean, the senator knew that nobody really understood the impact of what this piece of legislation was going to do.” Television Review: ?Lives Worth Living? on ?Independent Lens? - Review 2011-10-26T23:46:17Z Because they knew, and I think that they were right, they knew that they had convinced a lot of the senators. Samantha Bee teases big election coverage, from presidential harassment to a strategic joy offensive 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z When a U.S. senator praises a movie studio for hiring two women, a Hollywood issue has officially entered the wider conversation. 6 women in film talk about the movie industry's challenges and pluses 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z But it won't be the only book to take aim at the former senator and secretary of State. The anti-Hillary Clinton books are coming 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z An Edwards confidante recalled that the former senator looked surprised when Mellon told him in 2008 that she had funneled money to Young. Ex-Senator Edwards, mistress could testify Wednesday 2012-05-16T11:29:00Z Lopez met with senators after the convention to discuss diversity in television. Jennifer Lopez lobbies for diverse TV 2013-06-13T12:49:43Z The FBI, no doubt thrilled to be caught in the middle of all this, dutifully openeda leak investigation, and senators on both sides of the aisle are planning an inquiry of their own. Army tank made of cupcakes 2012-06-15T14:54:00Z Five people died and 17 were infected by anthrax in letters posted to media outlets and to two Democratic US senators in the aftermath of the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001. Suspicious powder sent to Eric Idle sparks anthrax scare 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Your local representatives, your state senators, your United States senators, your congress representatives, your county supervisors, these are all elected positions. Kathy Griffin still gets death threats: "They got me, but they never got me down" 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z Because the “Solid South” was effectively a one-party region, its senators and representatives dominated the Democratic caucus through their sheer numbers and the legislative process through their uncommon seniority and chairmanships of key committees. ‘Fear Itself’: a devil’s bargain between New Deal progressives and Southern segregationists 2013-03-13T21:46:05Z In establishing the deceased Italian senator’s purchase of the diamond, the appeals court relies on documents associated with Christie’s own investigation into the provenance of the diamond. Appeals Court Sends the Case of a Pink $40 Million Diamond to Trial 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z At a Senate Judiciary hearing in January, Live Nation came under harsh, bipartisan attack, with senators openly calling the company a monopoly. Ticket Giants, Under Pressure From Biden, Promise Transparency on Fees 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z The incensed senator attacked “the appropriateness” of N.E.H grants tackling big questions that he dismissed. The N.E.A. Really Isn’t “Welfare for Rich, Liberal Élites” 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z Under questioning by minority counsel Fred Thompson, the future senator and Republican presidential candidate who on that day sported long sideburns, Butterfield confirmed the existence of the taping system. The man who knew too much about Richard Nixon 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z As he wrote to a former senator from Kentucky, “A people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with power which knowledge gives.” No monument for Madison. But one of his legacies is freedom of the press. 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z Perhaps it was telling that three Democratic senators hopped up to check on her. Snowe presses for bipartisanship in new book 2013-05-12T12:55:08Z The novel centers on a young Iowa senator who grows worried about the president’s mental health when he is summoned to Camp David in the middle of the night. A 1965 Novel About an Unhinged President Is Being Rereleased 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z And the senator is on fire on the campaign trail. Elizabeth Warren and Tracee Ellis Ross on the Road to Activism 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z When I was in law school at Harvard, I didn’t know Wendy Davis, the Democratic Texas state senator now running for governor of Texas, although we were in the same graduating class. The right’s single-mom mistake: Why their latest attacks are clueless and doomed 2014-01-28T12:44:00Z In a sign that the former senator was well-positioned to rebound, the Romney campaign began turning its fire on him this week. GOP votes a chance to change course of race 2012-02-08T01:12:00Z There’s a photomontage of Barack Obama, who called Niebuhr “one of my favorite philosophers” while a senator and cited his “compelling idea that there’s serious evil in the world.” A Few Theories about Why James Comey Might Call Himself “Reinhold Niebuhr” on Twitter 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z The former senator dismisses the assigning of labels, or “pinning,” as he calls it. ‘A part of the magic of love’: How Harris Wofford fell for a man 50 years his junior 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z Santorum also has a Super PAC but questions have arisen over the former Pennsylvania senator’s ability to run the breadth and depth of a national campaign organization. Illinois primary's fate rests on Super Tuesday 2012-02-29T22:59:00Z The retiring Republican senator from Tennessee sat silently in a coffee shop that doubled as a church. Bob Corker is free to speak his mind about Trump. If he could only make it up. 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z A close look at the accusations against the former senator. The Top Twenty-Five New Yorker Stories of 2019 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z The dispute stems from an AP picture taken when Obama, then a U.S. senator from Illinois, was at the National Press Club in Washington. Obama 'HOPE' artist and AP settle copyright claims 2011-01-13T12:27:08Z The former Pennsylvania senator sought to stake out a broader theme that his candidacy is about picking a Republican defender of small government and individual economic and social freedoms. A final pitch to woo Illinois voters 2012-03-20T02:58:00Z “I just assumed you’d be in a senator’s washroom,” Kerr says, but would a whip-smart female staffer think that, really, when there wasn’t even a tiny one for female senators until the 1990s? ‘Conscience’ Review: The Woman Who Stared Down the Red Scare 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z More recently, Kamala Harris was pictured soon after arriving in Washington as the junior senator from California. Perspective | Vogue can make anyone look glamorous, including Pete Buttigieg 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z Our brother is appointed to be a senator. Another Period Shows How Historical Millionaires Were Just Like Reality Stars 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z Fessler stressed, however, that the senator still faces a long recovery. Doctor: Kirk doing 'better than expected' 2012-01-24T18:57:00Z Other senators were offended by tweets about female political figures’ looks. Trump’s ambassadors fan out across the globe. But some powerful countries are still waiting. 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z Details on film credit changes sought by McCrory were released late Thursday, when senators filed on the governor’s behalf a bill listing changes to legislation for his budget proposal. McCrory NC film credit proposal unveiled 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z State senators were crowded into every vinyl booth. In Montgomery, a City Embedded With Pain, Finding Progress 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z In other words, Oliver explained, senators from the 21 least populated states – making up just 11% of the country’s population – have the power to overrule everyone else. John Oliver: filibusters make US Senate 'a giant non-functioning roadblock' 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Hess gathered objects supposedly or actually related to his father’s 19th-century Georgia ancestors, who included a senator and his son, a general. Antiques: The Beauty That Remains Beyond the Final Curtain 2013-04-25T21:19:43Z A Brown spokesman notes some liberals first raised the idea of Maddow running against the senator. MSNBC's Maddow: I'm not running for US Senate 2010-03-26T17:04:00Z But there’s not much a senator can do these days, amid constant gridlock and a presidential election sucking the oxygen out of Washington. What’s wrong with politicizing a tragedy? For Sen. Chris Murphy, nothing at all. 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z At Tuesday's concert, the announcer welcomed Kid Rock to the stage as "the next senator of the great state of Michigan," though he downplayed the introduction. Read Kid Rock's R-Rated Speech on Welfare, Gay Rights and His Political Aspirations 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z Speaking on Meet the Press Sunday morning, the Kentucky senator and potential 2016 presidential candidate neatly sidestepped issues of reproductive rights while exposing the Republican war on women as an overblown liberal hoax. Rand Paul: “If there was a war on women, I think they won” 2014-01-26T17:34:00Z "The family was pretty clear about limiting what they wanted released to the public about the senator's care," Kris Lathan, director of media and public relations at Northwestern Memorial, said this week. Kirk's condition after stroke closely guarded 2012-02-24T14:04:00Z Calling the law unconstitutional, she urged her fans to call senators in their district. Lady Gaga urges repeal of gay military ban 2010-09-17T21:39:00Z Week 1402, new terms whose letters total 14 Scrabble points Maganetic: Exerting a force so powerful that ordinary citizens can lose their marbles, and senators can lose their morals. Style Invitational Week 1420: Singing on the job 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z But senators across party lines questioned the need for a merger — and voiced concerns over whether one would result in lost jobs and decreased competition in the grocery sector. As senators debate the Kroger-Albertsons merger, some grocery employees still aren't being paid 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z In 2011, Democratic state senators proposed a law to cut through the red tape by shifting the burden of proof from workers onto employers. The wage theft epidemic 2013-02-20T16:00:00Z “Presidents and senators don’t have men killed,” Michael Corleone was told in “The Godfather.” ArtsBeat: Hoo-ah! Al Pacino Receives National Medal of Arts From President Obama 2012-02-13T19:48:18Z The magazine said the image, which was drawn by Barry Blitt, was intended as a satirical comment about some of the distorted right-wing attacks on the Democratic senator. Cartoons that courted controversy 2013-01-29T13:04:18Z Doug Hughes directed the Lincoln Center production and has reunited his design team here; Catherine Zuber’s costumes are particularly astute about the ways senators, staffers and socialites armor themselves sartorially. Manners and politics collide in Arena Stage’s ‘City of Conversation’ 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z Only when asked by a senator did he reveal that Citizens for Fire Safety paid for his trip there. Fear fans flames for chemical makers 2012-05-06T05:00:00Z Unfazed by his defeat, Booker is currently seeking the nomination to run against Kentucky’s other incumbent Republican senator, Rand Paul, in November 2022. Civil Rights Memoirs 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z But while the senator from Ohio tried to move past the election outcome, the winner seemed to have trouble doing the same. Sherrod Brown thinks he could have helped Democrats win in 2016. But what about 2020? 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z Regional political advisers said there is little downside in his taking the case, with more than enough Republican senators signaling they will vote to acquit Trump. Bruce Castor is a magnet for controversy. Naturally, he’s Trump’s impeachment attorney. 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z Despite the ban on reviews, Leighton Kerner, classical music critic for the Village Voice, was in the audience made up mainly of Wall Street celebrities, along with at least one senator and two prime ministers. Gilbert Kaplan, millionaire businessman and self-taught maestro of Mahler, dies at 74 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z But an uncorked Corker didn’t mean he was suddenly a liberal senator from Tennessee. Bob Corker is free to speak his mind about Trump. If he could only make it up. 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z Former Air Force secretary Heather Wilson, a Hyten supporter who oversaw the investigation of Spletstoser’s allegation before leaving her post as secretary, told senators at the hearing that he’d been “falsely accused.” Retired Col. Kathy Spletstoser wasn’t able to stop Joint Chiefs vice chairman Gen. John Hyten from being confirmed. But she’s not done with him. 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z But in a profanity-laced appearance on the Howard Stern radio show he scoffed at the idea of him as a senator, saying it was obvious he was never serious. Kid Rock rules out run for U.S. Senate after feeding rumors 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z The senators believed that the intelligence assessment Clapper was quoting flagrantly distorted what the Senate report had said, predicting dire consequences from the release of information that wasn’t even in the report. ‘The Report’ and the Untold Story of a Senate-C.I.A. Conflict 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z But in 2007, she was sitting in her regular pew at Brown Chapel when Obama — then a senator and candidate for president — came to speak. Rep. Terri Sewell, a daughter of Selma, rues her city’s lost promise 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z “He said it’s one of the things he missed,” said Larry Hendrix, his close friend from childhood, who still stays in regular touch with the senator. Why is Lindsey Graham acting like this? 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Some West Coast audiences with early bedtimes awoke Tuesday morning to find a solid half-hour of their DVR’ed episode of Monday night’s “Bachelorette” interrupted by a rousing speech from an unkempt senator from Vermont. What convention?! For some on Twitter, “The Bachelorette” is a lot more important 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z The two senators voted against the bill, but waited until the last moment to declare their intentions. Democrats Focus on Iraq In Contentious Second Debate 2007-06-04T10:00:00Z Harris had ties to the city even before becoming senator, as a graduate of Howard University and the historic Black sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha, and will bring those institutions new attention. Washington’s establishment hopes a Biden presidency will make schmoozing great again 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z Even if Republican senators could not bring themselves to believe the sexual misconduct charges, they witnessed with their own eyes Kavanaugh’s angry partisan rant against “left-wing opposition groups” and supporters of the Clintons. Dissecting Brett Kavanaugh’s ‘Supreme Ambition’ 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z A Communist and senator, Neruda has become an enemy of the state, having violently and very publicly condemned the Chilean President Gabriel González Videla. Why the Movie ‘Neruda’ Is an ‘Anti-Bio’ 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Journalists would be restricted to a designated area and could only speak to senators who approached them. Reporters claim new rules will hinder impeachment coverage 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z As I covered her in Washington, she always seemed happiest and lightest when her achievements were her own, whether as New York senator, as secretary of state or during her own White House run. In ‘Rodham,’ Curtis Sittenfeld Reimagines Hillary’s Life 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z The film landed better than The Front Runner, another true story also premiering at the Colorado-based festival, the tale of disgraced senator Gary Hart. Oscars 2019: who are this year's early frontrunners? 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z David has impersonated the Vermont senator throughout this season of the show, and even Sanders has embraced the performance. 5 Politicians Who Met Their 'Saturday Night Live' Doppelgänger 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z Park at the Bethine and Frank Church Overlook, named after the late Idaho senator and his wife, and enjoy the best view in the whole reserve. At the Central Idaho Dark Sky Reserve, socially distanced stargazing 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z The five-term senator’s memoir covers his privileged upbringing, his service in Vietnam and his long life in politics. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z As the story goes, on the eve of the 1898 election, the Democratic state senator from the West End, or Ward 8, gathered at the restaurant with friends to commemorate his victory. A spirited tour of the United States 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z The team decides to go ahead with the plan to bring in the senator's wife to jog his mercury-powered memories. "Fringe" recap: Two shapeshifters revealed 2010-10-15T12:30:00Z In the next few episodes, you’ll see a Democratic senator get infected and move far to the left. Tony Shalhoub gets into the “BrainDead” politician’s mind: “Everyone is digging in their heels” 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Don’t talk about threats, he told the senators. How should we talk about what’s happening to our planet? 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z After the senator’s death, Mrs. Kennedy took the lead on the project. Edward M. Kennedy Institute Aims to Teach Collaboration 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z The New Yorker on senators, or Dr. Drew on celebrity rehabbers? Crib Sheet: The 10 Things To Talk About This Weekend 2010-08-04T19:49:00Z Rhodes joined the Obama team in late 2006, just days after the senator first hinted he might run for president. Ben Rhodes: ‘Obama has a serenity that I don't. I get more exercised’ 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z We root for the firm when it’s under outside threat, but when it comes to dealing with its business and sharing its spoils, it’s as cuddly as Roman senators daggering each other in the Forum. The Good Wife Watch: Team Red Team! 2013-02-18T15:32:39Z When offered the chance, three times, to become emperor, he chooses three times to remain a senator. Review: Can Trump Survive in Caesar’s Palace? 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z It harshly criticized Georgia’s senators, Republicans Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, for echoing Trump’s claims with an attack on the state’s voting integrity. Perspective | How to cover a coup — or whatever it is Trump is attempting 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z Following the success of his film “Bulworth,” where he played a senator losing his bid for reelection, Beatty expressed his interest in running for office. The 9 biggest celebrities the Democrats have tried to recruit for office 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z She had testified before a Senate subcommittee on how the War on Poverty was working in the Southern States, and had invited the senators to come see for themselves. After Two Tragedies, a Love to Bring Down Barriers 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z The only senator who had been experiencing health issues was Thad Cochran but he hadn’t been hospitalized. John Oliver: Trump's response to Puerto Rico relief was 'horribly racist' 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z Twenty-five white, male Republican senators — the majority of the state chamber — voted for it. The battle for Alabama’s soul 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z Opposition from two more GOP senators this week made it clear that the bill lacked the votes to pass. Stephen Colbert: GOP Health Care Bill Suffered From ‘Terminal Sucking’ 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z It’s OK to take a stand for something, senator. Revelations from politicians’ Spotify playlists: Paul Ryan digs Darius Rucker, Darrell Issa thinks Shaq is a good rapper 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Both senators delivered their lines flawlessly, allowing Ms. Poehler to land the jokes. ‘Parks and Recreation’ Goes to Washington 2012-07-25T21:44:52Z The senator vowed to look into whether Lowe's violated any California laws and said he would also consider drafting a senate resolution condemning the company's actions. Lowe's pulls ads from TV show about US Muslims 2011-12-12T02:54:08Z Freeman tells us of the fiery Mississippi senator Henry S. Foote, who fought four duels in his political career and was wounded in three of them. Congressional Bloodshed: The Run-Up to the Civil War 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z "That aggravated me, and it aggravated others," the senator said, referring to "the Proposal," released in 2009. Boosters hope Alaska will be "Hollywood Far North" 2010-10-02T19:01:00Z The former first lady, secretary of state and New York senator, who is considering another presidential campaign in 2016, said she was "really excited" about becoming a grandmother. Chelsea Clinton expecting first child this fall 2014-04-17T23:09:18Z She insults the senator’s wife when discussing the movie “Apocalypse Now”: “You’re aware it’s based on Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness,’ ” she explains grandly. What really happened at those famous Georgetown dinner parties 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z In 1964, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., a former senator from Massachusetts, won the Republican primary as a write-in candidate. Romney holds a home-field advantage in N.H. 2012-01-10T22:35:00Z The move comes 10 days after the objections of a single senator out of 100, Mike Lee, Republican of Utah, prevented the passage of both measures. Congress Approves New Museums Honoring Women and Latinos 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z “The feud took some steam out of him,” said Republican Lamar Alexander, Tennessee’s senior senator. Bob Corker is free to speak his mind about Trump. If he could only make it up. 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z When the two paired for a Capitol Hill lobbying trip, they made a surprising discovery: “Every senator we talked to had played Tevye in high school,” she said. A two-time Tony Award winner headlines Signature Theatre’s annual gala 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z The future of food takes shape daily across Washington in the offices of lobbyists, industry regulators, senators, representatives, think tankers, policy analysts and public health advocates. Candy: The next battle in America’s health war? Last summer, six Republican state senators and three faced recall elections. Gov. Walker foes to file recall petitions today 2012-01-17T11:21:00Z Three of them flew down to Washington and told the senator their stories. Last stand of the Republican moderate 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z It didn’t help that when Trump started attacking Corker, the senator’s approval ratings at home turned upside down. Bob Corker is free to speak his mind about Trump. If he could only make it up. 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z As a U.S. senator, Obama voted against the confirmation of Roberts to the Supreme Court. 'The Oath': Jeffrey Toobin on clashing agendas on Supreme Court 2012-10-04T19:59:04Z “Before Bernie was a Vermont senator, he was the mayor of my home town,” said Will Betts, a comedian from Burlington who bears a striking resemblance to the slick-haired pop star Sam Smith. Bernie Sanders is the most humorless 2016 candidate. How did he land the comedian vote? 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Though Seward was physically unimpressive, people listened when he spoke, and he managed to get himself elected governor of New York, then senator. 'Seward': a new biography of Lincoln's right-hand man 2012-09-26T22:15:06Z Just as everyone is about to pack up, a side door creaks open and out comes the senator, wearing an amused smile as if he doesn’t know what all the fuss was about. One year of ‘President Manchin’: For the Democratic agenda, all roads go through West Virginia 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z A certain “carefully coifed” senator from Massachusetts mouths off to the cameras in Islamabad. Newly Released: New Books Include ?Out of Oz? and ?The Boy in the Suitcase? 2011-11-16T23:05:14Z Old political battles are resurfacing for former Carmona as he seeks to become Arizona’s next U.S. senator _ as a Democrat, not as a Republican. Auction claims to be selling vial of Reagan blood 2012-05-22T15:16:00Z The senator will likely face scrutiny on her prosecutorial record and policy stances, he predicted. What should you look for in the Democratic debates? Ask the man who prepped Gore and Kerry. 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z The senator’s attempts at protecting the rights of the Senate’s legislative minority have not struck everyone as virtuous — especially when it comes to protecting the rights of vulnerable demographic minorities. Black voters in West Virginia are tired of being invisible 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z Driving by the Colosseum, my son awoke from a nap to see ancient Rome re-enactors dressed as gladiators and senators for the capital’s 2,770th birthday. My Rome: Still a Classic Beauty 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Ronald Reagan was a movie star before he was president, Al Franken was a “Saturday Night Live” player before he was a senator, and Sean Duffy was on “The Real World” before he joined Congress. Face it, America: You loved having a celebrity candidate. So who will it be next? 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Samantha Bee attacked Republican senators’ embattled health care bill on “Full Frontal” on Wednesday, and she didn’t pull punches. Samantha Bee Says the Health Care Bill Is Worse Than ‘Suicide Squad’ 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z No senators changed their votes, and the bill was dead. Fear fans flames for chemical makers 2012-05-06T05:00:00Z For a Republican Party accustomed to electing white Christians, Oz would be the first U.S. senator who is a Muslim and possibly the first to maintain dual citizenship. No notes, same logo: Dr. Oz’s campaign is like his TV show 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z At Thomas’s confirmation hearings, the Republican senator Arlen Specter pressed him on that claim, asking, “If you end segregation, doesn’t it necessarily mean that you are requiring school integration?” Clarence Thomas’s Radical Vision of Race 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z The senator said she saw it all coming. The young and eventful Senate career of wealthy Georgia businesswoman Kelly Loeffler 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z There were meetings to weigh a run for mayor of Chicago in 2007 and, a year later, to become a United States senator. Struggles for Jesse Jackson, Father and Son 2012-11-23T21:27:53Z Despite Markey’s roots, his opponent says the senator is now out of touch with many voters — especially minority and poorer constituents — because he’s rarely in the state. The Markey-Kennedy Senate primary battle is one Democrats wish wasn’t happening 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z By now, the former first lady/senator/secretary of state knows everyone. Obama made D.C. look cool. Will Clinton or Trump make it boring again? 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z With his depression under control, the attacks no longer bothered the senator. A look under the hoodie: Inside Sen. John Fetterman’s first week back 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z The Silence of the Lames, starring Anthony Hopkins and 43 senators. Style Invitational Week 1426: Mess with our heads 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z The current fight over voting rights is centered elsewhere — in states such as Georgia, where Black voter turnout helped defeat Trump and send Raphael G. Warnock to Washington as the state’s first Black senator. Black voters in West Virginia are tired of being invisible 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z There are two harps that belonged to her mother, Anna, the senator’s much younger second wife. Clark collection tells the story of a privileged and peculiar life While most Americans associate Capitol Hill with Congressional misadventures and general dysfunction, thousands of people — senators, reporters, congressional aides, artists, working-class long-timers and young families — call it home. 36 Hours in Washington, D.C. 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Let senators — and the country — be informed, as they were about Schwarzenegger, as they were not fully about Thomas. Perspective | The claim against Kavanaugh is not a suspicious 11th-hour bombshell. Because we’re not in the 11th hour. 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z When one was ruled out, his aides grew concerned that the senator seemed emotionless. A look under the hoodie: Inside Sen. John Fetterman’s first week back 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z “I’m not even mad that you were selfish,” Noah said, addressing the senator directly. Late-night hosts, TV pundits slam Cruz for taking ‘the world’s shortest spring break’ to Cancún 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z That’s rare in a town filled with former high school class presidents with enough egos to “float battleships,” as former senator Alan Simpson put it. Robert Mueller is the most unknowable man in Washington 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z The senator was displeased that he would not have the opportunity to stump on a show that he considered to be liberal obscenity. A museum canceled its Robert Mapplethorpe show — and decades later, it’s finally trying to make amends 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z Then there is her forthcoming role in FX’s post-apocalyptic drama Y: The Last Man, based on the comic book series, which sees her playing a senator in a society where just one man is left. Diane Lane: ‘It’s a relief to be the protagonist instead of the girlfriend’ 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z This, according to Hauty, is a “hybrid association of elements of government joined with parts of top-level finance and industry” with members that include a United States senator and the deputy director of the C.I.A. Four High-Octane New Thrillers 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z On Tuesday, the California senator was a guest on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and posed for pictures with Star Wars star Mark Hamill, who also appeared on show. California fundraiser for Kamala Harris boasts big LA names 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Rand Paul, a US senator from Kentucky who is also running for the Republican nomination, demanded Congress stop the “selling of babies’ body parts”. Planned Parenthood hidden-camera fetal tissue discussion infuriates GOP 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z It matters that the 73-year-old former governor and U.S. senator spoke of putting “an end to this nonsense” because Oklahoma is a Southern state that I don’t usually associate with forward-leaning racial ideals. Lonnae O’Neal: Dear President Boren, thank you for your outrage and action 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z Bernie Sanders, the Independent socialist senator from Vermont and now Democratic Presidential candidate, is a serious man and a welcome addition to the 2016 race. Swingin’ Bernie Sanders 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z In a letter to Acting CIA Director Michael Morell, three senators said the film-makers could have been misled by information provided by the CIA. CIA pressed over Bin Laden film 2013-01-04T01:35:23Z “As a career law enforcement officer,” she told the senators, “I have never seen anyone take such extreme steps to hide evidence allegedly proving his innocence.” Val Demings has an American dream. The impeachment trial is testing it. 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z “Over the span of just a few years, Barack Obama evolved from inexperienced freshman senator into one of the most powerful people in the world,” Kroft said in a statement. Audiobook compiles ’60 Minutes’ interviews with Barack Obama 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z Some American senators and international adoption lobby groups have been urging Vietnam to pass stronger laws and better monitor the process so that adoptions could resume. US and Vietnam to resume adoption program after six-year ban 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z “Almost all of us were saying, ‘It’s over,’” recalled Jeff Flake, then a senator from Arizona. Dissecting Brett Kavanaugh’s ‘Supreme Ambition’ 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z An unschooled tailor who worked his way up the political ladder to become a Tennessee senator, Johnson harbored a deep resentment of the aristocratic Southern planters, who viewed themselves as his betters. The First Presidential Impeachment 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z “I don’t think it’s a coup,” says Ben Nelson, former Democratic senator from Nebraska, unprompted, of the Manchin presidency. One year of ‘President Manchin’: For the Democratic agenda, all roads go through West Virginia 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z In the weeks following the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, news organizations and two United States senators were sent letters that contained deadly anthrax spores. ‘The Anthrax Attacks’ Review: Strange Behavior and an Incriminating Flask 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Ron Paul assailed Rick Santorum as a "big government person," an allegation the former Pennsylvania senator disputed. Romney brushes off rivals' criticism in debate 2012-01-08T03:57:00Z Today, freshman senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska remains the only Republican in the U.S. As the GOP’s anti-Trump, Ben Sasse picked a big fight. What would it mean to win? 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z The senator took a seat in a cavernous main room with chipped marble floor and fluorescent lights. Sherrod Brown thinks he could have helped Democrats win in 2016. But what about 2020? 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z As a senator, he’s used to giving speeches in front of an empty house, but he’d like to perform for a crowd next time. For Santorum and others not in top 10, grin and bear it. (And be a little bitter.) 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z That’s a tough place for a moderate senator who hasn’t seen the state climbing the ranks. In Mississippi, Jenny Beth Martin and Tea Party Patriots try to prove their worth Our senators, our representatives — we have to make a stand.” How would the death of the NEA affect your community? California can cite 162 ways 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z He had continued working as an attorney while Harris was California’s attorney general, and during her campaigns for U.S. senator and the Democratic presidential nomination. Doug Emhoff paused his career for his wife Kamala Harris’s aspirations — and became the campaign’s ‘secret weapon’ 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z Just this week, six influential U.S. senators weighed in, imploring federal regulators to block the deal. Comcast will end bid for Time Warner Cable 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z The senators, under pressure to distance themselves from the Affordable Care Act, proposed improvements to it. The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia 2014-03-27T18:40:41Z He was assassinated by a cabal of senators when, after declaring himself a god, he attempted to turn the republic of Rome into a kingdom. Mozart in Trump Tower, and the art of getting political onstage 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z "Obama found it a game-changer to go on her show when he was just a senator." Oprah Winfrey: will the US still worship the high priestess of the talkshow? 2010-12-26T11:08:01Z He says King continues Maine's long tradition of independent senators. DC journalist Woodward: independent tag helps King 2012-11-08T17:31:08Z Is the senior senator from Oklahoma a made-to-order quote machine for Democratic fundraising, or a chairman with the ability to legislate? Jim Inhofe is a small-plane-flying, global-warming-denying senator. And now he’s got a gavel. 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z So what was it like to move from mayor to senator? Cory Booker on the perils of heroism 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Bernie Sanders, the senator from Vermont, has the band, the chorus and the orchestra, plus all the kids who smoked under the bleachers and played in garage bands. Dave Chappelle’s endorsement matters, but not in the way Andrew Yang wants 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z "The map in May looks very, very good for us," the former Pennsylvania senator said on "Fox News Sunday." McConnell calls for unity; Santorum won't quit 2012-04-01T16:46:00Z First, on the Capitol steps the day of the attacks, a chorus of members of Congress, Republican and Democratic, senators and representatives, join to sing “God Bless America.” Is 9/11 a Day, or Is It an Era? 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z “This is not being built for the grandchildren,” said Bob Dole, 91, the former senator from Kansas, who served under Eisenhower on the Italian front and is on the commission’s advisory board. Eisenhower Memorial Design Nears Approval, but Funding Remains Uncertain 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z And Finally: It was nice to see the Evergreen State pay homage to former governor and senator Dan Evans, one of the state’s most-effective leaders of yore. Sen. Ted Cruz to lead ongoing search for intelligent life 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z The conservative former senator from Pennsylvania was scheduled to speak in Gettysburg on Tuesday afternoon. Santorum to quit U.S. presidential race - sources 2012-04-10T18:28:00Z The senator worried about what his son might be in for, and argued against his going. Books of The Times: John Moynihan?s ?Voyage of the Rose City? ? Review 2011-09-29T22:01:35Z A day earlier, the Herald team, acting on an anonymous tip, had tracked a young woman to Washington, where they spotted her entering the former Colorado senator’s home. Politicians’ sex lives used to be off limits. One scandal changed everything. 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z Toward the end the senator had to be pushed on and off the Senate floor by aides who had to coach him, in whispers audible in the Senate gallery, on how to vote. The TV Watch: Larry King Goes Gently From CNN 2010-06-30T20:55:00Z And Nixon thought the freshman senator from Illinois was his most threatening rival for the nomination. Former U.S. Sen. Charles Percy dies 2011-09-17T12:43:00Z Every senator, representative, lobbyist and aide — including many historical figures — arrives with a résumé that gets dutifully unfurled over the ever-dwindling action, mostly meetings, hearings and poker games. Review | Jake Tapper’s new political thriller is at its best when it’s most bonkers 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Several of the city’s mayors have fancied themselves as the governor of New York, as its United States senator or as the American president. In Defense of Jane Austen. Also Zebras. 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z Now Sessions is a U.S. senator, and President Trump's nominee for attorney general. Elizabeth Warren has a book coming in April. Its title? 'This Fight Is Our Fight' 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z The ruling class of senators and generals, who pander to the crowd, are no better. Review: An Electrifying ‘Coriolanus,’ Addicted to War 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z Katie Sanders briefly lays out the budget particulars and the expert opinion about the claim by the senator from Vermont. The fact-checkers venture into Red America to try to win over skeptics 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z But Jentleson says that it’s ultimately the filibuster that has endowed those Republican senators with formidable powers of obstruction. As the Georgia Runoffs Arrive, a New Book Says the Senate Is Broken 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z An agile campaigner, the former senator seems to be crafting his strategy on the back of an envelope; his campaign's greatest asset is his own political skill. Romney fails to deliver knockout blow 2012-03-07T13:05:00Z When Republican senators caucused, the mood was gloomy. Dissecting Brett Kavanaugh’s ‘Supreme Ambition’ 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z As the advocates tried to persuade senators to reconsider, Citizens for Fire Safety put out a news alert that linked to a video called "Killer Couches!" Fear fans flames for chemical makers 2012-05-06T05:00:00Z It's also back in the news because a group of U.S. senators is investigating whether BP-linked oil deals in Libya had any connection to al-Megrahi's release. Lockerbie play draws attention at Edinburgh Fringe 2010-08-06T16:39:00Z Charles Sumner School, for example, was named for a U.S. senator from Massachusetts who lived in the 1800s and opposed slavery. Back to school: An opportunity to work together and learn He’s not alone in his concern: Dozens of senators, all Democrats, are calling for every one of the presidential and vice presidential debates to include a focus on the climate crisis. Perspective | Rewrite that list of debate topics, Chris Wallace. And put the climate crisis at No. 1. 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z The movie is prefaced with an epigraph, ascribed to Hiram Johnson, a Republican senator from California, in 1918: “The first casualty of war is truth.” | '5 Days of War': More Than One Kind of Deadline 2011-08-18T22:42:32Z Even Al Franken, the “Saturday Night Live” alumnus turned Democratic senator from Minnesota, appears. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘The History of Comedy’ and ShondaLand 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z As a state senator, Big Tim Sullivan, a graft-taking Tammany Hall stalwart whose largess to supporters made him the “King of the Bowery,” wrote one of the nation’s strictest gun laws — the Sullivan Law. The Street Where ‘They Do Strange Things’ 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z “She won’t even walk for senator,” Ms. Adams said, laughing again. Cindy Adams, Gossip’s G.O.A.T. 2021-08-07T04:00:00Z From the outside it doesn’t look like there’s any power to being a shadow senator. D.C. shadow senator emerges from the shadows 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z He then took to Twitter to reveal the bleak view from where he sat, noting, “All those empty seats are senators who are not prioritizing Alzheimer’s. Unless more noise is made, it won’t change.” Seth Rogen’s funny, touching fight for Alzheimer’s patients 2014-02-27T15:28:00Z That we have MPs and senators involved with the mafia. Andrea Camilleri: a life in writing 2012-07-06T21:55:16Z He too was steeped in the code and ran the course: Yale, Bones, war hero, prosecutor, lieutenant governor, senator, secretary of state. John Kerry Describes Politics as It Used to Be 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z In July, a government senator said he was drafting a private member's bill aimed at legalizing same-sex marriage, but Turnbull said he would not allow the bill to be voted on. Australia to hold postal vote to decide on same-sex marriage law 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z Condemnation of the senator’s harried escape and obfuscation was immediate and nationwide, even coming from some of his fellow Republicans. The Season of the Snitch 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z I must admit, today I am not too fond of Democratic women senators either. From Ancient Myths to Modern Day, Women and the Struggle for Power 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z In Tim Robbins' satire "Bob Roberts," Vidal played an aging and ineffectual senator who is no match for cynical times. The great, and entitled Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T21:11:12Z We’ve looked and looked at them, senator, and although no one will ever say these pictures are boring, over time they have been co-opted, elevated and revered. HBO’s Mapplethorpe doc does the artist a big favor: It makes him naughty again 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z Erin is transgender, as is Sharise, who is jailed for murdering the son of a senator. She Awoke in Central Park, Handcuffed to a Stranger. What Happened? 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z With pressure mounting after much outcry from the public and the media regarding Sanders’ active support of Mello, the senator subsequently endorsed Ossoff in his runoff, but continues to defend his support of Mello. Bye bye, Bernie: He’s not fit to captain the Democratic ship if he can’t stop chasing the great white male 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z And which have been most useful to you as a senator? Al Franken: By the Book 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z Davis’s filibuster in Texas was echoed in a 2015 episode of “Scandal,” in which a disgraced first lady turned senator filibusters for Planned Parenthood and becomes a hero. No standing, no marathon speeches, no catheter bags: How filibustering got way too easy 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z When asked what other politicians he could work for, Mr. Weaver gave the name of Paul Wellstone, the progressive Minnesota senator who died in a plane crash in 2002. Will This Guy Shut Off the Lights in the Sanders Campaign? 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z Not unexpectedly, the Illinois Production Alliance got to work contacting state senators in an effort to stop the amendment from going through. Will the sun really set on Illinois' film incentive? 2011-04-08T14:14:00Z “We were introduced by the owner of the IHOP, and I didn’t know at that time that Bob was a senator,” Ms. Arslanian said. How They Proposed 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z Jimmy Kimmel dressed down Senator Bill Cassidy for the third day in a row over the senator’s bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Trevor Noah Thinks Paul Manafort Got Mixed Up With the Wrong Crowd 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z “One wants to be hopeful today about a brighter future,” said Tia Nelson, the senator’s daughter and the managing director of the Outrider Foundation, a nonprofit advocacy group. Where to Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Booker, now a United States senator, may not have been able to reduce homicides, which hit 111 last year, but he did woo developers. Exploring Cafes and Culture in Downtown Newark 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z George Jean Nathan literally takes the cake, calling Adele “as unconscious as a peach shortcake, as careless about it all as a United States senator’s necktie.” ‘The Astaires,’ by Kathleen Riley 2012-06-01T22:36:06Z The three US senators also wrote to the head of Sony Pictures Entertainment shortly before Christmas saying the film was "inaccurate". CIA pressed over Bin Laden film 2013-01-04T01:35:23Z She wrote of family trips in the summer when the late senator would lead his children on explorations of historic battlefields and buildings, trips she said taught her that one person can make a difference. Kara Kennedy, oldest child of late Sen. Ted Kennedy, dies 2011-09-17T18:43:00Z Gingrich and Santorum, a former senator from Pennsylvania, each has tried to convince conservative voters in South Carolina to unify behind him to knock Romney off the path to the nomination. Gingrich rips into media, then his rivals, in GOP debate 2012-01-20T06:35:00Z Americans are no strangers to the admixture of Hollywood stars and politics; after all, we’ve elected said stars to roles of senator, governor and president. Film and TV stars shake up the British election (sort of) 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z K-Town’s landmark, the Ambassador Hotel, where Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated, was demolished nearly a decade ago to make way for a high school and a memorial plaza for the slain senator. What to Do in Koreatown, Los Angeles 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z He was a progressive state senator with a budding national profile, whose narrow defeat in an election for Congress was chronicled in a well-received 2006 documentary, “Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore?” Jeff Smith was supposed to be in Congress by now. Instead he’s an ex-con — with a story to tell. 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z The U.S. senator for Minnesota resigned under pressure from Democratic colleagues in December 2017, after eight women said that he had inappropriately touched or kissed them. Analysis | Five years on, what happened to the men of #MeToo? 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z As a senator, he travelled to Mississippi to search out the poverty that the state’s leaders ignored. A work in progress 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z I wish every other senator would read it. Al Franken: By the Book 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump reacted to a Washington Post report in which a Republican senator said the president did not seem to understand the health care bill — and Mr. Colbert wasn’t very persuaded by Mr. Trump’s response. Samantha Bee Says the Health Care Bill Is Worse Than ‘Suicide Squad’ 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Either way, the senator’s office did not respond to emails on the subject. Kyrsten Sinema’s Style Keeps Us Guessing 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z For Magnuson — the woman who at Warren’s victory speech last year hoped the senator wouldn’t be running for president — recovery seems possible. Seeing fatal flaws in every Democratic candidate for president? You’ve got Pundititis. 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z As each of the rebellious Roman senators is wiped out by Antony with barbaric efficiency, you watch the step-by-step snuffing out of a dream. Perspective | How London sometimes outshines the lights of Broadway 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z He falls in love with a senator's daughter who urges him to turn away from dealing drugs. Brazilian cinema brings guns, coke, poetry to London 2013-09-24T15:10:02Z When other senators made their drivers idle their cars outside, Isakson would often invite his in, even once having the Secret Service scramble because he insisted that his driver be allowed into the White House. Perspective | Johnny Isakson was a truly likable politician. That’s rare. 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z His grandfather was Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., the Massachusetts senator and ambassador to the United Nations. Henry S. Lodge, Author of ‘Younger Next Year’ Books, Dies at 58 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z “He was an ally,” said the former United States senator Al Franken, who as a longtime “Saturday Night Live” writer and performer often clashed with Mr. Clotworthy — but who also considered him a friend. William G. Clotworthy, ‘Saturday Night Live’ Censor, Dies at 95 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z "Being a senator's wife is not easy," she told a reporter. Elizabeth Taylor was prolific as a bride 2011-03-23T15:05:13Z The retired U.S. senator and Wyoming Republican was known as a consensus-builder in an increasingly polarized Washington. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z The bride’s father is a senator in the parliament of Thailand in Bangkok, and was until 2015 the chairman of the Stock Exchange of Thailand. Proud Limpongpan, Jonathan Biagiotti 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z He was also impressed by the senator’s car. John Dean, Who Worked for Nixon, Sizes Up Trump 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z By the end of the 15 hours, amid tons of TV coverage, 40 different senators had come to the chamber to assist, and McConnell had said he was open to scheduling a vote. No standing, no marathon speeches, no catheter bags: How filibustering got way too easy 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z “All you have to do is call the cloakroom, tell them the senator you work for intends to place a hold on the bill, and the bill is filibustered,” Jentleson writes. As the Georgia Runoffs Arrive, a New Book Says the Senate Is Broken 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z The senator seemed as if he’d fit in just fine at a marina where people would rather talk boats than business. Washington’s hottest club is Joe Manchin’s houseboat 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z The senate investigation will be headed by Democrat senator Dianne Feinstein who last month joined two other senators in lambasting Zero Dark Thirty's depiction of torture. Did Zero Dark Thirty have secret links to CIA? US Senate vows to find out 2013-01-03T12:32:25Z “You have earned this spot. You are worthy. You are a great American,” the senator continued, drawing tears from Jackson and others who listened with rapt attention. Oscars slap sparks debate on the defense of Black women 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z We can entice all the people to write to their congressmen and their senators and their president. What pushed Graham Nash, the quiet one, to record his solo masterpiece 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z As much of the country has recently learned, Kamala Harris, the future U.S. senator who is now a presidential candidate, started school in Berkeley not long after that. Kamala Harris, busing in Berkeley and me: The tangled tale of a semi-failed social experiment 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z Suzie, who believed in witnessing history as much as she believed in individual politicians, called up their senator’s office and requested tickets to the inauguration. ‘I feel like this is the last shot’: A Kentucky family greets the Trump era 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z He’s rumored to be considering a run for governor or senator next year. The Garcetti Decade* 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z And there is something really, really fantastic about a first lady, United States senator, and secretary of state who has just had it with your stupid questions about what she’s wearing, world. Hillary Clinton does not have time for your games 2012-08-16T19:43:00Z The New York Times reported last month that Trump has been privately telling aides and allies, including at least one U.S. senator, that the voice on the recording was not his. Billy Bush: It was Trump's voice on "Access Hollywood" tape 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z He served two terms as mayor of New Orleans, was a Louisiana state senator and is a former president of the U.S. The president of the National Urban League discusses the state of black America 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z "If it's more of the same," one Democratic senator said of the patent proposal, "that's not a jobs bill." Obama jobs plan may include hiring tax break 2011-08-18T00:41:00Z Along with what the senators have said, and further evidence quoted by Mayer and others, this appears to corroborate the view that torture interrogations were irrelevant to finding Bin Laden. Zero Dark Thirty's torture scenes are controversial and historically dubious 2013-01-25T13:42:00Z On cue, absurdity erupts when a transparently phony savior, more full of himself than any wacko right-wing senator, ambushes America’s party of pomposity. What “unity” with Trump means: For Republicans, winning is everything, principles are swept away and hypocrisy reigns 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z With his deadpan solemnity, stars-and-stripes stage sets and fusty bow ties, Mr. Russell looked more like a senator than a comic. Mark Russell, Piano-Playing Political Satirist, Dies at 90 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z McConnell's office off the Senate floor in the Capitol saw a steady stream of GOP senators coming and going. Debt crisis focus shifts to Senate 2011-07-30T03:46:00Z “Initially, I just thought I was going to do a couple of episodes,” says Isiah Whitlock Jr, whose corrupt senator, Clay Davis, barely appeared in the first two seasons. The Wire, 10 years on: ‘We tore the cover off a city and showed the American dream was dead’ 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z But we’re drawn into it now because many senators and congressmen are saying they won’t extend the debt ceiling unless there’s a clear path to long-term deficit reduction. Durbin: 'Gang of 6' plan not part of debt talks 2011-07-20T19:57:00Z Those close to Rubio say that not only should the senator not be punished for his loyalty but that he also deserves credit for standing by his friend. For Sen. Marco Rubio, a question of friendship vs. politics 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z From the website of Ted Cruz, a Republican senator from Texas: “Life, Marriage, and family are the fundamental building blocks of society.” Marriage, Poverty and the Political Divide 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z The senator is the top Republican on theSenate Homeland Security Committee, which shares jurisdiction over the Secret Service with the Judiciary Committee. Secret Service scandal widens 2012-04-17T16:02:00Z As I write this, the senator’s husband is in the hospital. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Confessions of a purse snatcher 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z The senator tweeted that he was proud of his home team as he lambasted the White House's "political stunt." President Donald Trump cancels the Eagles' White House visit after receiving only a handful of RSVPs 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z “Fear and wonder, a powerful combination,” as Derek Jacobi’s sidelined senator puts it. Gladiator at 20: how Ridley Scott's epic rejuvenated the historical blockbuster 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z He played Olivia Pope’s senator ex on “Scandal” and one of the vets in Spike Lee’s “Da 5 Bloods.” In Art and Tennis, Watch Out for the Backhand 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z One New York lawmaker, Daniel L. Squadron, a Democratic state senator, is trying to drum up support for a plan to allow for ticket resales — but with price caps. Scalping 2.0: Naming the Ticket?s Master 2010-06-05T20:42:00Z His grandfather, whom he idolized, was a blind senator from Oklahoma; his father, a director of air commerce for Franklin D. Roosevelt, taught him to fly at the age of 10. ‘Gore Vidal: United States of Amnesia,’ a Documentary 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z But the senator from Vermont famously identifies as a democratic socialist and has repeatedly said he’s “not a liberal.” Bernie Sanders is often called a liberal. He’d beg to differ. Who is actually a liberal? 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z The nomination of a vanilla senator or boring governor would fracture the Trump coalition, sending the new “base” of the party back to the caverns where they once lurked. Kim Kardashian is the GOP’s only hope: If American democracy is now a reality show, let’s bring in a real star 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z “Women senators, including me. It’s outrageous. It’s absurd.” Perspective | Kirsten Gillibrand didn't just play the gender card. She defiantly played the whole deck. 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z “Ivanka Trump met with Republican senators today to talk about paid family leave. The senators were like, ‘We’ll totally pay for your family to leave! Stephen Colbert Doesn’t Want to See Sean Spicer Go 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z He spent a chunk of the 1980s at The Post, where his telephone conversations were loud enough for the entire Style section staff to know whenever he had a senator on the line. Sidney Blumenthal just wanted to stay in the conversation. Now he’s once again the topic. 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z Once again, senators were considering an overhaul of the state's flammability regulation — one that advocates believed would dramatically reduce the amount of flame retardants in American homes. Fear fans flames for chemical makers 2012-05-06T05:00:00Z Obama also asked listeners to Saturday's address to tell their senators to support the bill, which he's been lobbying for aggressively against Republican opposition since unveiling it a month ago. Obama pushes for passage of jobs bill 2011-10-08T12:32:00Z Bernstein, for example, grew up in suburban Washington, where one of his neighbors was a United States senator. Carl Bernstein’s Eulogy for the Newspaper Business 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z Judging by viewer reaction at the film’s premiere and the comments of two United States senators afterward, festival programmers might have undersold it. ‘The Hunting Ground,’ a Film About Rape Culture at Colleges 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z These locales inspired two alter egos: Wendy Well, an interior designer who endorses fracking, and Joan Dare, the wife of a Kansas senator whose callings are tea parties and small talk. Review | In the galleries: Crossing the line between aesthetics and science 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Trump chimed in on Twitter to call him “totally ineffective” and suggest that Nebraska find a better senator. As the GOP’s anti-Trump, Ben Sasse picked a big fight. What would it mean to win? 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z In November a Washington state senator spoke of introducing a bill that would allow protesters to be charged with committing “economic terrorism.” A matter of survival: “The Talk” is a conversation about parents, kids and police 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z Much would be different, Hill believes, including the language used by the senators. Anita Hill in spotlight again as new film opens 2014-03-21T20:38:06Z In 1960, Ted Green of Rhode Island was 92, the oldest sitting senator at that time. This Senate is the oldest in American history. Should we do anything about it? 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z “The senators’ letter to Iran made perfect sense in the Fox News biasphere.” Style Invitational: Punning in place 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z “I’m not — I’m not thinking of any right now, senator,” Kavanaugh responded, stammering a bit. Perspective | Ketanji Brown Jackson did define ‘woman’ at her confirmation hearing 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z For the senator, who died in 2003, there was poetic justice to the idea. How to Transform Penn Station: Move the Garden 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z So, for example, a senator’s family would not qualify for the government rate and fee waiver and would have to pay change fees on their tickets because of the canceled summer recess. Perspective | Critics question influence of airline travel perks on Congress 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z We need someone radical to take Trump on, and Bernie’s record as a senator speaks for itself. Chloë Sevigny: ‘Make lists after break-ups or have a passionate fling 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z Foner agrees with the abolitionist senator Charles Sumner that the Reconstruction amendments were “sleeping giants,” and notes that they provided the foundation for the civil rights revolution of the 1960s. What Reconstruction-Era Laws Can Teach Our Democracy 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z The former secretary of state and five-time senator from Massachusetts is in town with his new book about his life in the military and the government, “Every Day Is Extra.” Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for September 2018 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Jen Jordan, a Georgia state senator supporting Flowers, said victories aren’t the only way to measure a long shot’s political value. He’s raised and spent millions running against Marjorie Taylor Greene 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z While “tyranny” is a word now permanently affixed to Hawley’s name, there is apparently no longer much interest in the senator’s musings about Facebook and Google. Perspective | Conservatives crying ‘Orwell’ are downright Orwellian 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z His father, Prescott, was a Wall Street investment banker who became a U.S. senator and an influential leader in the Republican Party. Joe Biden, a father’s love and the legacy of "daddy issues" among presidents 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z Wasn’t the senator dispirited to have to suit back up and press the moneyed flesh? Washington Society Steps Back Out 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z At 23, Wu became her sister Tori's legal guardian and entered Harvard Law School, where she studied under and befriended Elizabeth Warren, now a Massachusetts senator. Is Michelle Wu America’s food justice mayor? 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z And Regardie thinks that the restaurant gave his friend from Queens stature alongside senators and TV stars. A final seating for the man who knew every D.C. power player’s favorite table 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z State senators and sap producers knew each other all their lives. Sometimes the most challenging travel destination is your own home town 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Another senator grabbed Foote’s weapon and locked it in a drawer. Congressional Bloodshed: The Run-Up to the Civil War 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Emanuel will speak to Iowa Democrats at the annual Jefferson Jackson Dinner in Des Moines tonight, charged with restoring enthusiasm among those who launched the former Illinois senator to the White House four years ago. Emanuel makes debut as Obama surrogate 2011-11-19T20:59:00Z The senator felt nervous when his Chevy Tahoe pulled up to the throng of reporters and curious tourists awaiting his arrival outside the Capitol. A look under the hoodie: Inside Sen. John Fetterman’s first week back 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z The South Carolina senator’s soaring rhetoric about minority rights revolved around protecting the interests of wealthy slavers in the South and their vision of white supremacy. As the Georgia Runoffs Arrive, a New Book Says the Senate Is Broken 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z He called the senator a “snake on a plane headed, ironically, to the very place he tried to build the wall around.” Best of Late Night in 2021: Trump’s Never-Ending Swan Song 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z Inhofe may just be the rare breed of senator who manages to be both. Jim Inhofe is a small-plane-flying, global-warming-denying senator. And now he’s got a gavel. 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z The first things you see when you walk into political strategist Robert Shrum's Los Angeles co-op apartment are two portraits of the late Massachusetts senator Edward Kennedy by Andy Warhol. What should you look for in the Democratic debates? Ask the man who prepped Gore and Kerry. 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z Returning to the kind of senator who recognizes what the Senate is all about. Jeff Flake on Trumpism: ‘I don’t know anyone who thinks that this is the future of the party’ 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z I cannot presume to know what was happening in Jackson’s head as senator after senator added new verses to the ballad of Brett Kavanaugh. Perspective | Indelible in the hippocampus is Brett Kavanaugh 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z These are the faces of the senators who, days after the shooting in Orlando, voted against a bill that would have closed those loopholes. Read Jimmy Kimmel's Emotional Plea for Gun Control After Las Vegas Shooting 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z The senator’s communications director says Harris was wearing navy. Perspective | Kamala Harris embraced black. That was both unremarkable and theatrically powerful. 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z We saw a tribute video to Ted Kennedy, who defeated Romney for Senate in 1994, which some Republicans complained was crassly partisan for a tribute to the late senator. The Morning After: Michelle Obama, Between the Lines 2012-09-05T13:03:03Z Ms. Taylor first met the entire Obama family when the president was a senator. Up Close: New Book About Michelle Obama?s Style 2011-12-07T21:30:28Z Life as a senator’s wife in Washington, Taylor said later, made her “a drunk and a junkie.” Elizabeth Taylor loved John Warner. Life in Washington nearly killed her. 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z Kentucky state senator Frank Chelf introduced legislation to ban revised versions of songs, and NBC and CBS gave in, at least partially, agreeing to air only unaltered versions of official state anthems. Is Stephen Foster's song "My Old Kentucky Home" pro-slavery or anti-slavery? 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z Juan Romero, who had gone to shake Kennedy’s hand when the senator was shot, speaks in a rare, sobering interview towards the end of the series. Bobby Kennedy: Netflix documentary shines a light on his relevance 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z And, it was clear to the senator that Ivanka has real power in the White House over the subjects that are on her agenda. When Dad’s the president — a look inside Ivanka Trump’s complicated world 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z There’s a little Liddy in the Republican senators who dressed in safari gear to visit the border last week in armed riverboats. Perspective | Little Liddys everywhere: The legacy of a political ‘super-klutz’ 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z On his mother’s side, Mr. Avedon is the grandson of the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan, one of the most famous senators of the last century. Up Close: Michael Avedon Follows in His Grandfather’s Footsteps 2012-12-05T18:45:39Z When Ted Cruz lambasted Trump for embodying “New York values,” people lined up to stomp the self-righteous feces out of the Texas senator. Donald Trump, human dog-whistle: The 2016 election, the left and the place where language ends 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z Eagle-eyed Twitter users spotted the distinct hand accessory and made it a point to share their thoughts and jokes about the Vermont senator’s fashion choice. Bernie Sanders’ mittens trend on Inauguration Day, Twitter reacts: ‘We want to keep warm’ 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z “After we got 10 or 15 minutes up in the air, the natural esprit of those people who surround Ethel and the senator began to break out.” Robert F. Kennedy’s final flight: The storied journey of the ride from California to New York 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z Often you read about what people thought in the Middle Ages, and then find a US senator in the late 20th century held the same views. Eric Berkowitz on sex and society 2012-07-09T11:45:00Z Congress, two senators and, depending on how you sort of chart Reconstruction, about a dozen House members. Mo Rocca on "Mobituaries," celebrity deaths and what we get wrong about Billy Carter 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Everyone knows Hillary Clinton for her political career as a former senator, Secretary of State and now the Democratic presidential nominee. Hillary Clinton Talks Dance Parties With Beyoncé, Michelle Obama 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Swift’s success rate as an activist is nominal; Blackburn is currently sitting through impeachment arguments with 99 other senators. ‘Miss Americana’ Review: Taylor Swift, Scathingly Alone 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Are there any conscious parallels in your mind between Senator Jay Seagram in the book and Barack Obama when he was a senator running for president? ArtsBeat: Noah Hawley Talks About His New Novel, 'The Good Father' 2012-03-21T15:29:13Z So he introduced himself, described his plight and asked if the senator might help him out by letting Ms. Frei off work for the night. A Bold Question Precedes the Proposal 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z He played three different species on the "Star Trek" franchise, and an ape — who was a senator — in Tim Burton's 2001 "Planet of the Apes." How David Warner stole “Time Bandits” from the thieves 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z At the Cancun airport Thursday, the senator appeared to be escorted by a representative from the Ritz-Carlton. Texas is freezing, but the roast of Ted Cruz is on 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z Kirk also was among four senators who secretly traveled to Libya in September. Kirk faces long recovery from stroke 2012-01-24T03:03:00Z But Hall also played senators, lawyers, doctors and detectives, a white lab coat or dark trench coat wardrobe staples. Philip Baker Hall is your favorite actor whose name you can’t quite place 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z The senator’s political friendships too reflect a willingness to cross the aisle that these days seem almost quaintly from another age. John McCain: film portrait of an ‘American hero’ skirts hard questions 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z The next year, 1992, was declared “The Year of the Woman” because the number of congresswomen had increased by 24 and the count of female senators had risen from two to six. Anita Hill’s testimony compelled America to look closely at sexual harassment 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z During a live on-air interview, the president claimed that it was down to a senator who was in the hospital and was therefore unable to vote. John Oliver: Trump's response to Puerto Rico relief was 'horribly racist' 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z The tome that’s the gateway drug of aspiring politician authors, though, is arguably Barack Obama’s “Dreams From My Father,” which first appeared when he was not yet an Illinois state senator. Every candidate an author: The ceaseless boom in books by politicians 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z Clinton was the first lady of Arkansas before she was the first lady of the United States, a senator representing New York, secretary of state and then presidential candidate. Hillary Clinton to voice ‘Into The Woods’ role in Arkansas 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z When Greene shared the photo of Graham on Twitter several hours later, it seemed as if she was hoping to channel some of the GOP's ire towards Bud Light towards the senator. Bud Light boycott gets even weirder as Marjorie Taylor Greene posts doctored image of Lindsey Graham 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z I went in and I read, they had some fake sides because it was just for a senator. Andrea Savage on "I'm Sorry" season 2: "Your whole life turns to s**t when your kid learns to read" 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z The second, on Friday, Dec. 16, is about how the beloved Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, a senator and Communist, went into hiding when the government banned his party in 1948. Pablo Larraín on His Latest Films, ‘Jackie’ and ‘Neruda’ 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Was this a tweet mean to calm his fellow senators? A GOP senator’s guide to a Trump scandal: 1) Say you’re ‘troubled.’ 2) Keep walking. 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z Twenty-three senators put their names on the invitation. Rand Paul’s campaign manager talks to the establishment Republican he ambushed in 2010 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z She got an invitation for a private meeting — with a Democratic senator. Pundit Mona Charen blew up CPAC. Even she was stunned by the vitriol that ensued. 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z These are the 56 senators who didn’t want to do anything about that. Read Jimmy Kimmel's Emotional Plea for Gun Control After Las Vegas Shooting 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Boston philanthropist and power broker Jack Connors recalls being a bit puzzled by the call he got from his state’s senior senator in May 2008. Ted Kennedy’s bricks-and-mortar legacy taking shape And the senator wanted to keep it that way.” Schumer Has Big Role in Pool Parties Concerts 2010-06-04T18:33:00Z After dinner, the two senators retire to the living room without the women. What really happened at those famous Georgetown dinner parties 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z His grandfather was a mayor and state senator in North Dakota. Rep. Matt Gaetz wants you to know who he is, and his plan is working 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z This involves a lot of back and forth with Joe Manchin, the senator from West Virginia whose crucial vote was considered uncertain. Bob Woodward Extends His Trump Chronicles With the Chaotic Transfer of Power 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z The project is named for Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the New York senator who championed the idea before his death in 2003. Architecture: A Proposal for Penn Station and Madison Square Garden 2012-02-08T16:59:06Z Mr. Lowe’s political roles — recently as a Republican senator on ABC’s “Brothers and Sisters” — may have helped with his foray into Washington’s real political waters. Reality TV? Not Really, the Capital Says 2011-01-21T22:24:29Z He mimed freeing a group of Democratic senators trapped in a stuck Capitol subway when he passed them on his walk to vote on Tuesday morning. A look under the hoodie: Inside Sen. John Fetterman’s first week back 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z For Week 1107, our biennial “joint legislation” contest, the Empress fleshed out the usual pool of congressional freshmen with a list of incumbent senators whose names hadn’t been used in previous contests. Style Invitational Week 1111: When you riff upon a store 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z “I speak as a Republican. I speak as a woman. I speak as a United States senator. I speak as an American,” she said. The Unfavored Daughter: When Margaret Chase Smith Ran in the New Hampshire Primary 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z A crowd scene involving Roman senators, for example, would be reduced by several beats, because Tsikurishvili sensed that it lingered after making its narrative point. Perspective | A critic goes to a Synetic preview and finds much to praise 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z The Post questioned its own analysis and then claimed to write 16 positive stories about the Vermont senator — they hashtagged the story #bias. The Washington Post runs 16 positive Bernie stories after being called out for slamming the senator 16 times in 16 hours 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z The former North Carolina senator frequently invoked his wife and children as he sought the 2008 Democratic nomination for president. Revelations could tarnish Schwarzenegger's legacy 2011-05-18T10:31:23Z But the senator herself acknowledges Lucas’s adversarial strength. A Politician With Real Killer Instincts 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Politicians in attendance: a slew of senators, some deputy assistants of whichever, and the secretaries of treasury, labor, commerce and agriculture. At state dinner, Biden and Macron stand ‘shoulder to shoulder’ 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Before he won his seat as a senator for New Jersey, Cory Booker was a charismatic young underdog taking on the state’s political machine. 8 Political Campaign Documentaries Worth Streaming 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z A former U.S. senator from Alaska who read the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record and confronted Barack Obama about nuclear weapons during a later presidential run. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z A fiery populist, a devotee of white linen suits and ruthless politics, Long was also that state’s senator from 1932 until he was assassinated in Baton Rouge in 1935, at 42. ‘All the King’s Men,’ Now 70, Has a Touch of 2016 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z But senators were unwilling to risk political fallout from allowing a lapse in the tax break, which expires Dec. 31, and argue the issue in the months ahead. Senate extends payroll tax cut 2011-12-17T15:38:00Z Some senators took issue with Grenell’s partisan attacks in appearances on Fox News. Trump’s ambassadors fan out across the globe. But some powerful countries are still waiting. 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z What is lost when senators no longer have to stand up for what they believe? No standing, no marathon speeches, no catheter bags: How filibustering got way too easy 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z The socialist senator from Vermont has been neck and neck in campaign contributions with the former secretary of state month after month despite having a donor base that mostly gives under $30 a head. Hollywood Celebrities Choose Sides in Presidential Race 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z In quick succession, two senators hopped off the trams that run beneath the Capitol. Donald Trump Jr. and the kamikaze tweetstorm that set Washington on fire 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z The Vermont senator discusses capitalism’s negative effects on society. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z Before his election as the junior senator from Minnesota by a narrow margin in 2008, Mr. Franken, 66, was a longtime writer and performer on “Saturday Night Live,” beginning in its debut season. Al Franken and Olivia Wilde: Calling a Lie a Lie 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z Q. What do you call a Florida senator who is afraid to debate? Style Invitational Week 1351: What concept will you be for Halloween? 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Back in 2015, before he was in Congress, Jackson went viral when he was the only state senator to show up to work during a snowstorm. The most-followed U.S. congressman on TikTok is doing a delicate dance 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z After his wife’s death by suicide he spent decades in unrequited love with a senator’s wife. The Brilliant, Bitter, Unlikable Scion of an American Political Dynasty 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z This invasion of otherness is emasculating to the senator; it puts his whole persona at risk. This Week in Fiction: Robert Coover on How Real Events Can Color Fiction 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z Only cartoonish control freaks are obsessive about turning their children into scientists or senators and nothing else. Memo to Parents: Back Off, and Children Learn More 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z The musicians called on the orchestra’s board to accept a proposal made this summer by George J. Mitchell, the former senator and Middle East envoy, who is acting as a mediator in the dispute. ArtsBeat: Minnesota Orchestra Musicians Reject Latest Contract Offer 2013-09-05T22:13:08Z In California, a Democratic state senator who represents Silicon Valley, Dave Cortese, has been drafting legislation that would ban operational firearms from sets, which he said would effectively also ban blanks. The ‘Rust’ Shooting Spurs a Debate Over Using Guns on Film Sets 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z In the premiere, he turns up subtly at first, on a campaign poster — Eddie is a senator now. Review: ‘Limitless’ on CBS Stars Jake McDorman as a Brainiac 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z As senator is being led away, Hot Partner comes up to Goren. TV spot for "Hot Genius Jerks With Quirky Jobs" 2011-05-31T20:32:00Z The former Pennsylvania senator also recalled Romney's failed effort to join the Washington club almost 20 years ago. Rick Santorum says he's got momentum 2012-02-08T14:33:00Z “Neil Young, a Canadian citizen, is a supporter of Bernie Sanders for president of the United States of America,” referring to the U.S. senator from Vermont who is vying for the Democratic nomination in 2016. Neil Young: Donald Trump 'not authorized' to rock in the free world 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z A few weeks ago, a short clip of a state senator named Katie Muth, a Democrat from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, began bouncing around Twitter. The Decline of Yelling 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z It’s even more encouraging to see senators and representatives understand the value that local newspapers bring to their constituents. Perspective | Google and Facebook sucked profits from newspapers. Publishers are finally resisting. 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Goodman, well known from shows like “Roseanne” and movies like “Argo,” will star in the most high-profile of the new shows, “Alpha House,” about four unruly Republican senators sharing a house in Washington. Amazon Uses Feedback to Order Five TV Shows 2013-05-29T21:53:38Z CNN sought out Williams for comment after the report’s release, thereby according him equal time with senators, foreign-policy experts and human rights activists. Why do cable news shows use so many celebrity ‘experts’? 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Instead of firing back at Clinton, the longest reigning Independent senator in U.S. history, explained that he didn’t divide progressives at all. Bernie Sanders responds to Hillary Clinton’s book criticisms: “But our job now is really not... 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z The importance of his role came to a head when Marshall faced off against a wolf pack of Southern senators determined to derail his nomination to the Supreme Court in July 1967. Wil Haygood's 'Showdown' explores Thurgood Marshall's Supreme Court nomination fight 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z The national tragedies were personal for the couple: Mrs. Edelman had worked for Dr. King, and Mr. Edelman had been an aide to the senator. After Two Tragedies, a Love to Bring Down Barriers 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Is it hard to generate enthusiasm for all the people you meet as a senator? Tim Kaine talks Hillary and the harmonica 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z The former senator also said that he and Hill had since spoken and “made our peace.” Anita Hill and her 1991 congressional defenders to Joe Biden: You were part of the problem 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z Early this morning, the senator underwent surgery to relieve swelling around his brain stemming from the stroke. Sen. Kirk hospitalized after stroke 2012-01-23T15:31:00Z A previous version of this article incorrectly said that eventually eight senators regretted their decision to call on Al Franken to resign as a U.S. senator. Al Franken has a new comedy tour. His targets? Former Senate colleagues. 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z "Thank you so much, Iowa," Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator, told jubilant supporters in a Des Moines suburb. Romney wins by 8 votes in Iowa caucuses 2012-01-04T12:10:00Z When Michael Kruse, working on a profile of Sanders for Politico, asked the senator’s office staff about the first marriage, his press person said, “She got a Mexican divorce is what I was told.” Bernie Sanders’ hippie 20s: Drugs, free love and Vietnam! 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z That drew a largely skeptical response from the senators. Ticketmaster Cast as a Powerful ‘Monopoly’ at Senate Hearing 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z “Cory Booker had my heart and soul,” James, who supported the senator from New Jersey before he dropped out last month, told Yang supporter Andrew Thompson, 19. In Iowa, a drama becomes a farce 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z And which book do you wish all your fellow senators would read? Al Franken: By the Book 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z Louis-Dreyfus plays a former senator who becomes vice president and finds the job is everything she was warned about. HBO picks up Julia Louis-Dreyfus comedy 2011-04-18T18:37:08Z Nor did Cruz’s lawyer address the unusual manner in which the senator’s aides bought his book. The GOP’s big bulk book-buying machine is boosting Republicans on the bestseller lists 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z The senator returned to the Chicago area Friday evening after completing a weeklong series of visits to southern and central Illinois. Kirk faces long recovery from stroke 2012-01-24T03:03:00Z It led to a vituperative Senate Judiciary hearing at which senators from both parties called Ticketmaster and its corporate parent, Live Nation Entertainment, a monopoly. Live Music Is Roaring Back. But Fans Are Reeling From Sticker Shock. 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Hinds, 43, a Democrat, is a Massachusetts state senator. Alicia Christoff, Adam Hinds 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z Scott Brown, a former senator from Massachusetts, is in New Zealand, and former senator Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas was named ambassador to NATO. Trump’s ambassadors fan out across the globe. But some powerful countries are still waiting. 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z The senator rebuts her claims on a medium that might have sprung from the hypertext mind of Coover himself: He tweets it. Familiar Tales Remixed, at the Hands of a Postmodern Master 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Photographed with prime ministers, princes and senators, including President Biden, and interviewed on “Good Morning America,” Eli was a pillar of the community. A Father Chose to End His Life at 92. His Daughter Hit Record. 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Ever wanted to slap handcuffs on some senators to make them get back to work? ‘House of Cards’ Season 2: More delicious ruthlessness 2014-02-11T21:21:09Z “I’m a rich white senator’s pretty-boy son, I get up before the dawn in the pouring rain, and I hang myself from a bridge,” Backstrom asks aloud, puffing on a fat cigar. Rainn Wilson Plays a Caustic Investigator in ‘Backstrom’ on Fox 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z He’s a statesman, a senator, a vice president who helped start wars, confirm Supreme Court justices and expand health care to millions of Americans. This is Joe Biden’s biggest moment. Why does he feel so small? 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z But from Nov. 17, people will be able to visit the arched walkways where senators and plebeians once gathered. Rome shows off restored Circus Maximus 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z The 19 senators who voted to pass the bill included 17 Republicans and two Democrats. Tennessee Legislature passes bill to make the Bible its official state book 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z Or will some Republican senators’ apparent reluctance to consider evidence or call witnesses be depicted as just more political wrangling? Perspective | The Sanders-Warren ‘feud’ and Ukraine revelations are nowhere near equal in importance. Try telling the media that. 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z But Mr. Sides draws on the recollections of Georgia Davis, the Kentucky state senator and Dr. King’s illicit companion, who says she was with him on the last night of his life. Books of The Times: Hampton Sides?s ?Hellhound on His Trail? Traces Martin Luther King Jr.?s Killer 2010-04-21T22:24:00Z Elizabeth Warren, the progressive and professorial senator from Massachusetts and a self-described “5-4” fan, recorded an interview last week for an upcoming episode. The Hosts of ‘5-4’ Never Trusted the Supreme Court 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z The former U.S. senator and 2008 presidential candidate delivered his first public address as the boss of the industry's top trade group at CinemaCon, a Las Vegas convention for theater owners. Chris Dodd makes debut as Hollywood advocate 2011-03-29T22:21:24Z The issue, for the senators and others, was one of transparency. From Politics to Scandals, Sports Seem to Speak to Our Times 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z The woman defended her choice, claiming her family is descended from a long line of “both squires and senators.” Mom cancels baby shower after family ridicules name choice 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z The senator is not done with his campaign, however. In Transit Blog: Delta and JetBlue Waive Change Fees After Sandy-Hit Schools Shorten Breaks 2012-11-29T20:52:37Z Susan Rubio, the Democratic California senator who is sponsoring the bill to set up a state agency and pushing for the $50 million subsidy, argued her approach would help the industry survive these challenging times. Emerging From Covid, Small Theaters in Los Angeles Face a New Challenge 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z She knew Ms. Sinema, a triathlete, had a penchant for showing her arms, and believed the new senator “needed to be allowed to wear what she wanted” in her new workplace. Kyrsten Sinema’s Style Keeps Us Guessing 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z In 2016 an art gallery shut an exhibit of work by U.S. photographer Jack Sturges after a pro-Kremlin senator labeled the images child abuse and a protester threw urine at them. Man who attacked Russian art masterpiece says driven by ideology 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z Mrs. Clinton was in the middle of her first political campaign, running to be New York’s junior senator. Trump Tower, a Home for Celebrities and Charlatans 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z “When Trump says California is out of control, we certainly hope we’re out of his control,” said Barbara Boxer, the former Democratic U.S. senator, by phone. This is California in the era of Trump 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z The outlet added comments from Democratic state senator Jen Jordan as well, who noted that a recent poll showed that more Georgia residents oppose the bill than support it. Kristen Wiig and Reed Morano pull projects from Georgia in wake of anti-abortion law 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Had the senator’s speech marked a new commitment to dispassionate, rational inquiry, a respect for scientific thought and a well-grounded doubt in ghosts, astrology,creationism and homeopathy, it might have been cause for cheer. 7 ways to shut down a climate change denier 2013-12-18T13:00:00Z Israel claims that the character is “a composite of all senators.” Rep. Steve Israel, finding the funny in Washington’s corridors of power 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z Gov. John Fetterman holding a dominating lead among the three Democratic candidates, Pennsylvania is primed to produce something it has rarely enjoyed: a celebrity senator. Dr. Oz’s Trump-infused Senate run is coming down to the wire 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z Nelson may be especially sensitive to the plight of a Democratic senator standing athwart major policy. One year of ‘President Manchin’: For the Democratic agenda, all roads go through West Virginia 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z For whatever reason, about twice as many senators – 41 percent – as House members went to elite schools. The myth of the college dropout: College dropouts who rule the world are rare exceptions, not the rule 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z “Right now, there’s a bipartisan group of senators working to improve the healthcare system we have,” Kimmel said on his show. Late-night TV show host Kimmel blasts senator over healthcare bill 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z He lost three limbs to a hand grenade in Vietnam and later became a groundbreaking Veterans Administration chief and U.S. senator from Georgia until an attack ad questioning his patriotism derailed his reelection. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z He closed by urging senators to “end this ridiculous charade” so “we can go have an election.” Trump lawyer Pat Cipollone was a camera-shy Washington Everyman — until impeachment made him a star 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z The second was his acceptance, as a senator, of a large payment for his vote on a bill he had previously opposed. Henry Adams’s 1880 Novel, ‘Democracy,’ Resonates Now More Than Ever 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Would the senator have voted for Trump, knowing that it would turn out like this? Bob Corker is free to speak his mind about Trump. If he could only make it up. 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z Sharing her reaction to Blackburn's Senate victory, Swift said, "She gets to be the first female senator in Tennessee, and she's Trump in a wig." GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn continues long-running Taylor Swift feud with bizarre "Marxism" rant 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z In a recent story titled “Invasion of the Martians,” pea-green aliens come to Earth and zap a Texas senator’s manhood off. Experiments Succeed — and Fail — Spectacularly in Robert Coover’s Lab 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z For the Pennsylvania senator, tonight’s debate in Mesa, Ariz., offers an opportunity to reposition himself as not just a fringe candidate, and a chance to earn some much-needed free media exposure. High stakes for Rick Santorum at tonight's GOP debate 2012-02-22T13:47:00Z And why not station in its entrance hall the bust that was made of him when he was Treasury secretary looking like a Roman senator? Museum Review: Alexander Hamilton?s Renovated Grange - Review 2011-09-15T22:35:12Z I call my congressman and senators every day. Love and Betrayal in America 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z By the end, the murderous "posse" was unmasked as a cabal of senators and soldiers. Caligula with Mary Beard – TV review 2013-07-30T06:01:00Z Even in his office, the senator speaks in a pompous, stentorian voice seemingly inflated to a constant podium bluster. The Troubling Fate of a 1973 Film About the First Black Man in the C.I.A. 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z He knows he’s not ugly: “On a 1 to 10 scale, I don’t think I could model, but I could definitely end a Republican senator’s career.” The Best New Comedy Specials to Stream Right Now 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z “I was surprised by how accessible senators and congressmen are,” he said. Craft Distillers, Facing Lower Taxes, Invest in Themselves 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Miller used the 17th century Salem trials to draw attention to 20th century political witch-hunts, such as American senator Joseph McCarthy's war on Communist 'enemies'. Why are we in love with witches? 2012-07-05T14:18:20Z But finally, in April 1998, persistent peace talks led by former U.S. senator George Mitchell culminated in the Good Friday Agreement. How an undocumented Irish immigrant became an unofficial U.S. diplomat 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Chuck D said on Twitter he was supporting Sanders because of his pledges to bring in universal healthcare and childcare should the Democratic senator from Vermont be elected to the White House in November. Public Enemy splits with Flavor Flav over Bernie Sanders rally 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z It went to a man in Arizona who said he bought the piece because he admired the late senator. The eclectic estate of Roberta McCain — John McCain’s mother — went up for auction. So did a piece of Old Washington. 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z Where might senators of opposing parties meet — like that’s going to happen — if one is trying to get the other to switch his vote? In TV’s ‘BrainDead,’ bugs eat the brains of D.C. politicians. (It’s a metaphor.) 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z A book about the late Ted Stevens, the former Republican senator from Alaska, sits on an Indonesian-designed coffee table near a seen-better-days mauve love seat. Billy Martin: Washington’s go-to lawyer when you’re in trouble. Real trouble. 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Kirsten is aware of the sexism that pervades her era — she makes snappy reference to the minuscule number of female senators — but the show doesn’t entirely seem to be. Review: In ‘Days of Wine and Roses,’ Two Souls Lost in an Ocean of Booze 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z When he wasn't writing, he was popping up in movies, playing himself in "Fellini's Roma," a sinister plotter in the sci-fi thriller "Gattaca" and a U.S. senator in "Bob Roberts." 'Burr' author, pundit Gore Vidal dies 2012-08-01T20:25:39Z Klobuchar, the Democratic senator from Minnesota who has championed efforts to revamp antitrust law, explains why excessive concentrations of wealth are a threat to American democracy. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z She was one of four GOP senators who held onto their office, leaving the party with a one-seat margin in the chamber. Wisconsin recall election a test of voter sentiment 2011-08-11T07:03:00Z One of the most gripping scenes conjures a tense budget meeting, in which a state senator, E.W. Review | An ‘Alabama Story’ that has national relevance 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z So, Trump is hitting back, even reminding voters that South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham is still in the race. Colbert on Trump, Carson: “we shouldn’t elect someone who shouts crazy things. Maybe we should elect a man who whispers crazy things” 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z Up to 100 people at a time can play at being senators, debating, negotiating and voting on legislation. Edward M. Kennedy Institute Aims to Teach Collaboration 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z Senator after senator from both sides of the aisle told Biden that it wouldn’t be the same without him. On Capitol Hill, picture day at the start of 115th Congress 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z Seth Meyers took a look at Republican senators’ new health care bill, which the Congressional Budget Office on Monday estimated would cause 22 million people to lose their health insurance. Stephen Colbert Is Not Asking the Russians to Help Him Become President 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z In the 1970s, conservative Republican senators organized a steering committee to discuss strategy and ideas over lunch. A Senate Lunch Tradition Draws on the Flavors of Home 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z In the initial series of annual specials they appeared in before landing their own show, Jim Bob was introduced as an Arkansas state senator. Josh Duggar and the sexual abuse allegations rocking 19 Kids and Counting 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z Tawny Cypress, who plays the adult version of Taissa, a survivor who grows up to become a state senator, described the story as universal. How the ‘Yellowjackets’ ‘Weirdos’ Fell in Love and Wrote a Hit Show 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z The senator’s crusade for the ban began months ago: In November, Schumer and Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark. called for U.S. intelligence officials to investigate it for any threats to national security. TSA bans employees from using TikTok on behalf of agency following Schumer's complaints 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z A Washington comedy has senators and senior White House aides. | 'House of Cards': ‘House of Cards’ on Netflix Stars Kevin Spacey 2013-01-31T23:08:08Z And, really, why not name the senator instead of granting him the privilege of privacy? Review | Huma Abedin opens up about her marriage, the 2016 election and her #MeToo moment 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z The other senator from Kentucky, Rand Paul, has declined to see her even though she is a constituent. These mothers saw the opioid epidemic before anyone else. No one listened 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z Winfrey campaigned for President Barack Obama when he was a senator from Illinois running for the White House. Michelle Obama meets Oprah in South Africa 2011-06-23T22:06:09Z “She’s obviously telling the truth,” but Republican senators are looking for any inconsistency, so “they have a public excuse to do what they’ve obviously been planning all along: ram through this confirmation.” Perspective | The ghosts in the room for the Brett Kavanaugh hearing 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z As he wrote in a tweet addressed to the mayor, the governor, New York’s two U.S. senators and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: A Frantic Few Days for Restaurants Is Only the Beginning 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z A former senator from Tennessee whose long career in Washington included a key role in rebuilding the Republican Party after the Watergate scandal. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Across the room, Connie Mack III, the 71-year-old former senator, was told of this backhanded compliment about his son from Mr. Nelson. Connie Mack IV Takes His Swings at a Senate Seat 2012-10-28T04:47:23Z In Groton, a US senator, whose son was in my father's fifth grade class, offered to put a bill through Congress, applying for a special dispensation. A Swiss memory, How Bizarre, Mum's marmalade 2013-01-19T07:15:01Z Michael Bennet, a Democratic senator from Colorado, spends his near-weekly flights between Washington and Denver unwinding by reading for pleasure, mostly nonfiction. Stuck in a Reading Rut? How to Create New Book Habits 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z He had the early word on former Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin’s memoir, too, including Abedin’s startling allegation that an unnamed U.S. senator made an aggressive and unwanted pass at her. Meet the reporter who always seems to get a copy of the hottest tell-all Trump book first. 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z “Then we begin a new journey,” the senator said. Congress takes crucial step toward establishing Latino and women’s history museums 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z Yet the senator’s work keeps him in Washington and on the road for extended periods of time; he harbors Presidential ambitions, putting him increasingly in the limelight and increasingly on the fund-raising circuit. Early Meryl Streep and Peak Alan Alda in “The Seduction of Joe Tynan” 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Tracy Letts gets called on to play a lot of captains of industry and senators, “so you look for the thing that makes it more interesting than just a cipher in a suit,” he said. One Startling Scene: Tracy Letts in ‘Ford v Ferrari’ 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z It is believed that Glenn, a former Democrat senator for Ohio, died before seeing Hidden Figures. How three black women helped send John Glenn into orbit 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z Most Saturday mornings, former Kansas senator Bob Dole greets fellow veterans at the southern entrance of the National World War II Memorial, shaking hands and posing for photos with a steady stream of visitors. Bob Dole leads the fight for Ike 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z I count eight former or current senators probably running for president next year. Tim Kaine talks Hillary and the harmonica 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z When it came time to vote, the senators overwhelmingly sided with Heimbach and Citizens for Fire Safety, sticking with the furniture standard based on a candle-like flame. Fear fans flames for chemical makers 2012-05-06T05:00:00Z All the polished stuff was really old - gags about Barack Obama from when he was a senator. Reader reviews: your take on Sarah Silverman, Bull, and A Life of Galileo 2013-02-15T17:25:10Z In 1950, the Maine representative became the first senator to speak out against Sen. Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee. "The View" receives Hillary and Chelsea Clinton with uncharacteristic bipartisanship 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z Truly, you can almost understand why these senators stood behind Kavanaugh four years ago. Perspective | Indelible in the hippocampus is Brett Kavanaugh 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z Their partnership began in 1952, when Eisenhower secured the Republican presidential nomination and chose the young senator from California as his running mate. Jeffrey Frank’s ‘Ike & Dick’: 2 strange political bedfellows 2014-02-05T21:55:34Z McCain’s office said the senator’s intent isn’t to open up the Grand Canyon to hunting. Senator pushes plan to manage Grand Canyon bison 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z Suspicions that some senators were paid off to acquit Johnson hovered over the proceedings and moved Benjamin Butler, one of the House impeachment managers, to investigate. The political battle after the Civil War 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z But the truth is that Tester is as much a member of the Beltway elite as any other senator. Jon Tester could teach Democrats a lot about rural America — if he can keep his Senate seat 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z One Republican senator called it a “gift to Putin.” How a D.C. lobbyist tried to stop Putin’s pipeline before war started 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z Jahraus said he is asking Alabama’s U.S. senators and his representative for help with the process of bringing Sashko and the other children to safety. Alabama doctor aiming to adopt 9-year-old Ukrainian boy struggles to get him out of war zone 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z Damon was all shouts and sniffles as he sparred loudly with Democratic senators, showed off his decades-old calendars and talked about his love of beer. Saturday Night Live: the most memorable cameos of the Trump era 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z But Scrantonians more often mention the two former governors who were longtime residents — Republican Bill Scranton and Democrat Robert P. Casey Sr. — or that Pennsylvania’s senior senator, Robert P. Casey Jr., still lives here. Scranton became shorthand for the past. Its reality is far more complicated. 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z She was the top law enforcement official in the state of California before becoming a United States senator. Kamala Harris to Publish New Book in Early 2019 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z “Vaccine efficacy, return to in-person school, two Democratic senators from Georgia, police reform, humane immigration policies, statehood for D.C. and Puerto Rico.” ‘Exhausting,’ ‘surreal,’ ‘dumpster fire’: How our readers described 2020 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z That means Indiana will have a new senator as well as three new members of Congress. Indiana voters head to polls for decisive election 2012-05-08T12:31:00Z The senator pointed out that media reports didn’t paint the full picture. Bob Corker is free to speak his mind about Trump. If he could only make it up. 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z Let us also not forget that Hillary was supposed to be crowned the nominee in 2008 and lost to first-time senator who was mainly known for one speech. The Walls That Hillary Clinton Created 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z When Conant was considering whether to work for the new senator, “a lot of people I respected said flat out: ‘This guy’s going to be president someday,’ ” Conant says now. Ron DeSantis has reached a perilous point: Inevitability 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z While he’s sure some of the kids from Assumption ended up a block away, in Cook County jail, a classmate from private school became a senator. Michael Peña: ‘Scientology made me a better actor’ 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Clinton, formerly a senator from the state that produces 11% of the nation’s apples, wanted some for “personal use.” Watch Clinton Talk About Emails, Apples and Pot With Kimmel 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z The nine defendants in the case that began this week include VictoryLand casino owner Milton McGregor and four current and former state senators. Country singers may be part of AL corruption trial 2011-06-07T21:47:07Z The cast and crew of “Parks and Recreation” had come to Washington and its sweltering July heat for the glorious location shots and, more important, its senators. ‘Parks and Recreation’ Goes to Washington 2012-07-25T21:44:52Z But Klaus Lederer, the Berlin senator responsible for culture, wrote in an email exchange that the agreement was an important first step in a “process of discussion,” which German states need to follow up. Germany Sets Guidelines for Repatriating Colonial-Era Artifacts 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Reform proponents on the Hill had to tap the other Arizona senator, Republican Jon Kyl, who sought ever more restrictive measures to appease the right wing of his party. Television Review | 'The Senators? Bargain': On HBO2, ?Grand? Legislation Goes Wrong 2010-03-23T21:40:00Z Flake told the Arizona Republic that the show was vetted by the senate ethics committee and that neither senator was compensated for their appearance on the show. Two US senators live on remote island for Discovery's Rival Survival 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z After four U.S. senators attended our Memorial Day commemoration in 2011 in Belgium, Sen. Patrick Leahy placed a copy of my speech in the Congressional Record. The ambassador’s tale: Lessons I learned about success and scandal 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Bee asked the Minnesota senator during a segment promoting his new book. Samantha Bee, Al Franken say mean things about Ted Cruz 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z She and former senator Chuck Robb celebrated their 50th anniversary last December. ‘No one talks about that. No, no no!’ At a reunion of presidential descendants, don’t ask about Trump. 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z The Vermont senator’s website kept a dedicated page listing his artist supporters, including Michael Stipe, Lucinda Williams and Killer Mike. The Campaign Tour: Pop Musicians Get on the Bus (Mostly Clinton’s) 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Vidal’s grandfather was a United States senator from Oklahoma. Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr. Had Much in Common 2012-08-01T22:15:55Z By 6 o’clock, eight Democratic congressmen populated the lobby and bar, while another trickle of senators headed to a reception upstairs. Convention Diary: In a Swirl of Excess, No Guilt Included 2012-09-08T02:16:18Z When Thomas was confirmed, in 1991, there were only two female senators. Still Thinking About Anita Hill 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z She became the first Black woman to be elected district attorney in California history, the first woman to be California's attorney general, first South Asian American senator. Kamala Harris names herself and seeks redemption, empowering so many of us to do the same 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z There are all number of things “an imaginative senator can do to gum up the works of the Senate,” he said. No standing, no marathon speeches, no catheter bags: How filibustering got way too easy 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z “But the senator thought it was too flip for some of the subjects he now wants to address.” John McCain will publish a memoir in April 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z Its characters also include a self-medicating senator battling to process her daughter’s violent death and a political aide who craves a spanking with a rolled-up copy of The Economist. Elizabeth Meriwether Writes Scripts for Stage and Screen 2010-05-08T02:42:00Z Bill Perkins, a Democratic state senator who represents the area, said he, too, was disappointed with the progress. Loss of Director Is the Latest Setback for the Africa Center 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z By that moment in 1983, Dole was a famous man, a senator for 14 years, a vice presidential candidate on a national Republican ticket, a serious presidential contender. ‘The unparalleled champion’: Bob Dole’s forgotten fight to get Washington to recognize the Armenian genocide 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z Charles Ommanney, rakish and cosmopolitan with a thick mop of curls, had chronicled the presidency of and the rise of a little-known Illinois senator named for . Air-Kisses and Sniping on the Real Housewives of D.C. 2010-06-18T19:20:00Z The political satire, which he wrote, directed and starred in, centers on a progressive senator who snaps after becoming disillusioned with Washington’s money-fueled political system. The surprising and enduring friendship of Warren Beatty and John McCain 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z In the wake of Bobby’s death and Chappaquiddick, as the book describes, he redoubled his commitment to be “the senator of all those in need.” The Best of the Kennedys? 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z From all this a picture does emerge of Washington's three-term senator, and it is different from the cartoon Democrats made of him in 2000. 'Slade Gorton': U.S. senator, octogenarian policy wonk 2012-01-18T21:16:04Z The L word is in the news again, this time because of Democrat senator Elizabeth Warren’s decision to run for the US presidency. What's not to love? The new wave of 'unlikable' women in film 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Robert Frost was an admirer of Kennedy, and it was thought that the presence of the stately octogenarian poet would lend gravitas to the inauguration of the baby-faced senator. Do it for the country? Or don’t do it at all? The dilemma facing artists at Trump’s inauguration. 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z “I think that for too long the Democratic Party has been branded by the views of the coasts,” said Heidi Heitkamp, the junior senator from North Dakota who is also up for reelection in 2018. Jon Tester could teach Democrats a lot about rural America — if he can keep his Senate seat 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z "We believe that Comcast-TWC's unmatched power in the telecommunications industry would lead to higher prices, fewer choices, and poorer quality services for Americans," the six senators wrote. U.S. senators oppose Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Is all this chatter about her fitness a way for critics to replace her with a younger, more liberal senator? This Senate is the oldest in American history. Should we do anything about it? 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z Use Your Mandate will be national and the ASD ad is airing in Alaska, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Colorado, where its backers believe Democratic senators might be vulnerable in 2014. DC's 'reservoir dogs' attack Chuck Hagel with oxymoronic ads 2013-01-24T21:32:43Z And Massachusetts senator and presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren got headlines for doing the opposite: taking a stand against Fox, slamming the network as “hate-for-profit.” Perspective | ‘Birthing centers for polarizing rhetoric’: The outsize influence of Fox, CNN and MSNBC 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z I’m not sure whom you’re thinking of, but that’s Tapper’s description of Joseph McCarthy, the U.S. senator from Wisconsin whose pyrotechnics fueled the flames of communist paranoia in the 1950s. Review | Jake Tapper’s new political thriller is at its best when it’s most bonkers 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z By the time CLASS’ bill to taxpayers comes due, however, most of the senators who supported it will be long gone. How a GOP Senator Helped CLASS, Obamacare's "Fiscal Disaster," Make It into Law 2011-09-19T15:18:44Z The first lady’s office has not announced whether she will attend McCain’s funeral at Washington National Cathedral on Saturday, or honor the late senator while he lies in state at the Capitol on Friday. Amid uproar, Melania Trump placates as her husband provokes 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z Last year, Abbado was appointed to the Italian Senate as a senator for life. Italian Conductor Claudio Abbado Dies 2014-01-20T12:22:29Z The film-makers claim 38 US senators accept money from the energy industry, in effect blocking the passage of environmental legislation. After Revenant … Leonardo DiCaprio stars as eco-warrior in climate battle 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z Directed by David Gordon Green, the film is a political comedy starring Sandra Bullock as an American election strategist who is invited to Bolivia to help a senator win a presidential election. George Clooney: Donald Trump's comments about Mexican immigrants were 'idiotic' 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z The latest battle in Congress was fought between the offices of a Republican senator from Louisiana and a Democratic representative from Northern California. ‘Politics is divisive. Beer is not’: Is home-brewing the key to harmony on the Hill? 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z The senator famously embarrassed his elder daughter on election night in January, when he told a nationwide audience she was single. Mass. senator's daughter gets CBS 'Early Show' job 2010-05-04T19:21:00Z Just over a decade ago, when Mr. Adams was a state senator in Albany, he actually orchestrated a campaign featuring clothes. ‘Everything About You Must Say Power’ 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z He's read so many headline variations of "It's no joke! Franken is a senator!" that he has a poster hanging in his office showcasing many of the references. Franken ready to unleash wit and wisdom on Clinton's behalf 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Most of the museum focuses on Davis’s career before the Civil War — as a veteran and U.S. senator — and his life after it. Is There a Place for the President of the Confederacy? 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Reed articulated her reasons for supporting the Vermont senator. “Hookers for Hillary” doesn’t speak for all sex workers: “Presidential politics is not where we will find our liberation” 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z Must senators and others always support the President in his difficult decisions? In Trump, Echoes of Nixon’s Constitutional Crisis 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z The descendants of a once powerful Italian senator say the diamond is rightfully theirs, and that their stepbrother absconded with it after his mother died. Christie’s Auctioned a $40 Million Diamond. Was It Stolen? 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z She then dismisses Trump, writing him off as a “void,” addressing senators directly instead. Sarah Silverman still loves you, America: “This is a show about trying to be open” 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z According to former US senator Jacob K Javits, Moore's pictures "helped to spur passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964". Charles Moore 2010-03-16T14:02:00Z Five state senators are presenting a resolution to Perry. Ga. Senate to honor entertainment mogul Perry 2010-03-17T10:50:00Z However, senators from both parties questioned the need for the merger and voiced concerns over whether it would result in lost jobs and decreased competition in the grocery sector.. "Devastating experience": Some grocery employees brace for the worst as Kroger sells 400 stores 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z In a statement on Wednesday, Live Nation said the senators’ letter is “based on a fundamental misunderstanding of our consent decree and general ticketing industry dynamics.” Senators Ask for Antitrust Probe in Concert Ticketing 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z And just as she did when she was a senator from the Empire State, Clinton kept apples in her office at the State Department — from New York, naturally. Why Hillary Clinton eats a hot pepper every single day 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z Tyson, whose own father was an Alabama lawyer and a state senator during the turbulent civil rights era, confirmed Geer’s approach to his portrayal. Flawed Atticus should still be celebrated, 'Mockingbird' actor says 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Key GOP senators were calling the FBI report “thorough.” Why is Lindsey Graham acting like this? 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Leftist activists, Muslim converts and a former U.S. senator were interviewed by a stream of Iranian state television camera crews, which introduced them as Western “professors, researchers and critics.” ‘Argo’ just another insult by Hollywood, Iranians say 2013-02-19T06:28:19Z Mitt Romney, now a U.S. senator representing Utah, simply said in a statement to The Post that “I love my niece and always will.” RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel is trying to hold together a party that Donald Trump might want to tear up 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z While at least seven Democratic senators published books during the past election cycle, neither the Democratic National Committee nor the party’s two congressional arms reported buying any of them in bulk quantities. The GOP’s big bulk book-buying machine is boosting Republicans on the bestseller lists 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z Did the Alabama senators consider the number of single mothers out here raising kids on their own? Men, we need to stay in the pro-choice fight — in Alabama and beyond 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z Kennedy was a Democratic U.S. senator from Massachusetts at the time, and the handwritten letters were written on Senate letterhead. ‘Anxious to see you:’ JFK letters to Swedish lover auctioned 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z The senator mails it back to the company, calling it a family matter. Film: That?s Me on Screen, but I Still Didn?t Do It 2010-11-24T19:49:00Z That kind of strong popularity at home can make a senator feel secure in following her compass. Last stand of the Republican moderate 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z The Missouri senator’s allies view the current pile-on as evidence of how he threatens the ruling class. What does Josh Hawley think he’s doing? 2021-01-16T05:00:00Z A state representative and a state senator had announced that they planned to come to Akron. Planned Parenthood is a symbol. This is the reality of one Ohio clinic. 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Taryn’s target, a rival senator named Porter Smalls, hires Lucas to keep him alive, but as an extreme right-winger, his enemies are legion. A Politician With Real Killer Instincts 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Filmmakers, writers, college professors, and even mainstream Democratic senators found themselves facing accusations of “anti-Americanism” for expressing dissent against the Iraq War. The right wing hates America: The loudest flag-waving patriots are always the dangerous hypocrites 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z While discussing taxes and his own wealth, Bloomberg casually referred to Warren as “the senator next to me.” Perspective | Warren and Klobuchar stopped tone-policing themselves. It created the realest debate moments yet. 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z “He said, ‘Oh my God, Cher, I met this amazing guy McGovern,’” meaning George McGovern, the former senator from South Dakota, who ran for the Democratic nomination that year and lost. Cher’s Latest Road Show? The Campaign Trail 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z The analytic brainpower of the state's former U.S. senator is one of the themes of "Slade Gorton: A Half Century in Politics." 'Slade Gorton': U.S. senator, octogenarian policy wonk 2012-01-18T21:16:04Z Norm Ornstein, a political scientist at the American Enterprise Institute, says term limits might bring in younger senators — but also politicians less interested in legislating and more interested in advancing themselves. This Senate is the oldest in American history. Should we do anything about it? 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z Ogilvie would take to the stage in a toga, orating for three hours in a formal Ciceronian style later adopted by senators and heads of state. Get to Know Your Larynx. Then Make Some Noise. 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z Lady Gaga wants Maine's Republican senators to cast votes this week to help repeal the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays. Lady Gaga to rally in Maine against 'don't ask' 2010-09-20T15:44:00Z Note how the senator did not add, “Also, women need to do their part by seducing men away from E-Trade.” Perspective | No, more sex is not the answer to the country’s problems 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z They ousted two Republican state senators in recall elections last summer, narrowing the GOP's edge in that chamber to just one vote. Battle lines stark as Wisconsin recall push nears end 2012-01-13T14:53:00Z “Trump world is like a cult, and a lot of these senators are in the cult, so I don’t know if anything could change some of their minds,” said Parnas. Lev Parnas, barred from impeachment trial, makes himself its star anyway 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Al Franken is a U.S. senator from Minnesota and a former writer and featured player for “Saturday Night Live.” Al Franken: My 10 favorite ‘Saturday Night Live’ political sketches 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z But they would rather hear it from the senators themselves. Republicans have ‘concerns’ about Trump — but won’t let reporters quote them by name about it 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z In the fifth and final season, Cleaver navigates his new career as an independent senator just as a terrorist gas attack hits New Parliament House. What’s on TV Monday: ‘DC’s Legends of Tomorrow’ and ‘Rake’ 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z Another recent stunt was a billboard mocking Al Franken, the Democratic senator who resigned after groping allegations. Rightwing artist put up Meryl Streep 'she knew' posters as revenge for Trump 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z In writing about a man who had served as senator, secretary of state and major party presidential candidate, would either of them identify him by his first name? Letters to the Editor 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Is that money better spent on a ridiculously overblown military and senators' pet projects in Alabama and Mississippi than it is on parks? Mayor de Blasio’s Plan for Parks Needs to Grow 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z He expressed admiration for the work of a political foe: Obama, author of the memoir "Dreams from My Father" and "The Audacity of Hope," a policy book published when Obama was a first-term senator. Tea party darling Sen. Marco Rubio writing memoir 2011-09-26T22:02:08Z At 8:24, Mr. Sandico played some Parliament-Funkadelic to the delight of Ray Alt, 45, who had come from Pittsfield, Mass., to celebrate the senator’s victory. The House D.J. of the Bernie Sanders Campaign 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z Sterling signed Klobuchar’s “The Senator Next Door” because he found the senator “quite different. She wants to inspire people to become a part of the political process,” he says. Every candidate an author: The ceaseless boom in books by politicians 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z The former Pennsylvania senator held more than 370 town-hall-style question-and-answer sessions with voters, from one that attracted a single voter to a number that drew hundreds of supporters in the closing days of the campaign. First act in 2012 campaign opens 2012-01-04T01:25:00Z At the same time, he’s garnered an outsize amount of press for a senator who ranks 99th in seniority. As the GOP’s anti-Trump, Ben Sasse picked a big fight. What would it mean to win? 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Within a few hours of Kavanaugh’s nomination, the White House distributed a document with 34 testimonies to the nominee’s talent and character — senators and representatives who praised him in sound bites. Perspective | What men are trying to say when they show off their Female Relationship Résumé 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z At Mr. Putala’s first one — “not a controversial hearing,” is all he remembers of it — there was a moment of levity among the senators and the hearing witnesses. The Accidental Celebrities of the Impeachment Inquiry 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z As the senator Menenius tries to reason with the starving citizens, they start to rock the campervan on which he is precariously perched. Coriolan/us – review 2012-08-10T17:08:20Z But in a profanity-laced appearance on the Howard Stern radio show he scoffed at the idea of him as a senator, saying it was obvious he was never serious. Kid Rock rules out run for U.S. Senate after feeding rumors 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z The Associated Press declared the former Pennsylvania senator the victor based on early results and exit polling information. Rick Santorum wins Louisiana primary 2012-03-25T01:04:00Z The senator never publicly acknowledged her, but his family recognized Washington-Williams' claim after she came forward. Was Prince a dad? The secret kids of some prominent people 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z For a senator to be modest is a unique thing. Chris Dodd makes debut as Hollywood advocate 2011-03-29T22:21:24Z Several senators were called for a lunch meeting with McConnell as conversations turned to amending the Reid bill in a way that could win Republican support. Debt crisis focus shifts to Senate 2011-07-30T03:46:00Z In “First Person,” Dana Goodyear chronicles the California senator Kamala Harris’s record in her previous career as a prosecutor and examines her viral performance in the early debates. Sunday Reading: The Democratic Presidential Front-Runners 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z When he was governor of Georgia, the future United States senator Zell Miller placed it on his list of most hated books. Books: ?Deliverance?: A Dark Heart Still Beating 2010-08-24T22:27:00Z Congressional Democrats, including the Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, and the Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren have given charities thousands of dollars in donations they had received from Weinstein. Weinstein's wife to leave him as she condemns 'unforgivable actions' 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z President Jack Ryan has a lot on his mind, from an unethical senator trying to bring him down to two hijacked Russian nuclear missiles. Washington Post paperback bestsellers 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z There is so much controversy around 'Zero Dark Thirty,' it's hard to assess the impact of some of the negative publicity its gotten after being denounced by U.S. senators. Hollywood heats up with Oscar nominations, Golden Globes ceremony 2013-01-09T12:09:28Z The senators’ call for a GAO investigation reflects that sentiment. GAO to launch investigation of FDA’s Orphan Drug Program 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Instead of using it to directly skewer racists, senators and mixtures thereof, Dylan was pivoting into a new role all his own. Review | Bob Dylan holds a mirror up to America and sees himself 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z It was believed “among those close to him,” Mr. Panetta adds, that the president had not found his “time as a senator very rewarding” and tended “to be disdainful of Congress generally.” ‘Worthy Fights,’ by Leon E. Panetta 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z And people like that became real role models, along with Daniel Inouye, the senator from Hawaii. Q&A with Daniel Dae Kim: Keeping the secrets on ‘Lost,’ taking a stand on ‘Hawaii Five-O’ and working to protect Asian Americans 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z "It just shows that senators are typical men." France, Germany switch off economies, switch on TVs for crunch tie 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z “June 2019: one out of five stars, ‘Terrible, absolutely horrible,’ ” said the senator. Neera Tanden’s confirmation fight is the first morality play of post-Trump Washington 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z The Lincolns were instead accompanied by Clara Harris, the daughter of a senator, and her fiance, Henry Rathbone, an Army major. Abraham Lincoln’s assassination: Great joy, then a gunshot 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z In 1991, a committee room full of U.S. senators listened to an answering machine recording that had been annoying people across the country. Spam has taken over our phones. Will we ever want to answer them again? 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z Sarsgaard will play Dr. Hector Hammond, the pathologist son of a senator who is seen as a disappointment in his father's eyes. 2010-01-13T01:57:00Z You do know she’s been the first lady, New York’s first female state senator and the US Secretary of State, right? Hillary Clinton won’t be “President Nana” 2014-04-18T14:14:00Z The rioters then rifled through senators’ desks, looking at papers and taking over the dais. Perspective | The enduring moments of 2021, as told by Post reporters The one-term North Carolina senator has admitted publicly to moral wrongs but is adamant that he did not break the law. Former US Senator Edwards' trial to start with jury selection 2012-04-12T12:09:00Z Toomey commends Murphy as “a senator who actually wants to get things done,” but that when it comes to gun control, “it’s going to take bipartisan support.” What’s wrong with politicizing a tragedy? For Sen. Chris Murphy, nothing at all. 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z She has called the police, the mayor’s office and her state senator, to no avail. Fireworks proliferate across U.S., but why is unclear 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z “The senator’s views about the president are well known by the public,” spokeswoman Liz Johnson said. Carl Bernstein says 21 GOP senators contemptuous of Trump 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z So instead employing reason, Nadja gets them to comply by using brute force, correcting the kid in a way angry liberals wish their senators would treat the filibuster. "What We Do in the Shadows" revels in the fecklessness of vampires who fail upward 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z By the time she is introduced to the two senators, she has totally lost her self-confidence. ‘Parks and Recreation’ Goes to Washington 2012-07-25T21:44:52Z As Marcus shows, however, there were scarcely any Republican senators who would even consider breaking with their party on the vote. Dissecting Brett Kavanaugh’s ‘Supreme Ambition’ 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Cohn confidently predicts that his obituary will emphasize his role as aide to the red-baiting Wisconsin senator Joseph McCarthy. Perspective | Trump, the TV president, finally meets a media story he can’t control 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z The senator makes cooking and baking for her children and grandchildren a priority during the holidays. Sen. Marsha Blackburn's Christmas cheer for family and friends includes a delicious toffee crunch 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z Then a young senator from Illinois, Mr. Obama stands before a washy background of blue-and-gray stripes, but Ms. Peyton’s adoring, soft-hued portrait appears shatteringly sad now that the promise so many saw has been annulled. Politics and Commerce Collide at Art Basel Miami Beach 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z How old is too old to be a United States senator? This Senate is the oldest in American history. Should we do anything about it? 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z According to various estimates cited by the senators, Ticketmaster controls the ticketing at 70 to 80 percent of major concert venues in the United States. Ticketmaster Cast as a Powerful ‘Monopoly’ at Senate Hearing 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z Both senators had urged their leadership to seek a major deficit reduction package rather than what ultimately passed. Kirk faces long recovery from stroke 2012-01-24T03:03:00Z For climate activists, the West Virginia senator’s infamy has grown alongside his power. One year of ‘President Manchin’: For the Democratic agenda, all roads go through West Virginia 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z Then she tried a senator, the state fisheries department and Noaa, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Drew Barrymore saves the whales and melts cold war ice in Big Miracle 2012-02-09T13:12:00Z To wit: The word of the week was “s---hole,” but then group of senators who were actually in the room can’t even agree on whether the president said it. The government doesn’t need a shutdown. But it may need a timeout. 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z “You don’t see among them the face of a judge or a senator or a bank president,” Evans later wrote. Where Blue-Collar Art Is Having Its Moment 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z At the one in Washington, D.C., representatives and senators took turns from the podium, promising to fight for reproductive choice. Perspective | It can be awkward for men to speak out on abortion rights. But we need them to try. 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Could a senator who has called someone a dangerous kook later become that dangerous kook’s most rabid sycophant? Review | Arthur Phillips shows that choosing a leader was no easier 400 years ago 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z After being interrupted many times by beaming well-wishers — “I just wanted to say ‘Hey,’ ” most said — Mr. Manning finally stood up and, like a self-effacing senator, began to slowly work the room. Faulkner and Football in Oxford, Miss. 2011-10-14T18:55:01Z People who think food needs to be higher on the national agenda should do a better job connecting the dots, said Bob Kerrey, the former governor and United States Democratic senator from Nebraska. When Will Food Issues Be on Politicians Plates? 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z It’s worth noting that even in his telling, the first time Franken ran for senator in Minnesota, his original impulse involved a measure of payback. For Al Franken, a Comeback Attempt Goes Through Comedy Clubs 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z His 2003 solo, “The Myopia,” included a scene in which he played 16 Republican senators angling to put Warren G. Harding on the presidential ticket. A Eugene O’Neill Marathon: 1 Actor, 1 Script, 5 Hours 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z But the plan has also drawn criticism from senators from both parties. Reporters claim new rules will hinder impeachment coverage 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z As the event came to a close, a news-media gaggle moved in, peppering the senators with questions about Trump’s latest controversies, among other things. Claire McCaskill’s balancing act: How to be a moderate in immoderate times 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z She recalls at least one time when a senator complained about the size of an economy class airline seat. Perspective | Critics question influence of airline travel perks on Congress 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Vidal’s mother, Nina, was an actress and socialite and the daughter of Thomas Pryor Gore, the Democratic senator from Oklahoma. Gore Vidal, 1925-2012: Gore Vidal, Elegant Writer, Dies at 86 2012-08-01T05:20:14Z Last night Jon Stewart called out the GOP hypocrisy: Not only have Republican senators added “poison pill” amendments to legislation that would benefit veterans, but the issue stretches way beyond the Obama administration. Must-see morning clip: Jon Stewart slams Americas’s 200-year history of mistreating veterans 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z She complained that most senators were “diseased from egomania,” according to Blair. From press paranoia to affairs: A Hillary confidante’s letters reveal a window into her friend’s life 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z The state’s political orbit is so minuscule that it’s possible for one man, fellow Claymonster and Democrat Tom Carper, to hit an elective trifecta in less than two decades: congressman, governor and now U.S. senator. Lovely, little Delaware — long famous for corporations, chickens and credit cards — is ready for its big moment 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z In the 1880s, a senator from Ohio named George Pendleton — “Gentleman George” — sponsored a bill to save the federal government from itself. Drain the swamp? Not if this guy can help it. 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z According to state senator Robert Preston, the message would be that “anything goes in New Hampshire.” Your affair might be illegal: Inside the complicated world — and 21 states — where adultery remains against the law 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z The fun of the play is partly in Smith’s withering contempt for the junior senator from Wisconsin — “the scoundrel Joe McCarthy,” she calls him. ‘Conscience’ Review: The Woman Who Stared Down the Red Scare 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z He described the Massachusetts senator as “electric,” attracting a huge crowd and exuding personal warmth. Perspective | Beto, Biden and Bernie: The B-Boys and the media’s dangerous, self-fulfilling prophecy 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z After those revealing hearings, when the committee voted to disapprove the nomination, the committee still sent Justice Thomas’s nomination to the floor and the full Senate so that all senators could uphold their constitutional duty. ‘It was just awful’: The Clarence Thomas hearings, in the words of those who were there 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Lucca is forced to reassess the relationship after she learns that Colin may be running for senator and that she is a “demographic dream” as his “hot black girlfriend.” ‘The Good Fight’ Recap: The Head and the Heart 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Organizers say they also will turn in enough signatures targeting the Wisconsin Senate majority leader and three other GOP senators. Gov. Walker foes to file recall petitions today 2012-01-17T11:21:00Z Remember the Hillary Rodham Clinton cleavage scandal of 2007, when Mrs. Clinton, a senator at the time, was criticized for showing a flash of décolletage on the Senate floor? Noticed: A New Shirt Closes a Gap in Modesty 2011-07-01T22:31:05Z In Noah Hawley’s novel “The Good Father,” a young man named Daniel Allen is accused of assassinating a popular Democratic senator running for president. ArtsBeat: Noah Hawley Talks About His New Novel, 'The Good Father' 2012-03-21T15:29:13Z On Sunday, Salazar, a former senator from Colorado, called the selection “a spectacular choice,” saying Jewell has a keen understanding of conservation and economic issues. Wing Luke Museum now part of parks service 2013-02-11T02:58:29Z The senators cited intelligence records released in April 2012 that showed this was not the case and said the movie "has the potential to shape American public opinion in a disturbing and misleading manner." "Zero Dark Thirty": too cool, or too controversial for Oscars? 2013-02-22T13:14:37Z When the Senate convened to debate the offer, “an old, blind senator named Appius Claudius was carried into the Senate house by his sons.” What the Fall of the Roman Republic Can Teach Us About America 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z Thirty percent of Americans will elect 70 of the 100 senators. Why America’s Political Divisions Will Only Get Worse 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z “He gives you a lot to work with,” Casey says of the feisty senator from Vermont who is running for president. The married life with ‘his’ and ‘hers’ hits 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z The award for juggling identities probably goes to Muhammad Ali, who played himself in his own 1977 biopic, “The Greatest,” and two years later played a slave-turned-U.S. senator in the historical TV drama “Freedom Road.” When Athletes Go Hollywood 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z Jonathan speaks to senators, coal miners, solar panel installers and other experts to learn the obstacles and opportunities for achieving energy freedom. What to watch on Monday: ‘While the Rest of Us Die’ on Vice TV 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z He was a newly elected United States senator from Georgia and wanted to make a strong impression, but fireworks were not his style. “By the law of nature, all men are free”: Francis Scott Key and the case of the slave ship Antelope 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z He called up former senator George J. Mitchell, the powerful Maine Democrat, to voice his concern. Senator Angus King knows that being a man without a party comes with perks “For God’s sake don’t laugh at his hair,” one Roman senator says to his secretary, which means the audience laughs all the louder. Far From Home, but Not Far Enough 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Biden never lived in Washington during his 36 years as senator, and though he moved to town when he became vice president, he was hardly a party animal. Washington Society Steps Back Out 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z This was Edward Kennedy, the voters were Democrats and the scandal was called Chappaquiddick, after the island in Massachusetts where the young senator drove off a bridge one July night in 1969. Chappaquiddick: the film that relives a damning moment for the Kennedys 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Just the night before, a stranger — who had clearly had a few — ambled up to the senator while he ate dinner with his family. As the GOP’s anti-Trump, Ben Sasse picked a big fight. What would it mean to win? 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z The opposition started with massive protests and then grew into organized campaigns first to recall state senators and then Walker himself. Gov. Walker foes to file recall petitions today 2012-01-17T11:21:00Z “D.C. is a great urban center. If you’re talking about it from a statistical metropolitan area standpoint, well, sure,” Strauss, the D.C. shadow senator, said. Obama made D.C. look cool. Will Clinton or Trump make it boring again? 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z In May, she gained international attention as one of two female senators — and six overall — to oppose the abortion ban. The battle for Alabama’s soul 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z But Pierre Ouzoulias, a left-wing French senator who has produced several reports on restitution, said the government had shown anything but good will. A Paris Museum Has 18,000 Skulls. It’s Reluctant to Say Whose. 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z The senator’s national profile — along with the power that comes with seniority in Congress — is an advantage no challenger can match. The Markey-Kennedy Senate primary battle is one Democrats wish wasn’t happening 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z Franken may be busy, as he is now the junior senator from Minnesota. 'SNL' 40th Anniversary Special': Some famous faces missing from the show 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z Hester tells her son that she and the senator have been able to keep their affair out of the newspapers because they don’t show up at parties covered by The Washington Post. What really happened at those famous Georgetown dinner parties 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z At William Peace University in Raleigh she majored in political science, interned for two state senators, became president of her class. Al Gore is near the end of his quest to save the Earth. Nina Barrett just got started. 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z So the question is, why are the senators and representatives so distant from their own constituents? Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Americans who are hitting one obstacle after another: ‘That is why I persist’ 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z “He thought he was going to be the senator,” Ms. Jackson told a crowd at the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition last summer. Struggles for Jesse Jackson, Father and Son 2012-11-23T21:27:53Z Under the nom de plume Pierre Delecto — a name choice for which we have set aside some time to discuss separately — the senator from Utah tweeted only 10 times. Perspective | The woeful defeatism of Mitt Romney’s secret Twitter account 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Four years ago, the Virginia senator was onstage in Philadelphia, getting some laughs for what could be very generously called an impersonation of Donald Trump. Democrats, make some nooooise! Wait, you’re muted. Hello? 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z It’s all the senators of the same generation have ever known.” For young farmers, hemp is a "gateway crop" 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z The former senator seemed to be making an appeal to both women and blue-collar voters, opening his remarks with comments about his wife, his 93-year-old grandmother and his daughter Elizabeth. Defeated Santorum retools for Super Tuesday 2012-02-29T12:41:00Z Supreme Court justices, white, other senators and House members, white, would come to their home and visit with them. Mo Rocca on "Mobituaries," celebrity deaths and what we get wrong about Billy Carter 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Ernst, the only GOP senator to vote against his confirmation, also noted that the investigation was not completed by an independent entity outside his chain of command. Retired Col. Kathy Spletstoser wasn’t able to stop Joint Chiefs vice chairman Gen. John Hyten from being confirmed. But she’s not done with him. 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z Especially given the travel, the hours, the stress that senators endure? This Senate is the oldest in American history. Should we do anything about it? 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z The six senators are not the first lawmakers to blast the deal. U.S. senators oppose Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Consumers commonly gripe about airline fees, and now one senator is demanding the airline industry justify them. Monday’s Air Travel News: More Flights to the Caribbean 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z A day before his firing the Washington Post published a column by Keillor which ridiculed demands for Franken, the Democratic senator, to resign over groping claims. Garrison Keillor: the downfall of a beloved figure accused of misconduct 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z In 1980, the senator from Massachusetts challenged an incumbent president, Jimmy Carter, in the New Hampshire primary and fell short by 10 percentage points. Romney holds a home-field advantage in N.H. 2012-01-10T22:35:00Z “I’m losing a good, promising congressman or I’m losing one of the best, most progressive senators we’ve ever had,” says political writer Charlie Pierce, a Massachusetts native. The Markey-Kennedy Senate primary battle is one Democrats wish wasn’t happening 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z “A lot of Americans believe, and this is fine, that every tweet, every Facebook post, every letter to the editor, every op-ed, the senator just sat down and wrote that thing.” Meet the ghost hunter and horror novelist who writes Sen. Rob Portman’s speeches 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z Later, he hosts a secretive gathering of generals, senators and other hawkish types, presumably to discuss what is to be done with the troublesome new dove in the White House. Homeland recap: season six, episode one – Fair Game 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z A bunch of senators are suddenly interested in the nonprofit tax status of private art foundations. Roundup: Senators probe art museums, Arts District fancification, Microsoft founder's on-off art space 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z Because of the conservaschism, one Republican senator opposed immigration reforms he had once championed, and another filibustered his own bill in an effort to court hardliners in the party. | ‘Wordbirds,’ a Fine-Feathered Compendium of Modern-Day Neologisms 2014-03-24T20:01:18Z The New York-born performer also worked extensively on Broadway, in motion pictures and elsewhere on TV, including two seasons on NBC’s celebrated political drama “The West Wing,” playing a Republican U.S. senator. Alan Alda, star of TV's anti-war comedy 'M*A*S*H,' hailed for... 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z The book reaches its final crescendo when a Texas senator is emasculated by Martians and discovered by his intern, who starts to broadcast this inconvenient truth. Familiar Tales Remixed, at the Hands of a Postmodern Master 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z I saw the canniness of woman who knows what it means to be judged by her decisions and who judges herself harshly, too — perhaps even more harshly than many of the senators on the dais. Perspective | Ketanji Brown Jackson did define ‘woman’ at her confirmation hearing 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z Three years later when he was a United States senator, he’d be assassinated outside his offices. Literary Louisiana 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z It also became urgent in the U.S., and, because the leaky border here is between Mexico and Texas, I chose a Texas senator to assume the point of view. This Week in Fiction: Robert Coover on Our National Disdain for the “Intellectual” 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z "We know that we are one human race," Alveda King told the senator. MLK Day preview: Alveda King tells Sen. Marsha Blackburn, 'We must be kind' 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z He was a Nobel-winning poet and writer, a senator and a great advocate for many forms of artistic expression.” In Ireland, All Yeats, All Year 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z The line also brings to mind Hnath’s subsequent play about a troubled marriage: “Hillary and Clinton,” which is now on Broadway, with, yes, Metcalf as the former first lady, senator and candidate for president. Review | Nora’s back in ‘A Doll’s House, Part 2.’ Lucky for us, she’s played by Holly Twyford. 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z And this week’s strike by the three senators — precisely as the voting for Academy Awards nominations began — has caused rumblings on the West Coast about censorship. D.C. Journey for ‘Lincoln,’ ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ and ‘Argo’ 2012-12-21T23:58:57Z Maybe senators and representatives will be swayed by what’s happening across the Atlantic Ocean, where Europe may soon abolish its twice-yearly clock changes. One state doesn’t want to ‘fall back’ 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Uruguay appears ready for the move with even opposition senators offering a cautious welcome. Desperate for health care in Myanmar 2012-06-22T14:06:00Z The former first lady and New York senator was the keynote speaker at a star-studded conference focusing on women across the globe, with appearances by actresses Angelina Jolie and Meryl Streep. Hillary Clinton headlines NY women's conference 2013-04-05T14:05:12Z But instead, the senator “basically sees his job as being a guy who records a podcast, goes on Fox News and tweets snarky jokes.” Late-night hosts, TV pundits slam Cruz for taking ‘the world’s shortest spring break’ to Cancún 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z Two years later, the political novice was elected a United States senator from Massachusetts. Elizabeth Warren and Tracee Ellis Ross on the Road to Activism 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z Similarly in her frequent forays into the world of cinematic statecraft, she can be an entirely convincing senator or cabinet secretary while still being, in every syllable and flourish, Meryl Streep. Film: That Unmistakable Streepness 2010-02-20T04:19:00Z As the young Michael Corleone says of his old man in the Godfather: “My father’s no different than any other powerful man, any man who’s responsible for other people – like a senator or a president.” Live by Night: how the gangster film went from top of the world to sleeping with the fishes 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z But if it was so bad, another senator demanded, then why hadn’t Hill stopped it? Anita Hill’s testimony compelled America to look closely at sexual harassment 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z To Khrushchev, the most crucial characters of the 1960 presidential election had not been the young senator from Massachusetts and his opponent, sitting Vice President Richard Nixon. Kennedy-Nixon 1960 election clash: The last time Russians intervened in a U.S. election 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z Few Republican senators objected to this threat publicly. Rudy Giuliani’s post-election meltdown starts to become literal 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z The reliably red state, with a Republican governor — but soon with two Democratic senators, given Mark Kelly’s victory — may not be blue, but purple. Cindy McCain explains why she voted for Joe Biden — and not that other guy 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z WARSAW, Poland — A Polish court has convicted three people on charges of blackmailing Krzysztof Piesiewicz, a senator and screenwriter known internationally for collaborating on the award-winning "Three Colors" movie trilogy. Court convicts 3 for blackmailing Polish senator 2011-08-30T15:58:07Z Inside, Clinton makes use of an oft-repeated McConnell line that it was not the senator’s job to bring jobs to Kentucky. On the trail in Kentucky, Bill Clinton gets practice playing second fiddle Michael Brown, 64, is a radio host and one of the District’s shadow senators. D.C. shadow senator emerges from the shadows 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z But Shane’s dad probably called in a favor — a senator? a judge? Jake Lacy Says Aloha to ‘The White Lotus’ 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z Just one senator, Paul Simon of Illinois, made amends; before he died, he sent Ms. Hill his autobiography with a nice inscription. Anita Hill Is Celebrated in the Documentary ‘Anita’ 2014-03-12T11:00:02Z Politico had reported that the senator was "forcefully opposing a provision in the omnibus spending bill that would extend a slew of waivers that have allowed schools to serve universal free meals during the pandemic." Solving childhood hunger shouldn't be a partisan issue 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z The three senators asked Thompson for some privacy and he happily obliged: “You can toss a blanket right over me and I fall asleep like a parakeet,” he explained, which they did. ‘S.N.L.’ Mocks Herschel Walker Ahead of Georgia’s Senate Vote 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z The senator cemented his status as public enemy No. 1 for environmentalists long ago, topping it off with his 2012 book on climate change, “The Greatest Hoax.” Jim Inhofe is a small-plane-flying, global-warming-denying senator. And now he’s got a gavel. 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Victor is the island’s most popular young senator, and Lena was involved with him some 10 years prior, before the regime was toppled. Review | A popular senator hides his violent ways in a novel that feels eerily prescient 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z The senator from Massachusetts made her name attacking Wall Street. The Democratic Presidential Debates: The Candidates in The New Yorker 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z It isn’t just the Instagram post of a postcard to a senator. What it took to finally confront my family about race and politics 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z “This is the first time I’ve campaigned for another candidate in 20 years,” the former senator from Illinois tells me in an interview the following morning. Former senator Carol Moseley Braun is back on the campaign trail, stumping for Joe Biden 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z The revolving door, where you get staffers from senators' or congressmen's offices and put them into your lobbying shops so you can influence votes, influence legislation. Jack Abramoff, Eliot Spitzer: A tale of two swindlers 2010-05-06T16:01:00Z In the Fox series Deep State, she plays a gay Republican senator facing a cover-up as she investigates the deaths of special forces agents in Mali. Victoria Hamilton: 'Women can now carry shows – without faces full of Botox' 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z The senators’ letter asked the Justice Department to conduct a “retrospective study on the effects of past consolidation” and to consider extending the decree past its expiration next year. Senators Ask for Antitrust Probe in Concert Ticketing 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z The senator may have as good a chance landing a role in the next Fast and the Furious sequel as he does at becoming the leader of the free world. ‘Why do you look so familiar?’: In Detroit, presidential wannabes try to make themselves worth recognizing 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z And of course there's also Sen. Al Franken, a former star on "Saturday Night Live" who was sworn in as one of the state's U.S. senator in 2009. Next on Andrew Zimmern's plate? Possibly politics 2012-02-23T22:02:20Z Mr. Saidi’s more sober outlook about de-radicalization — which he said was shaped by conversations with inmates jailed on terrorism charges — was echoed by a report released last month by two French senators. His Idea for Fighting Terrorism? Funny Plays 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z He referred to the senators’ insistence to Sony that “the use of torture should be banished from serious public discourse,” and echoed what was being said privately by others here this week. D.C. Journey for ‘Lincoln,’ ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ and ‘Argo’ 2012-12-21T23:58:57Z It’s a delicate thing, though, being seen as a senator who is trying to act like an executive. One year of ‘President Manchin’: For the Democratic agenda, all roads go through West Virginia 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z “I learned that campaigns have their own rules, their own laws of physics, and that if I wasn’t willing to accept that, I would never get to be a senator.” Al Franken Has Been Sitting on Jokes for a Decade. Now He’s Ready to Tell Them. 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z But Texas senator and GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz certainly doesn’t wonder, because he was one of the first ones to start contributing to the noise. “Only if you were an a**hole”: Trevor Noah’s repulsed by Ted Cruz’s post-San Bernardino gun rally 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z The 41-year-old junior senator denounced the violence of the day, and of the past year, and then framed his objection as a restoration of order. What does Josh Hawley think he’s doing? 2021-01-16T05:00:00Z However, there’s this other guy, a young senator from Illinois. ‘Fixers’: A financial thriller with cameos by Hillary Clinton and Obama 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z Caesar tries to force a Roman republic into a global hegemony without full cognizance of the inevitable blowback from centuries of republican government, and so predictably is assassinated by a dying generation of dreamy senators. When to Wage War, and How to Win: A Guide 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z For the young senator from Illinois, this newfound heritage became occasional campaign-trail fodder; it was a hoot, and didn’t hurt with Irish-American voters. Rediscovering Obama’s Irish Roots 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z Kirk also is among a bipartisan group of senators urging the European Union to adopt stronger sanctions against Iran's Central Bank. Kirk faces long recovery from stroke 2012-01-24T03:03:00Z Commentators sometimes stumbled over Bobby Kennedy’s title, calling him “president” rather than “senator.” Robert F. Kennedy’s final flight: The storied journey of the ride from California to New York 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z In the Washington episode, Ben introduces a wide-eyed Leslie to the senators at the party. ArtsBeat: 'Parks and Recreation' Plans a Trip to Washington 2012-07-19T21:21:37Z In her interview, Sanders recalls telling the senator from Vermont that she wanted to be named national press secretary and that she wanted to be on cable television. She’s chasing a Washington dream. He’s the Night Mayor. 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z In the 1970s, a spate of divorces among senators prompted talk of an “epidemic.” Everyone who’s won this seat in Congress has gotten divorced afterward 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Tim, who is from New Jersey, identifies as “a Cory guy” — as in Booker, the New Jersey U.S. senator and former mayor of Newark. Date Lab: He expressed his likes. She expressed her dislike. 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z You mentioned back in 2012 that you had been criticized sometimes because your parents are on the right politically and your father is a senator. Why the Movie ‘Neruda’ Is an ‘Anti-Bio’ 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Even when the original judge, David Burnett, who is now a state senator, was presented with overwhelming evidence for a new trial, he refused to reconsider the case. Movie Review: ‘West of Memphis,’ by Amy Berg, on ‘West Memphis Three’ 2012-12-24T21:26:52Z One hears the rumor that Bernie Sanders, the senator from Vermont, presidential hopeful and Iraq War opponent, is willing to hold forth on occasion. Perspective | The media should spotlight a different kind of war expert: Those who voted ‘no’ on Iraq 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z He notes the ways in which the senator is in thrall to the current president. ‘Mitch, Please!’ Tours Kentucky and Roasts a Senator 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z When prostate cancer survivor and former US senator Bob Dole fronted commercials for Viagra in the late 1990s, he was mocked mercilessly. Erectile dysfunction or performance anxiety? The truth behind a modern malaise 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z One of her interview subjects was Kennedy, who at the time was a senator from Massachusetts. New book focuses on Jackie Kennedy’s years as a reporter 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z The one we call upon to play at the funeral Mass of a senator and the inauguration of a president, the anniversary of a terrorist attack and the commemoration of the victims of a bombing. Yo-Yo Ma Wants Bach to Save the World 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z The goal is also to protect the children of public officials, including judges and law enforcement, said Greg Hayes, spokesman for the senator. Halle Berry describes daughter's harassment terror 2013-06-25T20:16:45Z But if that’s truly the case, then women never needed to be senators, either, or mayors or members of the school board. We spent decades dreaming up the perfect female president. She doesn’t exist. 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z The ideal type to which these incumbents are authentic, therefore, is that of senator. The clothes make the candidate: The sartorial politics of this year’s key Senate races 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z Quite clearly sold as “the political film we need right now”, Jason Reitman’s fast-paced drama about the downfall of senator Gary Hart was met with quite the opposite response from audiences and critics. And the nominees aren't: the Oscarbait films that failed in 2019 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z The term comes from Dutch and Spanish words for “pirate,” and minority senators who employed the filibuster were essentially swashbucklers, seizing time and attention from the majority. No standing, no marathon speeches, no catheter bags: How filibustering got way too easy 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z Kirk is Illinois' leading Republican in a state dominated by , and the senator had been using his role to try to bolster public and financial support for candidates. Kirk faces long recovery from stroke 2012-01-24T03:03:00Z The Discovery Channel left two US senators from opposite sides of the aisle on an island for six days and six nights, the network announced on Thursday. Two US senators live on remote island for Discovery's Rival Survival 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Kennedy, on the other hand, is considered one of the most accomplished senators ever to serve — a liberal partisan, but also a pragmatic dealmaker. Ted Kennedy’s bricks-and-mortar legacy taking shape Some Republican senators tried to avert their gaze. Perspective | The Jan. 6 images were already disturbing. The impeachment-trial video makes them terrifying. 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z She asked a person accompanying Kaine whether she was allowed to talk to the senator, even though she hadn’t signed a release. Tim Kaine is back at his old Senate job. It’s never seemed more important. 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z Tracee Ellis Ross: It’s hard to answer about myself, but there’s a “we” in the way the senator speaks. Elizabeth Warren and Tracee Ellis Ross on the Road to Activism 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z In 2017, the chummy threesome — Emhoff, his ex-wife and his wife of three years, then a freshly minted U.S. senator from California — settled in at a restaurant table at the Hotel NoMad. Doug Emhoff, Kamala Harris’s husband, is making history as America’s first male vice-presidential spouse 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z "And so she really played a game of dirty politics, and she lied to the American people. And you don't do that — you don't do that — senator when you're on a debate stage." Sunny Hostin slams Gillibrand's attack on Biden: "She really played a game of dirty politics" 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z And there are many who still adhere to that old uniform, to be sure, including the senator from New York and possible future presidential candidate, Kirsten Gillibrand, and the Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi. The Congressional Uniform Is About to Change 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z Taylor’s father was a veteran of the First World War, an avid reader of military history, and a Canadian senator. How to Restore Your Faith in Democracy 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z We regret that the senator who is holding up all climate change legislation makes his living from the coal industry. Style Invitational Week 1470: Your add here 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z Your senators and your congressman, your governor, your mayor, your state legislators, they all mostly look and talk and worship like you and the men in your life do. An open letter to the “Ivanka voters” I grew up with: I hope you get what you want 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z That trick was a favorite of the late Democratic senator Robert C. Byrd. On Constitution Day, putting We the People in your pocket Six prominent U.S. senators joined the chorus on Tuesday. Comcast faces regulators in troubled bid for Time Warner Cable 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z Barack Obama, who taught constitutional law and is a keen judge of character, identified it when, as a senator, he was one of the 22 Democrats who voted against confirming Roberts. The ‘Enigma’ Who Is the Chief Justice of the United States 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z But Garrette Silverman, Moran’s communications director, said in a statement that the senator had been “a staunch advocate for the state of Kansas to have a presence within the Memorial design.” Eisenhower Memorial panel moves foward with controversial Gehry design Barnette is a Black woman running in the most populous state to never elect a female U.S. senator or governor, and has landed zingers at her opponents during debates. Dr. Oz’s Trump-infused Senate run is coming down to the wire 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z Douglas Durst said that his father did not even know the senator. Film: That?s Me on Screen, but I Still Didn?t Do It 2010-11-24T19:49:00Z When voters choose a senator or a school board member, election officials count the votes and declare a winner — usually within a day or so. To win a presidential election, getting the most votes isn’t always enough 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z The governor, at that time, was Rubio’s political mentor, Jeb Bush — who is now running against the Florida senator for the Republican presidential nomination. How Marco Rubio helped his ex-con relative get a real estate license 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z But before they were a couple, Emhoff was unsure Harris would even call him back, the senator recalls in her 2019 memoir, “The Truths We Hold.” The story of Kamala and Doug, a match made in Hollywood (literally) 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z If we're going to have a debate about who the extremist is on these issues, it is President Obama, who as a state senator voted to protect doctors who killed babies who survived the abortion. Romney, Santorum clash on spending 2012-02-23T03:09:00Z The executive order borrows language from the “Guiding Principles for Federal Architecture” that Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote in 1962 when the future senator was working in Kennedy’s Labor Department. MAGA War on Architectural Diversity Weaponizes Greek Columns 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z The two senators — Kirk an urbane Republican, Manchin a Democrat with an Appalachian zest — might be an unlikely pair. Kirk's unlikely best friend optimistic 2012-01-26T04:09:00Z PORTLAND, Maine — Washington political reporter Bob Woodward says the independent label should work to newly elected Angus King's benefit when he becomes Maine's newest U.S. senator. DC journalist Woodward: independent tag helps King 2012-11-08T17:31:08Z The certified nutritionist, born in Damascus, Syria, moved to the city after meeting her husband, the former Democratic senator from South Dakota, James Abourezk, while both were living in Washington. A Food Scene Grows in Sioux Falls, S.D. 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z "When players use smokeless tobacco, they endanger not only their own health, but also the health of millions of children who follow their example," the senators wrote to union head Michael Weiner. Chew on this: No tobacco in baseball 2011-10-19T00:42:00Z “When Hillary was the senator from New York, she was virtually unopposed when she ran for reelection,” he tells members in Hazard, asking them to pipe down when they erupt into cheers. On the trail in Kentucky, Bill Clinton gets practice playing second fiddle Josh Seefried said at a news conference at the Capitol with senators who sponsored repeal of the law. Gay military members come out, celebrate 2011-09-21T01:57:00Z Dining on a Dime Eat like a senator for intern prices at these Washington, D.C. restaurants. D.C. Dining on a Dime 2010-02-17T21:30:00Z And he was on once before when he was a U.S. senator. Stephen Colbert's victory lap will include chat with President Obama 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z Downpour and Inferno are states that people drive between pensioning their senators and whitegoods. One Last Book From an Outback Poet Who Was Part Hero, Part Pariah 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z She recalled visiting her father, a lawyer turned state senator, during his marital exile at a nearby hotel, taking him a small Christmas tree as a peace offering from her mother. Arts & Leisure: In ?The Jacksonian,? Beth Henley Confronts Violence 2012-01-13T04:47:33Z Backslapping senators, typically comfortable in a scrum of reporters, began asking for some personal space. The pandemic makes it harder for journalists to cover Congress — and trillion-dollar relief bills 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z Last week, Mr. Cuomo trumpeted a long-stymied proposal that former Democratic senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan advanced back in the early 1990s. How to Transform Penn Station: Move the Garden 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Larry King expresses surprise when the senator chooses Thomas Jefferson as the historical leader she most admires. ‘The Contender’ Lit Me on Fire. Now It’s a Cringe Factory. 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Let’s tread carefully, lest we provoke something like Mike Bloomberg’s dismissive assessment of Warren in his final presidential debate: “The trouble is with this senator, enough is never enough.” Perspective | Biden’s promise of a female vice president was a good thing. So why does it feel so lame? 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z The senator used to joke that his own fingers were too chubby to use a keyboard, but he was fascinated by technology. Ted Kennedy’s bricks-and-mortar legacy taking shape The Red Hen, in the emerging neighborhood of Bloomingdale just blocks from a public-housing project, is pulling in local homeowner pioneers, new careerists clinging to the Eater DC hot list and, yes, United States senators. Restaurants in D.C. Are Moving Into Residential Neighborhoods 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z “Right now, there’s a bipartisan group of senators working to improve the healthcare system we have,” Kimmel said on his show. Late-night TV show host Kimmel blasts senator over healthcare bill 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z The television spots feature a blurry video of Santorum, a former senator from Pennsylvania, being interviewed about spending and proclaiming, "I'll defend earmarks." Mitt Romney goes on attack as Rick Santorum improves in polls 2012-02-18T09:41:00Z The senator, whose stock trades in the early weeks of the pandemic are under investigation, looked decidedly more rumpled than usual. Perspective | Tim Kaine’s tie-dyed bandanna was one of the Senate’s many mask style statements 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z A Democratic senator is gunned down at a presidential election rally. New Fiction From Olen Steinhauer, J. G. Ballard and Others 2012-03-28T22:20:12Z When Manchin goes to see Kirk, he's going not as a senator or as a colleague, but as a friend, he said. Kirk's unlikely best friend optimistic 2012-01-26T04:09:00Z Colbert asked if there were any other senators who were funny, “because it seems like they are a boring Thunderdome.” Al Franken tells Stephen Colbert which senators have a sense of humor 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z “And I think it was useful in bridging the senator and the White House. All I know is that a couple of days later the American Recovery Act got through.” Washington’s hottest club is Joe Manchin’s houseboat 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z A state is entitled to a number of electors equal to its number of senators and representatives. Why We Should Abolish the Electoral College 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z But the morning was a hectic one on Capitol Hill, and the senator, a Democrat, was busy. If You Like the Arts, Save the N.E.A., Advocates Tell Lawmakers 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s candidacy was in trouble even before she declared because of the senator from Massachusetts identifying herself as Native American. Perspective | How sexist will the media’s treatment of female candidates be? Rule out ‘not at all.’ 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z Harris attended Howard University, known to many as the “Black Harvard” and to the senator, she told Givhan, as an institution that “very directly influenced and reinforced — equally important — my sense of being.” Americans are still figuring out how to talk about multiracial identity. Kamala Harris’s nomination is a perfect example. 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z A 14-year-old girl from Yell County, Arkansas, named Mattie Ross hires Rooster to help track down an outlaw who murdered both her father and a Texas state senator before fleeing into Choctaw territory. True Grit: Rooster to the rescue 2011-02-06T21:31:00Z Almost immediately after getting rebuffed by Mikulski, Kennedy and his contingent were sitting around a long conference table in the office of Bernie Sanders, pleading their case to the junior senator from Vermont. Robert Kennedy Jr.’s belief in autism-vaccine connection, and its political peril Larry David spoofed Bernie Sanders’ narrow loss to Hillary Clinton in the Democratic Iowa caucuses in a Saturday Night Live skit where David plays the Vermont senator and accidentally upsets a small group of voters. Watch Larry David Spoof Bernie Sanders’ Iowa Loss on 'SNL' 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z “The meetings that these senators had, from both parties,” he recalled, “they acted like members from the same family.” They Fled Afghanistan for America. Now They Feed the Newest Arrivals. 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z He was impressed enough by Obama's 2004 Democratic convention speech, and subsequent private meetings, to back the Illinois senator against Hillary Clinton, until then Hollywood's favourite candidate. DreamWorks boss leads Hollywood push to bring Obama a fairytale ending 2012-10-28T18:39:02Z “Her sexual orientation is really not relevant to why she would make a great U.S. senator,” he said in an e-mail. Tammy Baldwin, on the Edge of Making History 2012-11-05T18:31:35Z Others cite the nefarious influence of the filibuster, which allows a minority of senators to block substantive bills supported by the broad majority. How did things get this bad? Polarization, dysfunction and the collapse of everything 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z While the senators were busy giving Sony some bipartisan direction, Ben Affleck, who directed and starred in “Argo,” had a better time of it in the House. D.C. Journey for ‘Lincoln,’ ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ and ‘Argo’ 2012-12-21T23:58:57Z The veteran reporter appeared on CNN’s “New Day” on Friday and named 15 of the 21 senators he tweeted about two days later. Carl Bernstein says 21 GOP senators contemptuous of Trump 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z By her last term, Snowe writes that a senator's willingness to reach across the aisle had become a "scarlet letter" instead of badge of honor. Snowe presses for bipartisanship in new book 2013-05-12T12:55:08Z Aides are the ones who get chewed out by U.S. senators for forgetting to procure utensils for the boss’s salad. Cassidy Hutchinson and the all-knowing presence of Washington’s aides 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Earlier news reports had revealed that another Republican senator, Richard Burr of North Carolina, had sold hotel stock after receiving the same Senate briefing she’d attended. The young and eventful Senate career of wealthy Georgia businesswoman Kelly Loeffler 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z The former Pennsylvania senator was clearly on the defensive throughout the exchange, as he attempted to prevent the back-and-forth from becoming a free-for-all. Santorum jeered after gay marriage comments 2012-01-06T15:49:00Z Before showing the faces of senators who voted against new gun restrictions days after the Orlando shooting last year, he called Mr. Trump and congressional leaders to account. Jimmy Kimmel Seizes on Las Vegas Shooting to Champion Gun Laws in Emotional Monologue 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z He was later asked why he hadn’t followed the senator to the ballroom. Robert F. Kennedy’s final flight: The storied journey of the ride from California to New York 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z “If you added up the entire time the president has been in office,” Alexander said, “I would bet no United States senator has had more conversations with the president than Bob has.” Bob Corker is free to speak his mind about Trump. If he could only make it up. 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z Lester C. Hunt, Army Reserve major and a governor of Wyoming turned senator: shot in the head while on a leather swivel chair in his office. ‘Secret City,’ an Epic Narrative History of the Closet in the Capital 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z His grandfather was a famous senator, his father a high-flyer in the burgeoning aviation business. Tom Wolfe vs. John Updike, Norman Mailer and John Irving — and other timeless literary feuds 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z The spy chief came to the senators with a blunt warning. ‘The Report’ and the Untold Story of a Senate-C.I.A. Conflict 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z Bad things keep happening: A recent episode revolved around a sleeper cell terrorist attack on a C.I.A. safe house that critically injured the C.I.A. director and killed a United States senator. Hope Davis Stars in ‘Allegiance’ on NBC 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z The state senator backing the new bill credited Oliver’s ability to turn boring topics into viral phenomena through online video as motivation for the new initiative. How the 'John Oliver Effect' Is Having a Real-Life Impact 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z The senator from Texas is a debater, and that pulled-taffy silence was as crucial as anything that he’d been saying for the past fifteen minutes, during which his speech was met with cheers. The R.N.C. on TV: The Ted Wedding 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z Graham’s gift of gab and knack for theatrics have served him well over the years, first as a prosecutor and now as a U.S. senator. Why is Lindsey Graham acting like this? 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z “The clear goal of this measure is to raise taxes in a way that leaves politicians with clean hands,” he wrote in a letter to the two senators. Conservatives and software companies will keep tax season miserable 2013-03-26T16:53:00Z The Republican senator Bob Corker told her: “Your problem is that you are just too good” as a spokeswoman for the president. Susan Rice Recounts Making Policy at the Highest Levels 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Two years ago, the Boston Globe reported that Kennedy’s sons, Ted Jr. and Patrick, believed his widow was “jeopardizing the senator’s legacy and mishandling the creation of the $71 million institute that bears his name.” Ted Kennedy’s bricks-and-mortar legacy taking shape Questioned about breaking ethical rules by arranging a trip for a senator to Indonesia to research the feasibility of a tariff on palm oil, she repeatedly invokes the Fifth Amendment. Review: A Chilly ‘Miss Sloane’ Makes a Lecture out of Lobbying 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z The senator’s widow, Violet, is a “Manchurian Candidate” mama who wants her son Cal to fulfill her husband’s political ambitions. Oh, “The Fix” these dirty politicians are in 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z There’s a libertarian pizza delivery man in North Carolina threatening to eat away enough votes to decide that state’s next senator. Senator Angus King knows that being a man without a party comes with perks There I discovered the young senator from Illinois who was running for president. Valerie Jarrett's leap of faith that started her path to the Obama White House 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z In sixth grade, her classmate Ernest Ricketts recalls, she was so bright that her fellow students predicted she would marry a senator. Review: ‘The Choice 2016’ Lets the Chips Fall Where They May on Clinton and Trump 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z Andrzej Wajda, who died this week at age 90, was Poland’s greatest filmmaker, as well as a union activist, a supporter of dissidents and for a time a senator, but he was something more. Remembering Andrzej Wajda, Unflinching Observer of Modern Poland 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z His father, who was a civil rights lawyer, served as Alabama state senator from 1978-96. Kalisha Dessources, Shomari Figures 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z Ms. Warren made a surprise appearance on “The Daily Show,” where Trevor Noah asked what she thought about several male senators being subsequently allowed to recite the letter. Elizabeth Warren Slams G.O.P. on ‘Daily Show,’ and Colbert Pounces Too 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z The novice senator is up for election in November, and the controversy threatens to make her one of the first political casualties of the global pandemic. The young and eventful Senate career of wealthy Georgia businesswoman Kelly Loeffler 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z Harris, an 83-year-old former Democratic senator from Oklahoma, has a unique perspective on recurring racial tensions and police violence in America. From Watts in 1965 to Ferguson today, lessons on race left unlearned |
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