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Hillary Clinton
@hillaryclinton· Democratic · NY· Jan 16, 2006

And we want to apologize to you. Apologize to you on behalf of a government that left you behind.

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Hillary Clinton
@hillaryclinton· Democratic · NY· Jan 16, 2006

Because, when you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation. And you know what I'm talking about.

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Hillary Clinton
@hillaryclinton· Democratic · NY· Jan 16, 2006

I predict to you that this administration will go down in history as one of the worst that has ever governed our country.

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Hillary Clinton
@hillaryclinton· Democratic · NY· Jan 16, 2006

When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation. And you know what I'm talking about. It has been run in a way so that nobody with a contrary point of view has had a chance to present…

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Jan 12, 2006

What you've done today is invoke the Hogan's Heroes Sgt. Schiltz defense of, I see nothing, I hear nothing.

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Patrick Leahy
@patrickleahy· Democratic · VT· Jan 12, 2006

Senate Democrats are pushing to delay a vote on Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, whose confirmation hearings wrapped up today.

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Mark Warner
@markwarner· Democratic · VA· Jan 11, 2006

The confirmation that Roger Coleman's DNA was present reaffirms the verdict and the sanction.

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Mark Warner
@markwarner· Democratic · VA· Jan 10, 2006

Because it will either confirm the guilt. It may demonstrate, and there's a high probability that it will remain inconclusive. Or it may to some degree exonerate him.

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Lindsey Graham
@lindseygraham· Republican · SC· Jan 10, 2006

Men and women, black and white, your colleagues who say that Sam Alito, whether I agree with him or not, is a really good man.

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Lindsey Graham
@lindseygraham· Republican · SC· Jan 10, 2006

I know abortion is important. It's important to me. It's important to you. I know it's an important central concept in our jurisprudence. But we can't build a judiciary around that one issue. We can't make judges pledge allegiance to one…

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Lindsey Graham
@lindseygraham· Republican · SC· Jan 9, 2006

The idea that our president or this administration took the law in their own hands and ignored the precedent of other presidents or case law and just tried to make a power grab, I don't agree with.

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Patrick Leahy
@patrickleahy· Democratic · VT· Jan 9, 2006

I wonder whether he was one Samuel Alito in the 1980s, a different one today, whether he's running away from his record.

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Sam Brownback
@sambrownback· Republican · KS· Jan 9, 2006

Larry King is next, his guest Senator Sam Brownback and Chuck Schumer on the Alito hearings.

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Edward M. Kennedy
@edwardmkennedy· Jan 9, 2006

Congress passes laws, but this president says that he has the sole power to decide whether or not he has to obey those laws. Is that proper? I don't think so.

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