Yet the education blob, in cahoots with allies such as Senator Edward Kennedy (Democrat--Massachusetts), is furiously waging rearguard actions to restrict or gut this program.
In response to a question about Gore's character, Bradley said that Gore was just using the event to pay lip service to minorities, but actually had a "conservative Democrat" voting record as a congressman and senator.
Senator Carl Levin -- whose role as ranking Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee should not obscure his record as one of Congress's most assiduously anti-defense legislators -- was also trotted out to denounce this error.
Incumbent Senator Joe Lieberman, a Democrat, is running as an independent after he lost the Democratic primary in August.
Recall, however, that in 2008 Congress was controlled by Democrat majorities, with Nancy Pelosi as House Speaker and the restless Senator Obama already running for President.
Just over a year ago in May 2007, Senator Christopher Dodd, in his capacity as a senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and as Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, Peace Corps and Narcotics Affairs, sent a letter to Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice with a laundry list of complaints about paramilitary and narco-trafficker infiltration of the Colombian government.
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The junior Senator, Ben Nelson, is a Democrat, but as one resident of the town of Broken Bow told us on a visit last week, he votes Republican a lot.
Senator CHRISTOPHER DODD (Democrat, Connecticut): Today, as all - we all know we are less safe, we are less secure, we are more vulnerable, we are more isolated than ever before.
Thurmond, already the oldest man ever to serve as senator, he now surpasses the length of service record set by Arizona Democrat Carl Hayden January 2, 1969.
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There was nothing to save Mr Barnes and his fellow Democrat, Senator Max Cleland, from the wrath of conservative rural voters such as Mr Morrow.
Rush said he will take that argument to the Congressional Black Caucus as well as U.S. senators -- including Dick Durbin, a Democrat and Illinois' senior senator.
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Senator HILLARY CLINTON (Democrat, New York): You know, if I were as smart as Bill seems to suggest I am, I would say nothing.
Senator CLAIRE MCCASKILL (Democrat, Missouri): I mean, I'm talking as a woman who took my breast pump to work for all three of my children.
Senator PATRICK LEAHY (Democrat, Vermont): Our great country, America, was once viewed as a leader in human rights in the rule of law and justly so.
Mr Obama got a further boost when Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania announced that he would switch parties and run for re-election as a Democrat in 2010.
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