Ramos later served as president from 1992 to 1998, and Enrile is currently the president of the Senate.
Jose Sarney, president of the Senate and a former President of the Brazil, called it an act of terrorism.
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Serge Vincon, the vice president of the Senate, said the conference was aimed at clarifying what the war on terrorism would entail.
During those 17 days, Gore, as Bill Clinton's Vice President, is still President of the Senate and Lieberman is still a Senator.
In 1797 when Thomas Jefferson was preparing to become president of the Senate, the first rules he wrote were rules of comity -- how the Senate could work together effectively.
"My first impression of Barack was he was very intelligent, but rather pushy at the time, " says Emil Jones, president of the Illinois Senate and one of the most powerful figures in Illinois politics.
In impeachment proceedings, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court presides over the trial of the president in the Senate.
The parties differ over the future of Mr Musharraf, who has been replaced by a caretaker president, the speaker of the Senate.
After the resignation of Romano Prodi as Italy's prime minister, the president asked the speaker of the Senate, Franco Marini, to form an interim government.
The last time Democrats had control of the Senate was in 1994 -- except for a period of 17 days earlier this year when Vice President Al Gore held the tie-breaking vote as president of the evenly divided Senate until the new Bush administration took office.
The new governor of Vermont, Peter Schumlin, a Democrat and former president of the Vermont Senate, is also pushing for a state-based single-payer system.
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Republican Lyda Green, the president of the state Senate who happens to represent Wasilla, said she expects there will be pressure to drop the investigation.
So it is because of the leadership of the President, because of the agreement of Senate Democrats and the consistency of our message that we are where we are and we believe we will get a payroll tax cut for middle-class Americans.
On the afternoon of January 29, 2006, a Sunday, he visited the homes of the Senate president and the House Speaker.
True, the outgoing president of the French Senate was forced by public opinion last year to leave his official residence, after he tried to hang on to it.
Mr McGreevey's stand-in, Richard Codey, president of the state Senate, has done a good job helping the Democrats to regain their poise, and might have been a strong candidate for governor, save for Mr Corzine's intervention.
That has manifested itself by the inability of the president to get the Senate to move in his direction on the big issues of the day.
All of those things are what the President laid out in front of the Senate.
At the time, Ben Stevens was also president of the Alaska State Senate and he had just written a state law facilitating the buyback.
The very fact that the daughter of an Army officer from Richmond, Virginia -- the very fact that I can represent the president of the United States on the floor of the Senate of the United States is powerful proof that the American dream lives.
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Political wrangling guaranteed a diversity of strongly held opinions. (The president, the speaker of the House and the Senate majority leader were each asked to appoint three members.) In the end, the group had four members with direct or indirect ties to the gambling industry and five members with no such ties.
One is that there has certainly been communication between the President and the leaders of the House and Senate in the last -- in the time since they last sat down together.
Consistent with section 301 of title 3, United States Code, when carrying out functions vested in the President by statute and assigned by the President to CITA, the officials collectively exercising those functions are all to be officers required to be appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate.
The President endured months of negotiation in the Senate while his allies tried to get some Republicans on board.
The Bush meeting with the small group of House Republicans came a day after the president met with the chairmen and ranking members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House International Relations Committee.
If you thought the 2001 cuts were tough to get through the Congress, consider that, even with the use of reconciliation once again to avoid a filibuster, President Bush only managed to get passage in the Senate by a vote of 51-50 with Vice-President Cheney casting the deciding vote to break the tie.
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And certainly Vice President Gore would have that should the Senate vacate the office of president.
Senator Mitch McConnell of the floor of the Senate yesterday suggested that President Obama was joking about the stimulus not working in that Jobs and Competitive Council event in North Carolina, when he talked about shovel-ready is not as shovel-ready as they had anticipated.
But a decision to revoke the pardons ahead of a vote in which Mr Menem, a foe of the president, is seeking a Senate seat, would smack of political justice.
Larry Cohen, president of the Communications Workers of America, urged Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to move the nominations quickly.
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