The Americans have submitted a panel under the chairmanship of George Mitchell, the former American senator who led the mediation effort in Northern Ireland (the Palestinians objected to the proposed chairmanship of Warren Christopher, a former secretary of state).
The committee, led by the former American Senator George Mitchell, is expected to meet the new Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, on Friday.
Democrats know that the Cuban-American senator is on the short list of likely running mates for GOP nominee Mitt Romney.
It was, to say the least, an improbable profile for the man who would become the first African American state attorney general, and the first popularly elected African American senator.
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Perhaps if the American people had elected Senator John McCain to succeed George W. Bush in 2008, the US government would have learned these lessons as well.
Jim DeMint's term, making the former congressman the first African-American Republican senator serving since Ed Brooke of Massachusetts in the 1970s.
We wonder what the Irish think of the spectacle of an American Senator expressing outrage that an American company doesn't pay enough Irish taxes.
He will continue to press Congress to take up the provisions of the American Jobs Act in the Senate, as Senator Reid has said the Senate will, and hope and pray that -- referring again to the Almighty -- that the House will feel pressure enough from its constituents -- that House Republicans will do the same.
"I always knew you were one of us, " an African-American friend told the senator with a nudge and wink.
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As stiff as his white-collared shirts, a Rocky Mountain version of American Gothic, the Mormon Senator nonetheless makes nice with the Beltway Philistines.
As a member of the House, he doesn't have major name recognition across the state, and he is going to have to spend lots of times knocking on doors if he is to become the junior senator from Florida and the only African-American in the U.S. Senate next year.
The senior Massachusetts senator, patriarch of one of the leading families of American politics, is a staunch supporter of Obama.
The anti-tax team is Kevin Hassett of the American Enterprise Institute, New York State Senator John DeFrancisco, and business lobbyist Deborah Warner.
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Mr. NOGUERA: Well, it should be pointed out, in the Nebraska case, that the -one of the leading proponents of this is an African American state senator.
The fragility of the Democrats' hold on the incoming American Senate was thrown into sharp focus when Senator Tim Johnson , from South Dakota, suffered a brain haemorrhage.
"The American people don't want these men walking the streets of America's neighbourhoods, " Republican Senator John Thune said.
"The American people don't want these men walking the streets of America's neighbourhoods, " Republican Senator John Thune said on Wednesday.
Hillary Rodham Clinton has performed many roles for the American people in the three decades that have defined her public life: first lady, scorned woman, senator, presidential candidate and secretary of state all among them.
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Most of the community's ties are to the Democrats, but this year they will turn out in force for the Republican Senator Spencer Abraham, a Dearborn Arab-American.
And we even saw Senator Biden attend the council of 100 African-American Men Conference in Denver about two weeks ago.
Wexler served as then-senator Barack Obama's chief booster in the American Jewish community during the 2008 presidential campaign.
"This series of speeches by the president comes as a result of pressure from the American people and from Congress, " said Jack Reed, a senator from Rhode Island.
In this spirit, and however far Mr Powell's own vision may stretch, America's immediate goal is to jump-start implementation of the Mitchell report, the recommendations of a commission led by George Mitchell, a former American senator.
The one-term senator from North Carolina stumped at African-American churches in Columbus on Sunday morning and planned to meet with locked-out union workers at a titanium plant in Niles before capping the day at a Teamsters hall in Youngstown.
But you got to be real careful when you, all of sudden, will you have a woman U.S. senator who could win the nomination, an African-American who can win the nomination that's very careful that they have this to step because again, women are going to make 60 percent of those who are voting.
They run the Senate, too, but obviously, we only have one African-American Senator there.
Even a less aggressive version, like the plan Senator Kent Conrad has advocated for, would at least offer the American people direction and specifics and, indeed, hope for the future.
The change there, as far as South Carolina is concerned, is that there were a number of people here, particularly those supporting Senator Clinton, who had used the argument in the African-American community that a vote for Barack Obama was a wasted vote because white folk would not vote for him.
Senator Barack Obama is the presumptive Democratic nominee, becoming the first African-American to win a major party nomination.
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