This week America's top military officer expressed support for the proposal at a hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee.

VOA: special.2010.02.06

But the Senate has delayed action on its version of the financial reform bill until Congress returns July twelfth.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

To help create jobs, he urged the Senate to join the House of Representatives in passing a second economic stimulus bill.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

No future president would be safe, they said, if opposed by a majority of the House and two-thirds of the Senate.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

The Senate must also act. The president wants to sign a bill into law by the end of the year.

VOA: special.2009.05.15

And,in another development, the Senate voted Thursday to permit final debate and a vote on a financial reform bill.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

After several weeks, it became clear that the Senate would approve President Garfield's choice for the tax collector's job.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

After eight years in the Texas Senate, Miss Jordan campaigned for a seat in the United States House of Representatives.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

The nomination is expected to reach the full Senate for a vote before the Democratic-controlled Congress leaves for its August break.

VOA: special.2009.07.18

He said he believed that he could support all of it and would work for its approval in the Senate."

VOA: special.2009.03.26

Pakistan denies that. And Senator John Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,says: "These are not new allegations."

VOA: special.2010.07.31

Democrats in the Senate have lost their sixty-vote supermajority needed to block any effort by Republicans to kill legislation.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

The president said he expected the Senate to quickly make a last set of legislative fixes needed in the new law.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

Stephen Douglas united other Democrats and members of the anti-slavery Republican Party to fight against the bill in the Senate.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

Jill Cooper is married to Tom Udall, a Democrat from New Mexico who entered the Senate this past January.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

He decided to make it on March seventh, just three days after Calhoun's speech was read to the Senate.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

He served for 8 years in the Illinois state Senate before voters elected him to the United States Senate in 2004.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

The House and Senate versions will need to be combined into final legislation for President Obama to sign into law.

VOA: special.2010.05.21