Joe Lieberman, the Democrat-turned-Independent senior senator from Connecticut and 2000 Democratic vice presidential nominee.
He may face a challenge in the Republican primary from the state's senior senator, Kay Bailey Hutchison.
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In 2009 Lamar Alexander, Tennessee's senior senator, called for 100 new reactors to be built by 2030.
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In fact, the critical assessment of perestroika was delivered by another senior Senator from the South, Jesse Helms.
The state's senior senator, Charles Schumer, was already in New York but planned to travel back with his colleagues.
The popular senior senator faces Congressman Bill Campbell, a Republican from Silicon Valley.
Add to that, Alaska's senior senator, Ted Stevens, on trial next month for allegedly hiding gifts from oil executives.
The senior senator from Delaware has served on the Foreign Relations Committee for three decades and became its chairman in January 2006.
Senate Democrat Dick Durbin, the senior senator from Illinois, briefly spoke with Burris last week, but nothing's been resolved, Durbin aide Joe Shoemaker said .
Likewise, when she endorsed immigration reform, she framed it as a plan backed by the Chamber of Commerce and the state's senior senator, Lindsey Graham.
Alaska's senior senator, Lisa Murkowski, was not happy with Palin's decision.
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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John McCain, Arizona's senior senator, who faces a primary challenger running hard against illegal immigration, dropped his reform ideas and joined the calls to secure the border first.
The state's senior senator, Kay Bailey Hutchison, is challenging Mr Perry for the Republican nomination for governor, and insists that she will leave her seat in 2010 either way.
Even Arizona's senior senator, John McCain, who once resisted demonising illegal immigrants but is now facing a challenge in the primaries for his seat, has come out in favour of Mr Pearce's law.
Thompson's amendment is particularly timely insofar as it comes as the General Accounting Office (GAO) is completing work on a classified report -- also tasked by the senior Senator from Tennessee -- that looks into this issue.
This year, with the mayor unable to seek re-election, voters opted en masse for the man he beat last time: Mitch Landrieu, the city's first white mayor in over 30 years and the brother of Louisiana's senior senator.
Of course, some of the rich may have pulled a John Kerry, one of the supercommittee members, and bought their yachts overseas, as the senior senator from Massachusetts did not long ago in order to avoid paying state taxes.
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John Kerry, who now becomes the senior senator from Massachusetts, has been a prominent and politically powerful figure -- a presidential candidate in 2004 -- he has largely stayed out of the limelight and focused his attention on international issues.
More names include Rhode Island senior senator Jack Reed, a retired army paratrooper, National Security Advisor Tom Donilon, outgoing Indiana senator Dick Lugar, undersecretary of defense Michael Vickers and Mike Leiter, the former director of the National Counterterrorism Center.
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Over the years he has worked for Richard Lugar, Indiana's respected and moderate senior senator, served as Ronald Reagan's budget director, run North American operations for Eli Lilly, a big pharmaceuticals firm, and, from 2001 to 2003, served as George Bush's budget director.
An outstanding Lieutenant Governor, classmate of mine at Harvard, although he was a little younger than me -- Anthony Brown. (Applause.) Two wonderful allies, great friends, great champions on behalf of working people not just here in Maryland, but all across the country -- Barbara Mikulski is here, the senior Senator -- (applause) -- and Ben Cardin in the house. (Applause.) We've got the wonderful Congressman -- I loved his dad.
The senior Massachusetts senator, patriarch of one of the leading families of American politics, is a staunch supporter of Obama.
But senior Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said the decision was a mistake.
But after discussions with Mr Burris, Senate majority leader Harry Reid and senior Illinois Senator Dick Durbin said he had provided fresh paperwork confirming his appointment.
Christopher Dodd, a senior Democratic senator and the chairman of the Senate's Banking Committee, for example, has already spoken to the administration of an "unprecedented level of outrage".
And even in Washington itself, Lamar Alexander, a senior Republican senator, recently quit his leadership post so he could devote more time to forging consensus and working across the aisle.
He began his career as Assistant to the Senior Foreign Policy Adviser to Senator Edward M.
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All three of the state's representatives in the U.S. House are Republicans, as is the state's senior U.S. Senator.
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