“The purpose of this closed session in the Senate chamber is to finally give the truth to at least the members of the Senate—to finally call to task the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.”

— Richard Durbin

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U.S. senior senator from Illinois 1944

Richard Bryan

NPR broadcast 2 November 1993

“I write to tender my irrevocable resignation as Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee on Finance and as co-chairman of the Joint Congressional Oversight Committee on Public Expenditures, effective immediately.”

Francis Escudero (1969) Filipino politician

2015, Letter to Senate President Franklin Drilon

“It is within the power of the majority to close down the closed session. They can do it by majority vote to return to the legislative calendar. We're serving notice on them at this moment: Be prepared for this motion every day until you face the reality. The Senate Intelligence Committee has a responsibility.”

Richard Durbin (1944) U.S. senior senator from Illinois

“When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.”

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States

“The Senate version of the 2015 National Budget will define savings in FULL COMPLIANCE WITH THE SUPREME COURT DECISION on the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) and the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP). Our committee accepted all of Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago's points and took note of her concerns. I believe Senator Santiago based her speech on the NEP version, NOT the one the Senate has amended. However, the Senate version is never going to adopt the version of the NEP as regard to their definition of savings.”

Francis Escudero (1969) Filipino politician

Escudero, F. [Francis]. (2014, November 26). Retrieved from Official Facebook Page of Francis Escudero https://www.facebook.com/senchizescudero/posts/10152871070040610/
2014, Facebook

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Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) American politician, 36th president of the United States (in office from 1963 to 1969)

1960s, Remarks at the signing of the Immigration Bill (1965)

“We need to have the phone lines melted this week. We need people to melt the phone lines. Not to the House members, you don't need to call them, and you don't need to call the Republican Senators. It's the Democrat Senators that we need to melt their phone lines.”

Michele Bachmann (1956) American politician

2000s

“It is galling to see such mendacious hypocrites as Kennedy and Biden at the Senate Judiciary Committee sitting in judgment on distinguished jurists.”

Conrad Black (1944) Canadian-born newspaper publisher

On U.S. Democratic senators opposed to the appointment of Robert Bork to the U.S. Supreme Court, in 1988.
"The world according to Conrad Black", 2007

“Although the Senate is much given to admiring in its members a superiority less obvious or quite invisible to outsiders, one Senator seldom proclaims his own inferiority to another, and still more seldom likes to be told of it. Even the greatest Senators seemed to inspire little personal affection in each other, and betrayed none at all.”

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The Education of Henry Adams (1907)

“If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody could convict you.”

Lindsey Graham (1955) United States Senator from South Carolina

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2010s

“The purpose of this closed session in the Senate chamber is to finally give the truth to at least the members of the Senate—to finally call to task the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.”

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