"senator" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The State Senate voted yesterday to end its practice of allowing absent senators to vote, at least most of the time.
- He ordered Sergeant at Arms Chelsey Jurney to round up the absent senators needed to provide a quorum.
- The absent senators knew exactly what they were doing.
- When a call shows no quorum, the minority can force another vote by moving to request or compel the attendance of absent senators.
- He was the lone senator absent during the impeachment trial of President Joseph Estrada.
- He was registered as an "absent" senator up until 1847, all that time living mainly in Vienna and Florence.
- The vote would have been defeated had the absent senators paired their votes.
- The Senate rule at the time, as it is today, states that the sergeant-at-arms could be sent to arrest absent senators to secure a quorum.
- This occurred after the Senate ordered the arrest of absent senators to maintain a quorum during a filibuster on campaign finance legislation.
- The office of sergeant at arms had recently been created specifically for chasing down absent senators and reluctant witnesses needed for the conduct of Senate business.
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