"A senior officer asked me to tell everyone that they do not want power," a conservative Senator noted.

Based on his voting record, however, he remains among the most conservative Democratic senators.

She had a daughter Servilia who married another conservative senator.

The bill was defeated by a bloc of conservative senators.

Conservative senators want to offer superior benefits in private plans, which they view as the future of Medicare.

But some conservative senators said they feared the costs might explode in later years, forcing the Government to pay them.

But some of his written responses to questions about abortion provoked concern among conservative senators.

The budget office did not estimate the cost for later years, but again conservative Republican senators said they feared the costs might explode.

Behind those numbers is a larger shift with several Republican moderates replaced by much more conservative senators.

On Thursday, some conservative senators tried to push back.