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W. B. Yeats

Books on: senate speeches

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Senate Speeches

Book by Donald R. Pearce, William Butler Yeats; Indiana University Press, 1960

Subjects:

Ireland--Politics And Government--1922-

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...the official report of the Senate. This is doubly unfortunate...during the period of his Senate service that Yeats finally arrived at that syntax of "public speech" which gives to his later...in consequence of which his Senate speeches are properly part of the canon...
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Major Speeches and Debates of Senator Joe McCarthy Delivered in the United States Senate, 1950-1951

Book by Joe McCarthy; U. S. Government Printing Office, 1953

Subjects:

Allegiance--United States, Communism--United States--1917-, United States--Foreign Relations--1945-

Collections: History, Entire Library

Congressional Record MAJOR SPEECHES AND DEBATES OF SENATOR JOE...DELIVERED IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE 1950-1951 Reprint From The...McCarthy to the United States Senate in the first two years of his...obtained from testimony before Senate committees and other published...
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Deadlock or Decision: The U.S. Senate and the Rise of National Politics

Book by Fred R. Harris; Oxford University Press, 1993

Subjects:

United States--Congress--Senate--History, United States--Politics And Government--1945-1989

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...journalists direct access to the Senate floor, the press and the public...confiding to his diary that Senate speeches had few Senate listeners and little influence...senator is making a long set speech the chairs are most of them deserted...
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In the Senate

Book by George Wharton Pepper; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1930

Subjects:

United States--Congress--Senate, United States--Politics And Government--1923-1929

Collections: History, Entire Library

...steering committee, or else the Senate itself, by a majority vote or...At any rate it is now before the Senate and speeches for and against it are being made...one favored by a majority of the Senate. Perhaps it has been considered...
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The Treaty Veto of the American Senate

Book by Denna Frank Fleming; G. P. Putnams Sons, 1930

Subjects:

Treaty-Making Power--United States, United States--Congress--Senate, United States--Foreign Relations--Treaties

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...40 ____________________ 38 Speech in the Senate, Schurz, Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers , N. Y...President Roosevelt. These treaties failed in the Senate. Latane, The United States and Latin America...

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Journal Articles on: senate speeches

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American Political Mythology and the Senate Filibuster

Journal article by Troy A. Murphy; Argumentation and Advocacy, Vol. 32, 1995

Subjects:

Filibusters (Political science)--Analysis, Public speaking--Analysis, United States. Congress. Senate--Practice

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...of willful men" speech excerpted above...Presidential attacks on the Senate in history (Byrd...length of his floor speeches on Senate history. Byrd denounced...filibusters through actual speeches and continuous debate...the floor of the Senate. To react against...
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Carol Moseley-Braun's Day to Talk about Race: A Study of Forum in the United States Senate

Journal article by John Butler; Argumentation and Advocacy, Vol. 32, 1995

Subjects:

Moseley-Braun, Carol--Practice, Oratory--Analysis, United States. Congress. Senate--Officials and employees

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...audience. First, the speeches were narrative in their...Moseley-Brauns second speech, she cautiously yielded...only black member, the Senate entered into a highly...episode did not allow for speech writers and formal premeditated...rarely heard in the Senate" (1993, July 23). In a very real sense the Senate joined Moseley-Brauns...the forum. Several speeches were especially powerful...
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The Sound and the Fury: Southern Voices in the United States Senate

Journal article by Thad Cochran; Southern Quarterly, Vol. 45, 2008

Subjects:

Leadership, Nominations, Political campaigns, Retirement, Senate, Southern states

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...Dr. Sansing, the speech that Senator John Sharp...floor of the U.S. Senate, but as a farewell...to read Pat Harrisons speeches in the U.S. Senate, and chairing the Finance...matters were before the Senate. The Social Security...
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The American Dream as Depicted in Robert J. Dole's 1996 Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech

Journal article by Ray D. Dearin; Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 27, 1997

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Campaign speeches--Social aspects, Dole, Bob--Addresses, essays, lectures, Rhetoric--Political aspects

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...Dixon, Illinois, in either of his speeches.(25) In his 1988 New Orleans speech, George Bush personalized his own...Acceptance Addresses: What Do the Speeches by Dole and Clinton Tell Us about the Genre of Acceptance Speeches?" paper presented at the Speech Communication Association Annual Convention...
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"Peace without Conquest": Lyndon Johnson's Speech of April 7, 1965

Journal article by Dror Yuravlivker; Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 36, 2006

Subjects:

Johnson, Lyndon B.--Military policy, Johnson, Lyndon B.--Speeches, lectures and essays, Peace--Speeches, lectures and essays

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...praising the "balance" in the speech, and entered laudatory editorials...the record. Some called the speech a "masterpiece," while one...called it "one of the great speeches and one of the great acts of...few Republicans attacked the speech, the former noting, "All...just talk: the next day, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...

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Magazine Articles on: senate speeches

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Senate Rejects Limits on 1st Amendment Speech Protections

Magazine article; Human Events, Vol. 57, May 7, 2001

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Bills, Constitutional amendments, Federal government, Freedom of speech, Senate

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Senate Rejects Limits on 1st Amendment Speech Protections On March 26, by a vote of 40 to 56, the Senate rejected a joint resolution (S J Res 4...expenditures from the 1st Amendments tree-speech protection. Sen. Ernest Hollings (D...
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FY 2005 Defense Budget Testimony (Senate Armed Services Committee Transcript)

Magazine article; U.S. Department of Defense Speeches, February 6, 2004

Subjects:

Rumsfeld, Donald H.--Speeches, lectures and essays, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services--Finance, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services--Management, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services--Planning

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FY 2005 Defense Budget Testimony (Senate Armed Services Committee Transcript...Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, Senate Armed Services Committee, Wednesday...not sure what the precedents are for the Senate Armed Services Committee commandeering...
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Prepared Statement for the Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee: 2004 Defense Budget Request

Magazine article; U.S. Department of Defense Speeches, May 14, 2003

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Defense programs--Forecasts and trends, Defense spending--Planning, Military policy--Forecasts and trends, Rumsfeld, Donald H.--Speeches, lectures and essays, Secretaries of defense--Speeches, lectures and essays, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations--Conferences, meetings and seminars, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations--Powers and duties, United States. Department of Defense--Planning, United States--Military policy

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Prepared Statement for the Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee: 2004 Defense Budget Request. Testimony as Prepared for Delivered by Secretary of Defense...
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Prepared Statement for the Senate Armed Services Committee: Helping Win the War on Terror

Magazine article; U.S. Department of Defense Speeches, September 7, 2003

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Afghanistan Conflict, 2001---Management, Iraq War, 2003--Management, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services--Investigations, War on Terrorism, 2001---Management, Wolfowitz, Paul D.--Speeches, lectures and essays

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Prepared Statement for the Senate Armed Services Committee: Helping Win the War on Terror. Mr. Chairman...place of our forces--in the war on terrorism. Both the House and Senate deleted that provision from the bill. While we have been asking...
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Senate Passes Mccain Bill Limiting Political Speech

Magazine article; Human Events, Vol. 57, April 9, 2001

Subjects:

Bills, Campaign contributions, Federal government, Political campaigns, Senate

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Senate Passes Mccain Bill Limiting Political Speech On April 2, 2001, by a vote of 59 to 41, the Senate approved the McCain-Feingold Bipartisan...its unconstitutional restrictions on free speech. "The theory of this bill," said McConnell...

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Newspaper Articles on: senate speeches

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Kirk Makes First Senate Speech

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), December 15, 2010

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Kirk Makes First Senate Speech. Byline: Kerry Lester Politics and...New suburban Sen. Mark Kirk took the Senate floor for the first time very much like...colleagues that there, a new members speech is given great weight. "Traditionally...
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Speech of Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, March 25, 2009

Subjects:

President of the United States

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Speech of Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile. IAU President Dr. Jovenal Toring, Dean of Colleges Evangeline Longos, nbsp; members of the 2009...
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We Will See the Light of Day; (Speech of Senate President FRANKLIN M. DRILON at the Opening of the 13th Congress on July 26, 2004.)

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, July 27, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

We Will See the Light of Day; (Speech of Senate President FRANKLIN M. DRILON at the Opening of the 13th Congress...But there is also no greater disgrace if we fail them. The Senate, in the 12th Congress, reflected the very deep division among...
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Final Senate Freshman Set for 'Maiden Speech'; Florida's Rubio Observes Tradition in Upper Chamber

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), June 14, 2011

Subjects:

Legislators--Political aspects, Rubio, Marco--Political activity, Senators--Political aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...topic" to speak, said Senate Historian Donald A...deliver his or her maiden speech. Nowadays, constituents...freshmen senators give speeches in their first week...A senators maiden speech typically reflects a...issue. While maiden speeches largely are ceremonial...public to watch his speech and post comments about...Facebook page. Ones first Senate speech has always been...
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45th Anniversary of Philconsa; (Speech Delivered by Senate President MANNY VILLAR at the 45th Anniversary of Philippine Constitution Association on September 26, 2006 at Centennial Room, Manila Hotel.)

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, September 28, 2006

Subjects:

Hotels and motels--Political activity, Hotels and motels--Political aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...45th Anniversary of Philconsa; (Speech Delivered by Senate President MANNY VILLAR at the 45th...Room, Manila Hotel.). Byline: Senate President MANNY VILLAR I COMMEND...mentioned at the beginning of my speech. For to determine which government...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: senate speeches

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Yeats, W. B

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...respected public figure, a member (1922 28) of the Irish senate, and winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature...enl. ed., reissued 1952), Mythologies (1959), Senate Speeches (ed. by D. R. Pearce, 1960), and Essays and Introductions...
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Douglas, Stephen Arnold

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...rebelled and in one of his major speeches denounced both the Lecompton...doubtless lost his seat in the Senate. As it was, he replied that...Douglas was returned to the Senate. However, his Freeport doctrine...Since they controlled the Senate, he was relieved of the chairmanship...crisis, but after an eloquent speech at Springfield, he was stricken...
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Wilson, Woodrow

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...declared Apr. 6. Wilsons speeches, elaborating his war aims...with mixed feelings. In the Senate, quarrels over the ratification...of "irreconcilables," the Senate would probably have ratified...addresses, messages, and speeches, considered among the finest...
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Quincy, Josiah , 1772–1864, American Political Leader and College President

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...politics and entered (1804) the state senate as a Federalist. He subsequently proceeded...where he reentered (1813) the state senate and continued to oppose the war. The...His son, Edmund Quincy, edited his Speeches Delivered in the Congress of the United...
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Webster, Daniel

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...greatest orators of his time; his brilliant speeches in the House were matched by his eloquent...Bunker Hill oration (1825), and the speech (1826) on the deaths of Thomas Jefferson...Treaty (1843). Again (1845 50) in the Senate, Webster opposed the annexation of Texas...one of his most eloquent and reasoned speeches, backed the Compromise of 1850 and was...

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