senatorial

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senator
noun[ C ]
us/ˈsen·ə·t̬ər/(abbreviationSen.)
politics & government
a member of a senate, esp. of the US Senate:
Write to your senator about your concerns.

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Before the amendment, senators were elected indirectly by state legislators; after the amendment, senators were elected directly by the state citizenry.
The second, greater uncertainty for a senator seeking election and reelection came from potential opponents for the seat within their own party.
As part of the confirmation process, the panel's counsel sends a "blue slip" to each of the two home state senators for the nomination.
Once elected, senators had to develop reputations that translated into support among party organization regulars as well as directly among their constituents.
This suggests that senators knew more about their constituents' views than demographics and election returns conveyed, even in the absence of any polls.
When we compare late-twentieth-century membership trends for senators and citizens affiliated with prominent cross-class associations, social capital theory and reorganization theory offer clearly different expectations.
The results are produced using a negative binomial model, with standard errors adjusted for clustering on individual senators.
The results are produced using a negative binomial model, with standard errors adjusted for clustering on senators.
I include state population into the model to test whether it is more difficult for a senator to cultivate personal votes in a larger state.
The senator noted that, in the postwar world, the whole concept of foreign aid, especially to the underdeveloped world, was relatively new.
Thus, senators from small states spend more money from these sources per capita, whereas those from large states spend a smaller amount per capita.
We focus on the proportions of types of affiliations each senator claims at various dates, because we want to explain, not ab21.
That helps to explain, of course, why senators might have been willing to allow opposition party senators to fill out blue slips.
What we can determine from these public biographical profiles, however, are the civic affiliations that senators openly proclaim.
Network analyses allow us to quantify ties formed by civic affiliations shared among senators themselves.
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