The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each U.S. state is represented by two senators, regardless of population. Senators serve staggered six-year terms. The chamber of the United States Senate is located in the north wing of the Capitol, in Washington, D.C., the national capital. The House of Representatives convenes in the south wing of the same building.
The Senate has several exclusive powers not granted to the House, including consenting to treaties as a precondition to their ratification and consenting or confirming appointments of Cabinet secretaries, federal judges, other federal executive officials, military officers, regulatory officials, ambassadors, and other federal uniformed officers, as well as trial of federal officials impeached by the House. The Senate is both a more deliberative and more prestigious body than the House of Representatives, due to its longer terms, smaller size, and statewide constituencies, which historically led to a more collegial and less partisan atmosphere. The Senate is sometimes called the "world's greatest deliberative body."
George Galloway (born 16 August 1954) is a British politician, author, journalist, and broadcaster, and the Respect Member of Parliament (MP) for Bradford West. He was previously an MP for the Labour Party, for Glasgow Hillhead and then its successor constituency Glasgow Kelvin from 1987 until 2005. He was expelled from the Labour Party in October 2003 because of his strident public opposition to the Iraq War. He subsequently became a founding member of the left-wing Respect Party, and was elected as the MP for Bethnal Green and Bow in 2005. In 2010, Galloway unsuccessfully contested the seat of Poplar and Limehouse, and in 2011 he unsuccessfully contested the Glasgow list for the Scottish Parliament, before being elected as an MP in the Bradford West by-election, 2012.
Galloway is well known for his campaigns in support of the Palestinians in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. In the late-1980s Hansard records him delivering a ferocious assault on the Ba'ath regime, and Galloway opposed Saddam's regime until the United States-led Gulf War in 1991. Galloway is known for a visit to Iraq where he met Saddam Hussein, and delivered a speech, which ended in English with the statement "Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability." He has always stated that he was addressing the Iraqi people in the speech. Galloway testified to the United States Senate in 2005 over alleged illicit payments from the United Nations' Oil for Food Programme.
John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts, the 10th most senior United States Senator and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party in the 2004 presidential election, but lost to then President George W. Bush.
The son of an Army Air Corps serviceman, Kerry was born in Aurora, Colorado. He attended boarding school in Massachusetts and New Hampshire and went on to graduate from Yale University class of 1966, where he majored in political science. He enlisted in the Naval Reserve in 1966 and, during 1968-1969, served a four-month tour of duty in South Vietnam as officer-in-charge (OIC) of a Swift Boat. For that service he was awarded several combat medals that include the Silver Star, Bronze Star, and three Purple Hearts. After returning to the United States, Kerry joined the Vietnam Veterans Against the War in which he served as a nationally recognized spokesperson and as an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam war. During that period, he appeared before the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs where he deemed United States war policy in Vietnam to be the cause of "war crimes".
Rafael Edward Cruz, known as Ted Cruz (born December 22, 1970), is the former Solicitor General of the U.S. state of Texas, a position which he held from 2003 to May 2008. Cruz was appointed by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott. He was the first Hispanic Solicitor General in Texas, the youngest Solicitor General in the United States, and had the longest tenure in the post thus far in Texas history. He is currently a partner at the law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, where he leads the firm’s U.S. Supreme Court and national appellate litigation practice.
Cruz is a candidate for the 2012 Republican nomination for the United States Senate seat being vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison.
Cruz previously served as the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the United States Department of Justice, and as Domestic Policy Advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign. In addition, from 2004-2009 Cruz was an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, where he taught U.S. Supreme Court litigation.
Scott Philip Brown (born September 12, 1959) is an American politician and the junior United States Senator from Massachusetts. Brown previously served as a member of the Massachusetts General Court, first in the State House of Representatives (1998–2004) and then in the State Senate (2004–2010).
Brown is a member of the Republican Party, and faced the Democratic candidate, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, in the 2010 special election to succeed U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy for the remainder of the term ending January 3, 2013. While initially trailing Coakley in polling by a large margin, Brown won the election and in January 2010 became the first Republican elected to the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts since Edward Brooke in 1972.
Prior to entering the state legislature, he had experience as a town selectman and assessor. He is a practicing attorney, concentrating in real estate law and serving as defense counsel in the Judge Advocate General's Corps of the Massachusetts Army National Guard. Brown is a graduate of Wakefield High School (1977), Tufts University (1981), and Boston College Law School (1985).
Was a sunny day
Not a cloud was in the sky
Not a negative word was heard
From the people's passing by
It was a sunny day
All the birdies in the trees
And the radio's singing song
All the favorite melodies
He was a navy man
Stationed in Newport News
She was a highschool queen
With nothing really left to lose
She was a highschool queen
With nothing really left to lose
Was a sunny day
Not a cloud was in the sky
Not a negative word was heard
From the people's passing by
It was a sunny day
All the birdies in the trees
And the radio's singing song
All the favorite melodies
Her name was Lorelei
She was his only girl
She called him Speedoo
But his Christian name was mister Earl
She called him Speedoo
But his Christian name was mister Earl
Was a sunny day
Not a cloud was in the sky
Not a negative word was heard
From the people's passing by
It was a sunny day
All the birdies in the trees
And the radio's singing song
All the favorite melodies
Was a sunny day
Not a cloud was in the sky
Not a negative word was heard
Explain [Hook: Juicy J]
You say no to drugs, Juicy J can't
You say, you say no to drugs, Juicy, Juicy J can't
You say no to drugs, Juicy J can't
You say, you say no to drugs, Juicy, Juicy J can't
You say no to drugs, Juicy J can't
You say, you say no to drugs, Juicy, Juicy J can't
You say no to drugs, Juicy J can't
You say, you say no to drugs, Juicy, Juicy J can't
Juicy J, Juicy J, Juicy J, Juicy J
Juicy, Juicy, Juicy, Juicy, Juicy J can't
[Verse 1: Juicy J]
Lean overflowing like New Orleans' broken levies
No relationship with hoes, I just want that Becky
I'm bout my money, I gets my fetti
Street nigga, north Memphis, bitch I still rep it
Smokin' weed from the bong
And the lean got my sprung
Molly in my veins got my heart beatin' like a drum
Grinding on my teeth like a nigga chewing gum
Eye's Chinese tight, but I don't, work at Yung's
Juicy so high I feel like that I am on a cloud
Weed don't talk, but the shit I got here loud
After the show we grab the groupie hoes, I'm smokin' out
No smoke for free, no IOU's, no I don't do no vowels
[Hook]
[Verse 2: Juicy J]
The club doped out, we dove in
Shawty got that ass poked out, but I'm pokin'
I get that cap and gown, like I'm graduatin'
Shawty straight, on the bed, she ain't hesitatin'
I'm on that loud, you on that hush
Nigga I'm the shit, can't even flush
I'm gettin' money ballin', with out a contract
I ain't gotta smoke for you to catch a contact
I shoot guns, I don't blow guns
Smoke so much I should've had four lungs
I'm smokin', 'till my money gone
And that's no time soon, cause my money long