"Wall Street Journal"", as summarized by MediaPost commentator Ross Fadner, ""'The Internet is a Series of Tubes!' spawned a new slogan that became a rallying cry for Net neutrality advocates. ... Stevens' overly simplistic description of the Web's infrastructure made it easy for pro-neutrality activists to label the other side as old and out-of-touch."" Several parodies of Senator Stevens' speech have been created, usually consisting of samples taken from this speech with an added melody. ""The Daily Show with Jon Stewart"" has made multiple references to ""Techno"" Ted Stevens's ""series of tubes"" description; as a result, Stevens has become well"
"of the evidence. In September 2006, Representative Heather Wilson, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, disclosed that she had learned, in 2002, that the Department of Energy disputed whether those tubes could be used in the centrifuges needed to enrich uranium for bomb fuel. Wilson said that she had questioned CIA officials about the aluminum tubes at classified briefings for members of Congress, prior to the October 11, 2002, vote in Congress to authorize force against Iraq. Wilson told ""The Albuquerque Tribune"" that she did not publicly disclose the Energy Department's doubts about the aluminum tubes before Congress voted"
"tubes"" that could be clogged with information. Stevens also confused the terms ""Internet"" and ""e-mail"". Soon after, Stevens's interpretation of how the Internet works became a topic of amusement and ridicule by some in the blogosphere. The phrases ""the Internet is not a big truck"" and ""series of tubes"" became internet memes and were prominently featured on U.S. television shows including Comedy Central's ""The Daily Show"". CNET journalist Declan McCullagh called ""series of tubes"" an ""entirely reasonable"" metaphor for the Internet, noting that some computer operating systems use the term 'pipes' to describe interprocess communication. McCullagh also suggested that ridicule"
"Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman and leading to D'Amato's 45% plurality victory. D'Amato drew the nickname ""Senator Pothole"" for his delivery of ""constituent services"", helping citizens with their individual cases. While some New Yorkers meant the nickname as a pejorative, many others saw it as a positive affirmation of his attention to getting things done. He also holds the record for the second and eighth longest filibusters ever recorded in the United States Senate. He is remembered for his unique and rather comical filibusters. In 1986, in a filibuster against a military bill that lasted 23 1/2 hours, he read the District"
"2002, Albright and his organization ISIS were the first to publicly criticize the claims of the Bush administration and the CIA about the infamous Iraqi aluminum tubes. In response to Iraqi aluminum tubes, Albright said it was far from clear that the tubes were intended for a uranium centrifuge. The August/September 2003 ""American Journalism Review"" states: On December 8 [2002] Bob Simon reported on ""60 Minutes"" that the aluminum tubes story was being challenged. He quoted British intelligence officials and David Albright, a weapons inspector in Iraq for the U.N. in the 1990s. Albright said, ""People who understood gas centrifuges"
"tubes (if Windows XP's SSPIPES.SCR is installed) with the page title ""Don't Clog the Tubes!"" When ""about:internets"" was entered on a computer lacking that screensaver, the tab displayed a gray screen with the page title ""The Tubes are Clogged!"" This easter egg was removed as of the 2.0.159.1 release. The documentation for developing Chrome extensions includes a near-verbatim quote of the ""series of tubes"" paragraph when describing its ""chrome.storage"" class. On June 3, 2017, the British YouTuber Pyrocynical uploaded a pilot of a new series on his channel, which he named A Series of Tubes. Commonly abbreviated as ASOT, his"
"recalled that senators divided 15-15, with one member not on the Senate floor. A lobbyist who opposed the proposal on behalf of municipal interests was smoking a pipe in the overhead visitors gallery. The pipe was said to have fallen from his mouth when Barnes cast a rare vote to break the tie and send the measure forward. Dickson later received the pipe as a souvenir. ""He was one of the outstanding lawyers who ever served. He understood how to write law,"" said Barnes. Dickson practiced in the Sweetwater firm of Moore, Dickson, and Maxwell. His specialties were Personal Injury;"
"19, 2005, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson (Ret.), a former Chief of Staff for the State Department from 2002–2005, commented on this. According to Wilkerson, ""The French came in the middle of my deliberations at the CIA and said, we have just spun aluminum tubes, and by God, we did it to this RPM, et cetera, et cetera, and it was all, you know, proof positive that the aluminum tubes were not for mortar casings or artillery casings, they were for centrifuges. Otherwise, why would you have such exquisite instruments? We were wrong. We were wrong."" In his January 28, 2003, State"
"education from 1949, and for a nuclear-test ban treaty from 1956. These are the solid monuments of twenty years of effective work for liberal causes in the Senate."" President Johnson once said that ""Most Senators are minnows ... Hubert Humphrey is among the whales."" In his autobiography, ""The Education of a Public Man"", Humphrey wrote: There were three bills of particular emotional importance to me: the Peace Corps, a disarmament agency, and the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. The President, knowing how I felt, asked me to introduce legislation for all three. I introduced the first Peace Corps bill in 1957."
"series centered around giving commentary on recent events, especially those related to YouTube. Alexandra Petri of the ""Washington Post"" wrote a humorous article entitled ""Sen. Stevens, the tubes salute you"" after Stevens died in an airplane crash August 9, 2010: And as people remember him, make ill-timed jests, and muse on his legacy—all in real time, in great profusion—I worry that they are disrupting the ability of people elsewhere to receive their Internets. But for us in the Facebook generation who weren't around for the first plane crash and know the Bridge to Nowhere primarily as an SNL punchline, the"
"authorize the construction of a canal on the Nicaragua route, had passed the House of Representatives. In June 1902, it was considered by the Senate, and on June 5 and 6, Hanna made a speech against the Hepburn Bill. In his speech, he referred to enormous maps, which were displayed in the Senate Chamber as he spoke. This was a novel technique, especially as he referred to the possibility of active volcanoes on the Nicaragua route in his speech, and the maps showed active volcanoes marked with red dots and extinct ones with black. There was an almost continuous band"
"cloture for only the second time since 1927. After a series of filibusters in the 1960s over civil rights legislation, the Senate put a ""two-track system"" into place in 1970 under the leadership of Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and Majority Whip Robert Byrd. Before this system was introduced, a filibuster would stop the Senate from moving on to any other legislative activity. Tracking allows the majority leader—with unanimous consent or the agreement of the minority leader—to have more than one bill pending on the floor as unfinished business. Under the two-track system, the Senate can have two or more pieces"
"get his hands on a nuclear bomb. He is so determined that he has made repeated covert attempts to acquire high-specification aluminum tubes from 11 different countries, even after inspections resumed. These tubes are controlled by the Nuclear Suppliers Group precisely because they can be used as centrifuges for enriching uranium. By now, just about everyone has heard of these tubes, and we all know that there are differences of opinion. There is controversy about what these tubes are for. Most U.S. experts think they are intended to serve as rotors in centrifuges used to enrich uranium. Other experts, and"
"legislator E. L. ""Bubba"" Henry, told the Democratic State Central Committee that Edwards had created a ""smoke screen ... to divert attention from his own 'sweetheart deals' for his political friends,"" a reference to controversy which arose in the financing of a new baseball stadium for the University of Louisiana at Monroe (then known as Northeast Louisiana University). Before election day, Edwards joked with reporters: ""The only way I can lose this election is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy"". Edwards zinged Treen many times, once describing Treen as ""so slow it"
"the 205,901 cables that deal with his activities, was quoted as saying ""The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer."" The quote, however, had been public knowledge since the 1970s. The Kissinger cables revealed that: Kissinger cables The Kissinger Cables are 1.7 million United States diplomatic and intelligence records dating from 1973 to 1976 that WikiLeaks republished in April 2013. At the time Henry Kissinger was the United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor. They had previously been declassified and released by the U.S. government; all the records are from the National Archives and Records"
"reported that inspectors in Iraq ""saw nothing to prompt a war."") On September 8, 2002, Miller and fellow ""Times"" reporter Michael R. Gordon reported the interception of ""aluminum tubes"" bound for Iraq. Her front-page story quoted unnamed ""American officials"" and ""American intelligence experts"" who said the tubes were intended to be used to enrich nuclear material, and cited unnamed ""Bush administration officials"" who claimed that, in recent months, Iraq had ""stepped up its quest for nuclear weapons and [had] embarked on a worldwide hunt for materials to make an atomic bomb"". Miller added that Mr. Hussein's dogged insistence on pursuing"
"of a bombastic, super-chauvinistic legislator who drank only from Dixie cups and refused to drive through the Lincoln Tunnel,"" wrote ""The New York Times"". ""His stock expression, 'That's a joke, son,' was for many years one of the nation's pet phrases, mimicked by children and businessmen alike. ... The windbag character, he said, was inspired by a Texas cattle rancher who had picked him up while he was hitchhiking and barely stopped talking."" Delmar was later heard by a later generation of television watchers via the animated character called The Hunter which he voiced using his Senator Claghorn inflections, including,"
"of anonymous introduction of legislation. Criticizing a comprehensive immigration reform bill, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) critiqued the proposed legislation for three hours on May 21, 2007 in front of ""a giant picture of a famous scene from Schoolhouse Rock's 'I'm just a bill' skit."" The caption on the picture was ""How a Senate Bill Becomes a Law"". Sessions pointed out how the reform bill had proceeded through the Senate in contrast with what educational material like the cartoon had laid out, saying ""[Professor Hugh Hewitt has written that this is] Not what we were taught in grade school, I assure"
"building. It was relocated to another room, which is now frequently used by the Legislative Black Caucus. Some of the members use the statue's outstretched arm as a coat rack. Bilbo was satirized multiple times in popular culture. Theodore G. Bilbo Theodore Gilmore Bilbo (October 13, 1877August 21, 1947) was an American politician who twice served as governor of Mississippi (1916–20, 1928–32) and later was elected a U.S. Senator (1935–47). A filibusterer whose name was a synonym for white supremacy, like many Southern Democrats of his era, Bilbo believed that black people were inferior; he defended segregation, and was a"
"70 years. The title character of Senator Hannibal Rivers was modeled on Senator Preston B. Plumb of Kansas. When Plumb saw the play he was surprised to see Crane wearing a stovepipe hat, commenting to Crane that ""I never wore a silk hat in my life, and my creditors wouldn't know me for myself in a head piece like that."" Crane threw the hat down and declared he wouldn't wear it again, though he continued to do so, at least in New York. According to a biography of Plumb, before one performance of the play in Washington, D.C., Senator Blackburn"
"had been resolved in favor of what was later legally determined to be torture. In 2005, US Senator John McCain, a former POW from the Vietnam War, attached a passage to a military spending bill that would proscribe inhumane treatment of detainees and restrict US officials to use only the interrogation techniques in the US Army's field manual on interrogation. Ninety of the one hundred Senators supported this amendment. On Thursday, October 20, 2005, Vice President Dick Cheney proposed a change to McCain. Cheney tried to get McCain to limit the proscription to just military personnel, thus allowing CIA personnel"
"two could meet in the Judiciary Committee room to share a liberal amount of Kentucky Bourbon. ""When I speak of the law,"" Senator Roscoe Conkling of New York once said, ""I turn to the Senator as the Mussulman turns towards Mecca. I look to him only as I would look to the common law of England, the world's most copious volume of human jurisprudence."" In particular he made himself the critic of giveaways to the large railroad corporations and of Republicans' Reconstruction policies. ""A fine juicy roast of land grants is what sends Thurman's tongue a-wagging,"" wrote one reporter. In"
"believed that the tubes were intended for nuclear enrichment. A June 4, 2003, article in the ""Financial Times"" reported that ""French intelligence had seized a separate shipment of tubes to the US, and tested their tolerance by spinning them to 98,000 revolutions per minute, concluding they were too sophisticated to have alternative uses."" ""The Times"" also reported that Secretary of State Colin Powell was denied permission by French political authorities from using this information in his February 5, 2003, speech before the U.N. Security Council. In a speech before the New America Foundation American Strategy Program Policy Forum on October"
"secrecy, and agreed to tell only the Chief Counsel and Chief Minority Counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee. Chief Counsel Samuel Dash says he immediately informed his subordinate, Deputy Chief Counsel Rufus L. Edmisten, and then Democratic Senator Sam Ervin, chairman of the committee. Both Ervin and Dash realized how important it was politically to have had a Republican uncover the taping system. That same night, Ervin asked Dash to have Butterfield testify on Monday, July 16. Friday night, Thompson informed Senator Howard Baker, the ranking minority member on the Senate Watergate Committee, of Butterfield's admission. After Ervin had told"
"two senators named by an environmental group as part of a congressional ""Dirty Dozen"" that the group believed should be defeated in their re-election efforts due to their stances on environmental issues; membership on the list was based ""primarily on 14 Senate and 19 House votes, including amendments to air and water pollution control laws, strip‐mining controls, auto emissions and water projects."" In August, Thurmond joined other senators in voting for the District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment, which would have given the District of Columbia full representation in Congress along with participation in the Electoral College. He was one"
"the country that received money from the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, signed into law in 2009 by President Barack Obama, which the senators classified as wasteful government spending. According to McCain, the Connector was an example of stimulus dollars spent to fund projects with ""questionable goals,"" or those that were ""being mismanaged or were poorly planned."" Meanwhile, Coburn reminded the media that the initial budget was approximately $390 million, but ""quickly ballooned"" to a cost of $553 million. In 2009 then-Governor Ed Rendell, a Democrat, called the tunnel ""a tragic mistake"" and expressed his wish that the"
"weren't going to mindlessly go down the tubes [for Nixon]."" Journalist Scott Armstrong, a Democratic investigator for the Senate Watergate Committee, is critical of Thompson for having disclosed the committee's knowledge of the tapes to Buzhardt during an ongoing investigation, and says Thompson was ""a mole for the White House"" and that Thompson's actions gave the White House a chance to destroy the tapes. Thompson's 1975 book ""At That Point in Time"", in turn, accused Armstrong of having been too close to ""The Washington Post""<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Bob Woodward and of leaking committee information to him. In response to renewed interest in"
"forced to remove the bill from consideration after a failed cloture vote, even though he had enough votes to pass the bill. In 1949, the Senate made invoking cloture more difficult by requiring two-thirds of the entire Senate membership to vote in favor of a cloture motion. Moreover, future proposals to change the Senate rules were themselves specifically exempted from being subject to cloture. In 1953, Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon set a record by filibustering for 22 hours and 26 minutes while protesting the Tidelands Oil legislation. Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina broke this record in 1957 by"
"almost uniformly felt that these tubes were not specific to gas centrifuge use."" Simon said to Albright: ""It seems that what you're suggesting is that the administration's leak to the ""New York Times"", regarding aluminum tubes, was misleading?"" Albright: ""Oh, I think it was. I think—I think it was very misleading.""Albright stated: ""If the U.S. government puts out bad information it runs a risk of undermining the good information it possesses. In this case, I fear that the information was put out there for a short-term political goal: to convince people that Saddam Hussein is close to acquiring nuclear weapons."""
"United States is using to make its case that Iraq is trying to build a nuclear bomb emerged Thursday. While National Security Adviser Condi Rice stated on September 8 that imported aluminum tubes 'are only really suited for nuclear weapons programs, centrifuge programs' a growing number of experts say that the administration has not presented convincing evidence that the tubes were intended for use in uranium enrichment rather than for artillery rocket tubes or other uses. Former U.N. weapons inspector David Albright said he found significant disagreement among scientists within the Department of Energy and other agencies about the certainty"
"had been briefed on the existence of the tapes, and the plans for their destruction. Senator Jay Rockefeller, the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, disputed Hayden's assertion, saying that he only learned of the tapes in November 2006, a year after their destruction. Jane Harman, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee and one of just four senior members of Congress who was briefed on the existence of the tapes, acknowledged being briefed. Harman responded to Hayden's assertions by saying she had objected, in writing, to the tapes' destruction. ""I told the CIA that destroying videotapes of interrogations"
"it and indeed [he'd] populated it with characters who [he] felt had lives of their own"". Anderson has stated that the famous line in the final scene, ""I drink your milkshake!"", was paraphrased from a quote by former Secretary of the Interior and U.S. Senator from New Mexico, Albert Fall, speaking before a Congressional investigation into the 1920s oil-related Teapot Dome scandal. Anderson said he was fascinated ""to see that word [milkshake] among all this official testimony and terminology"" to explain the complicated process of oil drainage. In 2013, an independent attempt to locate the statement in Fall's testimony proved"
"day of three days of hearings, during which the Committee members considered over 200 amendments to an omnibus telecommunications bill. Stevens authored the bill, S. 2686, the Communications, Consumer's Choice, and Broadband Deployment Act of 2006. Senators Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Byron Dorgan (D-ND) cosponsored and spoke on behalf of an amendment that would have inserted strong network neutrality mandates into the bill. In between speeches by Snowe and Dorgan, Stevens gave a vehement 11-minute speech using colorful language to explain his opposition to the amendment. Stevens referred to the Internet as ""not a big truck,"" but a ""series of"