(August 16, 2012) "No partisan fight over cybersecurity bill, GOP senator says".

Kentucky Republican Rand Paul was the only GOP senator to support the amendment.

According to National Journal's 2009 Vote Ratings, he was ranked as the 34th conservative member among the 40 GOP senators.

Thurmond would serve for more than 36 years as a GOP senator.

Mehlman often spoke with undecided GOP senators, including three of the four who eventually voted in favor of the bill.

On June 4, a group of GOP senators asked that the clerk of the Senate read the entire 491-page bill aloud, an extremely rare request.

In 1988, Levy and 17 other GOP senators from New York officially endorsed George H. W. Bush for the GOP presidential nomination.

"One of the most disenchanted GOP senators, prior to his 2010 retirement," was ex-Sen.

He governed through his party's caucus alone, ignoring GOP senators and congressmen, supposing that their opposition was endemic and inevitable.