But what about all the good vibrations when the writers paid their calls on the representatives and senators?

List based on senators signing the letter to Secretary Clinton in March 2010.

Another member of the foreign policy kitchen cabinet agreed: "Senators rely on senators.

Her courtesy calls on senators have done no more to help her cause.

So the knights began to exert pressure on susceptible senators to be nicer to Caesar.

Further, the old rules put no dollar cap on individual senators.

The other proposal would have doubled, to two years, the current ban on former senators' lobbying their colleagues after leaving public office.

(It had imposed term limits on federal representatives and senators.)

They put a blowup of the cartoon on an easel and senators lined up to denounce it.

Last year President George Bush put pressure on Republican senators to vote to save the program.