Fifty-two senators backed the bill, but that was eight too few to cut off debate.

The senator backed an Arizona ballot measure passed by voters in 2008 that defined marriage as between one man and one woman.

The senator has backed Gov. George W. Bush's proposed tax cut of $483 billion over five years starting in 2002.

It's a bummer that my state's senators and representatives are backing their respective SOPA/PIPA.

Even senators most enthusiastic about providing the child credits to low-income families backed away from the House proposal.

This year, the bill's prospects are uncertain, although, for the first time, four Republican senators are backing it.

Neither the senators who backed the Republican tax cuts nor those who want the Democrats' prescription drug package really believe that these programs will die once started.

Mr. Sweeney maintained that the senator sometimes opposed raising the minimum wage and backed laws that allow workers in unionized workplaces not to pay union dues.

Looking as flaccid as a deflated inner tube, the senator backed into a chair and plopped down on the seat.

In the conference, Democratic senators had backed a version of the bill that strayed from an earlier compromise that overcame a Republican filibuster in the Senate on Saturday.