Congress Quotes
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I said what I said before Congress because I meant every word of it.
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I never dread going back to Congress.
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In my 31 years in Congress, I have seen a lot of changes. We made some substantial policy changes that have improved our parks system and our public lands.
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With scientific advances, Congress must now make changes to reflect new therapeutic options.
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Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.
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I would think we have a trajectory of failure on the Republicans' part. When you think about how they managed to make John Kerry look bad during the last election for actually serving in Vietnam, and testifying in Congress after he'd gotten medals, and said that he didn't believe in them or that he didn't believe in the war and that it should stop . . . That they could turn that in negative when their guy, George W. Bush, never even went to Vietnam.
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I have one desire: That is to have a principle-based, member-driven Congress. Period. That's what I want.
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While nobody was opening their mouths in other parties, mouths were wide open in the Congress
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I would a whole lot rather had Carly Fiorina over there doing our negotiation than John Kerry. Maybe we would've gotten a deal where we didn't give everything away. But the issue for us is to have a Congress that stands up and says not only no, but "Hell no" to this money going to a Iran regime that is going to use it for terror...
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In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he [the president] is the representative of the people. He is elected by them, as well as congress is. But can he, in the nature [of] things, know the wants of the people, as well as three hundred other men, coming from all the various localities of the nation? If so, where is the propriety of having a congress?
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It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.
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In the meantime, that case has to be made to the American people as well, and it will be part of the Congress' role to do that as well.
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We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there's a bunch of us.
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I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress.
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You can see how dysfunctional this Congress is.
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This is the first step in determining whether and how Congress can provide a solution.
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Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.
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Intelligence is playing a more important role in policymaker decisions than I think I've ever seen in my time in Congress or before.
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'Favoritism' is always a factor, and pressure always build for the appointment of friends of influential supporters of the President, or for the nominees of powerful Member of Congress from the incoming President's party.
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Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.
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As we agreed, the Congress will include this funding in the upcoming emergency appropriations bill to fund the recovery and rebuilding efforts for hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The bill we send to the president for signature will include the $125 million.
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The gag rule must be eliminated, and it's just the gag rule, we're not talking now even about funding abortion. We're talking about, you know, counseling and speaking, so that's one. That can be reversed by an executive order. [George W.]Bush put it in the first day he got in office. We hope that [Barack] Obama takes it out. He had cut off funding for the United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, even though Congress had appropriated. It is injured women who are the poorest of the poor.
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The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.
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I wish that I'd been in Congress at some point. Especially now with Bush there. But I would have a really hard time getting elected because of my views. L.A. is very ethnic. Many of the Jewish voters would not support me because of my views on the Middle East.
