Congress Quotes
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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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I said what I said before Congress because I meant every word of it.
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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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'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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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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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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With scientific advances, Congress must now make changes to reflect new therapeutic options.
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We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.
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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 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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I have one desire: That is to have a principle-based, member-driven Congress. Period. That's what I want.
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Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.
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You can see how dysfunctional this Congress is.
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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.
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Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.
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The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.
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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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FDA, which regulates the safety of vegetables, doesn't have those kinds of rules because Congress doesn't want it to. It's not that the vegetables themselves have anything wrong with them; it's that they're contaminated with animal manure. One of the rationales for a single food safety agency is that you can't separate animals from vegetables.
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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 never dread going back to Congress.
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As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it.
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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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Intelligence is playing a more important role in policymaker decisions than I think I've ever seen in my time in Congress or before.
