Congress Quotes
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I believe the Congress - as a coequal branch of government - must immediately and expeditiously review the use of this practice.
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My father died the year I was elected to Congress: 1987.
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Our political system has been bankrupted by the failures of Congress to act in ways that give meaning to the struggles our constituents endure.
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The Congress for some time remained as a respectable residue. But a comprehensive party cannot survive too long as a residue. It may be small in size at a given time, but its composition should still remain comprehensive. This could be termed as the widest connotation of secularism. The Congress, therefore, is the most secular party in the real sense.
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What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including Congress.
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Every year the Bush administration provides less aid to Armenia than the Congress envisages.
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This just looks like the oil and gas industry are shamelessly using the tragedy of Katrina and Rita to try and push their special-interest agenda through Congress. We need to address our energy needs, but we don't need to jeopardize our environment and economy to do it, and we shouldn't use a national tragedy as cover for bad policy.
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Soberly and with the dignity that befits the United States Congress.
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Our mission as set forth by the Congress is a critical one.
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Of course, the genesis of a good portion of the gridlock in Congress does not reside in Congress itself. Ultimate reform will require each of us, as voters and Americans, to take a long look in the mirror, because in many ways, our representatives in Washington reflect the people who have sent them there.
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Over the last several days, we have heard from members of Congress who want their voices to be heard. I absolutely agree.
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Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing, after all.
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This dovetails nicely with the 225-year anniversary of the first meeting of the Continental Congress. I can foresee this being tied to all of the heritage tours that are offered.
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Illegal immigration presents a huge problem. That is why I decided to spend a week along the southern border to see firsthand how bad the problem is and, more importantly, what Congress can do to fix it.
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Trade votes in the US Congress are never really easy things.
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I mean to say that Congress can hereafter decide whether any states, slave or free, can be framed out of Texas. If they should never be framed out of Texas, they never could be admitted.
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As things are now, no one can tell to whom members of Congress are responsible, except that it does not often appear to be to the people. Everyone else is represented in Washington by a rich and powerful lobby, it seems. But there is no lobby for the people.
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The salary of a member of Congress ends the day that he of she leaves office.
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership If corporations liked NAFTA, they will love TPP—and American workers hate the prospect of it. As some Democratic members of Congress succinctly put it, TPP is “NAFTA on steroids.”
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I would hope that the president would come forward on a timely basis and do two things: Lay this out to the Congress and the American people, and also come forward with a plan for how we're going to pay for it.
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The board is insulated in a wide range from any control from presidential oversight, from Congress.
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I really do not think there is a serious split between Republicans and Democrats in Congress in how responsive they are to constituents.
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We are all saying no blank check to China, ... We have to be very clear to (Congress) about how important their vote is going to be.
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When the ACLU took my case and we got a ruling I think, for the first time, they could - the Congress could put out the report internally but they couldn't put it out at taxpayers' expense around the country. And I felt odd about that because I, in a way, I was interfering with free speech, but then, you can't always win.
