Congress Quotes
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I sometimes think we ought to bring a bill before Congress changing our national symbol from the eagle to the buffalo, because we are more like the buffalo than the eagle. The eagle is a powerful bird. It flies alone. It rises up into the sky with authority. It is master of all it surveys. The eagle is an individualist and was selected from among the rest of the birds to be our symbol. But the buffalo was never alone. It always ran in a herd with other buffaloes. And, friends, I call your attention that the buffaloes are gone from the open range, but the eagles are still soaring.
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I think they (U.S. Congress) hurt our relationships with people that we are trying to get communication and coordination from.
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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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Congress did not pass last year's 2006 budget proposals. The 2007 budget proposals are very similar, and once again unfairly target agriculture. I expect Congress to reject them again.
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My father died the year I was elected to Congress: 1987.
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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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Every year the Bush administration provides less aid to Armenia than the Congress envisages.
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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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The board is insulated in a wide range from any control from presidential oversight, from Congress.
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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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Our mission as set forth by the Congress is a critical one.
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Soberly and with the dignity that befits the United States Congress.
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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.
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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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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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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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We think it's so important that we get [Carolyne] Maloney in that seat [in Congress]. It's one of the reasons; we also think that she is a unique person that deserves it and would help advance women's rights.
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There is a deficit; I'd like to see it lowered. But it's up to Congress to decide whether that should be done by higher taxes, lower spending or some combination.
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Trade votes in the US Congress are never really easy things.
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Granting such immunity undermines the constitutional protections Americans trust the Congress to protect.
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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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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 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.”
