Congress Quotes
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It's not the function of Congress to do criminal investigations.
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It is precisely those members of Congress who have had the most to do with creating the risks that led to the current economic crisis who are making the most noise against others, and summoning people before their committee to be browbeaten and humiliated on nationwide television.
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Donald Trump is going to be tainted by scandal. Congress hangs by just three Republican votes. If he loses three Republicans, you're going to see investigations, subpoenas.
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The FBI's director's letter to Congress revealed that there were e-mails on Clinton aide Huma Abedin's computer, but that's just about it, just that there were emails, not much more information.
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It's government's job to respect and protect the rights of the individual. That vision is centrally important to the principle put forth by the Founding Fathers. If you don't believe that, you shouldn't be in Congress.
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Congress would make it mandatory, absolutely require, that, every five years, people in Medicare have a required counseling session that will tell them how to end their life sooner.
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Destruction of the churches and the like is not the way to Swaraj as defined by the Congress.
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From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to Congress.
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Americans want to have what members of Congress have: guaranteed health coverage.
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It is easy to talk about tax simplification, and we all know it is very difficult to accomplish; but for the last three Congresses, I have offered a tax simplification bill that would include a paid-for repeal of alternative minimum tax.
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I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.
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Congress has all sorts of rules, hedge fund managers, private equity managers, executives, movie stars, fall into that allow them to escape or defer into the future not paying their taxes. And if you can defer your tax into the future, it's the best deal in the world, because you don't just get to eat your cake and have it too. You get to eat your cake and have a bigger cake.
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I think there's even a chance that R&D and innovation budgets might be increased during Donald Trump Administration and we should go and make that case to the executive branch, to the Congress.
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Congress is responsible for everything and unable to do anything, hated by the public creditors, insulted by the soldiers and unsupported by the citizens.
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I believe it is incumbent upon Congress to act aggressively to ameliorate fear and help our country take the essential steps that will make our communities and lives safer.
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There is no reality in the fond expectation that Britain will leave the country in simple response to a Congress slogan. Besides, by asking the British to leave, the Congress was issuing an open invitation to a colonising power more brutal by far, the Japanese.
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Their moral influence will then do infinitely more to advance the true interests of religion, than any measures which they may call on Congress to enact.
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You've got a Republican White House; you've got Republicans in control of Congress. It should be smooth sailing.
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I make a prediction here and now, and, my friends, I want you to watch the proceedings of Congress in these coming weeks of this extra session, or of the next regular session, to see whether I am right or not.
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Let's say Donald Trump wins. Is Congress going to let him build a wall on the Mexican border? I don't think so.
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The American people expect more from Congress. They expect fiscal responsibility and common sense. They expect us to return to the pay-as-you-go budget rules that we had enacted in the past that helped us establish a surplus, however briefly.
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The bottom line is that every single member of Congress has to get voted into office every two or six years. That means they need to look really good in their home district and state. That means good local press. That means people in their district thinking, "Man, I really don't like Congress, but I like Senator Bob."
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It's wrong that members of Congress can purchase luxury airfare with taxpayer money when many families in my district and across the county are struggling to make ends meet.
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$100,000 donors buy access to Congress and the White House. We believe it's long past time to clean up Washington.
