Quotes with congress

  • With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke.

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  • Barbara Boxer Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonal experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Hendrik Willem Van Loon The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
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  • Bobby Jindal Whether you voted for him or not, whether you supported the new leaders of Congress or not, they're our president, they're our Congress, they need our prayers, they need our support.
    Chicago Tribune, published November 22, 2008
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • Bill Dedman A foundation representing firefighters who die in the line of duty is calling for Congress to strip the Centers for Disease Control of its role investigating firefighter deaths.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Bob Ney After two years of hard work and debate, Congress has passed a highway bill that will help fuel our economy by creating roughly 500,000 new jobs, as well as address many critical transportation needs in Ohio and the 18th Congressional District.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Bill Shuster America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Bob Filner As Congress continues to debate ways to address illegal immigration, we must remember the many hard-working legal immigrants that contribute so much to our nation's economy and culture.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • Bill Flores As you get larger, it is harder to have focused discussions. Because one of the things I've learned about Congress over the past four years that I've been in is there's no shortage of opinions about how things should be done on any particular subject.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Blake Farenthold Census data influences decisions made from Main Street to Wall Street, in Congress and with the Federal Reserve. Not to mention, the American people who look to, and trust, the data the government releases on our nation's unemployment, state of our economy, and health insurance coverage.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Bob Barr Clearly, the court today has ignored the constitutional right and responsibility of Congress to pass laws protecting citizens from dangerous and addictive narcotics...
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Butch Otter Congress and the White House are working out their scheme for pushing through a healthcare 'reform' bill that has more pages than the U.S. Constitution has words. I guarantee you that not a single member of the House or Senate has a complete understanding of that legislation any more than they understood all the implications of the USA PATRIOT Act back in 2001.
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  • Bobby Jindal Congress did a good thing back in 1995 in passing the Deep Water Royalty Relief Act. That act did a simple thing. It provided automatic royalty relief for new leases for 5 years in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • Blake Farenthold Congress has the constitutional authority to investigate the other agencies of government. We are the watchdogs of the taxpayer's money, and we have the right to know how that money is being spent and to conduct oversight over the government.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Barber Conable Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.
    Barber Conable
    American politician (1922 - 2003)
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  • Bob Filner Congress is headed in the wrong direction with this bill which removes any and all incentives from the food industry to improve their products for children.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • Barbara Ann Radnofsky Congress mandated that health care providers in emergency departments and ambulances provide emergency care to anyone in need, including the uninsured and underinsured.
    Barbara Ann Radnofsky
    American politician, author and mediator (1956 - )
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  • Bill Frist Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Andrew Grove Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.
    Andrew Grove
    Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer and author (1936 - 2016)
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  • Bernie Sanders Do the elected officials in Washington stand with ordinary Americans - working families, children, the elderly, the poor - or will the extraordinary power of billionaire campaign contributors and Big Money prevail? The American people, by the millions, must send Congress the answer to that question.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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