Quotes about congress
congress designed environmental health industry oil pointed protecting public repeal rules using
What's really reprehensible is that friends of the oil industry in Congress are using ... a disaster, which essentially pointed up our shortcomings in protecting public health and safety, to repeal environmental rules that are designed to protect public health and safety.
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Unfortunately, it looks like Congress is going to squander another day without getting any substantial work done.
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The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. Abraham Lincoln
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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.
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The number one thing I will take with me is my experience as a social worker who saw what happened to families who couldn't find jobs, struggled to take care of their health and saw opportunity slipping away for their kids. I ran for Congress because politicians were fighting with each other instead of looking out for these families. Kyrsten Sinema
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Were Congress somehow to reject the Administration's deal in some effort to maintain a consistent principle on non-proliferation, it would have no effect on Iran's decisions. But that futile gesture would have a devastating effect on US relations with India. Robert Kagan
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We're just following orders from Congress. They haven't issued any legislation about discontinuing the one-cent coin, so we keep making them. Michael White
congress following orders
We're just following orders from Congress, ... They haven't issued any legislation about discontinuing the one-cent coin, so we keep making them.
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Richard Nixon is very much a self-made man in the six years prior to his emergence as a national figure. Between the moment he's elected to Congress in 1946 and the moment he's inaugurated as Vice President in 1953, he conducts nothing less than a kind of prodigy of American political self-advancement.
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Polluters have mounted a public pressure campaign, even enlisting some members of Congress, to lobby EPA to weaken the law even more. For the sake of our lakes and streams and the wildlife and people who depend on them, the law needs to be strengthened, not watered down.
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My understanding, for governmental entities, is that they are going to be held harmless, so it's really not an issue for the members of Congress and their staffs and the federal government and local governments.
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Nearly 75,000 Demand Progress members have urged Congress to fix the Patriot Act. Aaron Swartz
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On the average, being a member of Congress is an 80- to 100-hour (a week) job, Kenny Guinn
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One of the first things to do is talk to Bonds. Will he cooperate? If he doesn't, I think that leads to disaster for Bonds. The union would make a big mistake by being too defensive here. Congress could step in. Fay Vincent
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I am informed that every member of Congress who is in town has voted. Steny Hoyer
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I and others have been looking desperately for silver linings in this tragedy and if Katrina were to motivate Congress to look at this issue seriously, that would be great. Jared Bernstein
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Certainly, it would be helpful to have someone else like him -- outside of Congress -- working on the issue,
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But we need to see movement, ... Let's make no mistake about it. Congress will demand to see movement.
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But it's going to be a quiet week. A lot of people are on vacation, there's little in corporate reporting or econ data, Congress is still in recess. We lack drama right now, which means we're going to be left to our own devices, which could be good or bad.
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But the court allows the states to use the estimated numbers ...for drawing the lines within each state to the determine what district every member of Congress and each state legislator represents. Bill Schneider
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Basically, it tells groups that if they want to petition Congress in any significant way, they have to tell Congress about it first. Jason Wright
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Basically, he says, 'In your face. Twenty games, take it or leave it.' That's completely unacceptable to the Congress, Jim Bunning
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Imagine if the 50 million people put at risk this year let Congress know they want better safeguards.
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My guess is that you will never hear a peep about this as they debate the bill, ... Wastrels of Defense: How Congress Sabotages U.S. Security.
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My guess is, it's going to face a tough go in Congress. It really isn't being received very well in the industry.
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My hope is that we can effectively and expeditiously receive this plan from the president, work it through the Congress, and try to make it a reality as quickly as possible, Richard Gephardt
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Obviously they're getting a lot of flak from Congress and the Europeans as well. It was going to happen at some point anyway. It probably happened sooner than it would have if Congress and the administration hadn't said anything,
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Nobody should expect from the congress the abandonment of what our revolution has meant.
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No drug or device has been regulated like this, ... It begs the question: Who gets to decide, Congress or FDA?
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For years, members of Congress have heard from constituents who want them to protect the nation from crime, terrorism and intellectual property violation. They have not faced equally robust demands that online rights and freedoms be preserved. Rebecca MacKinnon
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Frankly, I'm surprised. I thought the story would have legs and get much more attention. After all the debate in Congress over the need for the President to keep them in the loop he simply signs away one of the key provisions of the revised act.
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Freedom of speech and freedom of expression are so ingrained in our society we rarely stop to think about it. I'm able to write what I want--dark fiendish plots without fear. . . . I can criticize the FBI, the CIA, the president and Congress without giving it a thought. John Grisham
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I don't want protectionist feelings in Congress to stand in the way of progress for Minnesota, Jesse Ventura