Quotes about congress
congress emergency lives soon
With each day that passes, more lives are put at risk. Congress should enact emergency legislation as soon as possible.
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We will be working with Tom DeLay and other members of Congress to see just what further relief might be called for,
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The president is only proposing a 22 percent increase and I rather suspect that Congress will be inclined to provide that assistance. But since the increase is modest, it's probably not going to be enough.
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There have always been questions about whether Congress can police itself. The situation in the House removes all doubt. The House is not policing itself.
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I think voters want somebody who understands their problems. You're right that they don't expect the president to fix everything. When he's wrestling with Congress and Wall Street and the rest of the world, they hope he'll be looking at things from their vantage point. Gail Collins
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I just thought it was unconscionable for the Congress to insert itself into this debate. We are particularly unqualified to make that decision and to intrude ourselves into the lives of this family. Gary Ackerman
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And so whether it's failing to move forward on the Dream Act, failing to move forward on putting teachers back to work, failing to do all the things we could do right now to help the economy and middle class, this Congress is just saying no. David Plouffe
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I would like to see this group in this Congress be starting the process to get ourselves on long term fiscal strong footing. Ben Quayle
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This will be the defining race for the future of our state, ... We will elect a new senator and a new congressman. There are 20 seats open in the state legislature. This is serious business. Chuck Hagel
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There is only one MDC congress and that is in Harare and 13 000 people drawn from the country's 12 provinces will attend.
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The passage of this message is an indication of the potential setbacks to the fiscal sector that could result from a government or congress that wants to pursue a populist agenda.
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This Republican Congress is the most corrupt in history and the American people are paying the price. Nancy Pelosi
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There have been thousands of amendments proposed in Congress. Only a handful have been presented to the states. Steve Frank
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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. Ben Bernanke
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Whenever Congress was in session, we were in Washington. So four months out of the year we were in Tennessee and the rest of the time in Arlington, which is where my mom grew up. Then, of course, in 1992 we moved into the vice president's house in D.C. I was 15 then. Kristin Gore
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Too much of the debate over immigration reform has ignored one of the greatest threats to our privacy. The proposed employer verification system would require Americans, regardless of citizenship, to get a 'permission slip to work' from the government. If Congress wants to reform immigration, then it should, but it shouldn't use this legislation as a clandestine means to subvert our constitutional right to privacy.
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We as a Congress, need to get a better handle on the money being spent, John Ensign
congress together
We are working together here in the Congress in a completely nonpartisan way, Richard Gephardt
congress fast
We are working through the restrictions with Congress as fast as we can.
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When people get mad, they're more likely to do something. When I go back to Congress ... what's happened at Sago and what's happened here, there's got to be a lot of mad people.
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I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency. Dan Quayle
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We didn't expect Congress to rubber stamp what we had negotiated, ... But we did think that we were there in good faith.
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To those who say it would be too difficult to repeal and replace Obamacare, I say it's a two step process. We repeal the Pelosi Congress in 2010 and replace the Obama Administration in 2012. Mike Pence
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Trust us' is not something the administration can say after Katrina, ... I don't think Congress is in a mood to trust. We want plans. We want specific goals and procedures we're going to take to prepare for this. Tom Harkin
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When I first ran for Congress in 1992, I campaigned on a pledge to make affordable, quality healthcare a right, not a privilege, for all Americans. Bart Stupak
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Well, it's not a pleasant experience. And it's a terribly political process, because that thing was initiated by the Congress and by, you know, our adversaries in the Congress. Bruce Babbitt
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They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. Clare Boothe Luce
congress delay questions raised
There are questions raised in the Congress, and what this delay allows is for those questions to be addressed on the Hill. There's nothing to reopen. Stephen Hadley
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I was sent there by the Free Congress Committee, headed by Paul Weyrich. Fred Smith and I were sent down as observers, with reporters' credentials, so we could witness the events. Dixie Lee Ray
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All too often in tough economic times, it is the environment that gets left on the cutting room floors of Congress as everyone scraps for limited federal dollars. Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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When requests come in from Congress, of course they receive appropriate consideration.
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While restoring a sense of fiscal discipline to Congress is a top priority, infrastructure spending is an important and necessary task of government. Our nation's long-term debt requires us to prioritize and economize with every tax dollar.
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With all due respect, you've told me nothing, ... It's kind of interesting, this kabuki dance we have in these hearings here, as if the public doesn't have a right to know what you think about fundamental issues facing them.