Quotes about congress
congress continues ensure explore personal possible prepare responsibility savings social solutions though
Though Congress continues to explore possible solutions to ensure social security solvency, everyone must take personal responsibility to prepare their own retirement savings accordingly.
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Rather than waiting for future trials to determine rules that will impact every citizen, Congress should step in and write a law that takes every American's rights into consideration. Ron Wyden
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Fair play should be a minimal expectation, and the ""ethics truce"" prevented Congress from meeting even that low standard.
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To let the senators know how we feel about the legislation in Congress ... It's a peaceful assembly.
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I was on his staff in the early '80s when he was a congressman and he worked even then with members of the opposing party.
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Most likely Congress will do little or nothing but talk a great deal and hold hearings, Byron Dorgan
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Most of Congress is sort of lost in cyberspace. They know there's something called the Internet out there. But most of 'em don't know how to use it and most of 'em aren't very familiar with it.
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Most of Congress is sort of lost in cyberspace, E. B. White
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Members of Congress should not be receiving pay raises that are higher than Social Security and other COLAS (cost of living adjustments) during tough economic times, when many families are hurting financially. Brian Baird
congress members responsibility staff
Members of Congress do this; staff members of Congress do it; it is their responsibility to do so.
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Members of Congress are irate about the Court's denigrating and, really, disrespectful statements about Congress' competence, ... method of reasoning. Arlen Specter
congress guidance members
will give some guidance to our members of Congress. Bill Clinton
congress diminished member
will be a significantly diminished member of Congress.
congress expect gets knocked member nation pick questions sentiment single
When a part of our nation gets knocked down, we come together to help pick it up again. No questions asked. That's the American way, and I would expect every single member of Congress to support that sentiment with their words, their actions, and their votes.
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We don't feel at this time that Haiti fulfills the very narrow criteria provided by Congress.
congress country gave immigrants living message respect send strong tired
We are tired of living in fear. We feel it's important to send a strong message to Congress that we immigrants are united. We gave so much to this country and we feel this country should respect our right to live in dignity.
congress course guilty law played role
We are not privy to this. The Congress has played no role in this. The law will take its own course and the guilty should be punished.
congress future members problem public push reform spotlight
The problem isn't ex-members (of Congress), or future members or even lobbyists. The problem is lodged in the way the (Congress) does its business, and we have to reform ourselves. Public opinion, public spotlight can push us to do so. Mark Udall
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We have not galvanized Congress, but we will have to. Abraham Foxman
congress emerges president stated stay whatever work
The president has stated that he'd like to stay and get the work done. But we'll take a look at whatever emerges from Congress at the end of the day.
congress loud privatized promised repeatedly revisit
The president and Republicans in Congress have repeatedly promised to revisit Social Security privatization after November. But Americans have already said, loud and clear, that they don't want Social Security to be privatized or dismantled. Jim Clyburn
congress member problem vote voting year
The problem is you don't vote for a party. You're voting for a member of Congress. And we're a year away.
congress debated determined issues
We are determined to have these issues debated in Congress this fall, Edward Kennedy
congress expect nobody revolution
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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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.
congress federal government held issue local members understanding
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.
congress demand fix members nearly patriot progress urged
Nearly 75,000 Demand Progress members have urged Congress to fix the Patriot Act. Aaron Swartz
congress member
On the average, being a member of Congress is an 80- to 100-hour (a week) job, Kenny Guinn
congress defensive disaster leads mistake step talk union
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
congress culture incumbent longtime nobody problem problems
We have a longtime incumbent who's well-embedded. My problem is, we've got a lot of problems in our culture, and nobody in Congress does anything about it. Ralph McGill
congress issue
We could not arbitrarily do this on our own. This is an issue that Congress will have to decide.