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We have uncertainty resulting from international events -- the Iraq situation, as well as international terror -- while domestically, in Congress, we have done our part to create uncertainty with regard to spending policy, as well as tax policy, ... We passed some tax cuts that are going to expire, and that creates uncertainty when people plan for their future.
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You did the right thing by offering to resign, ... I'd like you to know that there's at least one member of Congress who is not going to rationalize the innocent deaths of two dozen children. John Conyers
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We did not want to put out our programs only to find out they conflicted with something that Congress could authorize.
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We are really disappointed. For Congress to produce any kind of credible reform, they need an enforcement mechanism.
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Our job shouldn't stop with a bill. It should stop with a solution. Congress should be offering solutions, ideas, talking with the administration. Kyle Eastwood
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Many fear that our court is making policy, when it repeatedly strikes down laws passed by Congress and the state legislatures, Mike DeWine
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Look at the tobacco-free kids, Microsoft and its opponents, and what most of the trade associations and lobbying groups are doing. They're making heavy use of the Internet to mobilize their members and supporters to contact members of Congress at exactly the right time.
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Maryland needs someone in Congress who will fight to create jobs, stop out-of-control government spending and defend small businesses.
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What I think we've come up with has been deliberately mischaracterized in the media, and I think the program we have is something that this Congress should be proud of,
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A lot about Congress is about forming good working relationships with people, and humor can really help you do that.
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What we see is a Congress who tends to think that the job of public health and environmental protection is not particularly important, that the job in some ways is done and that we don't have to worry about further reducing pollution. Carol Browner
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While the budget resolution is a nonbinding blueprint, it is, nevertheless, an important guideline for Congress. Once the President's proposed budget is received by Congress on the first Monday of February, Congress generally goes to work on appropriating the funds required. Marsha Blackburn
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When it comes to institutional policing of corruption in Congress, John Murtha is a one-man wrecking crew.
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When it comes to ethanol, Congress is guilty of more irrational exuberance than on any other issue.
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What I see is a stable of salivating legal factories gearing up. Is it prudent or responsible for Congress to wait for the inevitable flood or do what it can to provide sandbags now?
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Thousands of members of Congress have come and gone over the years, their individual achievements hidden in committee reports, private compromises, amendments pushed through or blocked, and innumerable, unnoticed meetings. Elliott Abrams
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We're adjourning the negotiations for Thanksgiving and for consultations with Congress and industry,
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The process for producing public policy in Congress is flawed. The process itself kills policy ideas through the bypassing of the rules and procedural decisions that limit discussion.
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Instead of marginalizing women, Congress must get to work on policies that can foster job creation and fuel economic growth. Kirsten Gillibrand
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One of the primary reasons I first ran for Congress was to be a voice for our troops, veterans and military families.
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Why shouldn't future generations and young Americans have the choice to earn a higher rate of return? Why shouldn't they be able to own their own Social Security so that Congress can't spend it on other things? Ken Mehlman
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Congress has a responsibility to review research paid for by hard-working American taxpayers. Lamar S. Smith
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We want to show Congress that we're not criminals, we are hard-working people. Jose Cruz
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While many members of Congress have some reservations, members of Congress by and large have decided this is the right thing to do at the right time. But now he must take this to the public, Martin Frost
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Whether wisely or not, one of the first priorities of the incoming Obama administration was to present a package of healthcare benefits, which, to no one's surprise, produced an uproar in Congress and an assortment of polls declaring that the majority of Americans were opposed to it. Sherwin B. Nuland
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Whether it's the courts or regional offices of executive agencies, members of Congress want some control over how things are done in their states or districts. As long as they have some influence over the picks, they like the patronage system. David Lewis
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We respectfully request that Congress do no harm by distorting markets or seeking punitive taxes on an industry working hard to respond to high prices and supply shortfalls.
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The Senate being tied is a start. Now, if only it could be gagged.
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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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We know well enough that if we repeal this law and give nothing for it, the people of this country will regard it as a total demonetization of silver, which it will be, so far as this Congress is concerned, without any question.
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We have no problem notifying Congress and sharing information with the Hill.
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What the United States Congress does on this issue will have an enormous impact on the prospects of peace and prosperity in the far East, Al Gore