Congress Quotes
On Congress as an institution, not a party.
These congress quotes look at Congress as an institution — its investigative reach during wartime, and how public and press attention can outweigh what actually gets debated inside its halls. One line calls Congress the only body with the authority to fix a broken immigration system, treating it as institutional responsibility rather than partisan debate.
While Congress can't overturn the Supreme Court, we can provide carrots and sticks to prevent local governments from unfairly taking property from landowners.
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Over the last five years, the Administration and the majority in Congress have appropriated less than $900 million for port security grants - despite the Coast Guard's determination that $5.4 billion is needed over 10 years.
Unlike the Congress, our party believes in democracy and takes a collective decision.
Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.
This drug coverage program was clearly designed by Republicans in Congress to serve the interests of the drug and insurance industries. America's seniors were an afterthought.
Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it.
As Members of Congress, we should not be using public office for private gain.
In the Congress, for every small thing, you have to consult the general secretaries.
I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels... a Library of Congress worth of awful literature.
What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including Congress.
We should be all be treated equally under the law. Why should members of Congress be in Obamacare and not the president?
Congress passes statutes, and those statutes are very clear on the job EPA has to do.
Dealing with immigration should originate in Congress. The president should not act unilaterally.
Nearly one in ten Americans are still out of work. And still, the President and Congress are focused on ramming through their health-care bill, whatever it takes, whatever the cost.
