Congress Quotes - Page 5

• Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.

  Warren Rudman

  Taken, Aggravation, Long

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• Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that.

  Donna Brazile

  Looks, Election, Finance

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• We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress.

  Nick Lampson

  Powerful, Sacrifice, Aggravation

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• My last comment was, though, that Congress has cooked the books.

  Don Nickles

  Book, Aggravation, Lasts

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• Most of what we report from Congress they don't care about unless it affects them directly.

  Roone Arledge

  Aggravation, Care, Reports

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• Congress first took action against steroids by passing The Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 1990.

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  Firsts, Action, Passing

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• I represent more Native Americans than anyone else in Congress.

  Rick Renzi

  Native American, Native

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• If Congress doesn't raise taxes, you cannot get a private investment account without forgoing a portion, possibly all, of your guaranteed benefit check.

  Grace Napolitano

  Aggravation, Benefits, Investment

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• When I ran for Congress I promised to help make health care affordable again.

  Bobby Jindal

  Care, Helping, Affordable

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• It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.

  Joe Baca

  Opportunity, Equality, People

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• My top three priorities for my first term in Congress are growing our economy; providing for quality, affordable health care; and keeping our nation and communities safe.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  Community, Priorities, Quality

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• The new Congress needs to move quickly to strengthen the Army and Marines - not to send more troops to Iraq - but to rebuild our capacity to meet national security threats globally.

  Mark Udall

  Moving, Marine, Army

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• The Democrats' plan for 2006? Take the House and Senate and impeach the president. With our nation at war, is this the kind of Congress you want?

  Ken Mehlman

  War, Aggravation, House

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• The political status legislation which emerged in Congress in 1990 and 1991 did not receive the support needed for enactment into law during my tenure as Attorney General.

  Dick Thornburgh

  Law, Aggravation, Support

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• All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.

  John Mortimer

  Children, Flower, Aggravation

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• Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system. I'll shut it down.

  Francine Busby

  Aggravation, Broken, Usual

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• I would rather be known as 'Jim Kolbe, the trade expert in Congress who happens to be gay,' rather than 'Jim Kolbe, gay congressman from Arizona.'

  Jim Kolbe

  Gay, Experts, Arizona

  "Delegates consider boycott of Kolbe speech" by Jeff Barker, www.cnn.com. August 1, 2000.

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• Clean air is a basic right. The responsibility to ensure that falls to Congress and the president.

  Thomas Carper

  Fall, Responsibility, Air

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• Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.

  Norm Dicks

  Years, Aggravation, Design

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• In my 31 years in Congress, I have seen a lot of changes. We made some substantial policy changes that have improved our parks system and our public lands.

  Ralph Regula

  Years, Land, Aggravation

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• Congress has changed the Social Security system over time, and over 20 times in the past Congress has raised taxes on Social Security in payroll taxes into the system.

  Chris Chocola

  Past, Payroll Tax, Security Systems

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• The people can never willfully betray their own interests: But they may possibly be betrayed by the representatives of the people; and the danger will be evidently greater where the whole legislative trust is lodged in the hands of one body of men, than where the concurrence of separate and dissimilar bodies is required in every public act.

  James Madison

  Men, Hands, People

  James Madison, John Jay (1847). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.255

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• Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials.

  William J. Brennan

  Class, Decision, Bases

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• In addition to demanding answers and accountability from the Veterans Administration, Congress had to act to ensure veterans do not suffer because of the actions of a federal agency.

  Doc Hastings

  Agency, Accountability, Suffering

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• I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Political, Doe, Goes On

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 24 Mar. 1911

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