Legislative Process Quotes

• We all understand that compromise is part of the legislative process, yet at the same time, I would submit that wilderness is not for sale.

  Nick Rahall

  Compromise, Wilderness, Process

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• We`ll go through the legislative process and I`m make it clear what I support, don`t support and what I think is good for Arkansas.

  Tom Cotton

  Thinking, Support, Arkansas

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Going through the legislative process is always better, in part because it's harder to undo.

  Barack Obama

  Process, Harder

  "Obama Warns Trump Against Relying On Executive Power". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. December 19, 2016.

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• I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Small Steps, Done

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• Right now, however, we're in the middle of a jobs crisis, a border crisis and a terrorism crisis like never before. All energies of the federal government and the legislative process must now be focused on immigration security. That is the only conversation we should be having at this time, immigration security.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Government, Energy

  Donald Trump's Immigration Speech in Phoenix, www.latimes.com. August 31, 2016.

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• Lobbyists are in many cases expert technicians and capable of explaining complex and difficult subjects in a clear, understandable fashion. They engage in personal discussions with Members of Congress in which they can explain in detail the reasons for positions they advocate. Because our congressional representation is based on geographical boundaries, the lobbyists who speak for the various economic, commercial, and other functional interests of this country serve a very useful purpose and have assumed an important role in the legislative process.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Fashion, Important

  "To Keep the Lobbyist Within Bounds". The New York Times Magazine, February 19, 1956.

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• I think people everywhere have a very dismaying feeling that politics are going over their heads, are being decided by wealthy interests that don't take them into consideration. And are bending the legislative process in their own behalf.

  Alexander Stille

  Thinking, People, Feelings

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• First, the American legislative process isn't well suited to large and complex measures.

  George J. Mitchell

  Firsts, Process, Wells

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• That will change over time the entire flow of information and the entire quality of knowledge in the country and it will change the way people will try to play games in the legislative process.

  Newt Gingrich

  Country, Games, Play

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• From where you sit, the White House may look as untidy as the inside of a stomach. As is said of the legislative process, sausage-making and policy-making shouldn't be seen close-up. Don't let that panic you. Things may be going better than they look from the inside.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Policy Making, White, House

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• The most significant impact is what it does in terms of the integrity of the legislative process and the executive process, as opposed to what it does for campaigns. But to remove this unheard of process in the 1990s, where members of Congress are being pushed and shoved every Tuesday to ask for $100,000, $500,000, a million dollars from corporations, unions, and individuals, this was never allowed in American history.

  Russ Feingold

  Integrity, Impact, Tuesday

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. April 30, 2002.

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• Americans were outraged and horrified by this president's reckless spending and his endless assaults on the Constitution, but no issue drove them to rise up and fight back like Obamacare - both the abominable legislative monstrosity itself and the tyrannical, corrupt manner by which Obama crammed it through the legislative process.

  David Limbaugh

  Fighting, Obamacare, Issues

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• Question Period is not part of the legislative process,and has nothing to do with it. It is a means of monitoring the Executive that the Government cannot evade.

  John Allen Fraser

  Mean, Government, Process

  "The House Of Commons At Work". Book by John Allen Fraser, Chapter 9, The House of Commons Functions, 1993.

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