Congress Quotes
Almost always, executive orders are within an authority and always within the purview of Congress to change if they want to legislatively change it.
Mike Pence, when he was in Congress, voted against raising the minimum wage above $5.15. And he has been a one-man bulwark against minimum wage increases in Indiana.
The president doesn't get a line-item veto, so all the budgetary approps stuff is with Congress.
I will continue to work diligently in Congress to ensure that our veterans receive the benefits and care that they have earned and deserve.
The voting records of virtually every member of Congress reveal that the oath of office is more a ceremonial gesture than a sacred commitment.
I have served in the Congress during two wars and I have seen the impacts on our military, on their families and on our national deficit.
Hopefully the presence in Congress of an American who happens to be Hindu will increase America's understanding of India as well as India's understanding of America.
Keith Ellison is an organizer's organizer.He's one of the only Muslims in Congress, so you have a big statement there.
Politicians in their hubris who believe they can ignore debt or wish it away are sorely disappointed - as we see now with the plummeting approval ratings of both the administration and Congress.
But, you know, there's another group that really runs the show. It's very shadowy, just as you've described... Those of us in the Congress of the United States are window dressing.
The retirement system that is in place for members of Congress and other federal workers features what is known as the Federal Employment Retirement Plan.
No foreign policy will stick unless the American people are behind it. And unless Congress understands it. And unless Congress understands it, the American people aren't going to understand it.
If there's a distinct group of Americans who harbor open contempt for constitutional principles and rule of law, it's lawyers, judges and members of Congress.
Most of our country's serious problems can be laid at the feet of Congress and the White House and not at capitalism.
Most Americans, who think Congress has a right to do anything for which they can get a majority vote, ignore the clearly written constitutional restraints on Congress.
A senator got up today in Congress and called his fellow senators sons of wild jackasses. Now, if you think the senators were hot, imagine how the jackasses must feel.
And kid Congress and the Senate, dont scold em. They are just children thats never grown up. They dont like to be corrected in company. Dont send messages to em, send candy.
This stuff they are talking here in Congress costs the people of the United States $44 a page. That's beside what it costs to ship it to the asylums where it's read.
Hurray! Congress is to adjourn! Only four more days of Congressional burglary on the Treasury!
$100,000 donors buy access to Congress and the White House. We believe it's long past time to clean up Washington.
The fights I fought... cost a lot --the fight for the assault-weapons ban cost 20 members their seats in Congress. The NRA is the reason the Republicans control the House.
No settlement with the majority is possible as no Hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any concern or genuine desire for it.
I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.
Every man in it is a great man an orator a critic a statesman and therefore every man upon every question must show his oratory his criticism and his political abilities.
If I get to be president, what can I do anyway? With Congress and the press, what chance do I have to make basic changes?
We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.
The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their institution in the states, I have constantly denied.
After Congress passed SJ Res 34, we are no longer merely battling a cyber-kinetic war on all fronts, we are now in a state of perpetual cyber-kinetic-meta war, and there will be no end.
Censorship is alive and well in America.
I was ecstatic when they re-named "French fries" as "freedom fries." Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.
I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is a disgrace, that two become a lawfirm, and that three or more become a congress. -John Adams
We need to show the Congress that our Government is no longer on sale to the highest bidder. It belongs to the voters.
It's one thing to stick to your guns. It's quite another to hold those guns to the heads of your citizens.
It is not unpatriotic to acknowledge America’s faults. No country is perfect… We can’t reach the top of the mountain if we don’t fix the injustice and confront our lies.
The thing they're trying to stop is 30-million people getting health insurance. That's the substance.
You can no longer see or identify yourself solely as a member of a tribe, but as a citizen of a nation of one people working toward a common purpose.
Overall, Cyber Shield Act is an excellent idea and could facilitate a much-needed cultural shift in secure device manufacturing and upkeep.
The Cyber Shield Act could serve as a secure conduit to facilitate update and patch delivery
The Cyber Shield Act could serve as a secure conduit to facilitate update and patch delivery"James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
