Congress Quotes
The moral issue here is whether the United States Congress is going to stand in the way of science and preclude scientists from doing lifesaving research.
There has been a growing consensus across the country - from statehouses to the White House and the halls of Congress - that we need to take dramatic steps to improve our secondary schools.
Congress has lost its way if we don't hold this President accountable for his actions.
Health care for all Americans is the most pressing domestic issue today. It's far past time for the President and Congress to deliver health care to everyone.
If a trip is worth taking, members of Congress should be prepared to justify paying for it out of their office accounts.
I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment - the sober second thought - of the people.
I think President Obama is trying to deceive the public in pretending that he was not a part of Congress that has made some decisions in the past that got us to where we are today.
Barbara Comstock is a solid and reliable conservative. I've known her for many years. She'd make a great member of Congress. I am happy to join other conservatives and proudly endorse her candidacy.
What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including Congress.
If they're willing to stand at polls for countless hours in the rain, as many did, then I should surely stand up for them here in the halls of Congress.
Promoting job creation and economic growth in the Hudson Valley is one of my top priorities in Congress.
Charity requires sacrifice, and members of Congress could set a good example of charity by giving up their pay increase.
Apparently there are three levels of brain activity. Level 1 is the lowest level - the amount of concentration required to, say, delete emails or serve in congress.
The rest of the people know the condition of the country, for they live in it, but Congress has no idea what is going on in America, so the President has to tell 'em.
Labor Day, I suppose set by an Act of Congress. Everything we do nowadays is either by, or against, Acts of Congress. How Congress knew anything about Labor is beyond us.
We cuss Congress, and we joke about 'em, but they are all good fellows at heart, and if they wasn't in Congress, why, they would be doing something else against us that might be even worse.
The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythical beans into it, then reaches in and tries to pull real ones out.
We all joke about Congress but we can't improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is just as bad as the one he replaces?
This session of Congress is also to relieve the farmer again, relieve him of any encouragement that he might have received during the last one.
Congress knew Coolidge would veto the farm bill. There was more politics than relief in that bill.
I think the dignity of Congress and the dignity of the country demands something more than merely censure here.
I wonder much that a court of Law should be in doubt whether a Resolution of Congress can superceed the Law of a Sovereign State.
Rather than rewriting the law under the pretense of interpreting it, the Court should have left it to Congress to decide what to do about the Act's limitation of tax credits to state Exchanges.
One faction of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government, doesn't get to shut down the entire government just to refight the results of an election.
Congress is responsible for everything and unable to do anything, hated by the public creditors, insulted by the soldiers and unsupported by the citizens.
Medicare debates in Congress should result in better Medicare benefits for all our nation's seniors. We're not asking for special treatment for rural America, just a fair deal.
Congress would make it mandatory, absolutely require, that, every five years, people in Medicare have a required counseling session that will tell them how to end their life sooner
Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.
Your brother doesn't have to be speaker for your voice to be heard in Congress
There are so many items that are not in the copyright domain. And people might not realize the Library of Congress manages the copyright process for the nation.
Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public.
Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.
No man in America ever strove more, and more successfully first to bring about a Congress in 1765, and then to support it ever afterwards than myself.
I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency.
We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.
The need for a permanent status resolution approved by Congress is made even more clear to me because of my experience as a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.
I was eleventh-grade class president. That was the first elective office I held until I came into Congress.
For the first 10 years of my life in Congress, I had been too timid to tell the truth as I saw it. In a way I had betrayed my trust.
Congress is unable to do the work of the American people because too many politicians believe that compromise means capitulation.
