I really think the Patriot Act violates our Constitution. It was, it is, an illegal act. The Congress, the Senate and the president cannot change the Constitution.
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.
My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations.
Well, dissent is the tradition in America, and I've been on the side of dissent a good bit of my career, particularly in the last many years of the Republican Congress.
Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.
This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage.
I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.
Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state.
Persecution of Christians is growing around the world, and Congress needs to pay more attention to it.
Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.
It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.
Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms.
Members of Congress must live according to the same laws as everyone else.
I have chosen to seek election to the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors and not reelection to Congress.
There aren't a whole lot of people out of 300 million who could elected to the Congress.
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.
I'm old enough to remember Richard Nixon. They called it the imperial presidency when he was refusing to spend money that Congress had appropriated.
There's not an appropriations bill in the last 10 years that the-that Democrats passed in the Congress. We haven't spent any money of your taxes in the last decade.
The Constitution grants only Congress - not the president - the power 'to borrow money on the credit of the United States.'
From 1918 on, trade unionists were to express from the platforms of their congresses the workers' desire for peace through a rational organization of the world.
President Obama thinks he can use emotion to bring pressure on Congress. But that's not how adults with power respond to things.
