Quotes of: Congress Keyword

One of my top priorities in Congress is to reduce U.S. dependence on fossil fuels.

Lincoln Diaz-Balart

You spend a couple million dollars running for Congress, people get tired of seeing your face.

Louie Gohmert

Congress has a responsibility to review research paid for by hard-working American taxpayers.

Lamar S. Smith

I think that Congress' ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.

Samuel Alito

When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.

Mac Thornberry

It is statesmanlike for the administration and Congress to look to our nation's welfare beyond their terms in office.

Nick Clooney

With scientific advances, Congress must now make changes to reflect new therapeutic options.

Nathan Deal

Those of us in the Congress must confront and overcome Republican intransigence to increasing the minimum wage, extending unemployment insurance and protecting food stamps.

Charles B. Rangel

Since President Bush took office in 2001, this Congress has supported an agenda of democracy, freedom and expansion of rights for all peoples throughout the world.

Ginny Brown-Waite

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Chris Chocola

If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months.

Evan Bayh

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

Parts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, including the section that guarantees that voting rights will be protected by the federal government.

Marty Meehan

For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.

Mike Pence

Congress mandated that health care providers in emergency departments and ambulances provide emergency care to anyone in need, including the uninsured and underinsured.

Barbara Ann Radnofsky

Congress should consult experts and consider alternatives and make 100% sure that any step it takes to police the Internet doesn't change the Internet as we know it.

Ron Wyden

From 1965 to 1967, my dad, Jack Gilligan, served in Congress and helped pass landmark laws like the Voting Rights Act.

Kathleen Sebelius

I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us.

Eric Holder

Congress must also enact pro-growth policies that encourage the economy to expand: like making tax relief permanent and repealing the death tax.

Michael Steele

Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget.

Phyllis Schlafly

In Congress, I'll work hard to encourage investment in education, particularly with respect to technology and bridging the digital divide.

Hakeem Jeffries