Quotes of: Congressional Keyword

I think national issues play into gubernatorial races less than, obviously, in Senate and Congressional races. Much less. They tend to be more decided by personality, leadership qualities and by state or local issues. They still have some effect, no ...

Ed Rendell

The cost of congressional and presidential campaigns has been leaping every two or four years. I think this year it will be 60 percent more than 1996; well over twice as much as in 1992 in the presidential and congressional races.

Robert McChesney

It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.

Bob Barr

We absolutely need to reform the Congressional budget-writing process.

Patrick McHenry

Anything my staff does in my office is pursuant to congressional rules.

Sheila Jackson Lee

Every one of our congressional offices, every day, is under attack.

Darrell Issa

All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act.

Roger Wicker

Congressional Republicans are dismantling the limited environmental protections initiated by Richard Nixon, who would be something of a dangerous radical in today's political scene.

Noam Chomsky

I think the media loves taking the most absurd clips for a sport that has become congressional politics.

Kal Penn

There's a lot of politics over who gets the next allocation of Congressional funding.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.

Patricia Schroeder

Ultimately, Congressional medicine is like veterinary medicine: It must be strong enough to work, and tasty enough to swallow.

Jim Cooper

The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around.

Michael Pollan

Alabama seniors all across the Third Congressional District continue facing high drug costs.

Mike Rogers

The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America.

Edward Snowden

I don't think people want to see someone buy a congressional race.

Frank R. Wolf

How is the schoolmaster, the nation, to know which boy needs the whipping?

Congressional Government

They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own attention, or to police the scientific community.

Serge Lang

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.

John W. Gardner

The people of Florida's 2nd Congressional District said, 'Steve, go up there and fight to change the culture in Washington.' I've taken their instructions very seriously.

Steve Southerland