Redistricting is one of the purest actions a legislative body can take.
Environmentalists hate sprawl - except when it comes to the size of their expansive pet legislation on Capitol Hill.
Legislative novelty is not necessarily fatal; there is a first time for everything.
I will not use my legislative powers except in a very limited framework.
It's hardly a radical idea to suggest that regulators and legislators understand the law now, is it?
Violence against women is as American as apple pie. I know, not only as a legislator, but from personal experience.
In fact, it is often times a detriment for the Government to preemptively legislate on an issue before we can either define it or grasp its impact.
In Illinois, where legislators are paid $45,000, plus as much as $10,000 for leadership work, about half are full-time politicians.
The Obama administration is on notice - they will not be allowed to regulate what they have been unable to legislate.
Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.
Obama rammed through Obamacare legislation without a single Republican vote.
The time has come for justice at the ballot box, and justice in the courts, and justice in the legislative halls, and justice in the governor's office.
As I've learned in my time in the state legislature, important legislation is always a work in progress.
People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time.
There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.
Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration.
The reality is the cap-and-trade legislation offered by the Democrats amounts to an economic declaration of war on the Midwest by liberals on Capitol Hill.
You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living.
Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read.
The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it.
I'd like to think I'm a serious legislator and trying to get things done.
