A territory cannot become a state or a nation unless Congress approves legislation and the president signs it.
Fundamentally, legislation that is historic, that is comprehensive, that has a large number of senators supporting it is more durable.
The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.
The important thing to understand about legislators is that there are dozens of competing interests and issues that occupy them. They are stretched thin.
And, in the past, it has been all too easy for legislators to load costs onto business in order to meet broader social goals. And costs for business means costs for consumers.
Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation.
Feminism means something - legislation, cultural change - but 'Girl Power' meant nothing more than being friends with your friends.
I will continue to support legislation that provides American families and Seniors affordable health care.
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
No one bill will cure the problem of spam. It will take a combined effort of legislation, litigation, enforcement, customer education, and technology solutions.
Reversing the escalation of health care costs is going to need more than legislation, yet it can be done without imposing rationing, as critics of reform fear.
I think the American Dream should be about a greater progressive legislation that allows for what I call a necessary future world of cooperational humanism.
To say that I am pro life is just wrong. I am personally pro-choice and legislatively pro-choice.
There's no conscious plan here; my whole life in politics as a state legislator and in Congress has been about strengthening the middle class.
Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to it no legal sanction.
I will support legislation that benefits the American worker and prevents the outsourcing of American jobs.
Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.
Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.
I'm the only P.M. of which that can be said - 'His legislation was never declared invalid in the High Court.'
In 2005, I was the first member of Congress to introduce legislation calling for an immediate withdrawal of our troops from Iraq.
The Bush administration staunchly opposed legislation which would preserve overtime pay for all workers.
