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- Nov 07, 2020
Congress Quotes
On Congress as an institution, not a party.
These congress quotes look at Congress as an institution — its investigative reach during wartime, and how public and press attention can outweigh what actually gets debated inside its halls. One line calls Congress the only body with the authority to fix a broken immigration system, treating it as institutional responsibility rather than partisan debate.
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- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not one of those who thinks that Congress needs to be in session 24 hours a day interfering in peoples' lives.
- Fossil Fuels
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my top priorities in Congress is to reduce U.S. dependence on fossil fuels.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today I am announcing that I will not seek a tenth term in the United States Congress this November.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans hate Congress but can't help ourselves from re-electing its members over and over again.
- American Public
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- Nov 07, 2020
The beauty of our democracy is that the final authority is not the president of the United States, but instead the American public through their duly elected representatives in the United States Congress.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anti-Semitism has no business infiltrating American politics, it has no business infiltrating our college campuses, and it has no business in the halls of Congress.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the Obama administration wanted to implement the DACA program, it should have made the case to Congress and try to pass its proposal into law.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again.
- Holidays
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a heart surgeon before I came to Congress, and I've worked many holidays on behalf of my patients.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.
- Homeless
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family was actually homeless for several years when I was a kid. It's a bit unusual for a member of Congress.
- Office
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 27, having never run for office before, I decided to run for Congress.
- Military
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the primary reasons I first ran for Congress was to be a voice for our troops, veterans and military families.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, my fellow citizens, despite what the original Constitution of the United States says about the qualifications for statehood and the guarantee of representation in Congress, by every measure that truly matters in America (bigness, crowdedness, awesomeness, Texasness), Nebraska doesn't deserve its star on the American flag.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2012, I helped lead the successful effort in Congress to allow states to conduct drug testing of people receiving unemployment benefits.
- Desecration
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unfortunately a Constitutional amendment that would have empowered Congress to make desecration of the United States flag illegal failed to pass by one vote.
- Criticism
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- Nov 07, 2020