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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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- Crafting
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- Nov 07, 2020
If becoming a member of Congress is like going to college, then crafting legislation is our homework.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's time for compassionate Americans to send a wake-up call to their members of Congress and demand passage of legislation to end the wholesale slaughter of America's horses once and for all.
- Chambers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because the Bush Administration will set no timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, both chambers of Congress acted to make sure our troops will not be left in Iraq indefinitely.
- He Or She
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one was elected to Congress because he or she promised to cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Congress should get the job done.
- Immigration
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- Nov 07, 2020
If immigration reform was easy, Congress would have dealt with it 15 years ago.
- Moving
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- Nov 07, 2020
What worries me is that conservative thought is moving quickly, but we're kind of the pachyderms in Congress because things move so slowly.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
With Donald Trump as president and Republicans in control of Congress, our healthcare is under attack.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
After 20 years in Congress, I still believe that smaller government and lower taxes are the most effective economic policies.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in federal prison in West Virginia for three months for contempt of Congress for a refusing to comply with a request of a Congressional committee of Congress, the House Un-American Activities Committee.
- American People
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- Nov 07, 2020