- 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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- Nov 07, 2020
Republicans will own Congress.
- Highways
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every member of Congress has highways in their district.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unlike the United States Congress, which mostly forbids outside employment, state legislatures are generally composed of people with other careers.
- Physics
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- Nov 07, 2020
The decline of particle physics in the U.S. is really a symptom of the erratic and sometimes anti-scientific attitudes in Washington and the incompetence of Congress in managing science.
- Reserve
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to say I represented 33% of the strategic reserve of physicists in Congress.
- Nov 07, 2020
Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms.
- Disaster
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever Congress undertakes large-scale reform, there are times when disaster appears certain - only to be averted at the last minute by the good sense of its sometimes unfairly maligned members.
- Constitutional Amendment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and make it clear that the Congress and state legislatures do have the ability and the power to regulate and get corporate funding out of political campaigns.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
In America, we divide federal power between the legislative, executive and judicial branches so that no one holds too much power. This is sixth-grade civics: Congress writes the laws; the president executes the laws; and the courts apply those laws fairly and dispassionately to cases.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Members of Congress have more in common with the people they hobnob in Washington, D.C., than they do with the people they're supposed to represent.
- Privilege
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first ran for Congress in 1992, I campaigned on a pledge to make affordable, quality healthcare a right, not a privilege, for all Americans.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.
- Contrasted
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Supreme Court, in 2005, emphasized and contrasted the great power of Congress under the Commerce Clause to regulate interstate commerce versus much more limited federal power under the discarded Articles of Confederation.
- Democratic
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- Nov 07, 2020