- 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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If immigration reform doesn't happen, that doesn't say good things about our democracy, that everybody wants it, but Congress couldn't pass it.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ensuring that the intelligence community adheres to its responsibilities to report on its activities to Congress is absolutely essential.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
A territory cannot become a state or a nation unless Congress approves legislation and the president signs it.
- Clear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Article I, Section 8, Clause 4 of the Constitution grants Congress clear jurisdiction with regard to U.S. citizenship and immigration matters.
- Military
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- Nov 07, 2020
Congress has consistently rejected policies that aim to allow illegal aliens to serve in the military.
- Places
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have lectured at Town Hall N.Y., The Library of Congress, Harvard, Yale, Amherst, Wellesley, Columbia, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana State University, Colorado, Stanford, and scores of other places.
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ignorance of the law is not a valid excuse for accused criminals, and it cannot be an excuse for members of Congress.
- Embark
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- Nov 07, 2020
If George W. Bush is given a second term, and retains a Republican Congress and a compliant federal judiciary, he and his allies are likely to embark on a campaign of political retribution the likes of which we haven't seen since Richard Nixon.
- Authorization
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- Nov 07, 2020
Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have realised that for want of anything substantial, the Congress is using Rafale to question the government. But people are not responding or reacting positively to them. They've had enough of this muck-raking.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Barr has thrown himself in with Trump in ways unbecoming to the nation's highest legal official. His conduct in trying to clear Trump is of a piece with his baseless attacks on 'spying' by the FBI and his defiance of Congress's subpoenas.
- Drafting
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to investigating a president, the special counsel regulations I had the privilege of drafting in 1998-99 say that such inquiries have one ultimate destination: Congress.
- Opportunities
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- Nov 07, 2020