- Speak
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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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- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never dread going back to Congress.
- Circulation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Originally, Congress provided in 1793 that all foreign coins circulating in the United States be legal tender. Indeed, foreign coins have been estimated to form 80 percent of American domestic specie circulation in 1800.
- Here
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cost of living is not solved in Congress and Munich - the cost of living is solved here: in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Netanya and Haifa.
- Here
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- Nov 07, 2020
The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
When President Obama asked Congress to raise the debt ceiling $2 trillion and offered sequestration as an offset, I opposed it. I did not believe we should put the country $2 trillion deeper in debt and impose irresponsible massive cuts to our national security.
- Commissioner
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before being elected to Congress, I oversaw the Cook County Hospital System as a Cook County Commissioner for 10 years.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
My outspoken positions haven't always been popular in the halls of Congress, but they have been rooted in what I believed was right and necessary.
- Permanent
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never believed that my service in the U.S. Congress should become a permanent career.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
Redistricting and a broken, polarized Congress have made it tough to be a moderate in Congress.
- Big Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.
- Here
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are here simply to decide whether Congress should take the taxpayer dollars of millions of pro-life Americans and use them to fund the destruction of human embryos for research.
- Insurance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even beyond policy considerations, Romneycare was a horrible model to suggest for the federal government because the Constitution does not give Congress the power to impose an individual insurance mandate.
- Smart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I expect Congress to continue to work on that, to secure the border, to invest in smart technology, and in personnel that makes a difference there.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020