It is beginning to be doubtful whether Parliament and Congress sit in Westminster and Washington, or in the editorial rooms of the leading journals,--so thoroughly is everything debated before the authorized and responsible debaters get on their legs.
Americans want to have what members of Congress have: guaranteed health coverage.
I believe that if the people of this nation fully understood what Congress has done to them over the last 49 years, they would move on Washington; they would not wait for an election. . . . It adds up to a preconceived plan to destroy the economic and social independence of the United States!
No law can give Congress a backbone if it refuses to stand off as the coequal branch the Constitution made it.
I think there are only two things you should really expect Congress to do. One is to pass a short-term funding bill, because it's not in their political interest to shut down the government when the fiscal year comes into effect, the new fiscal year, on October 1. The second thing, I think, is Zika funding. This has been put off and off for months and months.
I've often thought that the process of aging could be slowed down if it had to go through Congress.
Some people say I have issues. I say those people need to expand their horizons because I don't have issues, I have the Library of Congress
Show me a cultural relativist at 30,000 feet and I'll show you a hypocrite. . . If you are flying to an international congress of anthropologists or literary critics, the reason you will probably get there - the reason you don't plummet into a ploughed field - is that a lot of Western scientifically trained engineers have got their sum right.
I am Congress; I'm president.
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.
If a trip is worth taking, members of Congress should be prepared to justify paying for it out of their office accounts.
If we took Congress seriously, we would be worrying all the time.
[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation.
We all joke about Congress but we can't improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is just as bad as the one he replaces?
The tax relief that this Congress has given now in terms of four tax cuts has overwhelmingly gone to the people at the very top of the income scale in America.
For the first time ever, a black Republican woman has been elected to Congress. President Obama told her, 'You are all set. This country never turns against a black anything. '
I have also come to understand Congress' need for a bipartisan as well as a partisan capacity.
Having plead guilty, I do not believe that I am any different than the vast majority of the members of Congress.
If they're willing to stand at polls for countless hours in the rain, as many did, then I should surely stand up for them here in the halls of Congress.
It's hard for the White House to regain momentum if the Congress is in disarray. It ties up the Republicans in Congress and limits their ability to execute any White House agenda.