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Instead of marginalizing women, Congress must get to work on policies that can foster job creation and fuel economic growth. Kirsten Gillibrand
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One of the primary reasons I first ran for Congress was to be a voice for our troops, veterans and military families.
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Why shouldn't future generations and young Americans have the choice to earn a higher rate of return? Why shouldn't they be able to own their own Social Security so that Congress can't spend it on other things? Ken Mehlman
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Congress has a responsibility to review research paid for by hard-working American taxpayers. Lamar S. Smith
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We're adjourning the negotiations for Thanksgiving and for consultations with Congress and industry,
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The process for producing public policy in Congress is flawed. The process itself kills policy ideas through the bypassing of the rules and procedural decisions that limit discussion.
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My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school - first grade - to when I went away to college. Nancy Pelosi
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Women oftentimes are the ones making those economic decisions, sitting around the kitchen table and trying to figure out how to pay for rising gas prices or food prices or the health insurance costs. And I think that they see where they expect their leaders in Congress to also make those tough decisions. Cathy McMorris Rodgers
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When the president puts out a legislative and executive agenda, we'll make sure we reflect the fact that it's difficult for Congress to get anything done in an election year. Dan Bartlett
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Those funds have to be appropriated by Congress and then they are funneled down to the states.
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To me, this is not really and should not be a partisan question. I think it's a question of institutional pride of this body, of the Congress of the United States. John Deane
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It is time for Congress to provide relief for tobacco farmers. Since the 1930's tobacco production has been regulated by a quota system, which required farmers to purchase quota in order to grow tobacco. Allen Boyd
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The question Congress and the administration will still have to grapple with most is not the nature or desirability of the exploration architecture, but rather its timing, Sherwood Boehlert
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Trade votes in the US Congress are never really easy things. Dennis Hastert
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We are grateful to Congress and the president for enacting this legislation without further delay.
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It is important that Congress works to promote home ownership in Indian Country. These federal housing funds and programs will help young Native American families to stay on tribal lands in order to live, work and raise a family. Rick Renzi
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The debt limit will be raised; no one expects otherwise. The problem here is Congress reconvenes around mid-January, and it isn't a lot of time they have to get this done. But they'll get it done.
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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. Abraham Lincoln
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Mr. Speaker, Americans want, need, and rightfully expect Congress to protect them from the prying eyes of identity thieves and give them back control of their Social Security numbers and personal health information. Luis Gutierrez
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Our job shouldn't stop with a bill. It should stop with a solution. Congress should be offering solutions, ideas, talking with the administration. Kyle Eastwood
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Our rule of thumb is we want to sit down and exchange information and ideas with our constituents. When the intent is simply to embarrass the congressman or get publicity for a group or a cause, we will not participate in that.
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People in Congress need to apologize. We're growing the government at a pace that makes the Democrats look thrifty. Lindsey Graham
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...Some of reports have called for increases of 10,000; others between 20,000 and 40,000. So there are a number of options on the table to be considered. But we'll work with Congress on that.
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Some of us in Congress wanted more family tax relief in this package than what we ultimately passed,
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Many fear that our court is making policy, when it repeatedly strikes down laws passed by Congress and the state legislatures, Mike DeWine
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Look at the tobacco-free kids, Microsoft and its opponents, and what most of the trade associations and lobbying groups are doing. They're making heavy use of the Internet to mobilize their members and supporters to contact members of Congress at exactly the right time.
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I think these numbers should give Congressman Mark Foley reason to consider making a run.
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It is a shame that the Congress party is describing their president Sonia Gandhi's resignation from parliament as a sacrifice. She wanted to defame us and instead stumbled and fell in the grave dug by them.
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It is a regrettable fact of life, but it is a fact of life that everything is done in the Congress at 11:59 if there is a 12 o'clock curfew.
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I think there has to be a debate; there has to be some good discussion, ... There has to be some opportunity for the people to be heard. ... Congress needs to be equal and full partners in this discussion, and ultimately in the decision. Tom Daschle
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I think Congress will give him a courteous response. I think we are interested in the future. It would be a tragedy if we were displaced from doing our duty because the president is embroiled in this kind of circumstance, John Ashcroft
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I think Congress showed an unwillingness to move forward.
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I think we really need a joint resolution from Congress to effect the tax exemption on oil.