Quotes about congress
congress push raise taxes
The Congress will push me to raise taxes and I'll say no, and they'll push, and I'll say no, and they'll push again. And I'll say to them, read my lips, no new taxes. George H. W. Bush
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The Congress tends to guard its powers very jealously, now more so than ever. There's nothing wrong with the president educating the public about the line-item veto. But any president has really got to be prepared to use the veto power he already has. Phil Gramm
congress people
These people need help. They need to know Congress is doing something, too. Max Baucus
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Once members of Congress see just how much they would stand to gain by a fairer distribution, I think that will help shift the debate.
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not one word of the 13th Congress Report should be changed. Deng Xiaoping
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It's not a priority for the government right now. You don't see the Congress or the president talking about public safety is number one, as we think it should be, and a lot of the things we need to do really to prevent another 9/11 just simply aren't being done by the president or by the Congress.
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Everyone agrees that it is good for members of Congress to get out in the world. Chellie Pingree
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Everybody loves their congressman and hates Congress. You sort of evaluate your own personal situation by standards that you know, but when you're evaluating everybody else, you do it by what you hear.
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It takes out a big organizing force. He was really a centerpiece in terms of fundraising, and he was an ideological anchor, and, obviously, as the majority leader in Congress had a major ripple effect on the flow of money to Texas.
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It's very important for Congress to be able to do its work, to fully investigate what has happened here, for us to have information about all of these partnerships, Byron Dorgan
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I want the Congress that really is going to listen to the people. I really don't care what party it is anymore. Sophie B. Hawkins
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It will put an end to the movie industry's voluntary film rating system because it penalizes those distributors who participate in this voluntary system and gives total immunity from any penalty to a producer or distributor who distributes a film without a rating, ... a reaction on the part of Congress to require labeling.
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Tuition, housing fees, even textbook costs are difficult to meet these days. Why Congress feels the need to cut student loans and drag our faces in the mud, I do not know.
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I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency. Dan Quayle
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We will be working with Tom DeLay and other members of Congress to see just what further relief might be called for,
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The president is only proposing a 22 percent increase and I rather suspect that Congress will be inclined to provide that assistance. But since the increase is modest, it's probably not going to be enough.
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There have always been questions about whether Congress can police itself. The situation in the House removes all doubt. The House is not policing itself.
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Fair play should be a minimal expectation, and the ""ethics truce"" prevented Congress from meeting even that low standard.
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I would like to see this group in this Congress be starting the process to get ourselves on long term fiscal strong footing. Ben Quayle
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This will be the defining race for the future of our state, ... We will elect a new senator and a new congressman. There are 20 seats open in the state legislature. This is serious business. Chuck Hagel
congress drawn people
There is only one MDC congress and that is in Harare and 13 000 people drawn from the country's 12 provinces will attend.
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The passage of this message is an indication of the potential setbacks to the fiscal sector that could result from a government or congress that wants to pursue a populist agenda.
congress family talk
There is so much talk in this Congress about family values, Luis Gutierrez
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The Red Cross in its disaster response was more than a charity. It was also a federal contractor. It's appropriate for Congress to verify whether taxpayers got their money's worth.
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This Republican Congress is the most corrupt in history and the American people are paying the price. Nancy Pelosi
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There have been thousands of amendments proposed in Congress. Only a handful have been presented to the states. Steve Frank
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There is a deficit; I'd like to see it lowered. But it's up to Congress to decide whether that should be done by higher taxes, lower spending or some combination. Ben Bernanke
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Whenever Congress was in session, we were in Washington. So four months out of the year we were in Tennessee and the rest of the time in Arlington, which is where my mom grew up. Then, of course, in 1992 we moved into the vice president's house in D.C. I was 15 then. Kristin Gore
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Too much of the debate over immigration reform has ignored one of the greatest threats to our privacy. The proposed employer verification system would require Americans, regardless of citizenship, to get a 'permission slip to work' from the government. If Congress wants to reform immigration, then it should, but it shouldn't use this legislation as a clandestine means to subvert our constitutional right to privacy.
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I think voters want somebody who understands their problems. You're right that they don't expect the president to fix everything. When he's wrestling with Congress and Wall Street and the rest of the world, they hope he'll be looking at things from their vantage point. Gail Collins
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I just thought it was unconscionable for the Congress to insert itself into this debate. We are particularly unqualified to make that decision and to intrude ourselves into the lives of this family. Gary Ackerman
congress handle money
We as a Congress, need to get a better handle on the money being spent, John Ensign
congress together
We are working together here in the Congress in a completely nonpartisan way, Richard Gephardt