William McKinley Quotes

My viewpoint is the Senate is dysfunctional.

Congress is more broken than ever. Congressman Will Hurd has quickly become part of the problem.

Congress has been reformed so much that it can't get anything done.

You used to get legislation done by getting the moderates to agree. But we have no moderates now so it doesn’t get done

Congress is almost totally dysfunctional right now. All we've done this year and my first year in the Senate ... is barely keep the doors open.

There's a lot of good, bipartisan legislation that passes in committee and then gets bottled up. As a businessman, it surprised me.

For better or worse, when Sen. Inhofe speaks, the Republican Party follows. And when the Republican Party follows, it is impossible to get real work done in the Congress.

You can see how dysfunctional this Congress is.

We have moved toward a kind of scorpions-in-a-bottle Government where you have two branches [executive and legislative] that don't understand many of the legitimate needs of the other branch.

Sometimes in Congress I believe change is impossible …. Democrats read too many polls to change the climate. Republicans benefit from the climate too much to want to change it.

Why is it so hard for the Congress to do something for the public?

Most Congressman voted for or against Dodd-Frank —nearly all along party lines—without any remotely understanding its provisions.

In our political system it’s easier to block action than to act.

Congress has lost its capacity to manage itself.

Washington is not the problem; the Congress is the problem.

The wheels of compromise lose traction as Congress sinks into an ooze of dysfunction.

There are times where the dysfunction in the Senate just goes too far.

It's no great secret, number one, in my view, and I think the view of most Americans, that Congress itself is pretty dysfunctional. We are not addressing the real needs of the American people. And second of all, philosophically, there is a huge division between the House and the Senate.

The Congress has now become a fairly evenly divided entity.

Senate Republicans have engaged in a record number of filibusters and other obstructionist tactics.

Congress is unable to do the work of the American people because too many politicians believe that compromise means capitulation.

President Barack Obama has it right - there is a lot to change about Washington. The problem is, not much will get changed unless we confront the runaway filibuster in the U.S. Senate.

Things have gotten so nasty in Washington.

It seems as though there are Members in this body who want to filibuster just about everything we try to do, whether it is stopping judicial nominations, the Energy bill, or this Medicare bill.

There is a problem in Washington, and the problem is bigger than a continuing resolution. It is bigger than Obamacare. It is even bigger than the budget. The most fundamental problem and the frustration is that the men and women in Washington aren't listening.