Congress Power Quotes

The Founders were far more concerned about checking Congress than the States

Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state.

Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.

Congress becomes the public voice of opposition.

Bureaucrats, dunderheads and knaves have always denounced congressional oversight.

The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.

Congress has no power to make any religious establishments.

… the most disastrous blow ever struck at the constitutional power of Congress

Congress may spend money in aid of the "general welfare.

Labor Day, I suppose set by an Act of Congress. Everything we do nowadays is either by, or against, Acts of Congress. How Congress knew anything about Labor is beyond us.

War alone can bring together the various States, and give a new importance to Congress.

The Congress is getting too powerful.

Congress would give the people what they wanted if the people knew what they wanted, and if Congress could give it to them.

I wonder much that a court of Law should be in doubt whether a Resolution of Congress can superceed the Law of a Sovereign State.

The Congress has sometimes been a sore trial to Presidents.

Is there anything in the existing condition that makes the duty of Congress to put the liberty of all the people of the United States in jeopardy?... Are we going to take up the question of what a man shall eat and what a man shall drink, and put him under severe penalties if he is eating or drinking something different from what the chemists of the Agricultural Department think desirable?

Unfortunately a Constitutional amendment that would have empowered Congress to make desecration of the United States flag illegal failed to pass by one vote.

If we want to preserve our liberty, it is up to us to know what is going on, to know the Constitution, to know these limitation on the power of Congress and to insist that our leaders obey.

Despite broad public support, raising the minimum wage is always difficult owing to the disproportionate influence that wealthy firms and donors have in Congress.

Our American concept of government rests on the idea of a dominant Congress.

We must seize the moment and permanently delay the entire law. Congress can do this. We control the purse strings and can protect taxpayers from funding Obamacare.

The Congress is pretty powerful if it wants to be.

Immigration specifically was laid out in the Congress, giving the power of Congress to create a uniform system of naturalization.