Legislative Issues Quotes

The Constitution gives the Congress absolute authority within the District of Columbia on any legislative issues whatsoever.

The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today.

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

Senator Obama and I had been on the same side of many fights, and we had worked together on the issue that is most urgent to me - comprehensive immigration reform.

People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don't want football to get involved in the same types of court cases, racial problems and legislative issues they encounter in the rest of American life.

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

There are lot of issues we passed out of the House that have gotten not only a lot of Republican support - Tea Party and every group within the Republican conference - but even Democrats.

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.

My viewpoint is the Senate is dysfunctional.

Pork is the most visible malady of Congress from the public point of view.

Obamacare is bureaucrats getting between you and your doctor, and that's what Americans most dislike about this legislation.

Let's not forget that Congress bears a lot of responsibility for many of the problems we have now

From a parent's right to know what their children are doing, to protecting citizens across the country from the growing threat of gang violence, the House Democrat leadership is simply out to lunch.

Americans don't have saner gun laws because most Americans, including those citizens who puzzle over better angels, don't want saner gun laws.

It is a bipartisan gathering to be able to pray for the needs back in our districts, for our families and each other. Another thing the prayer caucus does is to address religious liberty issues around the country as they arise.

Intimidation and bribery marked some of the states' selection of senators. Nine bribery cases were brought before the Senate between 1866 and 1906. In addition, forty-five deadlocks occurred in twenty states between 1891 and 1905, resulting in numerous delays in seating senators. In 1899, problems in electing a senator in Delaware were so acute that the state legislature did not send a senator to Washington for four years.

This notion that members of Congress are power-hungry—absolutely the opposite. Most members like to duck tough issues.

If I were now presiding in the Supreme Court of the United States as Chief Justice, I should feel entirely at home, but with the troubles of selecting a Cabinet and the difficulties in respect to the revision of the tariff, I feel just a bit like a fish out of water.