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• My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations.

  Sue Kelly

  Topics in Belief

  Tags in Congress

• Sometimes Congress likes to milk an issue.

  Steve Largent

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Congress

• While Congress can’t overturn the Supreme Court, we can provide carrots and sticks to prevent local governments from unfairly taking property from landowners.

  Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Congress

• Congress is unpopular. Incumbents are unpopular.

  Joshua Micah Marshall

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Congress, Unpopular

• I feel kind of like the black sheep in Congress, but here I am.

  Sonny Bono

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Congress

• This Congress has promised all manner of border security and port security to the tune of billions of dollars… yet we have – to date – funded our promises for port security at only $900 million. That’s quite a distance between what we say and what we actually do.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Congress, Security

• It is the utmost necessity that this congress be a congress of unity.

  Slobodan Milosevic

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Necessity, Congress

• Congress has an opportunity to take advantage of the opening created by Justice Kennedy later this year when it reauthorizes the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Congress, Federal

• We have to remind the people: Congress has the constitutional obligation and public responsibility to oversee these issues and the Department of Justice’s operations.

  Sibel Edmonds

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Congress

• I ran for Congress, just once.

  Shirley Temple Black

  Topics in Uncategorized

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• Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time… its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Congress

• So we in Congress have a very clear choice. We can take largely symbolic action and sit back and fiddle while Americans burn more gasoline. Or we can pass concrete, effective legislation that will save consumers money while significantly reducing U.S. oil consumption.

  Sherwood Boehlert

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Choice, Congress

• Republican leadership in Congress let the energy companies write the energy bill that sent prices soaring, and has turned a blind eye to the struggles of working families trying to make ends meet.

  Sherrod Brown

  Topics in Leadership

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• Many of us in Congress have been calling on the Administration to articulate a bold mission for NASA. It seems that the President is answering that call. I wholeheartedly support his vision for going back to the moon, and from there to worlds beyond.

  Sheila Jackson Lee

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• A sagging economy, a soaring national debt, and an increasingly restive Congress pushed Obama to order troop reductions that are both deeper and faster than recommended by his military commanders.

  Ron Fournier

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Congress, Sagging

• Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress’s constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate: a landslide victory and a specific agenda.

  Ron Fournier

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Electoral, Congress

• For many members of Congress, the time for choosing is near – do what the party leadership demands, or do what the people have asked you to do. If my colleagues don’t mind some advice from a newcomer, I’d suggest going with the will of the people.

  Scott Brown

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Congress

• Well, I think the president is going to do well in terms of his influence for positive change here in the Congress, making sure that we don’t overspend, making sure that we spend for only those programs that are justified.

  Thad Cochran

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Congress, President

• I am a very lucky guy. I can testify before Congress. I can raise funds. I can raise awareness.

  Christopher Reeve

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  Tags in Before, Lucky, Congress

• Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.

  Sam Rayburn

  Topics in Decisions

  Tags in Congress