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• If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it.

  Christopher Gadsden

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  Tags in Congress, Credit

• No man in America ever strove more, and more successfully first to bring about a Congress in 1765, and then to support it ever afterwards than myself.

  Christopher Gadsden

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• When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out.

  Tammy Baldwin

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• To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing.

  Christine Todd Whitman

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• We should go forward in courts and Congress with investigations into post-9/11 interrogations and the decisions leading to them.

  Christine Pelosi

  Topics in Decisions

  Tags in Forward, Congress

• If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months.

  Evan Bayh

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• Congress has not raised the minimum wage since 1997. The minimum wage is now at its lowest level in 50 years adjusted for inflation.

  Russ Carnahan

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  Tags in Congress, Level

• I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you’re immortal.

  Tom Clancy

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  Tags in Library, Congress

• I mean to say that Congress can hereafter decide whether any states, slave or free, can be framed out of Texas. If they should never be framed out of Texas, they never could be admitted.

  William H. Seward

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• Serving in Congress has been the honor of a lifetime.

  Robert L. Ehrlich

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  Tags in Honor, Congress, Lifetime

• There’s not an appropriations bill in the last 10 years that the-that Democrats passed in the Congress. We haven’t spent any money of your taxes in the last decade.

  Chaka Fattah

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  Tags in Congress

• We stand with the people of Taiwan and their democratic ways, and I am proud to be a part of reaffirming the unwavering commitment to the Taiwan Relations Act by the United States Congress.

  Eliot Engel

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  Tags in People, Democratic, United States, Congress

• Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?

  Robert Byrd

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• Congress is not an ATM.

  Robert Byrd

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• There are bills being discussed to raise the amount that Members of Congress pay in to their benefits and I support these pieces of legislation.

  Rob Woodall

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  Tags in Support, Congress, Pay

• Congress has greatly tightened the loopholes terrorists can use to harm Americans. We need to do more. We need controls immediately on what forms of ID are adequate to board planes and enter secure sites.

  Elton Gallegly

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  Tags in Congress, American, Loophole, Terrorists

• I had taken on the color of the climate around me and had driven back all the emotion that rose from the Brooklyn streets so that I could belong to the exclusive club of Congress.

  Emanuel Celler

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• I represent more Native Americans than anyone else in Congress.

  Rick Renzi

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• Congress had the opportunity to extend tax relief to working families without increasing the deficit. Instead, we were handed a bill that favors the wealthy and eliminates deductions that benefit the middle class.

  Rick Larsen

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• I received orders from Congress to proceed to Charleston in South Carolina, for the purpose of Co’operating with General Lincoln in the defense of that Capitol.

  Abraham Whipple

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  Tags in Purpose, Congress, General