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

  Tammy Baldwin

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• Congress has a legitimate interest in making sure that a practice that appears to reduce disease and healthcare costs remains available to parents. And, nothing in my bill prohibits statewide law ensuring that male circumcision occurs in a hygienic manner.

  Brad Sherman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Congress, Interest

• 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

• 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

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• I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it’s too late by college.

  Danica McKellar

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• When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We’d buy it. Now, we’re down to about 34 percent. That’s why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us.

  Bart Stupak

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  Tags in Like, Congress

• I would like to see this group in this Congress be starting the process to get ourselves on long term fiscal strong footing.

  Ben Quayle

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• 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

  Topics in Country, Politics

  Tags in Congress

• The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.

  Caleb Cushing

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• I continued to serve in Congress until 2001.

  David Minge

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

  Slobodan Milosevic

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• I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us.

  Eric Himpton Holder Jr.

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Penalty, Law, 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

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• I’m amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I’ve never heard any of them ever say, ‘I’ve made a mistake.’ I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame.

  T. Boone Pickens

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• I’m more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants.

  Pat Sajak

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

  Rick Renzi

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• I came to Congress to help reduce spending.

  Dave Reichert

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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

• Congress requires states to draw single-member districts.

  Thomas E. Mann

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• It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.

  Francis Thomas Vincent Jr.

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