Quotes About Congress

I was a heart surgeon before I came to Congress, and I've worked many holidays on behalf of my patients.

The American people expect more from Congress. They expect fiscal responsibility and common sense. They expect us to return to the pay-as-you-go budget rules that we had enacted in the past that helped us establish a surplus, however briefly.

When I started running for Congress, it actually took me by surprise that so many people were fascinated with me being the first Muslim in Congress.

I am not surprised that this is a longer bit of work than many of us would have hoped. It is not where any of us would have hoped it is. And I think we need to give credit to the Republicans in Congress who have done everything they can to defeat every jobs bill and slow down the economy.

If you look at U.S. Congress, 80 percent of them have never left the U.S.A., so I'm not surprised about Russophobia in Congress.

Trying to run Congress without human relationships is like trying to run a car without motor oil. Should we be surprised when the whole thing freezes up?

There's a lot of good, bipartisan legislation that passes in committee and then gets bottled up. As a businessman, it surprised me.

In the long term, "I Believe You, Anita" became a feminist slogan, and Hill is often credited with launching a revolution in recognition of and response to workplace sexual harassment. A month after the hearings, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1991, part of which allowed sexual-harassment victims to sue their employers for damages and backpay.

Charles Schumer (D-N .Y.) Terms: 2 (9 in House) Total raised: $62.2 million Top donors: A major defender of Wall Street interests before the crash, Schumer has netted more big-bank money than any member of Congress who hasn't run for President. Over one-hundred-million dollars was given to Chuck Schumer over the past decade!

The real reasons for the deplorable response to conditions in Puerto Rico are clear: the island's lack of political muscle and the mainland's lack of political will. As a U.S. territory, Puerto Rico has no U.S. senator, no vote in the House and no electoral votes in presidential elections — and so it is all too easy for the White House and Congress to turn a blind eye to the needs of its vulnerable population.

Nancy Patricia Pelosi salary is $193,000 In 2009, Nancy Pelosi's net worth was about $20 Million; in 2018 it was about $140 Million. Any questions?

The only way to make any sense of the United States Congress, our father told me once, is to view it as a two-hundred-year-long primate study.

Congress should know how to levy taxes, and if it doesn't know how to collect them, then a man is a fool to pay the taxes.

Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress.

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.

However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.

White man makes guns? No problem. Black rapper says "gun"? Congressional hearing.

Congress should not establish a religion, and enforce the legal observation of it by law, nor compel men to worship God in any Manner contrary to their conscience.

We have the right as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.

The IRS takes your money. Congress uses our money to arm our enemies. The IRS takes more of your money. Congress uses that money to fight the enemies Congress just armed.

In America ... who is to stop congress from spending too much money. They will not stop themselves, that is certain. Everybody has to think about that now. Who is to stop them.

It is not true that Congress spends money like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors spend their own money. Congress spends our money.

If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations.

Our Congress is the finest body of men money can buy.