Quotes About Legislation

I believe states should have the right to be the masters of their own elections.

If there's ever a vote for single-payer, I'm a 'yes.' But there are lots of things we can do in the meantime.

The Choose Medicare Act will let people of all ages buy into Medicare as their health care plan, and it would let any business also buy into Medicare and offer it to its employees.

I've endorsed 'Medicare for All' at the federal level. I do not believe a state can accomplish that on its own.

People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.

Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.

In many ways, the rotten effects of dark money are seen less in what we do than in what we don't do.

We're a country of rule of law, and rule of law doesn't move fast, especially in an entity as big the U.S. government.

We should work towards a legislation to sack non-performing politicians. This may not happen during my lifetime, but I will try for it anyway.

It's clear to me that the NRA isn't going to stop trying to meddle in making this a safer state.

We are a no sales tax state. That applies across the board, to our citizens and those in other states. Period.

I used to hate sampling, but it was basically because everyone was getting paid but us. But when they began to do the legislation and get it right, I realized that the kids just did something that, if maybe we were smart enough, we would have done it as well.

Obama means to erase the Second Amendment by any means possible.

You can have a Second Amendment right, but not a Second Amendment right to an AR-15.

I will continue fighting to protect our Second Amendment rights.

Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.

We work for the public, and I believe that if a senator wants to block a piece of legislation or a nominee, they owe the public an explanation.

I don't believe gun owners have rights.

Codifying discrimination in our laws should be something we read about in American history, not on the front pages of today's American newspapers and magazines.

Every congressional committee that does an investigation has documents, papers and things that it collects in the course of that investigation - the backup to everything it does.

DACA is a lifeline for individuals who have grown up in the U.S. but who lack immigration papers.

The piece of legislation that I'm so excited and delighted to be doing is shared parental leave.

You can't actually legislate what goes on in people's minds and their attitudes, but you certainly can legislate for parity where pay and salaries are concerned.

Marriage is a sacrament, and the decision of what is a sacrament lies with the Church, not with Parliament.