Quotes About Legislation

It should be remembered that the president cannot, by executive order, do things that affects the public at large unless there is some Congressional basis for it.

The failure of both Congress and state legislatures to respond to the murder of George Floyd with any meaningful action reminds us that our nation's attempts at reform can often amount to nothing.

There should be some other provisions in the Constitution whereby if the Government is not functioning well, it can be dealt with. In a parliamentary democracy, this should be done only by Parliament. The prime minister should be answerable only to Parliament and it should only be Parliament that can install him or remove him.

I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws, you breed contempt if you don't enforce them.

You can't claim to be pro-life and then vote to remove the restrictions that prevented government-funded abortions in the District of Columbia.

One of the things that's always amazed me about people who attack me, saying I'm opposed to renewable energy, is I'm pretty sure I'm the only Republican who had an energy bill vetoed by a Republican governor.

There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.

We don't want to repeal the Second Amendment.

I say we need to repeal Obamacare as fast as we can.

If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.

The president named Obama is probably not going to repeal the bill that's named after him.

I was one of the first senators to support marriage equality, and led the effort to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act.

Congress needs to work in a bipartisan way to fix the Affordable Care Act, not repeal it.

We are not going to repeal Obamacare.

As a doctor, I will take it and make it my mission to heal the nation, reverse the course of Obamacare, and repeal every last bit of it.

Imagine a libertarian president challenging Congress to repeal the PATRIOT Act.

We could repeal Dodd-Frank. I think that would be a big help.

I reiterate my proposal of creating life sentences for politicians who make deals with organized criminals. They deserve the maximum penalty because a politician that makes deals with criminals - I've said it, and I repeat it - is no longer a politician but just another 'capo.'

As I've said repeatedly over the last few years, the war on coal was not a result of anything Congress passed; there was no legislation.

Improving some of the rules under which the Senate functions can begin to replace some of the bad habits Washington has developed with better ones.

Let's replace Obamacare with reforms that put you back in charge of your own healthcare.

Obamacare rewrote Medicare... so if you're going to repeal and replace Obamacare, you have to address those issues as well... What people don't realize is that Medicare is going broke, that Medicare is going to have price controls... So you have to deal with those issues if you're going to repeal and replace Obamacare.

We need to repeal and replace Obamacare.

I think it's important, especially in health care, to take this step by step, whether it's the replacement of the Affordable Care Act, how we make Medicaid work better, how we save Medicare for the long term.