Quotes About Legislation

I support repeal, but I think we ought to also spend time on the replacement side of that. The Republican approach has never been, 'Let's get rid of this,' but, 'Let's replace it with something that does deal with a very real problem in our healthcare system.' And that is the entry's cost and lack of coverage.

Most of what we report from Congress they don't care about unless it affects them directly.

I represent more Native Americans than anyone else in Congress.

I represent the 9th Congressional District of Georgia. I'm their voice.

I'd like to vote for a bill. But I'm not going to vote for one unless I think it's going to be good for the area I represent.

The Labour party has done more than any other to address gender inequalities, through legislation and other means, and to increase women's representation in politics, which has led to recent increases in the number of female politicians.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

There's a reason that you hear something like 90 percent of our country wants universal background checks, but we can't get it passed legislatively. If we had a true representative democracy, 90 percent of our elected officials would want universal background checks.

If our elected representatives want to further increase the gas tax, they should have to take a vote each time they do.

Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.

My job is to follow the law, not to make up the law that has been promulgated by the people or the people's representatives.

When you're on the floor of the House of Representatives in the Democratic caucus, I like to say it feels like New Jersey. You have all different opinions, you have all different ideas.

I believe the House of Representatives is exactly the place where immigration reform should take place. Our entire House is elected every two years. We're the people closest to the people.

I don't look forward to a time when every politician, every legislator goes to Washington absolutely committed to an extreme point of view. Elected representatives are sent to Washington to compromise, not to never compromise.

The House of Representatives was not designed to sit idly by and rubberstamp every piece of legislation sent their way by the Senate, especially legislation passed on a straight party line vote under the spurious policy of reconciliation.

It is essential to democracy that the elected representatives of the people make the laws that govern this country - and not the judges.

I am not a career politician, even though this is my 12th year in the United States House of Representatives.

I was on the elections committee in my last session in the state House of Representatives.

I do believe that the states have the right to make the definition of marriage, and each state can define it as they so choose through their elected representatives.

The president has immense powers, but he cannot spend money unless we, the people's representatives in Congress, have agreed that he can.

Senator Mikulski has done an outstanding job representing Maryland in the U.S. Senate for nearly 30 years.

You want somebody in Congress representing you that on some level you feel has the same values you do and has the same priorities you do.

Congress increasingly represents the diversity of America.

Whenever the Congress represents the increasing diversity of the United States, that's a good thing.