Quotes About Legislation

As an OB-GYN physician, I understand the importance of protecting Americans from sexually transmitted diseases, and I applaud the development of an HPV vaccine. But for states to mandate vaccination for young women is both unprecedented and unacceptable.

Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.

What's interesting is there are $12 billion of breaks in the energy bill that passed, yet we see that the sixth major oil companies in America last year made $1.1 trillion.

If a trip is worth taking, members of Congress should be prepared to justify paying for it out of their office accounts.

We see this in legislations such as SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, IPRED, IPRED2, TPP, TRIPS, just to name a few. All of these legislations have the same goal - make sure that the control of the Internets goes to the rich people that already have some sort of control outside of the Internets.

NDAA should be about providing critical funding for our troops, not debating immigration policy.

Jimmy Carter proposed withdrawing the troops from South Korea. He was stopped by the United States Congress.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

The NICS database has holes big enough to drive a Mack truck through.

Legislating is a very human experience in which trust and mutual respect play critical roles.

I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say 'If you like what you have, you should be able to keep it.' But the truth is that none of the health reform bills making their way through Congress actually delivers on that promise.

The Republicans claim they are for strengthening Pell grants when the truth is that over the last four years, their legislation has done the exact opposite.

As long as there are only 3 to 4 people on the floor, the country is in good hands. It's only when you have 50 to 60 in the Senate that you want to be concerned.

In foreign affairs, the president can do what he wants unless Congress says no. In domestic policy, the president can't do anything unless Congress says yes.

I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.

A lot of animal experiments consider only commercial interests. We want to ban all animal experiments as soon as possible.

How many times will this Congress waste time on an issue that a majority of Americans do not want?

It is hard sometimes to get the Congress to do what you want to do and you have to keep working at it.

Obviously, if Congress wants to talk about anything, we're happy to provide information. We're committed to moving forward under the current act.

When Mitt Romney says he wants to reform the tax code, hold on to your wallets.

There ought to be an onus on the people that want a law, rather than people that don't need a new law.

Hillary Clinton wants to keep Obamacare and she wants to make it even worse, and it can't get any worse. Bad health care at the most expensive price. We have to repeal and replace Obamacare.

Folks, we want to end Obamacare. We want to go to a plan that is so much better and so much less expensive, right?

If you [Hillary Clinton] want to change the laws, you've been there a long time, change the laws.