Quotes About Legislation

The responsible use of earmarks can have public benefits.

I can say this very clearly: I have come into this Congress with an antiwar bias.

One of the big problems in Dail Eireann is the lack of women.

Sure, banking bills are important, but they don't save lives.

The system requires bipartisanship.

I do not support legislation that would ban birth control.

I have always believed in enforcing the border, and doing that before you do amnesty.

I'm not for amnesty. People must play by the rules. And border enforcement must come first.

We need to be talking about things like the DREAM Act. We need to also be talking about e-verify. We also need to be talking about border security.

My belief is that if we take away that right to bear arms, the only people that are going to have them are... the ones breaking into your house.

Many people feel that we need the rule of law to eliminate our problems. But is it more laws that we need? We have many laws - thousands upon thousands of them - but they are constantly being broken.

I'm for a balanced budget now.

So in the House and Senate, we own the budget. So what does that mean? That means that we can pass the spending bill.

Congress must build on the success of the Budget Control Act.

I would drastically revise much of the Dodd-Frank financial-reform legislation, which I call the 'Bureaucrat Full Employment Act.'

My position's always been we need to build on successes within ACA, fix the problems.

One of my main legislative efforts in education is to help expand and replicate successful charter schools. Charter schools are public schools with site-based governance.

There is such a thing as commonsense middle-ground gun reform, and most gun owners support it.

Seriously, I feel more like a revolutionary because the final goal is not only to download all the articles and books and give open access to them, but to change legislation is such a way that free distribution of research papers will not face any legal obstacles.

Congress was designed by the Founding Fathers to move slowly, precisely to avoid the sudden panic of a one-week solution that becomes a 20-year mess.

Let's take up the most important issues first. Let's take up the reauthorizations first; let's take up the appropriations bill first, not wait until four days beforehand - no one has mentioned anything, and, all of a sudden, somebody looks at their watch and says, 'Hey, in four days, the government is going to run out of money.'

You shouldn't have to sue somebody to get justice. It ought to come through administrative process.

The Gun Owner Privacy Act protects the right to keep and bear arms by preventing the Feds from collecting data to monitor and log gun ownership in America. This legislation will give Americans legal recourse and the ability to sue the Feds and collect damages for records illegally stored.

Our nation suffers when Congress fails to pay America's bills on time.