Quotes About Legislation

We all need to call upon our lawmakers to create a path to citizenship for hard-working, law-abiding undocumented people and their families.

If the minority is able to successfully undo the Affordable Care Act by blackmail, it will be the undoing of the democratic nature of our government.

America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that allows unemployment compensation, the judiciary, the federal court system, the federal prison system, all those kinds of things have to be paid for.

The stimulus legislation, technically known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, was a mixture of tax cuts for families and businesses; increased transfer payments, like unemployment insurance; and increased direct government spending, like infrastructure investment.

In 2012, I helped lead the successful effort in Congress to allow states to conduct drug testing of people receiving unemployment benefits.

Our tax policies, the tax relief and reform we passed in 2003 and 2005, helped get government out of the way of America's entrepreneurs, and our unemployment rate is now lower than it was in the 1970s, the 1980s, and the 1990s.

Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms against infringement by the government, state legislatures continue to do just that - enact laws that significantly infringe this fundamental human right.

Unfair trade practices should be regulated because they're unfair.

This is a form of double taxation and it's simply unfair.

When you talk about mandatory minimums, it created a lot of unfairness in our sentencing.

Control freak politicians never rest, and a few of the more dedicated ones are working relentlessly to slap chains on the world's most unfettered market. The Marketplace Fairness Act will end up forcing consumers to pay higher prices for the goods they desire.

It's unfortunate. Title IX is rather simple: don't discriminate on the basis of sex.

In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.

India's blood and India's gold was sought and unfortunately given - given to break Turkey and buy the fetters of the Rowlatt legislation.

Unfortunately, the reality was that, for political reasons or whatever, there was a need to enforce antidiscrimination laws, or at least there was a perceived need to do that.

The representative system of government is calculated to produce the wisest laws, by collecting wisdom where it can be found.

Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.

It will not do to say that it is out of woman's sphere to assist in making laws, for if that were so, then it should be also out of her sphere to submit to them.

If women could go into your Congress, I think justice would soon be done to the Indians.

Men alone are not capable of making laws for men and women.

The government passed more laws to protect women from dirty jokes than to protect men from death by faulty rafters at a construction site.

I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion.

When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.

If you push down that pyramid of power and spread out the base, every member gets a chance to file their bill and have it heard and file their amendment and have it heard, as opposed to the system that we have now, which closes out, closes down bills, limits debate, and so forth.