Quotes About Legislation

The Federal appropriations process is a marathon, not a sprint, and we are at the beginning of that process.

The Spy Act prohibits keystroke logging, hijacking, and phishing.

As an American, I would really like it if, just for once, Pelosi, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and 'The Squad' would focus on proposing and shepherding meaningful policy reforms for the country, wouldn't you?

We need to take the country in the right direction, whether it is around administrative policy decisions or legislative changes or ensuring the macroeconomic stability.

There is a need for Social Security reform to ensure its stability, and Congress must act.

The greatest way to ensure stability in our laws is to ensure that everyone has an opportunity to participate in some way in the passage.

From the CAA to farm laws, all sorts of legislations have been imposed by the BJP aimed at disturbing peace and stability of Punjab and the nation as a whole.

A compromise is but an act of Congress. It may be overruled at any time. It gives us no security. But the Constitution is stable. It is a rock.

Anything my staff does in my office is pursuant to congressional rules.

Our forefathers never envisioned that a handful of staff write a bill and you rush it through a committee without reading it and you rush it to the floor without reading it, and you pass it just because you're a Democrat and Democrats told you to do that.

Erasing the ALJ process, even if it takes legislation, will not deny anyone due individual process, generate added litigation risks or substantially increase workloads for commissioners or staff.

We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.

Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.

We must continue to stand up for what's right and push for bipartisan, comprehensive immigration reform.

If one of my colleagues wants to block a bill, they should stand up in front of the American people and explain why.

The big legislative updates that we need to compete in the 21st century and to raise living standards have been blocked by a reluctance to seek common ground.

We have increased conservation spending, enacted legislation that enables us to clean up and redevelop abandoned brownfields sites across the country, and implemented new clean water standards that will protect us from arsenic.

Concealed-carry reciprocity, I believe, undermines American gun laws by forcing states to accept carry-permitting standards of every other state, including some states that have no standards at all.

My number one objective continues to be to defund or delay the implementation of Obamacare. But as long as any piece of this law is standing, it needs to apply to all Americans equally, and that includes members of Congress and our staff.

From a policy standpoint, the Judeo-Christian principles are important.

My father was on the Judiciary Committee all 18 years. He had a good personal relationship with Jim Eastland. They probably didn't agree on practically anything, or very little, from a public policy standpoint. But they were willing to work through that to see what they could get done just because they knew each other and liked each other.

Men's reproduction isn't regulated by the state -- and it shouldn't be. Neither should women's.

A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.