Quotes About Legislation

Apparently it's acceptable for members of Congress to own stock in companies we regulate in Congress, but somehow, our plumbing company crosses some line.

If Congress continues to sit on its hands, and the drug companies continue to stash cash in their stockings, Americans will be forever bound in the Jacob Marley-like chains of high prices.

Members of Congress - with or without inside information - simply should not be allowed to trade stocks.

The electoral calendar is set in stone, by law.

After holding hearings to get input from Missourians, I led the fight to pass legislation that protects seniors from predatory lending in the mortgage industry. I stood up against efforts that would make it harder for seniors to vote, and battled telemarketers bent on defrauding seniors.

I have always stood up to protect women's access to safe and legal abortion, birth control and health care at Planned Parenthood.

Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped.

It seems as though there are Members in this body who want to filibuster just about everything we try to do, whether it is stopping judicial nominations, the Energy bill, or this Medicare bill.

Washington's a mess, but that's not stopping me from getting bills to help Montana signed into law by President Trump.

I am pleased to see portions of my own robocall bill, the 'Stopping Bad Robocalls Act,' incorporated in the TRACED Act.

Parliament is relentless, it never stops.

No one in their right mind can say to me with a straight face that the Patriot Act has not aggregated the Fourth Amendment.

It's time Congress got its priorities straight.

I can't marry my way into citizenship like straight people can. I can get married in the state of New York where I live, but because of the Defense of Marriage Act, the federal government, which hands out visas, won't recognize my marriage.

I like the idea of amending the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include a ban of discrimination based on sexual orientation. It would be simple. It would be straightforward.

It is strange how little harm bad codes do.

As a member of the Aging Committee, I'm no stranger to fighting for America's seniors.

For one invariable and distinguishing feature of all Italian regulations is that they are complicated.

The second again precludes them from again attempting what has so often failed in the past, the establishment of a single parliament for all Ireland on the lines of the Home Rule Acts of 1886, 1893 and 1914.

This formal system of racial preference was codified from the 1600s until at least the mid-to-late '60s, when the nation passed civil rights legislation, at least theoretically establishing equality in employment, voting, and housing opportunity.

When Congress passed the Soil Conservation Act, it marked the first time any nation had created such a unit.

Most members of the incoming state legislature took orders from the hooded order, as did the majority of the congressional delegation.

I don't think we can afford to wait when it comes to cybersecurity. I think that every day we wait, if an attack occurs - and we're getting hit every day - but if a greater attack occurs, it's going to be on the head of Congress for not acting.

There are amendments never offered, there are bills never heard, that are basically killed because of the process.