Quotes About Legislation

The government takes the opposition day debates incredibly seriously.

I support offering the public option to members of Congress, and as soon as I'm given the chance, I intend to go on it.

I want to tell governments and courts, 'Give orders that can be implemented.' They should not give orders that work to break the faith of people.

Last year, I was proud to be an original co-sponsor of legislation that would increase federal judges' salaries by more than 40 percent. It also built in a cost of living adjustment, so the Judicial Branch would not be dependent on the Legislative Branch for increases each year.

If Ottawa giveth, then Ottawa can taketh away.

The court makes an amazing amount of decisions that ought to be made by the people.

I think we ought to leave the law exactly the way it is, the 14th amendment.

Our world has evolved and grown more technologically savvy. Lawmakers need to adjust to these changes.

When I go across the state, people are really asking the question, 'Who is up there fighting for us? Who is fighting for us at the state capital for the little guy out here, for the working Georgian, for the Georgian family?'

The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.

It's not up to one individual to decide, 'I'm going to dictate the outcome of what's going to happen legislatively.' That is not a democracy; it's an atrocity.

They need to enforce how and who to give guns to. But there are Americans like me who are responsible, and they shouldn't take that away. If they outlaw guns, they won't take mine.

There are issues the EPA should be dealing with. When I talk about the EPA and its role with the states, it's not an abolitionist view, that we don't need that agency. It's that the agency should act within the outlines established by Congress.

I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.

We must consider bringing forward legislation that will facilitate the creation and implementation of businesses in Haiti. Overall, we must better position the country to compete for new market opportunities.

When you can attack legislation and get laws and the system changed, that's going to bring a real impact, but we can't expect that to happen overnight.

I respect the Congress's oversight responsibility.

The practice of euthanasia, under some circumstances, is morally required by the two most widely regarded principles that guide medical practice: respect for patient autonomy and promoting patient's best interests. In the Netherlands and Belgium active euthanasia may be carried out within the law.

The same crime element that white people are scared of black people are scared of. While they waiting for legislation to pass, we next door to the killer.

as it is not tyranny. All I ask is an independent parliament

What can you do to ensure your magazines will "survive" a future hi-cap magazine ban? Don't vote for people who will ban them and assist those who oppose them.

RDIAS: registered drop-in auto Sear.

It was not until 1986 that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) began to draft laws requiring immigrants to be tested for and found free of HIV. This legislation was sponsored in the Senate by Senator Jesse Helms and was approved - unanimously - in June 1987. This Senate action was extraordinary, notes a legal opinion, in that it assumed a responsibility, previously entrusted to the HHS, to determine which communicable diseases would be grounds for excluding aliens.

Democrats have a network of think tanks and sympathetic independent experts who look hard at evidence, try to devise solutions to real problems, and sometime affect actual legislative proposals. Republicans have nothing comparable; their tame "experts" are basically in the business of saying whatever their political masters want to hear.