Quotes About Legislation

The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.

Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.

Congress gave the legislative bodies of the ceded territories the authority to determine which Mexican people would be given US citizenship. At this time, the states and territories had the legal right to determine citizenship eligibility requirements, a power given to them by the US Constitution.

In the aftermath of the Slaughter-House Cases ruling, the Texas Legislature and state courts passed laws giving clubs, organizations, and businesses the authority to refuse entry or services to any person, for any reason.

The federal government could intervene in civil rights disputes only when a state violated political rights associated with citizenship. After the Slaughter-House Cases ruling, state assemblies went far beyond passing segregation legislation aimed at keeping African Americans apart from whites.74 They passed exclusionary laws discriminating against Jews, Mexican Americans, Native Americans, and Asian Americans.

A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in enacting or devising the law. Who can say that the legislature of Alabama which set up the state's segregation laws was democratically elected?

no proposals or even amendments could come from the floor; in the case of almost every piece of proposed legislation we know of, the people voted in favour of what was put before them. This was not popular power as we understand

I've often thought that the process of aging could be slowed down if it had to go through Congress.

English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law

The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the purpose of keeping them in power.

Democrats and Republicans spent a year writing themselves a pork-packed Christmas list on the scale of the Iraq invasion, full of monster expenditures, including money for dangerous new forms of nukes. Yet the headline when Trump signed the freaking thing was that he forgot to mention the senator whose name was attached to the legislation.

The Congressional Record will forever show that [Obamacare] was passed in a romper room of overgrown children seemingly barely old enough to keep from peeing on themselves.

the major legislative achievements of the eugenics movement included a set of involuntary sterilization laws that targeted not immigrants or people of color, but poor "feebleminded" whites.

Laws are made to protect the trusting as well the suspicious. - Hugo L. Black

Tax complexity itself is a kind of tax.

Health reform is an essential part of restoring America's economy and maintaining our competitiveness.

Perhaps the spreading of fake news shouldn`t be criminalized as a felony, but it must be penalized in some way, and there should at least be court trials for that.

You can't shoot animals who've just given birth or are pregnant. Even in America.

I got to get the right people in the right job. Because a lot of costs can be taken out in the context of your administration without the legislature.For example, using technology to do more with less. Using technology to fight fraud. Reorganizing and streamlining can be done within the context of the administration.

To insure a steady stream of new prisoners, while doing little if anything to boost public safety, private prison companies over the last decade spent over $45 million lobbying law makers.

If you want to get the best people to run for office, weve got to make the rules easier, and simpler, and more understandable to get on the ballot.

Should we have background checks, waiting periods? To drive a car you have to pass a test that shows you know how to drive your car safely, you should have to do the same thing with guns.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest forced] PepsiCo to change the labeling of its Tropicana Peach Papaya Juice to reflect ... that it has neither peaches nor papaya and is not a juice.