Quotes About Legislation

The Empowering Law Enforcement Act is about common sense.

I'm against the SOPA act, and Imgur, as a company, is against it.

I like the House. The House is where you can effect the most change. It's such a fast-moving dynamic body compared to the Senate.

Completing annual appropriations bills would be an important step in responsible federal budgeting.

Good legislation should bring clarity and not confusion.

Congress: Bingo with billions.

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.

Now back in those days, to become a rural mail carrier you had to be approved by congress.

Congress should get the job done.

You can see how dysfunctional this Congress is.

If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.

Congress doesn't hate Congress.

A majority of senators should be able to adopt rules at the beginning of each Congress.

Congress can't take the year off, election or no election.

People don't want Congress dictating what light fixtures they can use.

A competition of the best ideas - that should be what Congress is about.

I play in the congressional baseball game.

My focus has been on being a good congressman, and there is so much other work to do.

I'm conscious of my race and ethnicity in the legislature - it's hard not to be.

I believe that there is a bipartisan consensus to have individual mandates.

I take my 'advice and consent' duty as a U.S. senator very seriously.

This is why it's bad to run a country by executive order: because our nation runs on laws - when everyone knows the law, and everyone knows what it is, you know both the law and the consequence, and you get that.

Honestly, I don't think that the policies and issues surrounding guns will be easily figured out in our country, but we need to take a close look, and we need to have a conversation around those issues.

I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and preventive services aimed at reducing the rate of birth defects.