Quotes About Legislation

Any debate among politicians about monetary policy is counterproductive.

Politicians like to confuse congressional spending with earmarks. There is a difference.

Congress as a whole is less popular than it's been since polling was invented.

Members of Congress and their staffs should be the first to feel the negative consequences of poorly written legislation, not the last.

When the American people elected Barack Obama and large Democrat majorities, the die was cast. ObamaCare was coming. Popular or not, constitutional or not, affordable or not, it didn't matter.

In Congress, it's all pork, all the time.

Bring market forces to bear on health care insurers. Creating a health care 'exchange,' one of the better ideas included in House Bill 3200, creates affordable, accessible and portable insurance for millions of Americans.

The CHIP program, even if the parliamentarian says nothing else is allowed - and that is a possibility - CHIP, which no state ever complains about, gives a lot more flexibility than Obamacare and allows the secretary of HHS to give waivers.

You have to take positions on bills. There is no button for maybe or possibly.

No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.

It is time for Congress to save the Postal Service, not dismantle it.

Why should we make our constituents wait on job growth?

When we do our legislation, we're not trying to figure out, 'How can I use this to run against you?' We say, 'How can we pass this bill to help both of our constituents?'

Our state has a balanced budget. We have to live within our means in the state of Wyoming. I was in the state senate. This country needs a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.

In New York, we have laws against defrauding the public, defrauding consumers, defrauding shareholders.

I want to protect consumers from their government.

Who gets to decide the robotic bill of rights? It's going to be controversial.

My last comment was, though, that Congress has cooked the books.

Copyright law is too confusing.

We don't need something as large and complex and costly as the Affordable Care Act, because it can't work.

We've got to pass legislation which will allow people to have access to competent counsel no matter who they are.

I beg you do not vote for stills and open bar-rooms in the county.

Courts do not make the law.