Quotes About Legislation

As attorney general, I'm helping lead a national effort to protect coverage for pre-existing conditions.

I prefer that we sit down and craft a bill that addresses the many challenges we face, not only domestically, but as a world leader.

I think that our country would probably be better-served if we had people that were wearing work boots... crafting legislation.

We can't legislate the creation of jobs, but we can legislate things that will allow jobs to be created.

I think the idea of getting money out of politics is critical.

The law is cruel.

There is no other country that has the Cuban Adjustment Act; that's why it's called the Cuban Adjustment Act and not the Nicaraguan Adjustment Act.

In Congress, I have worked with my colleagues to pass the 21st Century Cures Act.

There's a learning curve to understanding how the Senate operates.

I think dealing with climate change should be a centerpiece of any campaign in the 2020 election cycle. Yet I'm the only one with a bipartisan carbon tax bill.

Unauthorized access to computer systems is already a serious crime in a few states and is currently being addressed in many more state legislatures as well as Congress.

Obamacare has made a mess of our health insurance and health care systems, and Washington politicians have failed to fix the problem.

If you look through history, all of the great work we've done in Congress has been around a table of compromise, when it comes to the most difficult problems.

To tackle the prescription drug affordability crisis, we need to understand how high costs are directly impacting the people in our communities and in our neighborhoods - and we need to redouble our resolve to pass meaningful legislation that can lower prices and stimulate competition across the industry.

Senate Republicans have engaged in a record number of filibusters and other obstructionist tactics.

If the government mandates anything with a price tag on it, then it ought to fund the project.

It is admitted by everybody that rights and privileges enjoyed by the Roman Catholic minority in Manitoba down to 1890, were taken away by legislation of 1890.

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.

Talk radio is an asset to our nation because it encourages strong and healthy debate about public policy, and there is no reason to affect that debate with government legislation.

We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.

When you start talking about the patients' bill of rights and all the benefits that are in there, people agree with all that. What they don't know is how are you going to pay for it.

I don't have a problem talking about Medicare or Medicaid or some other very important issue.

The end game is you change that law to making that law better, whichever law you're talking about.

Many times, the Senate talks of things and never gets anything through.