Quotes About Legislation

The Background Check Expansion Act will help prevent guns from falling into the wrong hands, and combat senseless gun violence.

Once the Congress party comes to power under Rahul Gandhi ji's leadership, we will enact a strong law to prevent horse-trading and defections.

Often times, political games prevent senators from even beginning to debate some of the most important issues.

A lot of what is preventing us from getting things done on the federal level is that there is too much influence from special interests over members of Congress.

Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

I think what Americans need and what Mainers need more than anything is government that functions and I think that the filibuster prevents us from functioning and making progress on issues.

I will not introduce legislation to reopen divisive issues or to reopen issues that have already been settled by previous governments.

Who needs a bullet piercing, armor piercing bullet to go hunting? Who needs an assault rifle to go hunting? You can't even use the prey that you kill with an assault rifle if you indeed do it.

We've passed an energy bill in the House, to help us be less reliant upon foreign oil so we can get gas prices down. But nothing happens in the Senate.

I support negotiating authority to lower prescription drug prices.

The Priestly Code preponderates over the rest of the legislation in force, as well as in bulk; in all matters of primary importance it is the normal and final authority.

We have legislated to protect the public from tax rises and guarantee incomes for pensioners, so enshrining in law more protections for consumers, commuters and investors is possible. Enshrining these rights into law would mean that any future government which wanted to reverse this would have to go through the primary legislative process.

Our Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has given the Government's support to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. It is difficult to imagine a single piece of legislation which, more comprehensively, attacks the sanctity and dignity of human life than this particular Bill.

The House of Lords has many fine aspects, but at its heart, it is a betrayal of the core democratic principle that those in the enlightened world hold so dear - that those who make the laws of the land should be elected by those who must obey those laws.

It seems like basic principle to me. According to Senate ethics rules, Members of the U.S. Senate, and their families, cannot benefit personally and financially from legislative decisions they make. Senator Feinstein, apparently, either doesn't agree with this principle, or she has chosen to ignore it.

One of the principles upon which the E.U. is built is the separation of powers and the independence of the judiciary.

I've laid down my set of principles, so I will not force government-run health care on anyone.

The human's being right to do as he pleases without interfering with someone else's rights is a formula defining rights prior to social legislation.

The only way that residual racist feelings could affect legislation, in my opinion, is through a lack of priorities, from not doing things.

Throughout my career, I have made rooting out public corruption a top priority.

The priority is to put bills on the president's desk that will move the country forward.

Safety has been my top legislative priority. I'm driven by the idea that safety is really a core function of government.

Of course it would be great to have more scientists in Congress. But what I'd love is to have another Lyndon Johnson in Congress who makes climate change his first priority. We need people who know how to work the system and the institution.