Quotes About Legislation

As a district judge, I view my role quite differently than the role of legislators.

I will keep working with both parties in the House to get things done for people in our District.

We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.

The United States has so many laws, into the millions, that experts have lost track of just how many laws we have.

I think it is right that government should have passed legislation that requires that relationships and sex education is taught in schools, but at the same time, I also agree that it is right that parents should be able to choose the moment at which their children become exposed to that information.

Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again.

Opacity on extreme levels is not addressed anywhere, including Dodd-Frank.

The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.

We do policy but we can only do policy an effective manner when we keep in front of us the human faces behind the policy we would create.

If Washington were a factory, it would manufacture spending.

Why would you pass another law when the administration fails to enforce the current laws that are on the books. Why pass another one that's not going to be enforced either?

The Congress has now become a fairly evenly divided entity.

Co-sponsoring a bill is fairly easy, like a group project which you work on with others.

Clean air is a basic right. The responsibility to ensure that falls to Congress and the president.

What we wouldn't want to see is just a piece of legislation on border security and high tech immigration without focusing on the path to citizenship for the 11 million people who are here, and other provisions.

Working with a Republican co-sponsor, Rep. Glenn Thompson of Pennsylvania, I introduced a bill to strengthen our nation's career and technical education programs and more closely align them with the needs of local businesses and industries.

Remember what Obamacare gave you. Obamacare gave you insurance but not health care. A lot of folks who were technically insured either couldn't afford the premiums or couldn't afford the copay.

Not continuing a tax cut is not technically a tax increase.

Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail.

Congress should... at least keep pace with technological advances.

Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.

The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or '79.

Well, the senators I've enjoyed working with the most would be Ted Kennedy and Kent Conrad, because they were both either chairman or ranking member of the committee I was chairman or ranking member of. And in both instances they were just great people to work with.

Ted Cruz may be an intelligent person, but he doesn't carry out an intelligent debate. He oversimplifies, he exaggerates, and he basically led the Republican Party over the cliff in the fall of 2013. He has shown no qualifications, no legislation being passed, doesn't provide leadership, and he has no real experience.