Quotes About Legislation

Any proposal that allows people who are here illegally to cut to the front of the line is amnesty.

If the Obama administration wanted to implement the DACA program, it should have made the case to Congress and try to pass its proposal into law.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

I don't order laws, I propose them.

Under the Dodd-Frank law, the SEC got the lion's share of the rules to write, more than 100 rules, and we have done an extraordinary amount of that. Eighty percent have been either proposed or adopted. So, a lot, a lot accomplished but of course, more to do.

Most of what I've proposed in Congress grew out of issues raised with me back here in Connecticut.

Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups.

It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.

We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children.

It is the will of the American people that we have a right to protect our flag and this can only be accomplished by passing a Constitutional amendment.

If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's not going to sit well.

In both houses of Congress, bipartisan legislation has been introduced to ensure that the rights of states and cities to make drone laws are protected.

West Virginians should be protected against preexisting conditions.

The Affordable Care Act has been designed to provide health security by driving competition, lowering premiums, and protecting families.

No issue is more important to this Congress than securing our borders and protecting our homeland, and I guarantee it is very important to our constituents.

I support DACA, but I also support protecting the border.

The government has a key role in regulating and making sure there's an even playing field and protecting consumers. No question about it.

Instead of forcing everyone to buy health insurance, Congress should pass a law protecting the uninsured from being charged more than the insurance companies are for a given service.

We all share the same goal to keep guns out of the hands of people who should not have them, while fully protecting the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding, responsible Americans.

I'm proud to cosponsor the Life at Conception Act which grants rights to babies at the moment they are conceived, and the Born Alive Protection Act, that will protect innocent lives who miraculously escape death.

The Life at Conception Act legislatively declares what most Americans believe and what science has long known - that human life begins at the moment of conception and, therefore, is entitled to legal protection from that point forward.

Frankly, I do like the idea that we centralize consumer protection for financial products into one agency.

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.

Until we actually get legislation that protects our rights online, we will continue to fight against stupid, lobbyist-bought legislation. We want bills that protect us, not ones that destroy us.