Quotes About Legislation

Protest is, at its core, designed to move policy.

The clean book bill will be one of the most immoral measures ever adopted. It will throw American art back into the junk heap.

American legislators rarely think about the rest of the world when writing laws, regulations, and policies. American officials rarely refer to global standards. After all, for so long the United States was the global standard, and when it chose to do something different, it was important enough that the rest of the world would cater to its exceptionality.

I want the fascist Qur'an banned.

I generally favor permissive abortion laws.

The level of analysis that is done when you see laws created, whether it's the city or state or federal level - it's much more horse-trading than analysis.

We are way overstepping bounds as federal legislators.

There are things that should be allocated to states' rights - that's Gryffindor - and certain things allocated to the federal government, which is Slytherin.

At the federal level, as a member of Congress, you have one vote out of 435, and in the Senate, it's one out of 100. So, the ability to get some stuff done exists as a much larger opportunity at a local level than in the federal government.

You can think of all the things a Congress or a legislature does, and then you kind of overshadow that with the fact that a few people are going to make those decisions.

After Dodd-Frank, the big banks were bigger. The small banks are fewer.

My view of the filibuster is either you've got to lower vote edge or make people really filibuster if they feel that seriously about a piece of legislation.

Republicans have used the filibuster to turn the Senate into a de facto 60-vote body.

I think I've had my fill of electoral law.

We have to talk about the way we finance campaigns.

One of the things I care about a lot is public financing in elections.

Congress must demonstrate fiscal responsibility.

To this day, I can't understand why the closest man to Jimmy Carter, the key staff guy at the White House, didn't even join us at the White House breakfast meetings where we discussed upcoming legislation with the president. This was unprecedented. People used to say that Jordan was the most brilliant guy around, but you couldn't prove it by me.

I'm working alongside the White House and other members in the House to lessen the tax burden that currently weighs on so many Oklahomans.

The White House would love to see Obamacare taken apart all at once, bit by bit, however we can do it.

With control of the House, the Senate, and the White House, Republicans could have used their unified control of government to... balance the budget!

I introduced the FREED Vets Act to make student debt forgiveness for disabled veterans automatic, both now and in the future, regardless of who is in the White House.

I worked on Capitol Hill, I worked in the White House and I've worked in politics enough to be familiar with the basic broadstrokes of public policy.

The White House - we continue to believe that Democrats and Republicans should do what they have done 80 times, which is to raise the debt limit, and that is what we are working toward.