Quotes About Legislation

Concealed carry reciprocity is a dream for the gun lobby lobbyists and a nightmare for public safety.

We need a Green New Deal for Public Housing, as my colleague and friend Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez has proposed. We need a Green New Deal for Cities, as my friend Cori Bush has proposed. And we need a Green New Deal for Public Schools.

We are a possession of the United States. Congress has full authorization power over Puerto Rico.

Capping our SALT deduction was a deliberate attempt to punish states that value quality public services.

Doing a thing by law, or according to law, is only carrying the law into execution. And punishing a man by, or according to, the sentence or judgment of his peers, is only carrying that sentence or judgment into execution.

The right of the judge to inflict punishment gives him both power and opportunity to oppress the innocent; yet none but crazy men will from thence determine that it is best to have neither a legislature nor judges.

I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make.

I want to level the playing field for people who want to purchase health insurance as individuals, and that means eliminating the exemption for employer-sponsored health care.

No one should be allowed to purchase more than two firearms a month.

Nothing happens in any legislative body that's not purposeful.

For the purposes of the FMLA, marriage will now be determined based on where the couple got married, not on where an employee lives. This is called a 'place of celebration' rule.

We've got the power of the purse in the Congress.

I'm looking forward to going to Congress to pursue my Working Families Agenda and find areas of bipartisan agreement to move forward on important legislation.

As members of Congress, we have to pursue the Congressional Review Act legislation as soon as possible.

It is our duty as legislators to protect the success of our students as they pursue higher education.

I look forward to working across the aisle in pursuit of our common goal to get Kansas' fiscal house in order.

I just don't think it's acceptable that any animal should lose its life in pursuit of entertainment, which is also why I believe all blood sports should be banned.

There's a road that runs through our humanity and it traverses political and partisan lines, and my job as a U.S. senator is to do everything I can to point to that road that connects our collective humanity and to push forward legislation that's good for everybody.

We have to open hearts and change minds while at the same time pushing for laws that protect LGBTQ people from discrimination.

I certainly believe in a type of Rooney Rule - in legislation that doesn't give black and ethnic individuals a job but, at least, puts them in the frame.

I am an activist for putting an end to the criminalisation of abortion.

Someone in Washington needs to get serious about fixing the tax code. That is what needs to happen.

I enjoyed debate on the floor but it's not really debate in the same way.

Let's create jobs by bringing the Shaheen-Portman bipartisan energy efficiency bill to the floor.