Quotes About Legislation

Ayanna Pressley and I would probably vote the exact same way on pretty much every vote we'd have on the floor of the House.

I want to go to Washington to make sure we really have an opportunity to expand health care for folks so that is accessible to them.

You have to build relationships and learn what are the things that are of interest to other members of Congress, what are the things that folks have been taking a lead on for a really long time.

A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.

A lot about Congress is about forming good working relationships with people, and humor can really help you do that.

Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.

After a week of back and forth, and forth and back over firearms, it's good to see a consensus developing on this common-sense amendment to keep handguns away from children.

That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage.

Oh, in France you can't defame an idea, only a person.

I've worked with Fred Upton, and I think we've got a lot of common agreement on energy production.

The 'free market' is the product of laws and rules continuously emanating from legislatures, executive departments, and courts.

Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision.

If 'Obama-care' becomes fully implemented in 2014, it's going to bankrupt states.

It is the responsibility of the government to ensure the House functions.

I don't need a strong EPA. I don't need to fund a lot of money there.

There is nothing more fundamental than the idea that the government does not have a right to decide when and whether we have children.

There's a lot of politics over who gets the next allocation of Congressional funding.

I do not think that abortion services should be part of our foreign aid funding in any way.

The way campaign funds are distributed are all a matter of record.

Federal legislation is urgently needed to stop this insanity of wild animals in captivity.

States should pass laws making it illegal to own or trade wild animals; the phony 'educational' permits that many private owners have used to skirt those laws should be eliminated.

Several countries - among them Austria, Costa Rica, Denmark, Finland, India, Israel and Sweden - ban or severely restrict the use of wild animals in circuses. In Brazil, a movement to ban wild animals from circuses started after hungry lions managed to grab and devour a small boy.

Climate change joined immigration, job creation, food safety, pilot training, veterans' care, campaign finance, transportation security, labor law, mine safety, wildfire management, and scores of executive and judicial appointments on the list of matters that the world's greatest deliberative body is incapable of addressing.

When it comes to wildfires, 2013 wasn't a good year, which is why I'm especially proud that the majority of my wildfire prevention legislation was signed into law today.