Quotes About Legislation

HB 2 leaves 90% of the children behind. The disconnect between this bill and the basic needs of Texas schoolchildren is appalling.

The ability of Texas Republicans to be effective in Congress is based on having at least 218 Republicans in the House.

I helped write the expunction code in the State of Texas to give people the opportunity to have their names cleared when they have been mistakenly arrested.

Texas should have been leading the way on constitutional carry a long time ago. Ultimately, I'd like to see all 50 states have constitutional carry.

It is not the responsibility of the judiciary to amend poor legislative drafting, even if judges would personally prefer a different outcome than what is required by a statute's text.

President Obama has continually put off the deadline for implementation of Obamacare thanks to hang-ups in the system.

I think the first thing we should do is abolish the income tax.

If I was the leader of the House of Representatives, the first thing I would do is I would put in a very clean bill on reapportionment. And I would put a very clean bill in that says that corporations are not people.

The history of Oregon is partially the history of a state that legislated not wanting black people around.

On July 2, 1964, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act. Its enactment, following the longest continuous debate in the history of the U.S. Senate, enshrined into law the basic principle upon which our country was founded - that all people are created equal.

President Obama will go down as having passed some of the most historic bills in the history of this country.

The history of business has shown that companies usually only regulate themselves if they're forced to by legislation, or out of self-interest - often in the shape of a marketable message that will help sell more products.

What is the harm of doing the right thing? What is the harm of doing our job as legislators and making sure we do not stick the entire bankruptcy community with these provisions that do not make any sense?

Congress did the right thing with Ebola. They funded us to protect Americans and keep us safer.

Protecting children from smoking in cars is the right thing to do.

Let me make it clear: The Disbursement Allocation Program is not pork barrel. Of the DAP releases in 2011 and 2012, only nine percent was disbursed for projects suggested by legislators. The DAP is not theft. Theft is illegal.

Since then, lobbyists for national and international corporations have leaned heavily on state governments to pass pro-LGBT legislation and to resist religious liberty laws.

It also meant that no state could legislate

Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion.

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

a petition campaign called Work to Live. The goal of this movement was to pass a law that would increase American vacation time to three weeks after one year on the job, and to four weeks after three years.

The College Access and Opportunity Act addresses the important need to make higher education more affordable and easier to access for low and middle-income students.

1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.

Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.