Quotes About Legislation

The job of every president is to ride herd over Congress.

What has Dianne Feinstein done... I'll put my legislative background up against hers any day.

I don't know if anybody can second-guess what they will do on Capitol Hill.

One of the things I love most about the Capitol Hill beat is that I have regular access to the lawmakers I cover.

En realidad, nada era ilegal, ya que no existían leyes.

In Georgia, agriculture is one area where Democrats and Republicans consistently reached across the aisle and work together.

I am available to work together with the commission to create clear laws that give the athletes the proper respect. The athletes deserve more respect.

You come to Washington, there's a rail bill, there's a highway bill, there's a aviation bill. But when you go home, there's an airport, there's a highway, there's a rail, there's transit. It all has to work together.

To get Congress working again, I'm dedicated to working with anyone who has an open mind, good ideas, and a willingness to work together.

One of the positives of the Illinois delegation is the congressmen and women work together on issues of local concern in a lot of different ways.

I'm not a legislator. I've never been a lobbyist. I've never worked a session before, but based on my conversations with leadership in the Senate and the House, I get the general sense that people want to work together to make things happen.

There are plenty of ways we can work together to improve the ACA, but destroying the law and leaving Americans at risk is unacceptable.

We need to work together to strengthen protections for pre-existing conditions and improve upon the gains made under the ACA, not tear it down.

You hear about a lot of fighting in Washington - they don't work together.

For three decades, Democrats and Republicans worked together to make our environment better.

It was an act of patriotism when we worked to pass a law allowing the prosecution of federal hate crimes in the name of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd.

I have joined bipartisan working groups and worked to build relationships and sponsor effective legislation with my Republican colleagues.

I worked in the Senate in the 1970s. I worked for the Labor, Public Welfare Committee, and we had Ted Kennedy and my old boss, Bill Hathaway, and Walter Mondale.

The only area that I would agree with minimum wage is in immigration reform, the guest worker program.

Should we attempt border security first, which I believe we should, we still need to face the fact that comprehensive reform is necessary. This must include a guest worker program and dealing with the 11 million people who are here today that are contributing to our economy.

I will support legislation that benefits the American worker and prevents the outsourcing of American jobs.

We have rules about the environment and rules about worker safety and rules about consumer protection.

We are living in a world that has been changed by COVID, and our legislative priorities need to support our communities and our workers to address the needs of our new environment.

Free market economists frequently see minimum wage legislation as mere political intervention. However, there are decent economic theories which show that, under certain circumstances, minimum wages can be beneficial, as it makes workers more productive.