Quotes About Legislation

Many in Congress wanted to cap pay at financial institutions that benefited from taxpayer dollars.

under Dodd's bill we would also have little role in ensuring systemic stability.

I exaggerate only slightly when I tell audiences that, if they are impressed with Congress's management of the federal budget, they should support audit-the-Fed legislation to give Congress the responsibility for making monetary policy as well.

Hank was initially noncommittal. He knew that he and his team would have to lead the effort to develop a legislative proposal and sell it to Congress.

Congress would not take up reforms of this magnitude in a presidential election year.

With that law still in place, Citi likely could not have become as large and complex as it did.

I saw the GSEs as the responsibility of Congress

Most economists oppose minimum wage laws, but that never prevents the laws from being written. The living wage movement lives on, not because of any merit, but because it's a popular political move to back anything that "helps the poor.

This is why conservatives lose. They lose because while they proclaim that Obama's signature legislation fails on the merits, raising costs and lowering access to vital services, the left surges forth with a different message: Conservatives are rotten to the core.

It is worth noting that there is no clause of the Constitution whereby the president can simply implement his favored policies without congressional approval.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

England is governed not by logic but by parliament.

Political institutions, founded on abstract rights and principles, are mere nullities.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Any effort to impose national security legislation that does not reflect the will of the people of Hong Kong would be highly destabilizing and would be met with strong condemnation from the United States and the international community.

We need to pass comprehensive immigration reform, period.

I'm largely in favor of financial reform.

Conservatives have always wanted border security before we had immigration reform.

A lot of people don't believe that Kirk-Heitkamp is a real reform bill.

There's a lot of work you have to do before you ever fire the starting gun on a health reform bill - doing the scut work with members of Congress, talking to your allies - to figure out the best plan.

Do we need Medicare reform? Yes we do.

We must pass immigration reform.

One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.

Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune.