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The White House tapes, recording Nixon's nefarious doings from Watergate to the bombing of Vietnam, made frightening reading once made public on the orders of Congress.
- Nigel Hamilton
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The problem... is that most members of Congress don't pay attention to what's going on.
- John McCain
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There is no question of any alliance with the Congress party. The Congress have always neglected the people of Odisha.
- Naveen Patnaik
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The Fed is the major U.S. firefighter. It's not the Treasury. It's not the Congress. We certainly saw that vividly in 2008.
- Roger Altman
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I was in federal prison in West Virginia for three months for contempt of Congress for a refusing to comply with a request of a Congressional committee of Congress, the House Un-American Activities Committee.
- Howard Fast
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I ran for Congress, just once.
- Shirley Temple
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I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels... a Library of Congress worth of awful literature.
- Seth Grahame-Smith
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Unlike the Japanese internment, water-boarding was ordered and served up in secret. But it, too, was America's policy, not just Dick Cheney's. Congress was informed about what was happening and raised no objection. The public knew, too.
- Jacob Weisberg
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As Congress focuses on comprehensive health care reform, one thing needs to be clear: We cannot fix health care if we do not address America's nursing shortage.
- Kirsten Gillibrand
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I started writing songs in high school, so you had to write this stuff out and register it with the Library of Congress. You had to learn how to do that stuff.
- Gordon Lightfoot
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What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be.
- Benjamin Franklin Fairless
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What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including Congress.
- Serge Lang
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The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.
- Caleb Cushing
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If you look at U.S. Congress, 80 percent of them have never left the U.S.A., so I'm not surprised about Russophobia in Congress.
- Sergei Lavrov
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Congress must recognize that free enterprise is the cornerstone of this nation's economy.
- Jack Swigert
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Everybody on this floor wants to send the same loud and clear message: that Congress is united in its opposition to terror and we are all deeply concerned about the future and security of our close friend and ally, Israel.
- Earl Blumenauer
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I would like to see this group in this Congress be starting the process to get ourselves on long term fiscal strong footing.
- Ben Quayle
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I continued to serve in Congress until 2001.
- David Minge
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Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
- Val Kilmer
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In most riots in India, Congress has had a direct or indirect involvement. History bears this out.
- Piyush Goyal
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Newt Gingrich's job to capture the Congress was to give Republican candidates an edge and a distinction from their Democratic opponent. That required a very high profile, some very strong language.
- Pete du Pont
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Obviously, overall infrastructure needs on the Southwest and Northern borders are mounting. We need a major push in Congress to remedy this.
- Pete Domenici
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I mean, it's pretty disillusioning for all of us right now, and we feel pretty helpless when Congress, their approval rating is thirteen percent, and across the board, whether you're a Democrat or a Republican, you sort of want to walk in and fire everybody.
- Christopher Cross
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As a member of Congress representing Southern Nevada, I am always advocating for our tourism industry, talking about our millions of annual visitors, and reminding folks in Washington, D.C., that we are the entertainment capital of the world.
- Jacky Rosen
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Washington, D.C., has a much greater risk than Manchester, N.H. They both need some level of funding, but they ought not to be done per capita. Congress is to blame for some of this.
- Warren Rudman
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With respect to the northeastern boundary of the United States, no official correspondence between this Government and that of Great Britain has passed since that communicated to Congress toward the close of their last session.
- Martin Van Buren
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The most energetic and prompt measures and the immediate appearance in arms of a large and overpowering force are recommended to Congress as the most certain and efficient means of bringing the existing collision with Mexico to a speedy and successful termination.
- James K. Polk
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I like Barack Obama as a person. He's articulate, he knows sports, his brother-in-law's a coach. He always has the athletes to the White House. But I don't know about some of his policies and some of these people in Congress.
- Pete Rose
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In the 114th Congress, I had the privilege of serving on two of the most important Committees in the House of Representatives: the House Armed Services Committee and the Committee on Education and the Workforce.
- Elise Stefanik
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We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.
- Nancy Pelosi
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TDP had to join hands with the Congress given the need for a major anchor party in the front against the BJP.
- N. Chandrababu Naidu
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We've got to stand up at some point and say, 'We are not gonna pay slavery reparations in the United States Congress.' That war's been fought. That was over a century ago. That debt was paid for in blood, and it was paid for in the blood of a lot of Yankees, especially. And there's no reparations for the blood that paid for the sin of slavery.
- Steve King
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Imagine if Congress always put the interests of polluters ahead of the health of our families. Our rivers and lakes would be choked with sewage. Acid rain would pour down from smog-filled skies. Hundreds of thousands more of our neighbors, friends, and loved ones would be victims of cancer, heart disease, and asthma.
- Jeff Merkley
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President Obama thinks he can use emotion to bring pressure on Congress. But that's not how adults with power respond to things.
- Maureen Dowd
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I ran for Congress in 1996 to help Ted Kennedy pass a comprehensive health insurance reform bill.
- Jim McGovern
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In 2005, I was the first member of Congress to introduce legislation calling for an immediate withdrawal of our troops from Iraq.
- Jim McGovern
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If the House Republicans want to repeal the Affordable Care Act, they should make their case to the American people and elect a president and a majority in both Houses of Congress prepared to do that.
- Jerrold Nadler
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The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today.
- Marty Meehan
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In a typical whistleblower scenario where the inspector general determines a complaint to be credible and urgent, there would be no colorable legal basis for the complaint to not reach Congress.
- Asha Rangappa
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Congress has the power to legislate with regard to activity that, in the aggregate, has a substantial effect on interstate commerce.
- David Souter
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Some day, the public might actually revolt against the undemocratic system of seniority that allows Congress to keep the old ways of Washington ingrained into the culture of Congress.
- Chuck Todd
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The president and Republicans in Congress have repeatedly promised to revisit Social Security privatization after November. But Americans have already said, loud and clear, that they don't want Social Security to be privatized or dismantled.
- Jim Clyburn
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The atmosphere is different in Congress after September 11. Terrorism is no longer an abstract issue, but a real, tangible threat.
- Howard Berman
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Creating a sustainable, economic, social, and ecological environment that provides everyone the opportunity to succeed is my mission in Congress.
- Jared Polis
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I've learned what Tip O'Neill meant when he said all politics is local. We need more people in Congress who have this experience, who have this boots-on-the-ground experience.
- Jim Gray
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Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.
- Sam Rayburn
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What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?
- Marion Barry
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I sit on the Drug Policy Subcommittee of the United States Congress. I'm on the speaker's task force. This is something people would rather turn away from and not face, but in fact it is possibly the greatest threat we face.
- Doug Ose
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When I first ran for Congress in the 1990s, my background as an openly gay Asian was one of the focal points of the campaign, and, in fact, my opponent attacked me for it.
- Mark Takano
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I had hoped all of Congress would recognize that it is imperative for our health, economy, and national security that we address the effects of climate change before they get even worse.
- Mark Pocan
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Of course, running a coalition government in a country like India is a difficult task. More so when Congress leads the coalition, since most of the political parties were anti-Congress. To have a coalition, to run a coalition government, you require a lot of adjustments, a lot of flexibility.
- Pranab Mukherjee
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Together, we will protect the sanctity of life, ensuring early next Congress that no federal funds are used for abortion.
- Fred Upton
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As we enter into the 110th Congress, it is imperative that we address ethics reforms needed to make this institution run correctly.
- Jo Ann Davis
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Congress passed the deeply flawed Patriot Act and authorized the invasion of Iraq. It even gave its retroactive approval to warrantless wiretapping.
- Andrew Rosenthal
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A lot about Congress is about forming good working relationships with people, and humor can really help you do that.
- Linda Sanchez
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As a member of Congress, I'm often reminded that in baseball, as in diplomacy, you have to know when to hit, when to run, and when to show grace.
- Linda Sanchez
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You can't be the perfect member of Congress and the perfect mother 100 percent of the time. And probably, you'd be a pretty annoying person if you were.
- Linda Sanchez
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So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress.
- Malcolm Wallop
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If the Republicans get control back of the United States Senate, we will no longer have a check and balance on the White House, on the Republican Congress.
- Patty Murray
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So our focus has to be on the things that we can control, which is to take the necessary measures working with Congress to ensure that our economy grows, that we create jobs.
- Jay Carney
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In reference to the Army and Navy, lately employed with so much distinction on active service, care shall be taken to insure the highest condition of efficiency; and in furtherance of that object, the Military and Naval Schools, sustained by the liberality of Congress, shall receive the special attention of the Executive.
- Zachary Taylor
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What we're trying to do is address something I saw in Congress that was a major problem, which is to say that energy is arguably the most fundamental issue confronting our country.
- Brad Carson
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
- Fay Vincent
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If Trump, for whatever reason, continues to coddle Russia, then Congress, the media, foundations, and academics should publicly detail the corruption that characterizes Putin's rule.
- Richard N. Haass
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It's wrong that members of Congress can purchase luxury airfare with taxpayer money when many families in my district and across the county are struggling to make ends meet.
- Raul Ruiz
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If our men and women in uniform are restricted from buying first-class airfare, the same should apply to Congress.
- Raul Ruiz
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I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress.
- Geraldine Ferraro
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Congress must not do something just for the sake of doing something. We must carefully and thoughtfully consider the implications of any action and whether that action will help or hinder our ultimate mission of protecting U.S. citizens from terror.
- Richard Burr
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An increase in the debt ceiling should be accompanied by fundamental policy reforms, substantial budget savings, and a strong enforcement mechanism to tie the hands of any future Congress.
- Jerome Powell
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Modi could have done wonders in the country because he had a majority government. He, however, only changed the names of the schemes implemented by the Congress.
- Raj Thackeray
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It would be a tragic mistake for Congress ever to adopt any public or tax policy which encourages mothers to assign child care to others and enter the labor force.
- Phyllis Schlafly
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As fighting in Iraq intensifies, President Bush delivered his supplemental war budget to Congress. The money will cover 30 days of fighting, then we'll be sent one war every other month until we cancel our subscription.
- Craig Kilborn
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My mother once used to be a Congress leader.
- Govinda
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Even as a child, I knew what the symbol of the Congress was.
- Suresh Gopi
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After we were hit on September 11, 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks later, on October 26 2001, the U.S.A. Patriot Act was passed by a Congress that had little chance to debate it; many said that they scarcely had time to read it.
- Naomi Wolf
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I could run for Congress. Why not? Good heavens, if Ronald Reagan can be president, I ought to make a great secretary of the treasury.
- Sandra Dee
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When I worked in a medical practice, our practice provided the insurance. When I retired the next day to run for public office to run for Congress, I had to pay first dollar.
- Phil Roe
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In Congress, it's all pork, all the time.
- Jim Cooper
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I've criticized Republicans for their lack of fiscal discipline when they controlled Congress before 2007. However, that is no excuse to just continue with more of the same or, as the case is now, to make it worse. Under House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's budget, we will double the national debt in five years and triple it in 10.
- Erik Paulsen
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Since I joined Congress, I've been shocked at how many times we were forced to vote on 1,000-plus-page bills without ample time to read or review what was in the final legislation. It's no wonder Congress doesn't enact good policy.
- Erik Paulsen
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Article I, Section 8, Clause 4 of the Constitution grants Congress clear jurisdiction with regard to U.S. citizenship and immigration matters.
- Paul Gosar
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Congress has consistently rejected policies that aim to allow illegal aliens to serve in the military.
- Paul Gosar
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It is not the role of Congress to decide legal cases between private parties. That is why we have courts.
- Jerrold Nadler
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Obama is as likely to be impeached as he is to be installed as the next pontiff. And I say that as someone who has testified in Congress that this president has violated federal laws, unconstitutionally appointed various executive-branch officers and improperly transferred money.
- Jonathan Turley
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The failed stimulus, along with Obamacare's long list of failures, show what happens when Congress passes laws in a rush.
- John Barrasso
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After two years of hard work and debate, Congress has passed a highway bill that will help fuel our economy by creating roughly 500,000 new jobs, as well as address many critical transportation needs in Ohio and the 18th Congressional District.
- Bob Ney
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I'm probably one of the only people who has voted for the speaker of the House but didn't serve in Congress.
- Martha McSally
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Congress has greatly tightened the loopholes terrorists can use to harm Americans. We need to do more. We need controls immediately on what forms of ID are adequate to board planes and enter secure sites.
- Elton Gallegly
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It is plain that, when it comes to inferior officers, Congress itself can pass a law sending these nominees to the President with him having the authority to put them on the bench without the advice and consent of the Senate.
- John Jay Hooker
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We are fighting the BJP and the Congress at both the state and national levels. People know them to be two sides of the same coin. However, our primary goal is to defeat the BJP as it is led by the RSS, and they exhibit fascist tendencies.
- Pinarayi Vijayan
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Every proper exertion has been made and will be continued to carry out the wishes of Congress in relation to the tobacco trade, as indicated in the several resolutions of the House of Representatives and the legislation of the two branches.
- Martin Van Buren
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I am confident that the Defense Department understands JSTARS is a major priority for Congress and will complete the process of updating the JSTARS fleet in a timely manner.
- Tom Graves
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Anything that is not good for the poor people of India is not the policy of the Congress Party.
- Sanjay Gandhi
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If they're willing to stand at polls for countless hours in the rain, as many did, then I should surely stand up for them here in the halls of Congress.
- Stephanie Tubbs Jones
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I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.
- Warren Christopher
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The result was, when Congress convened in January 1971, everyone was now an environmentalist. They had seen a new force, college students, who favored the environment.
- Pete McCloskey
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George W. Bush presided over an international network of torture chambers and, with the help of a compliant Congress and press, launched a war of aggression that killed hundreds of thousands of men, women and children.
- Jodie Evans
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When I started running for Congress, it actually took me by surprise that so many people were fascinated with me being the first Muslim in Congress.
- Keith Ellison
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In Maine, we are fortunate to have a Clean Elections system that allows legislators to turn down corporate special interest money. At the national level, Congress should follow Maine's example by empowering the voices of small donors.
- Chellie Pingree
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One of the first members of Congress I met when I was first elected in 2008 was Barney Frank.
- Chellie Pingree
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