When I testified in front of Congress, I know that I was testifying under oath and I told the truth.

We’re confident, the president is confident, when Congress really understands the transaction they will conclude as he did, it’s the right thing to do.

This is information that seniors need to have and understand, … The Medicare prescription bill was a contentious one in Congress. The average person on Medicare will see a savings of 50 percent in prescription...

Tuition, housing fees, even textbook costs are difficult to meet these days. Why Congress feels the need to cut student loans and drag our faces in the mud, I do not know.

The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic cloning, then you will get reproductive cloning.

Unfortunately, it looks like Congress is going to squander another day without getting any substantial work done.

If you, Judge Roberts, subscribe to the Rehnquist court’s restrictive interpretation of Congress’s ability to legislate, the impact could be to severely restrict the ability of Congress to tackle nationwide issues that the American people...

Now is certainly not the time for Congress to embark on massive tax cuts or spending programs predicated on revenues we have not yet received. Caution, not exuberance, should be our fiscal motto.

This administration’s tough policies had certain advantages in dealing with this Congress on the huge changes in law that would be necessary if there were a change of policies for North Korea,

It would be a mistake to be decided by Congress. It should be decided by the voters.

I’m saying that we have significant concerns about significant portions ? of this, … We need to work with Congress to work our way through that.

The fact that Congress wasn’t aware that the FBI has used some 30,000 national security letters over the past few years is an indication that not enough oversight has been done. The money-laundering sections of...

What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be.

Congress should make it so that all sex scenes in all films should be provided with a screaming baby sound track. That should help take away all the fun and may show a major decrease...

I bowl like I masturbate: with two hands. I should run for Congress.

The tax is set at what the Congress and the president believe is an appropriate level to help.

She was a huge ally. She lent her name to the cause, testified before Congress on ENDA (Employment Non-Discrimination Act), appeared at events. I hope that her death will lead to a rededication and a...

The problem isn’t ex-members (of Congress), or future members or even lobbyists. The problem is lodged in the way the (Congress) does its business, and we have to reform ourselves. Public opinion, public spotlight can...

Until last year, Congress was just a club; we are trying to make it more serious and more influential for the student body. We are looking to reform our committees to make ourselves more respected...

It looks like the design is to get us out of Congress, to scuttle our participation in the democratic process, This was a very short experiment for us.

The president and Congress must be clear with the American people about the stakes involved and the difficulties yet to come.

I think it’s a lovely idea, but it will not pass the Congress. I live in a world of realities. The policy of our country is that we can drill our way to independence. I...

The requirement for the United States to craft a national security strategy (NSS) document was first codified in the National Security Act of 1947, and amended by the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of...

The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill...

By the middle of the fall, if there’s a feeling that the economy has withstood this blow, then Congress might be able to return to a more traditional agenda.

I fear that as usual Congress is lagging and they will address a problem long after it is pressing.

Not since Richard Nixon stiffed the Congress during Watergate has a White House so openly and arrogantly defied Congress’ investigative authority. Nor has any activity by the Bush administration more strongly suggested they are hiding...

It has clearly been a pattern in the past few months of Congress intensifying its efforts of looking into how the executive branch has handled executive authority, and this will only intensify. During the 1970s,...

I’m not going to address a number of the issues we are discussing with Congress in the press. I’ll just tell you that we are committed to strengthening work site enforcement.

What the Congress and the companies are able to work out, we’ll support and cooperate with so long as it does not involve a summary decision by the Congress that blocks this transaction.

So Jefferson in 1801 decided he would not appear personally before a congress, but rather he would deliver a written annual message and low and behold we changed the president. Since Jefferson, presidents kept delivering...

When people get mad, they’re more likely to do something. When I go back to Congress … what’s happened at Sago and what’s happened here, there’s got to be a lot of mad people.

The President’s budget represents a starting point for what is certain to be a long debate in the Congress over the priorities of government.

as an assault on the Congress.

The House has completely abdicated its constitutional responsibility to police itself. There is still no member of Congress, in either party, willing to file an ethics complaint.

You chose to make this initiative without, to my knowledge, any serious prior consultation with Congress.

Before we come to the Congress of the United States and ask you to spend more money on more people, we need to make sure we are properly using the assets we have,

He has been careful to address all possible concerns about his leadership in Congress, in financial markets and among his Fed colleagues.

Cures were developed for which there were no known diseases. (Commenting on Congress and the federal budget, 1981)

The Supreme Court, in 2005, emphasized and contrasted the great power of Congress under the Commerce Clause to regulate interstate commerce versus much more limited federal power under the discarded Articles of Confederation.

I support his race for Congress and I hope he’ll be our next representative in Washington.

Handcuffs barely wrap around the girth of my penis. I should run for Congress.

Suspending the operations of the PLO office is another message from Congress to the Palestinian people that it adopts the position of the far right in Israel and this does not serve U.S. interests in...

It’s the most expansive vision of the executive power of a president in our lifetime. To suggest that (Congress has) given him a blanket authority to do what he has done is a vast stretch.

Congress does investigations better than they do anything else.

If a trip is worth taking, members of Congress should be prepared to justify paying for it out of their office accounts.

We are grateful to Congress and the president for enacting this legislation without further delay.

Congress: Bingo with billions

The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.

These are folks who fought for our country, and Max doesn’t think that they should have to fight Congress every year for the health care and benefits they need and deserve.