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.

The Medicare prescription drug benefit advancing through Congress will cost much more, and do less good, than many legislators realize,

If I was a member of Congress I’d try to press him on is there a light at the end of the tunnel on measured rate hikes, and at what point the Fed decides enough...

There’s no room on the agenda, there’s no room in Congress and there’s no room politically.

Ronald Reagan never got involved in a primary campaign, even for his own daughter when she ran for Congress. He firmly believed in the 11th commandment (speak no ill of another Republican).

This period recalls the early 1970s between Congress and Nixon and the war in Vietnam. The president pushed presidential war powers as far as he could take it, and Congress is now trying to reassert...

George Bush and Republicans in Congress have put this country on the wrong track with their misplaced priorities.

The language is agreed. The vehicle by which it is going to get enacted by the Congress is still being worked.

As the president has said, we have briefed the appropriate members of Congress over a dozen times during the last few years. The attorney general looks forward to explaining the legal analysis of the terrorist...

If you expect Haiti to have any kind of democracy in the future, congress has to play a major role.

This is an old tactic Interior has used for years – try to divide and conquer. Congress should be very upset.

We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.

We can count on the fact that this will be probed by the American public, particularly by the US Congress.

For this war to be prosecuted further, constitutionality demands Congress take a definitive stand, and morality requires judgments be based on more than good intentions.

come on up here and make sure that the Congress will actually back up that money.

This will no doubt give protectionists in Congress some ammunition as the mid term elections approach.

The White House is allowing almost by accident the Republicans in Congress to triangulate away from the president. This should be a wake-up call to all Republicans who think the White House has all the...

What Congress did was much more symbolic than it was substantive, … The law has not changed, because the law has always said that a signature is a symbol adopted with someone’s intent to comply....

Pigs are going to start flying. The voice of the taxpayers is finally being heard in Congress.

We will continue to work with Republicans and Democrats in Congress to enact a tax cut plan consistent with the president’s approach.

If Congress doesn’t raise taxes, you cannot get a private investment account without forgoing a portion, possibly all, of your guaranteed benefit check.

It’s a self-perpetuating system involving interests, members of Congress, people in the executive branch and patronage positions and so on.

We can’t wait until Congress is in session next February to address next year’s supply challenges, … By then it will be too late. … Flu is a worldwide killer and the need for a...

The congress will bring ratification, reiteration of the fundamentals of the revolution.

What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including Congress.

Congress needs to slow down, hold a hearing and make sure this isn’t a solution in search of a problem first.

I submit to you, Mr. President of Congress, my formal resignation as president of the republic,

This is a victory for sound science, the killer whales, and the people of the Pacific Northwest. However, if Congress continues on its path to gut the Endangered Species Act, the best tools available to...

Since this is constitutional it does not impinge on the powers of Congress. Congress, however, must observe its own rules in the power of inquiry in aid of legislation while the rights of the witnesses...

What did the Democrats in Congress know and why weren’t they talking to each other?

Congressional proposals that would roll back state laws are headed in the wrong direction. Our findings suggest that Congress should adopt the strongest state provisions and allow states to tailor other provisions to fit their...

It’s a very good start. For the Congress, which hasn’t done this before, we think it’s a bold, cooperative move.

In the wiretapping, despite all the momentum for a more assertive Congress, you’re seeing Congress backing down, because there are many Republicans and even Democrats who are afraid of being seen as preventing the president...

Congress reacted, the public reacted, and this made it all the more complicated for the United States to continue its, its secret assistance to the Iraqi military.

I’ll tell you, gentlemen, it’s this kind of case that makes many of us in Congress skeptical that it’s actually a new day,

Because she sat where she sat, we are now sitting in Congress, … We are sitting in the Supreme Court. We are sitting as CEOs and heads of universities.

If you’re schooled in just the executive branch, you’re inclined to think Congress is pretty stupid — they get things wrong a lot and all smartness lies in the executive branch, … starting point would...

Congress doesn’t hate Congress.

The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.

We’re half the people; we should be half the Congress.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

We’re in a Congress that much prefers to investigate than legislate, so we can assume that there will be hearings and an investigation.

I think that Congress’ ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.

Most of what we report from Congress they don’t care about unless it affects them directly.

The president’s focus will be the bottom line: He wants tax cuts. He’ll work with Congress on whatever procedure best gets that job done.

(I support efforts) to limit the terms of the members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate