It is now clear that the costly regulatory burdens imposed by this legislation absolutely outweigh its benefits. The PCAOB and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act raise unconstitutional barriers to needed liquidity, discourage entrepreneurship and innovation, and hinder...

then working on legislation to match the numbers.

People are tired of all the litigation. They’re tired of the high insurance costs. The legislation will require all developers to use better practices that the good developers are using now and should result in...

That vote may be an issue if Cheney were going to be the person signing legislation or proposing legislation, but he’s not, … It’s going to be George W. Bush, who’s already told us he’s...

If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

This legislation brings to bear instruments of leverage sufficient to the task, the most important being tying the U.S. financial contribution to a series of readily understandable benchmarks.

We think it is very significant. We celebrate the fact that a state has put forth legislation that has no exception. We believe when it gets to the Supreme Court… the court could use (the...

Any legislation we support will have to include visa programs.

The legislation might have passed if he had waited, but it would have been on Page 8 of the nation’s newspapers.

We very strongly want to see good financial services modernization legislation passed this year, … The bill that came out of the Senate banking committee does not meet these requisites.

This hard date will also give consumers adequate notice and time to get ready for the transition, … This legislation will provide a robust digital-to-analog converter box assistance program.

The legislation we crafted in conference goes a long way in solving the egregious problems that have arisen as a result of corporate misconduct and accounting scandals. It’s not a total answer, but I think...

We’re trying to do everything we can to ensure that we are in compliance with the federal legislation to have offenders who are on the Ontario registry go onto the national registry.

Since we are on the front lines and have undocumented workers, it (legislation) will point the way for businesses to come here. They will not have to worry about a potential illegal workforce. They will...

Bill C-9 was supposed to be a budget bill, but it came with innumerable measures that had little or nothing to do with the nation’s finances. It was, as critics put it, the advance of...

Under the attempt to perform the impossible there sets in a general disintegration. When legislation fails, those who look upon it as a sovereign remedy simply cry out for more legislation.A sound and wise statesmanship...

Even though Europe may be the only one seen pushing this legislation, environmental product compliance is here to stay and is catching on globally. Don’t blame the EU for the legislation. If not Europe, China...

It is time to write it in the books of law.” By the time Lyndon Johnson left office he had done a lot of writing in those books, had become, above all presidents save Lincoln,...

The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build...

I am proud of the bipartisan process that produced this legislation. Corporate responsibility is an investor and retiree issue. It is not a partisan issue, and those who would attempt to make it so do...

It’s a piece of legislation that comes out of the blue.

We suffered from the hurricanes last year, and I will howl if their legislation gets some special consideration over Florida’s.

A general rule of thumb is, … you don’t introduce dog legislation because it doesn’t go anywhere.

This isn’t a power grab. Tough decisions need tough legislation to allow us to be able to do it.

We saw anti-marriage legislation in so many states passing, with basically glee, that we realized we formally needed more religious outreach to churches, clergy, synagogues and mosques.

True unalienable rights do not require one to trample other unalienable rights.

Now is the appropriate time for this legislation.

Our natural gas supply problems are man-made by legislation and red tape. We are joining together to call on Congress and the Administration to take immediate action to fix the problem. The solution is in...

By passing the permanent trade legislation and then by working to get them in the World Trade Organization, it seems to me we put ourselves on the side of the reform elements in China.