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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.

Strong Process Long Congress Group

Apparently it's acceptable for members of Congress to own stock in companies we regulate in Congress, but somehow, our plumbing company crosses some line.

Markwayne Mullin

Congress Company Plumbing Line Own

The 112th Congress passed only 220 laws, the lowest number enacted by any Congress. In 1948, when President Truman called the 80th Congress a 'Do-Nothing' Congress, it had passed more than 900 laws.

Congress President More Laws Only

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.

Blame Congress Done Washington Need

As we enter into the 110th Congress, it is imperative that we address ethics reforms needed to make this institution run correctly.

Ethics Congress Run Institution Make

The Obama administration demonstrated time and again a disturbing willingness to bypass the separation of powers and disregard Congress as a Constitutional watchdog.

Time Congress Separation Again

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.

Focus Control Create Congress Take

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.

Dog War Legal You Congress Go

I was counsel on the full veterans committee, the first Vietnam veteran to serve as a full-committee counsel in Congress. It stunned me that there was a 600,000-case backlog of claims. During my time in the Senate, it became 900,000.

Time Me Congress Veterans First

I firmly believe that if members of Congress fail to perform their most basic duty in passing a budget, then they do not deserve to be paid.

Believe Budget Congress Duty Deserve

If becoming a member of Congress is like going to college, then crafting legislation is our homework.

College Homework Congress Going Like

When the EPA says that property owners, farmers, and livestock producers must stomach higher costs, longer delays, and bigger headaches, it's up to Congress to put up a roadblock.

Congress Farmers Up Stomach Property

In Congress, it's all pork, all the time.

Time Congress Pork

I like to compare 'Instagram' to the Library of Congress.

Library Congress Instagram Like

Believe it or not, there are members of Congress who actually want to govern and get stuff done. Unfortunately, there are others whose agendas and strategies serve to advance their own interests and expand their donor base.

Believe Congress Done Want Others

Our political system has been bankrupted by the failures of Congress to act in ways that give meaning to the struggles our constituents endure.

Raja Krishnamoorthi

Political Meaning Congress Endure

There is nothing that I didn't get to do while I was serving in Congress - except be in the majority.

Congress Nothing Serving Get Except

Because the Bush Administration will set no timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, both chambers of Congress acted to make sure our troops will not be left in Iraq indefinitely.

Congress Will Left Because Sure Set

Before I was elected to Congress, I worked in a courtroom. For years, I defended doctors and hospitals, and for years, I sued them on behalf of people who were victims of medical malpractice.

Medical People Congress Years Who

I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants.

I Am Congress More Giants Being

Congress is the appropriate place to make laws about our country's immigration policy; it is not something that the president gets to decide on his own.

Immigration Country Place Congress

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Courage Compassion Congress More

I was eleventh-grade class president. That was the first elective office I held until I came into Congress.

Congress Class First Office I Came

Well, you know, you're not going to have 86 percent of Congress voted out of office.

You Congress Know Office Out Going

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