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As Congress battles over spending and cost cutting, it is imperative that funding for math education programs does not fall victim.

Priyamvada Natarajan

Education Fall Congress Over Battles

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.

Barbara Ann Radnofsky

Power Great Congress More Commerce

Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.

Shirley Chisholm

Time Problem Meeting Congress Hold

We've got the power of the purse in the Congress.

Blake Farenthold

Power Congress Purse Got

When Congress passed the Authorization for the Use of Military Force immediately after the 9/11 attacks, no one could have imagined this authorization would continue to be the basis for American wars that persist a decade and a half later.

American Congress Military Decade

I have served in the Congress during two wars and I have seen the impacts on our military, on their families and on our national deficit.

Congress Military Two Seen Our Wars

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Money Day American Congress Will

I told the president 'no' to special treatment for Congress when he tried to exempt them from Obamacare.

Congress Special President He Tried

We only have one president and one secretary of state, but our founding fathers very clearly insisted that Congress play a significant role in foreign policy.

Play Congress President Clearly Role

Congress is too old. They don't have a stake in the game.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Game Congress Old Too Stake

I have a reputation for being the hardest working person in Congress.

Shelley Berkley

Reputation Person Congress Working

Bill Clinton worked with a Republican Congress. They certainly had their differences on many issues, but look at what they also accomplished. Welfare reform - that was maybe the most significant social policy achievement in two generations.

Achievement Differences Look Congress

Between the Community Redevelopment Act, requiring banks to make what I would call very weak loans, and specific quotas that the Congress imposed on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, that created the market demand that really led to the subprime phenomenon.

Community Congress Weak Act Market

Whether wisely or not, one of the first priorities of the incoming Obama administration was to present a package of healthcare benefits, which, to no one's surprise, produced an uproar in Congress and an assortment of polls declaring that the majority of Americans were opposed to it.

Sherwin B. Nuland

Present Surprise Priorities Congress

Unfortunately, most of Congress has little to offer except making noise and knowing how to move up the bloated political chain.

Political Congress Knowing Up Noise

We need a Congress that understands the sanctity of life, the sanctity of traditional values, the sanctity of traditional marriage.

Life Marriage Values Congress Need

We should be all be treated equally under the law. Why should members of Congress be in Obamacare and not the president?

Law Congress Why President Obamacare

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

Care Congress Affects Report Most

Congress has repeatedly passed laws and otherwise raised a ruckus about indecent language on the broadcast airwaves used for radio and television.

Language Television Congress Radio

The use of military force against a sovereign nation is an act of war. Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution explicitly grants Congress the sole power to declare war.

Power War Constitution Congress Act

Because terms limits are so popular, the interest of a member of Congress in staying in office would be congruent with supporting my term limits joint resolution.

Limits Resolution Congress Office

If George W. Bush is given a second term, and retains a Republican Congress and a compliant federal judiciary, he and his allies are likely to embark on a campaign of political retribution the likes of which we haven't seen since Richard Nixon.

Political Congress Republican Seen

We'll look to the fall and if there is a new president and a new Senate that's part of a Congress willing to change, that's the next step.

Change Step Fall Look Congress New

Congress has not raised the minimum wage since 1997. The minimum wage is now at its lowest level in 50 years adjusted for inflation.

Congress Now Minimum Wage Years Wage

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