Top 405 Congressional Quotes & Sayings

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.

The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around.

President Bush bestowed the Congressional Medal on myself.

The Senate should refuse to confirm nominees who do not take Congressional power seriously.

We have a bipartisan congressional task force against anti-Semitism, that's fantastic.

The cost of congressional and presidential campaigns has been leaping every two or four years. I think this year it will be 60 percent more than 1996; well over twice as much as in 1992 in the presidential and congressional races.

Sloths move at the speed of congressional debate but with greater deliberation and less noise.

I represent the 9th Congressional District of Georgia. I'm their voice.

Alabama seniors all across the Third Congressional District continue facing high drug costs.

I think the media loves taking the most absurd clips for a sport that has become congressional politics.

Members of the media-monetary-military-congressional complex are immoral and have an allergy to the truth.

It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.

When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate.

There are a lot of anachronisms in Washington, but the need to periodically raise the debt limit by Congressional vote is certainly one of them.

The Congressional Art Competition encourages and cultivates the ingenuity and creativity of young people in our region.

Disease does not recognize congressional districts or party affiliation.

Hurray! Congress is to adjourn! Only four more days of Congressional burglary on the Treasury!

If I am elected to Congress, I plan to introduce legislation tying Congressional pay to performance.

Holding Congressional hearings is the purview of the majority, and during the first years of the Obama administration, Democrats could not be bothered.

We have numerous mandirs, gurudwaras, and mosques in my Congressional district and all across the U.S.

Each congressional race really depends upon the candidates and how they carry the message.

The Trump administration launched the cruise missile strikes in Syria, an act of war, without a U.N. resolution or Congressional authorization.

Defending Congressional authority should not be a partisan issue.

I play in the congressional baseball game.

The thing that is different I think from the years ago, when I was covering the shutdown at the Clinton White House. Then, it was a different political landscape. At that point, a third of House Republicans in the 1995 shutdown were in congressional districts that had been won by Bill Clinton. 7 percent of House Republicans are in congressional districts that were won by Barack Obama shows you how much more partisan the whole country is. A lot of the bridges that used to be used to reach a deal when you needed to reach a compromise have been blown up in the past years.

The term congressional hearing is an oxymoron. No congressional hearing is ever called to gather information. Rather, it is an exercise designed strictly for posturing, by people who have already made up their minds, looking for ammunition to support their positions.

Your memo is trumping a Congressional statute. You don't have the discretion on whether to follow the law or not.

Politicians like to confuse congressional spending with earmarks. There is a difference.

President Obama and the congressional Democrats have certainly been responsive.

So, I represent the 1st Congressional District of New York. It's on the east end of Long Island. This is Suffolk County.

We absolutely need to reform the Congressional budget-writing process.

There's a lot of politics over who gets the next allocation of Congressional funding.

I will make the final decision on running for governor after my congressional term ends.

An enormous problem with paid media, especially at the congressional level, is it all starts to look alike.

Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.

If you don't go into a congressional hearing thoroughly prepared, then you should bring a toothbrush, because you're going to be there a while.

Serving the people of Colorado's Third Congressional District is the greatest honor of my life.

The abuse of congressional power for pure partisan gain has become a specialty of the GOP.

In 1980, a young Senator Al Gore held the first Congressional hearings on global warming.

The ideal weapons system is built in 435 congressional districts and it doesn't matter whether it works or not.

As the Director of the FBI, I am committed to ensuring that the Bureau is being transparent and responsive to legitimate congressional requests.

Congressional Republicans themselves have vehemently defended the idea that preexisting conditions should not be used to deny people insurance.

The Senate has been debased to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination sheltered by the shield of congressional immunity.

I think national issues play into gubernatorial races less than, obviously, in Senate and Congressional races. Much less. They tend to be more decided by personality, leadership qualities and by state or local issues. They still have some effect, no question about it, but not as much as Senate and Congressional races.

The repealing and replacing of Obamacare is very complicated. It is what a White House and congressional leadership, serious White House and serious congressional leadership, should meet on and work on and figure out a strategy of, and it may work and it may not. Obviously not every administration gets things through, even when they have much larger majorities in congress and a much larger popular vote than Donald Trump had.

I don't look like a normal congressional candidate.

As members of Congress, we have to pursue the Congressional Review Act legislation as soon as possible.

When I make decisions, it's not based on what the Republican Party does. I'm elected by the 9th congressional district.

The Congressional Black Caucus is a moral fraud. It's amazing how many people are afraid of saying that

Anything my staff does in my office is pursuant to congressional rules.

Some of the school districts in my congressional district are looking at resource officers and how they secure that environment.

The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America.

The San Fernando Valley has plenty of manufacturing zones, especially in the 29th Congressional District.

I don't think people want to see someone buy a congressional race.

The Office of Congressional Ethics was created to provide more transparency in the House of Representatives. It was a commendable goal.

Indiana's ninth congressional district isn't historically known as a fount of congressional contributions. That said, if you look at my fundraising history, we've succeeded.

It's a proud tradition we have of a diverse representation from the Maryland congressional delegation.

One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act.

We're doing everything we can to solidify my base of support in the 4th Congressional district.

White man makes guns? No problem. Black rapper says "gun"? Congressional hearing.