Top 555 Congressional Committees Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.

This thing has been studied to death by Republicans and Democrats: several committees, including in Congress, that have all said, 'Yes, of course what happened was tragic, but Secretary Clinton was not in any way at fault,' and what you have here with these e-mails is basically a witch hunt.

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.

By ending congressional taxpayer-funded pensions, we will take one more step toward draining the swamp in Washington.

If I am elected leader, my shadow opposition team will actively incorporate the policy contributions of all our members by instituting policy action committees as recommend by the 2010 National Review.

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

[Write to your congressional representative against the health care reform proposal or] we will awake to find that we have socialism.

Even before Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton threw their exploratory committees into the ring, every reporter seemed to be asking, 'Which candidate are Americans more ready for: a white woman or a black man?'

Congressional dysfunction is the logical result of closed primaries, too many gerrymandered one-party seats, and low-turnout elections.

What we need is congressional action to establish a federal principle of fiduciary duty - encapsulated by the phrase 'no man can serve two masters.'

I introduced H.Res 430, a congressional resolution calling upon the president to declare a National Day of Prayer for Law Enforcement.

It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is the meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one or two men.

In the 114th Congress, I had the privilege of serving on two of the most important Committees in the House of Representatives: the House Armed Services Committee and the Committee on Education and the Workforce.

And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what this person says or how this person think(s), you know.

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.

Actors are a lot like professors on dissertation committees - it's a lot of ego, a lot of rallying for position, there is a lot at stake in every single interaction.

Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make.

If Congress can strip the federal courts of jurisdiction over school prayer cases, there is no provision in the Constitution immune from congressional tampering.

Bringing the IRS to heel can start with re-energizing and expanding congressional investigations and holding accountable those responsible for the targeting and other abuses.

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.

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

I'm running because it is past time that Tennessee's 4th Congressional District be represented by someone who is a true conservative and who represents who we are in the Volunteer State.

They sit there in committees day after day, And they each put in a color and it comes out gray. And we all have heard the saying, which is true as well as witty, That a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee.

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

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

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

The Senate cannot confirm an individual... who would support a scheme that violates our Constitution, eviscerates congressional authority.

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

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

Our constituents deserve outstanding services, and my office is working to ensure we are as accessible as possible to residents across the 18th Congressional District.

I would rather deal with a tyrant any day than a committee. Committees, as a general rule, aren’t willing to take chances, which is why you have a committee in the first place — so you can share the blame.

I don't think anybody, regardless of tragic circumstances, can expect to come to a congressional hearing and take it over with a series of interruptions.

There are dangers surrounding innocuousness and consensus and habit. ISO organizes hundreds of people on technical committees who are, no doubt, trying to do their best. But the standards in some cases end up reinforcing violence and destruction thousands of miles away.

I am proud to take the oath of office to represent and serve the great people of Colorado's Third Congressional District.

I don't believe it mattered to Timothy McVeigh who was president or who his congressional representative was when he blew up the Murrah Building in 1995.

Congressional Republicans have come to understand that their last, best hope of blocking bad policy from the White House is through spending bills.

I'm so proud of each and every student who shared their artistic talents with us as part of the 2021 Congressional Art Competition.

My congressional record speaks for itself, and my ability to build coalitions locally, nationally and across the aisles in Congress is transparent.

At one congressional hearing, Bishop Francis Kalabat complained that administration officials are overlooking what's happening to his fellow Chaldean Christians.

Creating legislation is a tough process. But watering down legislation? Strangling it with lawsuits and comment letters and blue-ribbon committees? Not so tough, it turns out.

If you fill your Agriculture Committee with representatives of commodity farmers, and you don't have urbanites, you don't represent eaters, okay? You don't have people from New York City on these committees, you are going to end up with the kind of farm bills we have: a piece of special interest legislation.

The truth is that no internal reviews or congressional hearings will change the Secret Service's broken management culture. It needs better leadership.

After directing broadcast media coverage for seven House committees, I know the signs of a sideshow - and delivering demand letters to reporters before they go to the person being asked to produce documents is one of the chief signs.

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

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

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

I am proud to represent New York's 13th Congressional District, which has one of the largest and diverse populations in the country.

But I will tell you that I didn't go to Washington to sit around and wait for Congressional action. Never done that before, and don't plan to in the future.

The United States should give former NSA contractor Edward Snowden immunity from prosecution in exchange for congressional testimony.

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

It should be remembered that the president cannot, by executive order, do things that affects the public at large unless there is some Congressional basis for it.

I briefed the House and Senate Intelligence committees that China is targeting members of Congress with six times the frequency of Russia and 12 times the frequency of Iran.

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

The American people will be appalled to learn the health care bill exempts (congressional) leadership and committee staff.

Yes, I introduced the congressional pay cut bill, cutting our salaries by five percent. And I think we have to lead by example.

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

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

Success brings with it pressure to conform. I always thought that success would lead to freedom, but the opposite is true: more people get involved, and committees make decisions, and it becomes a fight to stay free.

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

Receiving a reputable pro-Israel award isn't a bad idea for a Democrat or a Republican in a New York City congressional district.