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Last updated on November 12, 2024.
Surveillance legislation passed in good faith has been stretched well beyond its original purpose.
We've got to pass legislation which will allow people to have access to competent counsel no matter who they are.
Being whip is working with members, educating them, and trying to move legislation forward.
When we see some of these pieces of legislation that want to eliminate single-family zoning in California, that's wrong.
The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation.
Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.
Legislation is about three fundamental things - affordability, access, and quality. That's what the American people want.
The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it.
Our small businesses, those in healthcare and the sick should be the only priority of legislation regarding Coronavirus.
I will fight every single day to pass comprehensive immigration-reform legislation with a path to citizenship.
Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.
Maybe I was naive, but I thought the whole point of being an MP was to scrutinise legislation and improve it.
I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.
It's hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.
Members of Congress and their staffs should be the first to feel the negative consequences of poorly written legislation, not the last.
Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the rules of the European Union than most member states.
The Clean Energy Jobs legislation will provide predictability and certainty for large carbon emitters.
In 2005, I was the first member of Congress to introduce legislation calling for an immediate withdrawal of our troops from Iraq.
Senators who once supported common-sense legislation have gone silent as stones under the threat of the polluters' spending.
The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it
Tax reform exists, sort of, as an outline - miles away from being actual passed legislation.
What I have come to realize over the twenty years when I have worked in different roles as a legislator is that no legislation is as good as the enforcement of it.
The most numerous objects of legislation belong to the States. Those of the National Legislature [are] but few.
I demonstrated through my work that I can rally other people to support legislation and get it passed.
Fundamentally, legislation that is historic, that is comprehensive, that has a large number of senators supporting it is more durable.
If the legislation helps people improve their lives, then that's great because that's the ultimate goal of all of this.
I will continue to support legislation that provides American families and Seniors affordable health care.
A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.
The Bush administration staunchly opposed legislation which would preserve overtime pay for all workers.
Part of what we should be thinking about, whenever legislation is passed, is, 'how does this affect all varieties of communities?'
One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.
I said last year, and I still believe there are the votes in the House to pass Death with Dignity legislation.
Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
I still passionately support comprehensive immigration reform legislation with a path to full and equal citizenship.
The legislation of Quran will spread all over the world, because it agrees with the mind, logic and wisdom.
[Donald Trump] has had the good judgment and common sense to get back with all these people, who have written the legislation already.
Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.
REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.
It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action.
Pushing legislation that would undercut our troops just as we're beginning to make progress in Baghdad.
There are bills being discussed to raise the amount that Members of Congress pay in to their benefits and I support these pieces of legislation.
The beauty for Trump is that [Paul] Ryan et. al have worked on all this legislation and he is going to be able to hit the ground running.
If we're going to make sure that we get our legislation right... we need to actually be spending time with Hoosiers.
We have other legislation that all of you are aware that I have been so active on, with my colleagues here, and that is to shut down the gun shows.
No government body is more notorious for over-legislation than the Department of Trade and Industry.
Environmentalists hate sprawl - except when it comes to the size of their expansive pet legislation on Capitol Hill.
I've taken legislation that people have been trying to pass for 10 or 15 years, and I got it passed.
The Senate, as opposed to the House, has been less successful in advancing some of the legislation that I think are important to Hoosiers.
I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation
It's incumbent upon all members of Congress to support legislation that keeps us safe at home and abroad.
I have joined bipartisan working groups and worked to build relationships and sponsor effective legislation with my Republican colleagues.
Legislation to level the playing field for working families is dead on arrival in the Citizens United Congress.
If becoming a member of Congress is like going to college, then crafting legislation is our homework.
Obamacare is bureaucrats getting between you and your doctor, and that's what Americans most dislike about this legislation.
Legislation is a matter of more or less intelligent improvisation aiming at palliating conditions by means of patchwork policies.
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness.
From the nature of things, every society must at all times possess within itself the sovereign powers of legislation.
A territory cannot become a state or a nation unless Congress approves legislation and the president signs it.
Every piece of progressive social legislation passed by Congress in the 20th century bears a union label.
