#congress

The Small Business Lending Fund was cleverly named by its authors last Congress. Since its implementation, however, it would appear a more appropriate name would be the Bailed Out Bank Refinancing Fund. ↗

— Ed Royce

#appropriate #authors #bailed #bank #business

...more than six people cannot agree on anything, three is better and one is perfect for a job that one can do. This is why parliamentary bodies all through history, when they accomplished anything, owed it to a few strong men who dominated the rest. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#parliament #love

Do you inquire why, holding these views and possessing some will of my own, i accept so imperfect a proposition? I answer, because I live among men and not among angels. ↗

— Thaddeus Stevens

#men

I was ecstatic when they re-named "French fries" as "freedom fries." Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots. ↗

— Johnny Depp

#french-fries #government #labels #freedom

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress. ↗

— Mark Twain

#congress #could #criminal #distinctly #except

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. ↗

— Scott Walker

#congress #fall #look #new #next

Tax reform and expanded trade are going to be so important to the economy of Illinois, particularly the 11th Congressional District, which is a major manufacturing and a major agricultural district. ↗

— Jerry Weller

#congressional #congressional district #district #economy #expanded

I just thought it was unconscionable for the Congress to insert itself into this debate. We are particularly unqualified to make that decision and to intrude ourselves into the lives of this family. ↗

— Gary Ackerman

#debate #decision #family #i #insert

We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there's a bunch of us. ↗

— Gary Ackerman

#congress #jewish #lot #members #some

From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to Congress. ↗

— Carl Albert

#calculated #congress #did #early #elected