#congress

I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there. ↗

— Birch Bayh

#age #being #congress #die #enough

Republican leadership in Congress let the energy companies write the energy bill that sent prices soaring, and has turned a blind eye to the struggles of working families trying to make ends meet. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#blind #blind eye #companies #congress #ends

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#canal #congress #debate #does #goes

I always am a firm believer in you compensate people for their job, and so I did give them bonuses. We accomplished a lot in Congress, we passed health care reform. There were threats against their lives; they had a tough two years. They'd forgone any cost-of-living increase or any bonus before. ↗

— John Salazar

#against #always #am #any #before

When I was in Congress, I worked with Joe Kennedy to rename the Justice Department for Bobby, and when I retired, Teddy Kennedy sent me this Roy Lichtenstein print of his brother, inscribed: 'Bobby would have been proud of you.' ↗

— Joe Scarborough

#bobby #brother #congress #department #his

Because the Bush Administration will set no timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, both chambers of Congress acted to make sure our troops will not be left in Iraq indefinitely. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#administration #because #both #bush #bush administration

It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye. ↗

— George P. Shultz

#congress #eye #finger #hussein #king

America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols. ↗

— Bill Shuster

#action #against #america #appropriate #blue

Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate hazardous waste sites around the nation. ↗

— Ike Skelton

#animal #around #clean #clean up #clear

My dog can bark like a congressman, fetch like an aide, beg like a press secretary and play dead like a receptionist when the phone rings. ↗

— Gerald B. H. Solomon

#bark #beg #congressman #dead #dog