#congress

I never translated from my days in the Navy to being a congressman. ↗

— Eric Massa

#congressman #days #i #navy #never

The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy commercial interests got all the licenses with no public input, no congressional input for that matter. ↗

— Robert McChesney

#behind #broadcast #closed #commercial #congressional

Reducing health costs and increasing access to health care are worthy goals that every Member of Congress should support. ↗

— Jim McCrery

#care #congress #costs #every #goals

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States. ↗

— Chris Chocola

#being #business #congress #did #elected

The Republican Party is in charge. They've been charge of the Congress and spending for 10 years. ↗

— Chaka Fattah

#charge #congress #party #republican #republican party

There's not an appropriations bill in the last 10 years that the-that Democrats passed in the Congress. We haven't spent any money of your taxes in the last decade. ↗

— Chaka Fattah

#appropriations #bill #congress #decade #democrats

If a trip is worth taking, members of Congress should be prepared to justify paying for it out of their office accounts. ↗

— Russ Feingold

#be prepared #congress #justify #members #office

The power of the sword, say the minority... is in the hands of Congress. ↗

— Tench Coxe

#hands #minority #power #say #sword

In my years of public service at both the federal and state levels, I have had the privilege of representing most of the communities that make up Congressional District 21, including Hialeah, Westchester, Doral, Kendall, Miami Lakes, Hialeah Gardens, Medley and Palmetto Bay. ↗

— Mario Diaz-Balart

#both #communities #congressional #congressional district #district

If we had decided on January 5, in the new House of Representatives, to make no new spending bills, the debt ceiling would've still been hit, because, those are bills that are coming in as a result of purchases and commitments made by the administration and the previous Congress. ↗

— Bill Johnson

#because #been #bills #ceiling #coming