#congress

The reality is is that Congress is a very male-gendered oriented institution. Out of the, you know, more than 10,000 people who've ever been elected to Congress, you know, only about 250 of them have ever been women. ↗

— Gwen Moore

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Wall Street, the banks, and corporate America, has been able to call the shots here. They control our members of Congress and they get what they want. ↗

— Michael Moore

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As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece in Congress. That's why no legislative leader since James Madison has ever been elected president. ↗

— Dick Morris

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We cannot go up on a wire. We cannot do a search without a judge on the FISA Court approving it and determining that we have met the standard that has been set forth by Congress in order to utilize these techniques. ↗

— Robert Mueller

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My last comment was, though, that Congress has cooked the books. ↗

— Don Nickles

#comment #congress #cooked #last #though

Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress. ↗

— John George Nicolay

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The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#guinea #guinea pigs #healthcare #keep #own

The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around. ↗

— Michael Pollan

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The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism. ↗

— Michael Pollan

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Congress needs strong parties, but it also needs the capacity to deal with budget and entitlement challenges that are likely beyond the reach of pure partisan exertion. ↗

— David E. Price

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