#constituents

If we can't have the courage to tell our constituents, hey, we've got to cut back, then if we can point to something and say, I would like to vote for more benefits for you, but this balanced budget amendment or statutory spending cap or whatever the device is, is preventing me from doing it. ↗

— Jeff Flake

#back #balanced #balanced budget #balanced budget amendment #benefits

It's not about what the speaker wants. It's not about necessarily what I want. There's two other principles involved here. It's what the constituents in my district want, and they didn't want to raise the debt ceiling unless there were significant structural reforms and spending cuts to help us balance our budget. ↗

— Tim Huelskamp

#balance #budget #ceiling #constituents #cuts

When completed, the budget must provide the services we have promised to our constituents. ↗

— Jane D. Hull

#completed #constituents #must #our #promised

My focus is on my constituents. ↗

— Randy Hultgren

#focus

We all know that, unfortunately, the media does not always portray the good things that are happening in Iraq and Afghanistan, and this will be a great opportunity for us to glean some information from the Iraqi women who are here for us to also take back to our constituents. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

#also #always #back #constituents #does

Our constituents did not send us to Washington to shut down the government. They sent us here to make it more accountable. ↗

— Steve Womack

#constituents #did #down #government #here

I shall hold myself particularly answerable to my constituents for my present conduct, and in general to all my fellow Citizens throughout these States, when properly questioned. ↗

— Henry Laurens

#citizens #conduct #constituents #fellow #fellow citizens

Well, I don't think so, because the president and members of Congress and governors have the same constituents. It's the American people who are hurting. ↗

— James Douglas

#american people #because #congress #constituents #governors

My door remains always open to all constituents to discuss matters of concern to them. ↗

— Peter Slipper

#concern #constituents #discuss #door #matters

I am persuaded that in the case of elected officials, the overwhelming temptation is to conclude that it is more important for your constituents that you be reelected than that you deal honestly with them. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#case #conclude #constituents #deal #elected