#legislation

Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#common-sense #enact #even #failed #gun

The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness. ↗

— Thomas Francis Meagher

#benefits #deepest #dependence #even #legislation

Slovakia's joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business. ↗

— John Mica

#conduct #dependent #economic #fair #joining

I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and preventive services aimed at reducing the rate of birth defects. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#birth #defects #enact #i #legislation

I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. ↗

— Jim Ramstad

#arctic national wildlife refuge #cannot #conscience #drilling #final

Congress should pass legislation to remove from the federal courts their jurisdiction to hear these outrageous challenges to the Ten Commandments and the Pledge of Allegiance. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#challenges #commandments #congress #courts #federal

If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality. ↗

— Jay Alan Sekulow

#cannot #legislate #legislation #morality #tells

Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#depends #directed #everything #far #important

A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#enforced #legislation #may #rest #system

I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties. ↗

— Dennis Chavez

#curtailment #down #during #era #go