Congress Quotes

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Parts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, including the section that guarantees that voting rights… — Marty Meehan
If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as… — Dick Thornburgh
When Congress passed the Help America Vote Act in 2002, I was thrilled to learn that the federal government would offer resources to all states… — DeForest Soaries
Internal self-government under a local constitution was authorized by Congress and approved by the residents in 1952, but federal law is supreme in Puerto Rico… — Dick Thornburgh
We are scheduled to meet this year fewer days than any Congress since at least 1948. And that is even before I was born. So… — Jim Cooper
I discharge every person under punishment or prosecution under the Sedition Law, because I considered, and now consider, that law to be a nullity as… — Thomas Jefferson
The money problem facing the country from 1789 to 1896 existed because Congress never exercised is authority to "coin money or regulate the value thereof"… — William Jennings Bryan
During the next four years...unless drastic steps are taken by Congress, the U.S. will have nearly 8,000,000 unemployed and will stand on the brink of… — Henry A. Wallace
Citizenship means standing up for the lives that gun violence steals from us each day. I have seen the courage of parents, students, pastors, and… — Barack Obama
Honestly this is not going to change unless the people who want to prevent these kinds of mass shootings from taking place feel at least… — Barack Obama
I think many people were surprised by the victory of the Congress, because it was really hard to see beyond the sort of haze of… — Arundhati Roy
Congress is responsible for every major change in India — Sonia Gandhi
Congress is not a party which fades when not in power — P. Chidambaram
All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity. — Mark Twain
To refer the power in question to the clause "to provide for the common defense and general welfare" would be contrary to the established and… — James Madison
[The necessary and proper clause] neither enlarges any power specifically granted; nor is it a grant of any new power to Congress; But it is… — Joseph Story
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. — James Madison
The true test is, whether the object be of a local character, and local use; or, whether it be of general benefit to the states.… — Joseph Story
Houses of Congress have . . . requested me to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer,… — George Washington
I've been told that some members of Congress disagree with my tax cut proposal. Well, you know it's been said that taxation is the art… — Ronald Reagan

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