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When you look at 'Obamacare,' the Congressional Budget Office has said it will cost $2,500 a year more than traditional insurance. So it's adding to… — Mitt Romney
Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy. — Charles Frankel
I've declined every congressional benefit I could decline, federal health insurance, the retirement program, the 403(b) program, which I think is overly generous. I've got… — Scott Rigell
I have long been a supporter of the Head Start program because each and every year I witness the dramatic positive impact that early intervention… — Lucille Roybal-Allard
As founder and co-chair of the upper Mississippi River Congressional task force, I have long sought to preserve the river's health and historical multiple uses,… — Ron Kind
On one side you have book burners, Congressional wives and Pat Robertson. On the other side, you have vulgar comedians, foul-mouthed rap groups and Dennis… — Sandra Bernhard
When did atheists become so evangelical? I mean, if you don't believe something to be true, wouldn't you just ignore it? That's certainly what I… — Laura Ingraham
He had somehow, with all his modesty, the rare faculty of controlling his superiors as well as his subordinates. He outfaced Stanton, captivated the President,… — Joshua Chamberlain
If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in… — Ruben Hinojosa
Since 1980, we've used reconciliation 22 times, and out of those times, Republicans used it 16 times. So, earth to my Republican friends, you can… — Barbara Boxer
The Congressional Record will forever show that [Obamacare] was passed in a romper room of overgrown children seemingly barely old enough to keep from peeing… — Matt Taibbi
Is it really in our countrys best interest to signal to the enemy that they probably only have to wait us out a little longer… — Fred Thompson
The American people will be appalled to learn the health care bill exempts (congressional) leadership and committee staff. — Tom Coburn
But I will tell you that I didn't go to Washington to sit around and wait for Congressional action. Never done that before, and don't… — Gina McCarthy
I don't think people want to see someone buy a congressional race. — Frank R. Wolf
Any Congressional agreement of an arbitrary time table to bring our troops home before we have accomplished our mission is unacceptable and could potentially increase… — James T. Walsh
[Write to your congressional representative against the health care reform proposal or] we will awake to find that we have socialism. — Ronald Reagan
The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans have failed to bring up comprehensive energy reform or any piece of legislation for that matter that would lower… — Rosa DeLauro
When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy… — Adam Clymer
The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism. — Michael Pollan
As a final crash of self-indulgent nonsense, when the incontrovertible truth of your panoramic and murderous deceit has even begun to cost your political party… — Keith Olbermann
I believe that successfully addressing our national security needs while protecting our basic freedoms and civil liberties requires continual Congressional oversight, and I will continue… — Patrick J. Kennedy
But in Congress, accountability is just a catch phrase, usually directed elsewhere. Demands to personal responsibility or corporate accountability abound, but rarely congressional accountability or… — Melissa Bean
Here's an interesting figure: 43 percent of the incoming congressional freshmen are millionaires. The other 57 percent are Democrats. — Jay Leno
Who freed the slaves? To the extent that they were ever u2018freed,' they were freed by the Thirteenth Amendment, which was authored and pressured into… — Lerone Bennett, Jr.

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