Doe Quote by Darrell Issa

Congress does two things well: nothing and overreacting.

— Michael Oxley

Overreaction is one of the things that congress specializes in. I can't think of anything congress does better than overreact.

— Fred Barnes

Congress is good at doing two things: one is nothing, and the other is overreacting.

— Hal Abelson

“The gargantuan, ever-growing, ever-less-accountable, impossible-to-uproot federal bureaucracy is actually the sleeper issue of our time. It’s at the heart of the conservative critique of…

— Jim Geraghty

Congress has oversight responsibility of the federal government.

— Jon Husted

The federal government is a machine designed to increase its control over the lives of average Americans. It is constantly probing here, pushing there,…

— Ed Crane

As a member of Congress, I believe Congress must provide oversight of actions by the Executive Branch as our system of checks and balances…

— Charles B. Rangel

There is no question that the federal government sometimes overdoes it in issuing rules and regulations.

— Dick Durbin

What typically happens in government is the exact opposite of how things should work.

— Steve Hilton

The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the…

— Ronald Reagan

If you look at government policy generally, what government tries to do in all instances is to make sure that we take care of…

— Thabo Mbeki

I am a firm believer that federal agencies exist to administer laws passed by Congress, as intended.

— Scott Pruitt