Act Quote by Eric Cantor

I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written.

— Robert M. Gates

“Distant deadlines discourage action.”

— Michael Hyatt

The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.

— Tom DeMarco

It's nonsense to say that it's not in the bill. The reality is that the bill they will have passed to the Senate will…

— David Keating

It's very important that the determination of the US Congress to do what is is needed be made evident this week and by the…

— Warren Buffett

For the truth there is no deadline.

— Heywood Broun

We must take the time to do what needs to be done now, what is right, instead of passing a bad bill.

— Grace Napolitano

So we still need a permanent fix. The president would sign the Dream Act tomorrow, the next day, the day after that. That's ultimately…

— David Plouffe

I will consider my time in the Senate a failure if we don't pass some meaningful legislation to reduce the likelihood that Sandy Hook…

— Chris Murphy

Literally minutes before the Senate cast its vote, the administration sought to add the words 'in the United States and' after 'appropriate force' in…

— Tom Daschle

I think that for the next short period of time, our No. 1 priority is Congress needs to do its work and extend the…

— Jacob Lew

The bill then says if the Senate does not act, then H.R. 1 (the House-passed bill that cuts $61 billion) will be the law…

— Eric Cantor