Cost Quote by Rahm Emanuel

Congress is unpopular. Incumbents are unpopular.

— Joshua Micah Marshall

My viewpoint is the Senate is dysfunctional.

— Mo Brooks

It's no great secret, number one, in my view, and I think the view of most Americans, that Congress itself is pretty dysfunctional. We…

— Bernie Sanders

The day after Republicans won solid majorities in the House and Senate, House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader-to-be Mitch McConnell outlined priorities…

— Cleta Mitchell

While Donald Trump said, well, our plan won't be exactly like the House Republican plan, the closer it is to that plan, the less…

— Avik Roy

When you look at February's (2011) deficit spending alone, and the fact that it was larger than what our total deficit spending was in…

— Kristi Noem

The only reason the House hasn't done even more damage is that the Senate often sands down the most noxious ideas, making the bills…

— Jonathan Alter

I think there's bipartisan support in the Senate to pass a good reform bill.

— Don Nickles

I think he [Donald Trump] recognizes that a plan that would increase the deficit by $10 trillion over a decade is not a plan…

— Avik Roy

Sadly, the President's budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country's severe fiscal…

— Carl Levin

We tend to think of the House as a less historically significant legislative body than the Senate. There are more representatives than there are…

— S.E. Cupp

Outrageous fiscal mendacity is neither historically normal nor bipartisan. It's a modern Republican thing.

— Paul Krugman