Congress Quote by Terri Sewell Download Open image “Dont count on Congress. Laws come into being because people on the ground demand it.” — Terri Sewell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Congress Demand Law People
Don't count on Congress. Laws come into being because people on the ground demand it. — Terri Sewell Copy Share Image
Before you can have an act of Congress, you have to have a Congress willing to act. — Al N. Green Copy Share Image
Congress is where Americans are supposed to have our big, messy political fights. That's because the people who make the laws need to be… — Ben Sasse Copy Share Image
Congress should live by the same laws it passes on to the rest of the nation. — Elise Stefanik Copy Share Image
What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary? — Marion Barry Copy Share Image
We need a Congress that cares more about doing the people's business than their own. — Christine Todd Whitman Copy Share Image
There ought to be an onus on the people that want a law, rather than people that don`t need a new law. — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
Congress makes immigration law. It's that simple. That is how our system works. — Kirstjen Nielsen Copy Share Image
No law can give Congress a backbone if it refuses to stand off as the coequal branch the Constitution made it. — Trey Gowdy Copy Share Image
Rather than waiting for future trials to determine rules that will impact every citizen, Congress should step in and write a law that takes… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
We could have done a better job explaining what was in the Affordable Care Act, but when you talk to people and you don't… — Terri Sewell Copy Share Image
Im benefitting from the sacrifices and seeds sown by Shirley Chisholm, John Lewis, and so many others. Those of us who are beneficiaries owe… — Terri Sewell Copy Share Image
When you have incidences like the Trayvon Martin verdict, the erosion of certain fundamental rights like voting, it just reminds us that we're always… — Terri Sewell Copy Share Image
I think at the end of the day we have to raise the debt ceiling, because America pays its bills. — Terri Sewell Copy Share Image
You grow up with a heightened sense of the Civil Rights Movement, but I think it wasn't until I became of age that I… — Terri Sewell Copy Share Image
I think that something is fundamentally wrong if a person of his great wealth is only paying 13.9 percent effective tax rate and most… — Terri Sewell Copy Share Image
Don't count on Congress. Laws come into being because people on the ground demand it. — Terri Sewell Copy Share Image
I think that one thing I have learned as a freshman is that it is really important to collaborate. — Terri Sewell Copy Share Image
Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984. — Ed Gillespie Copy Share Image
We will make sure our troops have all that is necessary to complete their missions. That's why I went to the Congress last September… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I can't imagine that I would be asked that by the president-elect [Donald Trump], or then-president [Barack Obama]. But it's - I'm very clear.… — James Mattis Copy Share Image
So our focus has to be on the things that we can control, which is to take the necessary measures working with Congress to… — Jay Carney Copy Share Image
It's disgraceful that year after year, Congress has bowed to the tobacco lobby and refused to act. — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
The Constitution is very clear on the - on the declaration of war or reacting to international crimes - crimes against nations. It is… — Joe Pitts Copy Share Image
Can you understand why the Congress, most states and most cities refuse to pass legislation requiring the registration and licensing of any and all… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
As the longest serving Independent in the history of the United States Congress, as somebody who came into office by defeating an incumbent Democratic… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
As the first Member of Congress from western Washington to serve on the House Agriculture Committee in over 50 years, I am proud to… — Rick Larsen Copy Share Image
About one-half of the members of Congress are seekers for office at the nomination of the President. Of the remainder, at least one-half have… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
We need less travelling by jet plaes from congress to congress... but more kneeling and praying and pleading to God to have mercy on… — Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to… — Laura Ingraham Copy Share Image
