Congress Quote by Tim Kaine

The veto is a President's Constitutional right, given to him by the drafters of the Constitution because they wanted it as a checkagainst irresponsible…

— Gerald R. Ford

Under our Constitution, presidents have something called 'veto power.

— Hillary Clinton

Now that we have the line-item veto there is no excuse for Congress to put pork in and no reason for the president not…

— John McCain

“I don’t think we’ll solve the problem of the deficit until three things happen: We need more discipline on spending in Congress. We need…

— Ronald Reagan

The last time I checked, the president was supposed to sit down and figure out what he wanted and then get Congress to go…

— Diana Taylor

The problem we have had on the budget all along is a lack of adult supervision on the part of the White House. You…

— Bruce Bartlett

You got to have a courageous president to stand up and says, listen, if - if you send a bill to me that spends…

— Rick Perry

Take the veto. Bush is the first president since James Garfield in 1881 not to veto a single bill. Garfield only had six months…

— Jim Cooper

It's a shame that we have to use whatever leverage we have in Congress to get the president to deal with the biggest problem…

— Mitch McConnell

It's a shame that the president doesn't embrace the effort to reduce spending. None of us like using situations like the sequester or the…

— Mitch McConnell

Congress must build on the success of the Budget Control Act.

— Kevin Brady

I think we all know the budgetary environment we live in. We all know the troubling future for federal deficits. They should pay for…

— Douglas Holtz-Eakin