#congress

Households and businesses cut expenses every day. Passing a financial down payment alongside the debt limit sends the right message to the public, and gives members of Congress greater comfort, or cover, depending on your perspective. ↗

— John Sununu

#businesses #comfort #congress #cover #cut

I loved my time in Congress, but people who spend all of their time planning to run for office have very few useful skills to deploy when they finally get there. ↗

— John Sununu

#deploy #few #finally #get #i

It's counterintuitive, but the most divisive arrangement is when the same party controls both Congress and the presidency, a situation encountered in eight of the past 10 years. With government unified under a single party, the minority has the least possible incentive to cooperate with the majority. ↗

— John Sununu

#both #congress #controls #cooperate #divisive

Last year, I co-sponsored the Highlands Conservation Act and in a bipartisan effort we passed the bill through Congress. ↗

— Sue Kelly

#bill #bipartisan #congress #conservation #effort

Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#bought #congress #expire #expired #extend

Pentagon dollars are essentially seen as a different kind of funding that doesn't have to stand for itself and make an argument for itself in the house of Congress. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#congress #different #different kind #dollars #essentially

We're half the people; we should be half the Congress. ↗

— Jeanette Rankin

#half #people #should

But people ought to be proud to be Democrats right now. You know, we're a happy warrior party. And this Congress has every reason to be very, very proud of the heavy lifting that they have done. ↗

— Tim Kaine

#democrats #done #every #happy #heavy

Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#generals #george-b-mcclellan #leadership #united-states-congress #war

We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does; and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about. ↗

— Margaret Spellings

#achievement #closing #congress #does #enough