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    The retirement system that is in place for members of Congress and other federal workers features what is known as the Federal Employment Retirement Plan.

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    The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.

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    The Senate being tied is a start. Now, if only it could be gagged.

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    The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.

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    The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

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    The salary of a member of Congress ends the day that he of she leaves office.

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    The US is safest when Congress is in recess.

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    The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision rejected Congress' findings and its method of reasoning, .. Is there any real justification for the court's denigrating Congress' 'method of reasoning'?.

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    The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today.

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    The thing about an executive order - there has never been an executive order that a Congress couldn't say, "You know, we don't like that so we're going to do something else," if there is a majority in Congress to do something else.

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    This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage.

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    They're saying President Obama doesn't have any friends. The problem is that he can't get Congress to approve one.

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    This is all disgraceful and underscores how imperative it is that Obamacare be fully repealed and that the newly elected GOP Congress get a backbone and stand up to this cadre of scofflaws.

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    This In Friendship - out of it came certain connections with the liberal labor establishment. Among the personalities that were involved were Bayard Rustin and a person from the American Jewish Congress, Stanley Levinson.

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    This is a matter of Congress authorizes spending. They order me to spend.

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    Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.

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    Too much screaming in Congress. Too much screaming everywhere.

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    To stabilize the nations public-employee pension systems and to prevent federal taxpayers from being billed for failed pension funds, I have introduced the Public Employee Pension Transparency Act in Congress.

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    Unfortunately, Congress is protecting the profits of those opposed to protecting the planet.

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    Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected.

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    Ultimately it all comes down to money, ultimately it all comes down to lab capacity. One thing we are clear about is if that money were to pass (in Congress), thousands of lives will be saved.

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    U.S. Constitution declares rather unambiguously that Congress has the responsibility to “declare war.

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    Washington D.C.! Congress is full of self-declared outsiders.

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    We applaud Congress for extending equitable abortion coverage to female Peace Corps volunteers.

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    We are determined to listen to nothing from the illegal congress.

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    We can't wait for Congress to do its job. So where they won't act, I will.

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    We have to change the system. The system is very rotten. The executive is corrupt, the Congress is corrupt, the judiciary is corrupt. ... So what's left We really have to have a radical and surgical change to bring back the image of our country.

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    We don't need a "New Covenant." We need a new Congress.

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    Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.

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    We should go forward in courts and Congress with investigations into post-9/11 interrogations and the decisions leading to them.

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    We talk about our military being degraded over time, and yet we've had folks who've been a part of Congress who have participated in sequester; who participated in the degrading of this military over time.

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    We can't change the way Washington works unless we first change how Congress works.

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    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 govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry

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    Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.

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    We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.

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    What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including Congress.

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    We've had a Congress that's spent money like John Edwards at a beauty shop.

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    When I make a joke, nobody gets injured... when Congress makes a joke, it's the law.

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    When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out.

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    When I testified in front of Congress, I know that I was testifying under oath and I told the truth.

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    When we look at how, constitutionally, only Congress can declare war, and that is routinely ignored. Not NATO or the UN, but Congress has to authorize these endless wars, and it isn't.

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    When congress is in session no American is safe.

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    When Congress talks of tax reform, grab your wallet and run for cover.

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    With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high.

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    Women administer the home. They set the rules, enforce them, mete out justice for violations. Thus, like Congress, they legislate; like the Executive, they administer; like the courts, they interpret the rules. It is an ideal experience for politics.

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    With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.

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    Yes, [I am accusing the CIA of] misleading the Congress of the United States, misleading the Congress of the United States. I am.

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    You can't repeal human nature by an Act of Congress.

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    You can go into the Library of Congress and find information on just about anything, but that doesn't do you much good unless you know what you are looking for.

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    Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.

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