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

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.

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

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

This is all disgraceful and underscores how imperative it is that Obamacare be fully repealed and that the newly elected GOP Congress get a backbone and stand up to this cadre of scofflaws.

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

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.

Too much screaming in Congress. Too much screaming everywhere.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

When congress is in session no American is safe.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

After Congress passed SJ Res 34, we are no longer merely battling a cyber-kinetic war on all fronts, we are now in a state of perpetual cyber-kinetic-meta war, and there will be no end.

And how about doing the job we hired you gentlemen and ladies for? Start doing it by reading the legislation you pass. If you don’t know what it says, don’t vote for it.

As for Congress, one imaginative polling firm found that brussels sprouts, head lice, cockroaches, colonoscopies, and gonorrhea were more popular than our elected representatives. Apparently, the American people realized that when you take it up the ass from a proctologist, at least it's for your own well-being. From Congress, not so much

Your brother doesn't have to be speaker for your voice to be heard in Congress

As heirs to a legacy more than two centuries old, it is understandable why present-day Americans would take their own democracy for granted. A president freely chosen from a wide-open field of two men every four years; a Congress with a 99% incumbency rate; a Supreme Court comprised of nine politically appointed judges whose only oversight is the icy scythe of Death -- all these reveal a system fully capable of maintaining itself. But our perfect democracy, which neither needs nor particularly wants voters, is a rarity. It is important to remember there still exist other forms of government in the world today, and that dozens of foreign countries still long for a democracy such as ours to be imposed on them.

1. Society needs laws. While anarchy can often turn a humdrum weekend into something unforgettable, eventually the mob must be kept from stealing the conch and killing Piggy. And while it would be nice if that "something" was simple human decency, anybody who has witnessed the "50% Off Wedding Dress Sale" at Filene's Basement knows we need a backup plan—preferably in writing. On the other hand, too many laws can result in outright tyranny, particularly if one of those laws is "Kneel before Zod." Somewhere between these two extremes lies the legislative sweet-spot that produces just the right amount of laws for a well-adjusted society—more than zero, less than fascism.

About half the population thinks that every person in Congress, including their own representative, should be thrown out. That's the center not holding.

Congress should make it so that all sex scenes in all films should be provided with a screaming baby sound track. That should help take away all the fun and may show a major decrease in unwanted pregnancies without having to provide birth control to anyone.

Congress may carry on the most wicked and pernicious of schemes under the dark veil of secrecy. The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.