577 Quotes About Congress

These were exaggerations. The market isn't developing to a competitive status nearly as fast as they had predicted and prices are going up for consumers. Consumers are getting the short end because these exaggerations drove Congress to a plan that was premature,

It takes out a big organizing force. He was really a centerpiece in terms of fundraising, and he was an ideological anchor, and, obviously, as the majority leader in Congress had a major ripple effect on the flow of money to Texas.

To get Congress to do anything.

Congress can't do much more damage to us than they already have. To this extent we're liberated to do what is right. ... Our successors will be living in a nightmare if we don't do what is right.

I don't think that many people in Congress would be quite so indifferent to the demise of the defined-benefit plan if they didn't have such a robust plan themselves.

I fully expect that Congress will iron out the differences. With Social Security reform a bust, pension reform is a must.

At the first hint of a stalemate in the Senate and the House, Congress may try to pass the elections first and delay this to 2007.

Congress considers (the TANF program) a successful program, and that's why they reauthorized it. It addresses how to get people out of poverty, get them into mainstream jobs. But it's not just providing individual job training and placement. It's also doing prevention.

There will be enough political pressure to make Congress consider doing something.