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I respect, too, the fact that in our legal order it is for Congress and not the courts to write new laws. It is the role of judges to apply, not alter, the work of the people's representatives.
Neil Gorsuch
Work
Respect
Legal
People
Congress
Too
Our
Laws
Fact
Write
New
Alter
Judges
Courts
Role
Representatives
Order
Apply
Howard Dean is no longer the brilliant mastermind of the Fifty State Strategy that enabled the Democrats to storm the White House and Congress. He's the idiot wearing an ugly sweatshirt.
Nell Scovell
Ugly
Brilliant
Idiot
White
White House
Congress
Strategy
State
Wearing
He
Longer
House
Democrats
Dean
Howard Dean
Storm
Fifty
Until a legislative solution to the nation's outdated immigration system becomes a priority for Congress, the right administration will need to examine a broad range of executive actions to enact immediately in the face of a 'Do Nothing Congress.'
Nicholas Gonzalez
Immigration
Will
Face
Nation
Nothing
Congress
Broad
Range
Immediately
System
Administration
Solution
Outdated
Examine
Until
Executive
Becomes
Enact
Priority
Legislative
Actions
Right
Need
It is statesmanlike for the administration and Congress to look to our nation's welfare beyond their terms in office.
Nick Clooney
Welfare
Nation
Congress
Our
Administration
Beyond
Look
Terms
Office
Congress should stop treating veterans like they're asking for a hand out when it comes to the benefits they were promised, and they should realize that, were it not for these veterans, there would be nothing to hand out.
Nick Lampson
Benefits
Veterans
Nothing
Congress
Out
Promised
Would
Would-Be
Like
Were
Hand
Stop
Realize
Asking
Should
Treating
While we face economic obstacles that challenge every decision made in Washington, decisions made merely for political gain must stop. It's time to restore civility in Congress. It's time for action where action is needed - all politics aside.
Nick Lampson
Politics
Time
Political
Decision
Challenge
Made
Face
Congress
Action
Every
Must
Restore
Civility
Economic
Merely
Obstacles
Stop
Where
Gain
While
Decisions
Aside
Washington
Needed
People have realised that for want of anything substantial, the Congress is using Rafale to question the government. But people are not responding or reacting positively to them. They've had enough of this muck-raking.
Nirmala Sitharaman
Government
People
Congress
Enough
Positively
Responding
Had
Had Enough
Reacting
Question
Substantial
Want
Anything
Realised
Them
Using
If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.
P. Chidambaram
History
You
Power
Country
Congress
Back
India
Take
Had
Taken
Period
Go
Were
Any
Decisions
Hard
In 2013, a great national coalition came together to compel Congress to deny Barack Obama authority to take us to war in Syria.
Pat Buchanan
War
Great
Together
National
Congress
Syria
Obama
Take
Came
Deny
Authority
Barack
Barack Obama
Us
Coalition
Compel
The Tea Party movement went off on a more extreme agenda that I did not support at all, and was very frustrated by it, to the point that not only did I change parties, I decided to do something about it and run for Congress.
Patrick Murphy
Change
Party
Tea
Congress
Extreme
Run
About
Something
More
Only
Point
Support
Parties
Off
Very
Did
Movement
Decided
Frustrated
Agenda
Tea Party
Tea Party Movement
What will be the final straw that finally forces Congress to at least open up formal debate - let alone introduce a bill, pass it, and have it signed into law - that curbs the scourge of gun deaths across the country?
Patrick Murphy
Alone
Law
Debate
Will
Gun
Country
Congress
Final
Finally
Signed
Introduce
Open
Forces
Pass
Least
Deaths
Up
Scourge
Formal
Across
Bill
Straw
Ignorance of the law is not a valid excuse for accused criminals, and it cannot be an excuse for members of Congress.
Paul Broun
Ignorance
Law
Congress
Valid
Criminals
Members
Excuse
Accused
Cannot
I have lectured at Town Hall N.Y., The Library of Congress, Harvard, Yale, Amherst, Wellesley, Columbia, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana State University, Colorado, Stanford, and scores of other places.
Paul Engle
Library
Congress
Other
State
State University
Harvard
Indiana
Colorado
Columbia
Town
Town Hall
Hall
Yale
Scores
Louisiana
Michigan
Places
Illinois
Stanford
Amherst
University
The president and his open border allies may hate the fact that the Constitution gets in the way of their political agenda, but it's up to Congress to take bold action and stop this lawlessness.
Paul Gosar
Constitution
Hate
Political
Congress
Action
President
Way
Border
Lawlessness
Fact
Allies
Take
Open
Political Agenda
His
Up
Gets
May
Stop
Agenda
Bold
Article I, Section 8, Clause 4 of the Constitution grants Congress clear jurisdiction with regard to U.S. citizenship and immigration matters.
Paul Gosar
Constitution
Immigration
Matters
Congress
Section
Citizenship
Clause
Clear
Article
Jurisdiction
Regard
Grants
One of the responsibilities of Congress is the power of the purse, but there is also oversight. In order to have proper oversight, you have to have agency administrators, directors, and secretaries of those agencies speak frankly and about the facts.
Paul Gosar
You
Speak
Power
Congress
Secretaries
Those
Frankly
Responsibilities
Administrators
About
Proper
Directors
Purse
Facts
Also
Oversight
Order
Agencies
Agency
Perjury before Congress is perjury to the American people and an affront to the fundamental principles of our republic and the rule of law. Such behavior cannot be tolerated.
Paul Gosar
People
Law
Behavior
Before
Congress
Our
Rule
Rule Of Law
Principles
Perjury
American
Affront
Cannot
Republic
American People
Tolerated
Fundamental
Fundamental Principles
108 members of congress have signed onto my Resolution of No Confidence in Attorney General Holder as a first step towards recognizing that he must be held accountable for the actions of his department and for his personal unwillingness to cooperate with congressional oversight requests.
Paul Gosar
Confidence
First
Congress
Signed
Members
Recognizing
Must
General
Onto
He
Step
Towards
Attorney
Attorney General
First Step
His
Oversight
Accountable
Department
Personal
Holder
Requests
Held
Congressional
Actions
Cooperate
Resolution
I will continue to ask the president and his subordinates to work with Congress rather than against it.
Paul Gosar
Work
Will
Congress
President
Rather
Continue
His
Than
Against
Ask
If Paul Ryan is re-elected, if he's sent back to Congress, he will push for the biggest amnesty in this country's history; and immediately after his re-election, he will push Obama's jailbreak crime agenda.
Paul Nehlen
History
Crime
Will
Country
Congress
Back
Immediately
Obama
Push
He
Re-Elected
Re-Election
His
After
Biggest
Paul
Sent
Paul Ryan
Agenda
Amnesty
If you want to change a law, you have to pass a law. Presidents don't write laws. Congress writes laws.
Paul Ryan
You
Change
Law
Congress
Presidents
Laws
Write
Writes
Pass
Want
Plain and simple, Congress must act to meet the needs of our constituents. We can do that by strengthening families, increasing the minimum wage, and ensuring equal pay for equal work.
Paul Tonko
Work
Needs
Simple
Pay
Congress
Increasing
Meet
Our
Ensuring
Minimum
Minimum Wage
Must
Constituents
Equal
Equal Pay
Equal Work
Wage
Families
Plain
Act
Strengthening
When a part of our nation gets knocked down, we come together to help pick it up again. No questions asked. That's the American way, and I would expect every single member of Congress to support that sentiment with their words, their actions, and their votes.
Paul Tonko
Together
Words
Single
Nation
Sentiment
Congress
Down
Every
Our
Way
Member
Would
Pick
Part
Support
Knocked
Come
Votes
Questions
Up
Expect
American
Gets
Again
Asked
Help
American Way
Actions
The government of Puerto Rico has every right to hold a plebiscite, to consult the people of Puerto Rico regarding their wishes. But the truth is that for a change in the status of Puerto Rico to happen, you need both Congress and Puerto Rico agreeing to it.
Pedro Pierluisi
Truth
Government
You
Change
Truth Is
People
Congress
Every
Status
Both
Consult
Wishes
Happen
Hold
Regarding
Rico
Agreeing
Right
Puerto
Puerto Rico
Need
A territory cannot become a state or a nation unless Congress approves legislation and the president signs it.
Pedro Pierluisi
Signs
Become
Nation
Congress
President
State
Unless
Approve
Territory
Legislation
Cannot
The center of gravity of the American people is way to the left of the center of gravity of Congress and, in many ways, to the left of the national Democratic Party.
Pete Buttigieg
People
Party
National
Congress
Way
Ways
Democratic
Democratic Party
Left
American
Center
American People
Many
Gravity
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