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The Trump administration launched the cruise missile strikes in Syria, an act of war, without a U.N. resolution or Congressional authorization.
Peter Bergen
War
Strikes
Syria
Administration
Cruise
Missile
Without
Trump
Authorization
Act
Congressional
Resolution
I worked on congressional campaigns when I was a teenager. I did United Way fundraisers when I was a teen. We advocated; we spoke out. I protested the first Iraq War in college.
Peter Paige
War
College
First
Teen
Teenager
Way
Out
Spoke
Iraq
Iraq War
Campaigns
Did
Worked
Congressional
United
If I am elected to Congress, I plan to introduce legislation tying Congressional pay to performance.
Raja Krishnamoorthi
Pay
Congress
Tying
Introduce
Performance
Am
Legislation
Plan
Elected
Congressional
We have numerous mandirs, gurudwaras, and mosques in my Congressional district and all across the U.S.
Raja Krishnamoorthi
Numerous
District
Mosque
Across
Congressional
There's a lot of politics over who gets the next allocation of Congressional funding.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Politics
Allocation
Over
Lot
Gets
Next
Congressional
Who
Funding
For me to get out in the congressional district that I represent and see all the things that we manufacture there, produce there, to get to know its people better, its businesses better and its government leaders better, all of those things have enriched me.
Reid Ribble
Government
Me
People
Better
Enriched
Those
Out
District
See
Leaders
Know
Get
Represent
Produce
Congressional
Manufacture
Businesses
Things
Our best line of defense, trying to keep this nation safe and secure, is an effective intelligence-gathering capability, with robust congressional oversight.
Richard Burr
Best
Nation
Defense
Our
Secure
Safe
Robust
Line
Oversight
Effective
Trying
Capability
Congressional
Keep
Washington state's 2nd Congressional District is a major producer of small fruit crops such as raspberries and strawberries. This research center is doing important work to help farmers enhance the quality, yield and marketability of their small fruit crops.
Rick Larsen
Work
Fruit
Quality
Important
Research
State
District
Crops
Small
Major
Important Work
Doing
Yield
Center
Producer
Farmers
Congressional
Help
Washington
Enhance
Strawberries
The cost of congressional and presidential campaigns has been leaping every two or four years. I think this year it will be 60 percent more than 1996; well over twice as much as in 1992 in the presidential and congressional races.
Robert McChesney
Will
Year
Every
Think
Presidential
Has-Been
Cost
Percent
More
Over
Leaping
Well
Been
Years
Campaigns
Than
Races
Much
Congressional
Twice
Four
Two
The United States should give former NSA contractor Edward Snowden immunity from prosecution in exchange for congressional testimony.
Robert Zubrin
States
Immunity
Give
Exchange
Prosecution
Testimony
Edward
Contractor
Snowden
Former
Should
Congressional
United
United States
Snowden and NSA leaders should be brought together face-to-face for questioning in public by a congressional investigatory committee, with both parties allowed to make their points and to counter the assertions of the other. If Snowden is lying, it will come out. If the NSA is lying, it will come out.
Robert Zubrin
Together
Will
Other
Lying
Out
Brought
Face-To-Face
Both
Both Parties
Points
Allowed
Counter
Leaders
Come
Parties
Make
Questioning
Snowden
Committee
Public
Should
Congressional
I still support Planned Parenthood personally because they do a good job providing health care for women, have for generations in my congressional district.
Rodney Frelinghuysen
Health
Good
Women
Care
Good Job
Job
District
Parenthood
Generations
Support
Health Care
Because
Still
Providing
Personally
Planned
Planned Parenthood
Congressional
There are a lot of anachronisms in Washington, but the need to periodically raise the debt limit by Congressional vote is certainly one of them.
Roger Altman
Vote
Limit
Lot
Debt
Debt Limit
Them
Certainly
Congressional
Washington
Raise
Need
Too many in Washington display a ruling class mentality, and congressional term limits would go a long way towards restoring the citizen-legislator ethos of the Founding Fathers.
Ron DeSantis
Class
Long
Too
Fathers
Way
Ruling
Ruling Class
Would
Restoring
Mentality
Long Way
Towards
Term
Term Limits
Limits
Go
Ethos
Congressional
Many
Display
Washington
Founding
Founding Fathers
As founder and co-chair of the upper Mississippi River Congressional task force, I have long sought to preserve the river's health and historical multiple uses, including as a natural waterway and a home to wildlife, for the benefit of future generations of Americans.
Ron Kind
Future
Health
Home
Natural
Long
Benefit
Wildlife
Future Generations
River
Generations
Mississippi
Mississippi River
Force
Sought
Historical
Task
Task Force
American
Upper
Congressional
Uses
Multiple
Including
Founder
Preserve
The truth is that no internal reviews or congressional hearings will change the Secret Service's broken management culture. It needs better leadership.
Ronald Kessler
Service
Truth
Leadership
Needs
Broken
Change
Culture
Truth Is
Management
Better
Will
Secret
Reviews
Congressional
Internal
If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation.
Ruben Hinojosa
Failure
Law
Will
Nation
District
Students
Most
Schools
Limited
Left
Child
Get
Behind
Across
Congressional
English
Many
Proficient
Right
Saying that you are advocating on behalf of small business does not grant a license to spend at will on more and more programs without congressional input, oversight, or statutory authority.
Sam Graves
Saying
You
Business
Will
Programs
Spend
Input
License
Statutory
More
Small
More And More
Small Business
Without
Does
Advocating
Oversight
Behalf
Authority
Grant
Congressional
In the absence of full-fledged Congressional investigations, American policymakers rarely look back. They are bound by continuity and fealty across administrations and generations.
Samantha Power
Back
Administration
Rarely
Absence
Investigations
Generations
Bound
Look
Policymakers
Continuity
American
Across
Congressional
I've declined every congressional benefit I could decline, federal health insurance, the retirement program, the 403(b) program, which I think is overly generous. I've got self-imposed term limits of six terms if I have the privilege to serve that long.
Scott Rigell
Health
Long
Every
Think
Benefit
Could
Federal
Retirement
Generous
Term
Term Limits
Terms
Health Insurance
Insurance
Got
Limits
Overly
Privilege
Six
Which
Decline
Declined
Congressional
Serve
Program
As congressional Republicans and the Trump administration continue to attack the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), it came as no surprise that the House voted on two bills that would weaken emissions standards and, as a result, put our public health at risk.
Seth Moulton
Environmental
Health
Result
Protection
Our
Weaken
Administration
Would
Risk
Attack
Emissions
Put
Environmental Protection
Voted
House
Came
Surprise
Continue
Trump
Public
Republicans
EPA
Agency
Public Health
Congressional
Standards
Bills
Two
I became a co-chair of the Congressional Study Group from Germany several years ago with the expressed purpose of helping increase aid to Holocaust survivors.
Ted Deutch
Group
Increase
Aid
Several
Purpose
Study
Became
Years
Years Ago
Germany
Survivors
Holocaust
Congressional
Helping
Expressed
The increase in straight-ticket party voting in recent years means that competitive congressional races can tip one way or the other depending on the showing of the candidates at the top of the ticket.
Thomas E. Mann
Voting
Party
Increase
Other
Top
Way
One-Way
Ticket
Years
Candidates
Tip
Depending
Races
Means
Congressional
Showing
Recent
Competitive
Recent Years
While Congressional members face the political costs of debate on military action, our service members bear the human costs of those decisions. And if we choose to avoid debate, avoid accountability, avoid a hard decision, how can we demand that our military willingly sacrifice their very lives?
Tim Kaine
Service
Political
Debate
Decision
Face
Sacrifice
Accountability
Action
Military
Our
Those
Members
Willingly
Costs
Bear
Demand
How
Very
Human
While
Decisions
Hard
Choose
Avoid
Congressional
Military Action
Lives
As I have traveled throughout my Congressional district, the one thing I heard loud and clear was simply please stop spending money you do not have, rein in spending, live within a budget.
Tim Scott
You
Money
Live
Please
Spending
Spending Money
One Thing
District
Throughout
Clear
Simply
Budget
Within
Heard
Loud
Stop
The One Thing
Congressional
Traveled
Rein
Thing
When I make decisions, it's not based on what the Republican Party does. I'm elected by the 9th congressional district.
Tom Graves
Party
District
Make
Does
Republican
Republican Party
Decisions
Elected
Congressional
Based
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