"The reason I chose Limbaugh (Rush Limbaugh) is, first of all, when I made the decision, it was late `94, right before the congressional elections. He was this huge power, he was being called the `Majority Maker.` ... And I listened to him, I just listened to him. And I thought, how does this guy get away with this? ... Someone`s got to do something that`s funny. Someone`s got to do something in his face." (interview with Mark Schapiro for Salon, February 1996, on-line).
- Al FrankenThe pork explosion is a neon sign advertising the fiscal failure of today`s congressional leaders.
- Chris Edwards(In) Both Parties Find Trough to Their Liking , ... Federal pork spending has exploded in recent years. The highway bill passed in July was bloated with 6,371 pork projects, or earmarks, inserted by members of Congress. Overall, the number of pork projects has increased ten-fold during the past decade. ...The pork explosion is a neon sign advertising the fiscal failure of today`s congressional leadership.
- Chris EdwardsPolice officials routinely execute search warrants on private homes and offices, and Congressional offices should not be treated any differently. There cannot be one set of rules for elected officials and another set of rules for everyone else.
- Bobby JindalThere was no Congressional Club for my first campaign. There was no organized state group of Young Republicans, but there was a dedicated core of young people who volunteered to do anything my campaign needed.
- Jesse HelmsJust this week, my husband proposed a plan for schools and libraries to develop their own plans to keep children from finding indecent material on the Internet as an alternative to a Congressional proposal that would require a federally mandated solution.
- Tipper GoreI want to step up our voter-registration activities. Not every branch does it, and not all the time. I want them to go back and get out the vote because I want us to have a big impact on the Congressional elections this year.
- Julian BondWell, I mean, Congress did originally set the formula for the state grants, and they guaranteed every state a minimum formula. So that was a congressional decision.
- Michael ChertoffAll alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing.
- Robert WelchI do think there is a danger. We are talking to the California congressional delegation, asking them to protect states that are in the process of converting.
- Michael MontgomeryThink of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.
- Adrienne TennantWhen I came back to Washington to be The Times` chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.
- Ahmad ZeidabadyAfter two years of hard work and debate, Congress has passed a highway bill that will help fuel our economy by creating roughly 500,000 new jobs, as well as address many critical transportation needs in Ohio and the 18th Congressional District.
- Al ZappalaIn Congress, I was co-chairman of the Congressional Ukrainian Caucus, which became one of the largest international caucuses in the House.
- Alaa Abdel FattahFor much of this decade, both Congressional and administration budget projections showed a decline in science and technology accounts of between 20 and 30 percent in real dollars. The real impact to date has been far less severe.
- Alan GummersonThe 1st Congressional District contains almost half of the biotech and biomedical companies in Washington, and my job often allows me to meet the people responsible for this exciting research.
- Ali DayihBack in the mid-1980s, congressional hearings were held after we brought this litigation, and held up the first experiment. At that time, I went in front of Congress, along with the major agencies involved with this.
- Ali RahnemaTax reform and expanded trade are going to be so important to the economy of Illinois, particularly the 11th Congressional District, which is a major manufacturing and a major agricultural district.
- Ali TaqiYesterday I, along with a bipartisan Congressional Delegation of lawmakers, inspected the detention facilities at Guantanamo used to house individuals detained in the War on Terrorism.
- Alice GolemboA Congressional Budget Office study estimated that gulf energy infrastructure repair costs will be between $18 billion and $31 billion, just from the damages the hurricane created.
- Amadeu Altafaj TardioGiving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.
- Amanda SabiaTexas` and America`s farmers are suffering. As the Member of Congress representing the 10th Congressional District of Texas, I have traveled throughout our area and have seen first-hand how the drought has affected our agricultural communities.
- Amanda WeberThe Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it`s not the other way around.
- Amanda ZimmermanThe big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.
- Amanda ZimmermanAlabama seniors all across the Third Congressional District continue facing high drug costs.
- Amber BoucherThe local communities, through their leaders, were able to build a communications network that allowed my work here to reflect the needs and interests of the people within the 9th Congressional District. It`s been an honor to do that and we did so successfully.
- Amir AbdulzahraCaring for our veterans is the duty of a grateful nation. Unfortunately, the Bush administration and congressional Republicans have not lived up to this duty.
- Amy AlcottWashington 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.
- Ana VerleyThe 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.
- Andi MelendezThe whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy commercial interests got all the licenses with no public input, no congressional input for that matter.
- Andi MelendezOne of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act.
- Andre GodinAs 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.
- Andre HeardIn fact, I have four of the technical schools in the Third Congressional District in western Wisconsin as well as many of their campus satellites.
- Andre HeardThe Bush administration and Congressional Republicans have failed to bring up comprehensive energy reform or any piece of legislation for that matter that would lower gas prices, opting instead to give massive subsidies to the oil and gas industry.
- Andre MamedAs a personal beneficiary of the service that Amtrak provides and as someone who represents a congressional district that counts on safe, reliable rail service, I am a strong supporter of providing this vital industry the funding necessary to continue operations.
- Andrew FaganWe talked on the phone a couple of days after Congressional. We`re fine. The most important thing was the relationship, and the relationship was restored. We were scheduled to play a practice round together (the following week) at Westchester, but I was really tired and I didn`t get up there in time. Rory and I remain friends -- that doesn`t change because we had that weird thing happened.
- Anne GrantBecause of my service in the congressional leadership for the last 10 years,
- Anthony ConchelMy guess is that we`ll hear by November who it is, given the need to have time for Congressional approval to occur, but I think the selection is wide open,
- Anthony PettigrewCITAC congratulates Congress for repealing the Byrd Amendment. As recently as last month, many experts were saying we would never obtain congressional repeal of the Byrd Amendment during the current session.
- Barbara HawkinsWhen one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.
- John W. Gardner