On every unauthoritative exercise of power by the legislature must the people rise in rebellion or their silence be construed into a surrender of that power to them? If so, how many rebellions should we have had already?
Congress Quotes
For some reason, leather bound copies of the goings on in Congress lined the shelves of our living room and I poured (sic) over them when I was twelve. I had never read anything so funny. From then on I knew I wanted to do comedy.
The politics of crime is not about a party’s record or a candidates proposals, but about perceived character and values.
I like the power given the Legislature to levy taxes, and for that reason solely approve of the greater house being chosen by the people directly.
If you give Congress a chance to vote on both sides of an issue, it will always do it.
Anthony tried to imagine himself in congress rooting around the litter of that incredible pigsty with the narrow and precise brows he saw pictured sometimes in the rotogravure sections of the Sunday newspapers, those glorified proletarians babbling blandly to the nation the ideas of high-school seniors! Little men with copy-bookambitions who by mediocrity had thought […]
Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.
Can you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn’t even get out of committee.
It was the reason why, until age and frailty finally defanged the old wolf (Senator Strom Thurmond), female staffers on Capitol Hill refused to share elevators with the Senator and his roving hands. There was still a small part of him that said women, like blacks, were a subordinate species. “When he dies,” predicted colleague […]
Office hours are from 12 to 1, with an hour off for lunch. (United States Senate)
