Federal Quotes - page 5

I will lobby tirelessly in cooperation with other mayors around the country to insure that federal funding for our recently added police officers continues. (Alan Autry)
America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that allows unemployment compensation, the judiciary, the federal court system, the federal prison system, all those kinds of things have to be paid for. View quote
Bill Johnson
Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938. View quote
Bill Pascrell
But people that are worried about unborn babies are the same ones that vote against kindergarten programs in Indiana or school lunch funds out of the federal government. View quote
Birch Bayh
The federal government has a responsibility to protect all Americans from potential terrorist attack. View quote
Bob Etheridge
The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years. View quote
Bobby Scott
There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments. View quote
Bobby Scott
With respect to drugs, you know, there are a lot of organizations, including an enormous budget and an army at the federal government level that tries to deal with the drug problem. View quote
Burke Marshall
Meanwhile, my residence within the Federal lines, and my acquaintance with so many of the officers, the origin of which I have already mentioned, enabled me to gain much important information as to the position and designs of the enemy. View quote
Belle Boyd
Nonetheless, the research budgets of the Department of Defense are under enormous stress-and they are extremely important because they support more than 40 percent of all federal funding for engineering schools across the country. So the threat was and is real. View quote
Charles M. Vest
The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies of the federal government as without exception, the people's voice. (Charles W. Pickering)
In early January I introduced my legislation, which, besides prohibiting Federal funding of human cloning, also expresses the sense of Congress that foreign nations should establish total prohibition on human cloning as well. View quote
Cliff Stearns
In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman. View quote
Constance Baker Motley
We can't have - we can't have a patchwork of 50 states developing their own immigration policy. I understand the frustration of people in Arizona. They want the federal government to step up and deal with this problem once and for all, and that's what we want to do. View quote
David Axelrod
Once we secure our borders - and the federal government has not done a good job - then Congress, I believe, needs to take up the issue and look at how we try and identify those people that are here, that are national security risks to the United States. View quote
David Dewhurst
We are just interested in dealing with the people we're paying every day. We know federal law allows them to vote in a union at anytime, but we think we can resist that by talking to our own people and giving them enough upside. View quote
David Neeleman
When Congress passed the Help America Vote Act in 2002, I was thrilled to learn that the federal government would offer resources to all states to assist them in enhancing the voting process in America. View quote
DeForest Soaries
The federal government seeks to control and regulate the Internet, but the last thing this Congress should be doing is trying to stifle public debate online. View quote
Dennis Hastert
Aside from the poor example it sets, the federal government enables reckless spending on public-employee pensions by offering hope of assistance from Washington if things get bad enough. View quote
Devin Nunes
To stabilize the nations public-employee pension systems and to prevent federal taxpayers from being billed for failed pension funds, I have introduced the Public Employee Pension Transparency Act in Congress. View quote
Devin Nunes
Federal program and services outlay in Puerto Rico is approximately $10 billion per year. (Dick Thornburgh)
After one hundred years of federal rule, the United States House of Representatives has moved to provide for the first meaningful route to self-determination for the Puerto Rican people under our federal system. View quote
Dick Thornburgh
Internal self-government under a local constitution was authorized by Congress and approved by the residents in 1952, but federal law is supreme in Puerto Rico and residents do not have voting representation in the Congress. View quote
Dick Thornburgh
Yet, individuals and corporations in Puerto Rico pay no federal income tax. View quote
Dick Thornburgh
This is the way federal land management should work. Cooperation, not confrontation, should be the hallmark of conservation efforts. View quote
Dirk Kempthorne