In a typical whistleblower scenario where the inspector general determines a complaint to be credible and urgent, there would be no colorable legal basis for the complaint to not reach Congress.
Ensuring that the intelligence community adheres to its responsibilities to report on its activities to Congress is absolutely essential.
Congress needs to toughen the laws protecting elections and make clear that anyone interfering with democracy will pay a stiff price.
I am not one of those who thinks that Congress needs to be in session 24 hours a day interfering in peoples' lives.
Unlike the Japanese internment, water-boarding was ordered and served up in secret. But it, too, was America's policy, not just Dick Cheney's. Congress was informed about what was happening and raised no objection. The public knew, too.
Congress has the power to legislate with regard to activity that, in the aggregate, has a substantial effect on interstate commerce.
Once the collection of conversations between the Israeli government and members of Congress occurred, had it been inadvertent, then they would have been destroyed instead of redacted for further use. Had they been inadvertent, then they would not have been forwarded to the White House for review in their redacted form.
Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.
Our runaway judiciary is badly in need of restraint by Congress.
Congress should pass legislation to remove from the federal courts their jurisdiction to hear these outrageous challenges to the Ten Commandments and the Pledge of Allegiance.
If Congress can strip the federal courts of jurisdiction over school prayer cases, there is no provision in the Constitution immune from congressional tampering.
I started knitting in the Congress, and it was a scandal - like, big scandal.
Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate: a landslide victory and a specific agenda.
There's not an appropriations bill in the last 10 years that the-that Democrats passed in the Congress. We haven't spent any money of your taxes in the last decade.
It would be false if I claim that the Congress has in the past not let down its ideology, especially pertaining to Muslim community.
That's what mayors do. They lobby Congress to provide resources for their city.
When Congress exercises the powers delegated to it by the Constitution, it may impose affirmative obligations on executive and judicial officers of state and local governments as well as ordinary citizens.
I ran for Congress not because I was having a mid-life crisis. I left the private sector because I saw a looming financial crisis that was coming to this country. It's unsustainable.
Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.
Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.
