Before I was elected to Congress, I worked in a courtroom. For years, I defended doctors and hospitals, and for years, I sued them on behalf of people who were victims of medical malpractice.
I have no doubt that the Congress is active in manipulative politics.
Conservatives of Western North Carolina should send Mark Meadows to Congress. We need his help.
No one was elected to Congress because he or she promised to cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.
Mike Pence, of course, is a governor with executive experience and doing well in a Midwestern state, but also served in Congress. I served with Mike.
If a star football player can have a mythical girlfriend, why can't I have a mythical Congress?
A sagging economy, a soaring national debt, and an increasingly restive Congress pushed Obama to order troop reductions that are both deeper and faster than recommended by his military commanders.
The younger generation has become very nationalistic, self-confident. Increasingly, they do not see the Congress as their party.
We already spend too few days in Congress working on meaningful legislation; we simply can't afford to waste more time on legislation that doesn't move the needle to improve the lives of everyday Americans.
Obstruction of Congress in our work is a crime.
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is committed to policies that promote maximum employment and price stability, consistent with our mandate from Congress.
Complying with requests from Congress is not optional. It is mandatory.
The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.
The United States is stepping up to lead the international response to the Ebola outbreak, and Congress will ensure that the president's request is fully and quickly funded.
There are issues the EPA should be dealing with. When I talk about the EPA and its role with the states, it's not an abolitionist view, that we don't need that agency. It's that the agency should act within the outlines established by Congress.
I respect the Congress's oversight responsibility.
One of my big beliefs about Washington is that we highly overstate the power of individuals and highly underrate seeing Washington as a system, in general, but, in particular, we highly underrate the power of Congress.
The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress.
Imagine a libertarian president challenging Congress to repeal the PATRIOT Act.
Nearly 75,000 Demand Progress members have urged Congress to fix the Patriot Act.
