I have also come to understand Congress' need for a bipartisan as well as a partisan capacity.
David Price
Congress needs strong parties, but it also needs the capacity to deal with budget and entitlement challenges that are likely beyond the reach of pure... →
Before being elected to Congress, I oversaw the Cook County Hospital System as a Cook County Commissioner for 10 years.
Mike Quigley
My outspoken positions haven't always been popular in the halls of Congress, but they have been rooted in what I believed was right and necessary.
The Supreme Court, in 2005, emphasized and contrasted the great power of Congress under the Commerce Clause to regulate interstate commerce versus... →
Barbara Ann Radnofsky
Those of us in the Congress must confront and overcome Republican intransigence to increasing the minimum wage, extending unemployment insurance and... →
Charles B. Rangel
As a member of Congress, I believe Congress must provide oversight of actions by the Executive Branch as our system of checks and balances requires.
We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.
Jeannette Rankin
The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and... →
Steven Rattner
I was sent there by the Free Congress Committee, headed by Paul Weyrich. Fred Smith and I were sent down as observers, with reporters'... →
Dixie Lee Ray