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How to use the word Congress in a Sentence?

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So low and hopeless are the finances of the United States, that, the year before last Congress was obliged to borrow money even, to pay the interest of the principal which we had borrowed before. This wretched resource of turning interest into principal, is the most humiliating and disgraceful measure that a nation could take, and approximates with rapidity to absolute ruin: Yet it is the inevitable and certain consequence of such a system as the existing Confederation.

– William Richardson Davie

added by Normando
4 months ago

Americans find it intolerable that one constitutional right should have to be surrendered in order to assert another. America is the land of the free and home of the brave -- we don't need a Patriot Act, because we are already patriots. We know freedom means responsibility, but I am not sure Congress and its domestic enforcement agencies do. More often than not, new security measures enacted by the government have resulted in more violations of the citizenry than terrorists have ever done. The terrorists want us to be afraid - well, we are not afraid. Stop wasting dollars on this program - it is not good for America. To give up essential liberty for a little security provides neither. The right to be left alone from government intrusion is the beginning of all freedoms.

– Eric Schaub

added by Normando
10 months ago

Why are we compromising when we just sent him a bill? You know how Congress works. The House passes a bill, the Senate passes a bill and we go to conference.

– Kevin McCarthy

Found on CNN
11 months ago

The difference this year than the previous years : the Congress has made a serious investment in improving customer service.

– Wally Adeyemo

Found on CNN
12 months ago

It should go without saying that judges at all levels should be held to strict and enforceable ethical standards. the Supreme Court doesn’t need to wait on Congress to clean up its act; the justices could take action today if they wanted to, and if the court fails to act, Congress must.

– Dick Durbin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A lot of help that we have been receiving from the US, from President Biden, Congress on a strong bipartisan basis, is about security assistance – but also budget assistance, also financial support, also about accountability and transparency. This is something I know really well, and it’s very important, I think, to share this with our partners here.

– Oksana Markarova

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is unacceptable that the Supreme Court has exempted itself from the accountability that applies to all other members of our federal courts, and I believe Congress should act to remedy this problem.

– Chris Van Hollen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We urge Congress to pass the Combating Illicit Xylazine Act quickly as it strikes the right balance of protecting our communities while preserving veterinary access to this critically important animal drug.

– Lori Teller

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I can’t do anything except plead with the Congress to act reasonably, i have done the full extent of my executive authority – to do on my own, anything about guns … The Congress has to act. The majority of the American people think having assault weapons is bizarre, it’s a crazy idea. They’re against that. And so I think the Congress could be passing an assault weapon ban.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I am opposed to Congress sunsetting any military force authorizations in the Middle East. Our terrorist enemies aren’t sunsetting their war against us, and when we deploy our service members in harm’s way, we need to supply them with all the support and legal authorities that we can.

– Mitch McConnell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In all previous transits President Tsai met with members of Congress as well as state and local officials. She had public appearances, and she attended engagements with the Taiwanese diaspora, as in past years, President Tsai will be welcomed by the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the American Institute (AIT) in Taiwan during this transit.

– The US official

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We took an attack, which killed an American citizen and wounded a half a dozen others, and retaliated against that attack on the very same day, so there was an awful lot going on in time and space, and a very compressed timeline, we did communicate to Congress, and I think I’ll just leave it at that.

– John Kirby

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We need a fight in The Congress, and I ’m prepared to conduct that fight, others are as well, and ultimately the American people deserve to know where each of us stands on common sense gun violence prevention.

– Richard Blumenthal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I call on Congress again to pass my assault weapons ban. It’s about time that we began to make some more progress.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The reality is that giving up your salary for a year or two to run for Congress is unsustainable for most working people.

– Grechen Shirley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That is genuinely outrageous, we call everything an outrage in this country lately, but to have the speaker of the House suggest that a legitimate, detailed legal investigation should somehow be undermined by the US Congress because it’s against their guy – it’s anti-democracy. It’s anti-American.

– Jennifer Horn

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Court appoints itself – instead of Congress or the expert agency – the decision-maker on climate policy, i cannot think of many things more frightening.

– Elena Kagan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

During the Obama-Biden administration, we put in place tough requirements on banks like Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, including the Dodd-Frank law, to make sure the crisis we saw in 2008 would not happen again, unfortunately, the last administration rolled back some of these requirements. I’m going to ask Congress and the banking regulators to strengthen the rules for banks to make it less likely this kind of bank failure would happen again.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If there was a tipping point that would influence the federal government or Congress to prioritize this issue, we’ve clearly passed whatever that tipping point may have been quite some time ago.

– Paul Armentano

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s just hard for me to tell any member of Congress or the American people that the best use of that dollar spent right now is on F-16s.

– Colin Kahl

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is simple: the District of Columbia must be allowed to govern itself. Democrats’ commitment to home rule should apply regardless of the substance of the local legislation, this is why the Congressional Progressive Caucus and its members have endorsed D.C. statehood, with every CPC member cosponsoring D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton’s bill in the 117th Congress. Statehood is the only way to protect the 700,000 residents of the District from this kind of interference, we will continue to champion this cause.

– Pramila Jayapal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The people of the district should have the right to have their Council accountable to them and should not have to worry about what Congress is going to do in regards to local decisions.

– Many Democrats

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Over the past three years, millions of Americans have struggled to pay rent, utilities, food, and many have been unable to pay their debts, loan forgiveness is a paradigmatic form of debt relief, and the secretary acted within the heartland of his authority and in line with the central purpose of the HEROES Act( of 2003) in providing that relief here. To apply the major questions doctrine to override that clear text would deny borrowers critical relief that Congress authorized, and the secretary deemed essential.

– Elizabeth Prelogar

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Congress wanted to cover the waterfront and ensure in advance that the secretary had the tools depending on whatever situation he confronted to make sure that student-loan borrowers were n’t going to be left worse off.

– Elizabeth Prelogar

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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