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I think that we need an emergency response because we’re facing a crisis situation … we need the help from our national leaders because we’re in a state where the only action that our colleagues took in response to the mass shooting in Nashville was to expel the two youngest Black lawmakers and then to pass a law to protect gun manufacturers. – Justin Jones	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They actually had to pass a shooting test. So, you went to a shooting range and you had to make 11 out of 20 shots on a target in front of an instructor. – Jennifer Mascia	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When gig companies can spend over $200 million to pass a law that violates our state’s constitution instead of investing in workers, it’s clear that California needs better safeguards for our democracy. – David Huerta	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Every other industry has to internalize the costs of its conduct, why is it that the tech industry gets a pass? A little bit unclear. – Elena Kagan	Found on CNN 1 year ago
House Homeland Security Committee’s pretty simple : mass amnesty will not pass a House committee or the House floor. – Mark Green	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It is critical that Congress not pass a lame-duck spending package that prevents a new Republican majority with hopefully a paradigm-shattering speaker from passing this budget early next year. – Russ Vought	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
That’s not on the table, I will not do that, i will veto any attempt to pass a national ban on abortion. – Joe Biden	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
No one in Republican leadership has called for an end to aid for Ukraine, people on the Republican side are saying, ‘Why do we have to pass a $40 billion package to send $8 billion to Ukraine?’. – Mike Turner	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
And now there is a unanimous consent request to pass a bill that’s under negotiation, discussion between serious legislators who actually want to find results, so, no, I’m not going to debate the merits of these [unanimous consent requests], this isn’t real. – Chris Murphy	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I think that there is no question that we have to do what the president and I asked Congress to do, the first request we made: pass a bill to create a pathway to citizenship. – Kamala Harris	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I think that there is no question that we have to do what the president and I asked Congress to do, the first request we made: pass a bill to create a pathway to citizenship, the border is secure, but we also have a broken immigration system, in particular, over the last four years before we came in, and it needs to be fixed. – Kamala Harris	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
In my own state, they are going to pass, attempt to pass a constitutional amendment making sure that universal voting ID for every time you vote, not just when you sign up to vote, but every time you vote, because they understand that at any given time, there’s tens of thousands of Pennsylvanians who typically are on the poorer side and are people of color that are less likely to have their ID at any one given time. – John Fetterman	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Ohio's reforms were designed for the assumption that Read MoreOn the flip side was Read MoreOn the flip side, and Read MoreOn the flip side just isn't anymore, and now Republicans are like,' Well, we'll pass a map. It's only good for four years, and then we'll redraw the map in four years. We don't have a problem with that.'. – Michael Li	Found on CNN 1 year ago
You can pass a law to require people to do drills but you can’t make them do it, you can pass a law to say they have to have law enforcement there every hour. Doesn’t mean they do it because somebody has to enforce it. You can pass a law that says you have to do mental health assessments, but ultimately it’s got to be done by people locally. – Rick Scott	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
If we continue on this trajectory, by 2030, we might pass a point of no return for a lot of these fish species, i have a couple of small kids and I don't want to hand off a world that is less biodiverse and less rich than the one that we inherited -- especially when we have tools at our disposal to do something about it. – Justin Kolbeck	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I can't overemphasize enough that earmarks are just another tool in the toolbox for a corrupt Washington, which has no intent whatsoever not to balance the budget, it's a lie. All those people who run on balancing the budget, ‘I'm going to pass a balanced budget amendment.’. – Chip Roy	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
You'll see it's an eclectic collection of members of the United States Senate in favor of what we've just done here in the Senate, and that's to pass a bill to make Daylight Saving Saving Time permanent, just this past weekend, we all went through that biannual ritual of changing the clock back and forth and the disruption that comes with it. And one has to ask themselves after a while why do we keep doing it ? – Marco Rubio	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I'm also calling on Congress to pass a law to make sure veterans devastated by toxic exposure in Iraq and Afghanistan finally get the benefits and the comprehensive health care. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This is unacceptable. No government security should permit individuals to use an arrest warrant or deportation notice to pass a security check. – Josh Hawley	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
[Radislav Blagojevich] spent four years in a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp during the war for fighting on the side of the Allies, and then was in a refugee camp for three years, waiting for the chance to hopefully have the United States Congress-- that one day, his youngest son would become a member of-- pass a law called the Displaced Persons Act, that permitted my father and millions of others like him, with these long and hard-to-pronounce last names a chance to come to America, to pursue freedom and opportunity. – Rod Blagojevich	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The reason they think they're fundamentally sound is because they don’t view following federal law as a requirement for them, they think that because he’s president they don’t have to follow the law. Well, that’s the way the Constitution was set up if they pass a law we all have to follow it so he is subject to the same laws as everybody else. – Ken Paxton	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The Biden administration just said we are domestic terrorists, this board should pass a resolution tonight condemning the Department of Justice for trying to intimidate and cancel parents. – Parent John Kochka	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We must pass a robust infrastructure package that delivers results for working families on jobs, immigration, health care, and a livable planet, henry Cuellar is standing in the way. It's time for a change. – Jessica Cisneros	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We can not convene in parliament without the king, yet the king is not in parliament. If you pass a motion, that motion must be approved by him alone. – Commerce Minister Khumalo	Found on CNN 2 years ago

I think that we need an emergency response because we’re facing a crisis situation … we need the help from our national leaders because we’re in a state where the only action that our colleagues took in response to the mass shooting in Nashville was to expel the two youngest Black lawmakers and then to pass a law to protect gun manufacturers.

– Justin Jones

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They actually had to pass a shooting test. So, you went to a shooting range and you had to make 11 out of 20 shots on a target in front of an instructor.

– Jennifer Mascia

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When gig companies can spend over $200 million to pass a law that violates our state’s constitution instead of investing in workers, it’s clear that California needs better safeguards for our democracy.

– David Huerta

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Every other industry has to internalize the costs of its conduct, why is it that the tech industry gets a pass? A little bit unclear.

– Elena Kagan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

House Homeland Security Committee’s pretty simple : mass amnesty will not pass a House committee or the House floor.

– Mark Green

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It is critical that Congress not pass a lame-duck spending package that prevents a new Republican majority with hopefully a paradigm-shattering speaker from passing this budget early next year.

– Russ Vought

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

That’s not on the table, I will not do that, i will veto any attempt to pass a national ban on abortion.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

No one in Republican leadership has called for an end to aid for Ukraine, people on the Republican side are saying, ‘Why do we have to pass a $40 billion package to send $8 billion to Ukraine?’.

– Mike Turner

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

And now there is a unanimous consent request to pass a bill that’s under negotiation, discussion between serious legislators who actually want to find results, so, no, I’m not going to debate the merits of these [unanimous consent requests], this isn’t real.

– Chris Murphy

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I think that there is no question that we have to do what the president and I asked Congress to do, the first request we made: pass a bill to create a pathway to citizenship.

– Kamala Harris

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I think that there is no question that we have to do what the president and I asked Congress to do, the first request we made: pass a bill to create a pathway to citizenship, the border is secure, but we also have a broken immigration system, in particular, over the last four years before we came in, and it needs to be fixed.

– Kamala Harris

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

In my own state, they are going to pass, attempt to pass a constitutional amendment making sure that universal voting ID for every time you vote, not just when you sign up to vote, but every time you vote, because they understand that at any given time, there’s tens of thousands of Pennsylvanians who typically are on the poorer side and are people of color that are less likely to have their ID at any one given time.

– John Fetterman

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Ohio's reforms were designed for the assumption that Read MoreOn the flip side was Read MoreOn the flip side, and Read MoreOn the flip side just isn't anymore, and now Republicans are like,' Well, we'll pass a map. It's only good for four years, and then we'll redraw the map in four years. We don't have a problem with that.'.

– Michael Li

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You can pass a law to require people to do drills but you can’t make them do it, you can pass a law to say they have to have law enforcement there every hour. Doesn’t mean they do it because somebody has to enforce it. You can pass a law that says you have to do mental health assessments, but ultimately it’s got to be done by people locally.

– Rick Scott

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If we continue on this trajectory, by 2030, we might pass a point of no return for a lot of these fish species, i have a couple of small kids and I don't want to hand off a world that is less biodiverse and less rich than the one that we inherited -- especially when we have tools at our disposal to do something about it.

– Justin Kolbeck

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I can't overemphasize enough that earmarks are just another tool in the toolbox for a corrupt Washington, which has no intent whatsoever not to balance the budget, it's a lie. All those people who run on balancing the budget, ‘I'm going to pass a balanced budget amendment.’.

– Chip Roy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You'll see it's an eclectic collection of members of the United States Senate in favor of what we've just done here in the Senate, and that's to pass a bill to make Daylight Saving Saving Time permanent, just this past weekend, we all went through that biannual ritual of changing the clock back and forth and the disruption that comes with it. And one has to ask themselves after a while why do we keep doing it ?

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I'm also calling on Congress to pass a law to make sure veterans devastated by toxic exposure in Iraq and Afghanistan finally get the benefits and the comprehensive health care.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is unacceptable. No government security should permit individuals to use an arrest warrant or deportation notice to pass a security check.

– Josh Hawley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

[Radislav Blagojevich] spent four years in a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp during the war for fighting on the side of the Allies, and then was in a refugee camp for three years, waiting for the chance to hopefully have the United States Congress-- that one day, his youngest son would become a member of-- pass a law called the Displaced Persons Act, that permitted my father and millions of others like him, with these long and hard-to-pronounce last names a chance to come to America, to pursue freedom and opportunity.

– Rod Blagojevich

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The reason they think they're fundamentally sound is because they don’t view following federal law as a requirement for them, they think that because he’s president they don’t have to follow the law. Well, that’s the way the Constitution was set up if they pass a law we all have to follow it so he is subject to the same laws as everybody else.

– Ken Paxton

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The Biden administration just said we are domestic terrorists, this board should pass a resolution tonight condemning the Department of Justice for trying to intimidate and cancel parents.

– Parent John Kochka

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We must pass a robust infrastructure package that delivers results for working families on jobs, immigration, health care, and a livable planet, henry Cuellar is standing in the way. It's time for a change.

– Jessica Cisneros

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We can not convene in parliament without the king, yet the king is not in parliament. If you pass a motion, that motion must be approved by him alone.

– Commerce Minister Khumalo

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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