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Legislation Quotes
"Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about."
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"We passed important laws to give the authorities responsible for investigation wide powers to defend us."
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"As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law."
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"Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped."
27
"Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact."
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"Of the five House Calendars, the Private Calendar is the one to which all Private Bills are referred. Private Bills deal with specific individuals, corporations, institutions, and so forth, as distinguished from public bills which deal with classes only."
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"The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting."
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"A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad."
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"Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests."
23
"The world is not going to be saved by legislation."
23
"Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great."
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"The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals."
23
"It was determined, as shown in the report of the Commission, which I can read to you, but I know you are familiar with the report. It states there was disagreement on this issue, particularly as the subject was debated, that there were different opinions about it."
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"The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed such a law on itself."
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"Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt."
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