Each congressional race really depends upon the candidates and how they carry the message.
Congressional leaders on the Republican side are hoping chief of staff is [Reince] Priebus. They see Priebus as somebody who they can clearly work with.
There was no Congressional Club for my first campaign. There was no organized state group of Young Republicans, but there was a dedicated core of young people who volunteered to do anything my campaign needed.
President Obama and the congressional Democrats have certainly been responsive.
From the takeover of Detroit and the failed stimulus packages to the enactment of Obamacare, the president and congressional Democrats chose to use Americas economic crisis as an excuse to expand government rather than as an opportunity to responsibly shrink it.
Every one of our congressional offices, every day, is under attack.
The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.
Congressional mistakes have dramatically increased immigration through a series of what I believe were ill-advised actions going back to 1965 when the basic notions of our immigration laws were revised. In 1990, Congress opened the floodgates by passing a 35-percent increase in legal immigration.
I would love to meet with the Black Caucus, it's great, the Congressional Black Caucus, I think it's great.
The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America.
Caring for our veterans is the duty of a grateful nation. Unfortunately, the Bush administration and congressional Republicans have not lived up to this duty.
One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act.
When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate.
As a rule of thumb. Congressional legislation that is bipartisan is usually twice as bad as legislation that is partisan.
Tax reform and expanded trade are going to be so important to the economy of Illinois, particularly the 11th Congressional District, which is a major manufacturing and a major agricultural district.
It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.
My position is to listen to my constituents, learn from the best information available and ultimately make sound, rational decisions that are going to be beneficial to the people of the 8th Congressional District.
Some issues lend themselves to grassroots campaigns - homeschooling works well - but others require contrivance and connivance to whip up support. Often, lobbyists will hire vendors to dispatch blast emails and robocalls in the hopes of bombarding Congressional offices with citizen fury.
Anti-intellectualism. . . has been present in some form and degree in most societies; in one it takes the form of the administering of hemlock, in another of town-and-gown riots, in another of censorship and regimentation, in still another of Congressional investigations.
I also believe that if we're serious about change, we need to have a real discussion about public financing for congressional elections.
