Anthony tried to imagine himself in congress rooting around the litter of that incredible pigsty with the narrow and precise brows he saw pictured sometimes in the rotogravure sections of the Sunday newspapers, those glorified proletarians babbling blandly to the nation the ideas of high-school seniors! Little men with copy-bookambitions who by mediocrity had thought […]
Congress Quotes
Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.
Can you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn’t even get out of committee.
It was the reason why, until age and frailty finally defanged the old wolf (Senator Strom Thurmond), female staffers on Capitol Hill refused to share elevators with the Senator and his roving hands. There was still a small part of him that said women, like blacks, were a subordinate species. “When he dies,” predicted colleague […]
Office hours are from 12 to 1, with an hour off for lunch. (United States Senate)
What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?
An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its […]
The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.
Congress, n. A body of men who meet to repeal laws.
I served 23 years in the United States Marine Corps. I was through two wars. I flew 149 missions. My plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire on 12 different occasions. I was in the space program. It wasn’t my checkbook, it was my life that was on the line. This was not a 9-to-5 job […]
