whether you are a Republican or a Democrat, whether you are a liberal or a conservative, whether you are pro-immigration...
I certainly appreciate your concerns. I respect and I agree with your desire to ensure that we have civility marking all...
The Senate does in fact have control over its own calendar. Article 1 makes that pretty clear.
Making sure there is a religious exemption here would not in my opinion cause either of the two problems that have been ...
To legislate is to make rules, rules carrying the force of generally applicable law.
the Constitution itself gives each House of Congress the prerogative of determining its own schedule
When the Administration starts to overstep its bounds and uses administrative agencies in a way that restricts on fundam...
Here with this Executive order we have what is in effect a piece of legislation. It didn't go through Congress.
It is thus all the more necessary and important that Congress continue to exercise its constitutional role and to check ...
I was personally somewhat concerned when we got involved in military action in Libya without any prior consultation of C...
Congress is free, the Federal Government is free to grant religious exceptions and doing so does not amount to an establ...
These things happen not because we have had bad men as Presidents. We haven't, we have had good men, that includes our c...
We cannot ignore abuses of power because if we ignore them then they become part of the established practice and traditi...
Political philosophers for centuries have believed that centralization of power brings about an unacceptable risk of tyr...
But when the executive branch contravenes, contradicts that policy as established in Federal statute, that we have the w...
I think it's a -- a terrible course to -- for America to stand in apology for our values. That instead when our grounds ...
I'm outraged by the attacks on the American diplomatic missions in Libya and Egypt and by the death of an American Consu...
the Constitution in its opening line, right after the Preamble in Article I, Section 1 says that all legislative powers ...