Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I stand in support of this resolution. I do so for the following reason. Article I, section 1 of the Constitution makes abundantly clear that the legislative power of the United States shall be vested in Congress, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. Legislative power is the power to make rules carrying the force of generally applicable law--in this instance, generally applicable Federal law. It was with wise reason that our Founding Fathers entrusted this power to those people entrusted by the citizens of the respective States for a limited time to make law because they understood that those who have the power to make law have the power to infringe on the individual liberties of the American people, such that whenever they exceed those powers, they can be held accountable to those they represent and on whose behalf they will be legislating. Every single time we act, we have an effect on the American people. We need to be held accountable at regular intervals for those decisions--every 6 years in the case of Senators, every 2 years in the case of Members of the House of Representatives. Occasionally, Congress has chosen to delegate that power. For instance, Congress might say we hereby enact the Clean Air Act and give power to the EPA to implement rules and enforce those rules, to make sure we have clean air.…”