Juan Williams Quotes
The 112th Congress passed only 220 laws, the lowest number enacted by any Congress. In 1948, when President Truman called the 80th Congress a 'Do-Nothing' Congress, it had passed more than 900 laws.
Williams, Juan. "Do-Nothing Congress? Try Doing Less Than Nothing." The Hill, 14 Jan. 2013.
Describing Everett Dirksen, 1896-1969, U.S. Congressman (Republican, IL):
In response to Administration tactics to delay a vote on the Church-Cooper proposal to limit American involvement in Cambodia after June 30, 1970, Senator Cotton asserted:
In the early years of the Obama Administration, the minority leader of the Senate declared that the object of the Republicans in the Senate was to prevent Obama from being reelected. Therefore, the Republicans used the filibuster to block virtually all legislation. In 2010, the Republicans gained control of the House of Representatives and would not pass any legislation that the President favored lest he get credit for accomplishing something. It had gotten so bad, that even when the President proposed Republican ideas about which everyone agreed, that too was blocked.
His Republican Party had filibustered more bills in the Senate then had been done previously in all of the Senate History together. Congress passed fewer bills in his first two years than any other Congress in history.
Jackson was then a U. S. Senator
Conservatives in the Senate were filibustering the bill at the time.
With its multiplicity of committees and the polarization of the parties, Congress has been unable to legislate on large, comprehensive problems that involve more than a single issue at a time.
Referring to the Senate's right to ratify treaties and the effect on negotiations,
New York took extensive measures to reduce greenhouse gasses, prohibit smoking anywhere in the city and improve the quality of air as well as spending public funds for many other health prevention initiatives. The result was that New Yorker’s actually live longer than citizens of other states and cities.
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Juan Antonio Williams is a Panamanian-American journalist and political analyst for Fox News Channel. He writes for several newspapers, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, and has been published in magazines such as The Atlantic Monthly and Time. Williams has worked as an editorial writer, an op-ed columnist, a White House correspondent, and a national correspondent. He is a registered Democrat.
