Hank Brown Quotes
When someone has to go back and work for a living under laws that they passed, they'd be more careful.
Advocating term limits on Congress:
Hank Brown, U. S. Senator (Republican, CO), Speech, American Stock Exchange Washington Conference, June 9, 1993
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Americans had never had the opportunity to see this committee in action before. While many Americans were intimidated, many were also very distressed to see how a Congressional Committee was abusing its power. And although the frightened Hollywood and network executive executives were intimidated into blacklisting Lawson and others, more and more Americans were lining up against this committee and Senator McCarthy’s committee in the Senate. This culminated in the Senate sanction of McCarthy and the discrediting of HUAC which never again had the influence that they had before this hearing.
At the time, Sir Charles was the commander of British Military forces of the North of England and rode to Kersal Moor to keep his eye on a huge Chartist demonstration. See {616055}. He reached this conclusion.
Originally it was published in Boston under the name “A Columbian Patriot.” The “principles to which she referred were the principles set out in our Constitution of 1787.
In general, there are so many versions of a bill as it goes through the Congressional process, that the members of Congress do not read each and every draft. Some do not read any of the drafts and leave it to the Committee; others trust their staffs or their party leadership. More often they trust the lobbyists who donate to their campaigns. Sometimes, the bills are so large—many thousands of pages that the members of Congress lose track of all the aspects of the proposed law and only read a few sections in which they may have participated in debate. Often, the only people who read the entire bill are the lobbyists and one or two of committee staff.
He was discussing “Stand Your Ground Laws” which were enacted to solve one problem, but then effected many other things negatively. The law, once passed, is the law regardless of whether it has adverse consequences that the legislators never anticipated. This is one of the reasons that drafting legislation is such a difficult skill.
His faction won on the House and lost with respect to the Senate.
George Hanks "Hank" Brown is an American politician, lawyer and educator from Colorado. He is a former Republican politician and U.S. Senator. He served as president of the University of Colorado system from April 2005 to January 2008.
