[As the minority] you vote for the legislation that’s presented to you. That’s sometimes a very difficult choice to make.
This legislation is in the President's interest, if only the President could be brought to see it.
Scaling back the campaign finance reform bill may get more Republicans aboard, but it leaves many of us who have been involved in the reform movement for years in believing that we are doing something and accomplishing nothing.
We should work towards a legislation to sack non-performing politicians. This may not happen during my lifetime, but I will try for it anyway.
I worked in the Senate in the 1970s. I worked for the Labor, Public Welfare Committee, and we had Ted Kennedy and my old boss, Bill Hathaway, and Walter Mondale.
While legislation obviously is political, we now have allowed regulation to become politicized, which we believe will likely lead to some bad outcomes.
I believe we can, and must, strike a balance between our shared American values of religious liberty and freedom from discrimination. My concerns lie with the possible consequences of politically-driven legislation which claims to promote religious liberty but instead rolls back the legal protections held by LGBT Americans.
My voting rights agenda is not that different from what you'd see in H.R. 1.
A lot of people don't believe that Kirk-Heitkamp is a real reform bill.
Maybe the Jefferson case will give members of Congress second thoughts the next time they get ready to legislate away the rights of ordinary Americans.
The Senate, as opposed to the House, has been less successful in advancing some of the legislation that I think are important to Hoosiers.
I personally think money in politics on any level is horrible. I'd like to see a set amount and have every candidate spend it. Have it be completely transparent. But actually getting to that spot, as we have learned through all the legislation over the decades, is very difficult.
A massive immigration bill has no chance of becoming law.
I am State Senator Russell Pearce, the author of SB1070, which was signed by Governor Jan Brewer. Fear mongering and misinformation is the tool of the Left against this common sense legislation.
In the last two years, the amount of legislation in the House of Representatives and state legislatures has been really unprecedented, that has focused on reproductive rights.
I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.
Although Senate Bill 1556 has received attention for its perceived focus, my job is to look at the actual substance of the legislation.
You ought to teach kids that elections take place but that's not politics. If you want to know how legislation is made it doesn't come from elections.
