Legislation Quotes

Yet there are still some Senate Democrats that want to continue to engage in obstructionist tactics and prevent this vital legislation from being reauthorized. We hope the Senate will move ahead quickly and reject the continued obstructionist efforts. - Scott McClellan

Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help much. Basically, it's going to have to be legislation because the impact is so huge and diversified. - Ted Danson

Working with Troop A, we were successful in getting the Senate to approve a plan that would protect our first responders and prevent highway fatalities... Dozens of police officers and fire fighters have lost their lives in accidents that should have been avoidable. Our initiative instructs the Department of Transportation to develop model legislation that will increase awareness and help save lives. - Jim Talent

Working people in regional Australia will feel the brunt of Howard's workplace laws and I'd be very worried if I was a federal MP who has voted for this legislation. - John Robertson

Without comprehensive federal legislation, it is possible that something of a vacuum will be created and states may enter, not always with consistent proposals, to protect the privacy of their citizens... There may soon come a point when the business community will have to decide whether it prefers a single comprehensive federal rule, or a situation in which a variety of state rules create difficult to follow mandates. - Robert Pitofsky

With today's enactment of the budget reconciliation bill and its digital television provisions, we have crossed an important threshold. NAB is pleased that Congress adopted many pro-consumer DTV measures in the legislation, and we're encouraged that the bill thwarted cable industry attempts to degrade the quality of HDTV pictures to consumers. - David Rehr

With the legislation in play now, we would have to make cuts ranging from one to two million dollars - I can't begin to tell you what that would do to this district. - Larry Feinberg

With the groundswell of legislation, business will realize what's necessary. There will be a cost to not doing it. - Stuart Ballinger

With the film legislation, it levels the playing field for us. We're close enough fiscally. Then it becomes location, and what else can we offer them? - Steven Feinberg