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I'm very grateful that President Obama has lifted the restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
Nominally, there is one executive for every eight federal employees, a ratio that would bankrupt many private industries.
The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
Loggers and mills in Maine and across the country deserve fair trade policies and more support from our federal government.
A lot of industry groups have said they support a federal law. They don't want to have to deal with 50 different state laws.
Obama believes in a big central government, where the federal government controls everything in our lives. That's socialism.
When the federal government imposes a mandate on the states or supersedes a state policy, conservatives often rise in protest.
There isn't one thing the federal government does that anybody in Big Business would emulate, at least not in the profit sector.
The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect.
Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the majority of the American people.
The only good place for a sage grouse to be listed is on the menu of a French bistro. It does not deserve federal protection, period.
The state of Alaska has a minimum wage which is higher than the federal level because our state leaders have made that determination.
Whenever the very rich hold views at odds with those of the entire population, the federal government tends to do the rich's bidding.
There was a fear among the original framers that the federal government would be so strong that they might destroy the state militias.
My federal, state, and local experience will allow me the opportunity to effectively represent the constituents of the Fourth District.
My battles have been against federal actions that exceed the powers our Founders granted to the federal government in the constitution.
What the Bronx and Queens needs is Medicare for all, tuition-free public college, a federal jobs guarantee, and criminal-justice reform.
The federal government is doing less than it is lawfully entitled to do to protect New York City, and the City is less safe as a result.
Federal law should hold organizations like the League of Women Voters harmless if they make good-faith mistakes while registering people.
The Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.
Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.
It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.
I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute.
As long as my record stands in federal court, any American citizen can be held in prison or concentration camps without a trial or a hearing.
Here's the question for my fellow Republicans: Do we want to be the first-ever GOP House majority to raise federal marginal income tax rates?
There certainly is a lot of political pressure for states to adopt the new federal tax codes. But there is no law that requires them to do so.
Many civil rights came about, not when they were passed into law, but because the federal government did what it should and saw them enforced.
My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.
During the Mueller investigation, Roger Stone lied to federal investigators and allegedly pressured one potential witness. Not good. Never good.
We're facing a natural disaster in the middle of an economic disaster. The federal government has to balance its budget the way our families do.
Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards.
The future of healthcare security should include flexibility from the federal government to allow us to serve the state's most vulnerable citizens.
It's not easy for the average family to ensure that their child receives a quality education. And the federal government is not making it any easier.
I believe the public's confidence would be increased if the federal government took over the functions of airport security screening for all passengers.
Everyone knows about the substantive issues of concern, like federal health care, but very little is said about the process, the lack of accountability.
As artists, we are blessed to be able to make money but, on the same note, are held accountable for our federal tax obligations just like everyone else.
At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line.
But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business.
We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job training services.
Incredibly, whenever I have proposed the theory that half of government workers could be cut, current and former federal employees I know have all agreed.
In the long run, a flexible sentencing procedure which works to rehabilitate offenders offers the best hope in the majority of cases in the Federal courts.
We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government.
Once every American has a pony then I can - by fiat, executive order or something like that - dismantle the federal government with a snap of my magic fingers.
The federal government has never created one job that is sustainable long term. It creates government project work but not creating real work where people are.
When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.
It is a sad day for our country when the moral foundation of our law and the acknowledgment of God has to be hidden from public view to appease a federal judge.
The VA secretary runs the second largest federal agency in the country, providing services to American patriots who risked everything in service to this nation.
If for no other reason than the energy crisis now facing this country, the federal government should be eager to become partners with us in rebuilding our city.
I am encouraged that there's going to be much better dialogue between the federal government and the state of Arizona. I mean, I hope that's not wishful thinking.
I didn't even have a birth certificate until I was 9 years old, which meant that, according to the state of Idaho and the federal government, I just didn't exist.