“Every day that goes by shortens our opportunity of booking it successfully. Whether it's members pulling their condos for personal use, whether it's a convention booking our conference center, whether it's golf packages being booked .. not hearing makes it that much harder to accommodate them.” BookUseOpportunityMembersHarderGolfHearingConventionsPullingConferencesPackagesAccommodate Author:Bill Vaughan
“... We have seen dog-tired Members of Congress marching lockstep ahead with their eyes fixed only on the end of the 100 Days of the 1995 Republican 'Contract with America' reform efforts. Many of the changes wrought by the House were passed without the benefit of a single hearing, or at best with a minimal legislative record. Is this what Jefferson and Madison had in mind?” MindEndsEyeAmericaHouseEffortRecordsDogInternetRepublicanMembersBenefitsTiredCongressHearingReformFixedContractsFree SpeechMadison Author:John Gibbons
“The eyes and ears, seeing and hearing, are external plunderers; emotions, desires, and opinions are internal plunderers. But if the inner mind is awake and alert, sitting aloof in the middle of it all, then these plunderers change and become members of the household.” IfsMindEyeDesireEmotionOpinionSeeingMiddleMembersSittingEarsHearingAwakeInternalsTaoismHouseholdAloof Author:Zicheng Hong
“I think there were two messages in last year's election. One is pretty obvious. People were mad as hell at the president [Barack Obama] - and wanted to send a message. We all got that. Our new members were also hearing, and I was hearing as well, that people didn't like the fact that the Congress was dysfunctional. Now they may have been confused about where the dysfunctionality was cause the president kept pointing to the House. Factually, that's not accurate. The dysfunction was in the Senate.” PeopleThinkingYearsWellsMayHas BeensTwoFactsWantedLastsHouseCausesPresidentHellMembersMessagesElectionMadCongressObviousHearingBarackConfusedSenateAccurateLast YearPointingPresident Barack ObamaDysfunction Author:Mitch McConnell