Congress might declare war but the States might decline to participate in it; Congress might enter into treaties but it could not make the States live up to them; Congress might borrow money but it could not be sure of repaying it; and Congress might decide disputes without being able to make the parties accept the decision. The pressure of necessity might keep the States together for a time, yet there is no disguising the fact that the Articles of Confederation formed nothing more than a gentlemen's agreement.英文原著 · 《The Fathers of the Constitution》
Give me a chance. Get me the thanks of Congress. Don't wait for others; there isn't time. I have stayed away and let Congress alone for seventy- one years and I am entitled to thanks. Congress knows it perfectly well and I have long felt hurt that this quite proper and earned expression of gratitude has been merely felt by the House and never publicly uttered. Send me an order on the Sergeant-at-Arms quick. When shall I come? With love and a benediction.英文原著 · 《Letters Vol. 5》
Plaatje became politically active in the "native congress" movement which represented the interests of educated and propertied Africans all over South Africa. He was the first secretary-general of the "South African Native National Congress", founded in 1912 (which renamed itself as the African National Congress or ANC ten years later).英文原著 · 《Native Life in South Africa》
It was finally resolved to appoint a deputation of five to accompany the president, Mr. Dube, to England if further efforts failed. The Congress nominated nine names, and the election of five delegates from these was entrusted to a committee of fourteen members of the Congress, who balloted for five and reported the result to the full Congress as follows: --英文原著 · 《Native Life in South Africa》
* It will be alleged by Americans that the introduction into Congress of the President's ministers would alter all the existing relations of the President and of Congress, and would at once produce that parliamentary form of government which England possesses, and which the States have chosen to avoid. Such a change would elevate Congress and depress the President. No doubt this is true. Such elevation, however, and such depression seemed to me to be the two things needed.英文原著 · 《North America-2》
More than ten thousand votes were cast against the Constitution and another set of officers for an imaginary state selected. The Constitution was sent to Buchanan to be submitted to Congress. This was the beginning of Douglas' official relation to the affair. Congress met on the 5th of December. When Douglas reached Washington he called on the President to discuss the program for the winter. He told him that it would never do to send the Constitution to Congress for approval. It violated the plighted faith of the President and his party. His advice was that it be summarily rejected.英文原著 · 《The Life of Stephen A. Douglas》
And when I asked Congress to help me take this country from a welfare state to a fully-employed nation, what did Congress do?美剧 · 《House of Cards》
Two reasons. One, constitutionally, Congress needs to confirm the choice and our current Congress is dirty.美剧 · 《House of Cards》
You're in the state congress, and I was in the Junior Tumbling Congress.美剧 · 《Modern Family》
Harry Truman dubbed the 80th Congress the "Do-Nothing Congress." Its productivity, measured by this bar,美剧 · 《The News Room》