If a trip is worth taking, members of Congress should be prepared to justify paying for it out of their office accounts. Russ Feingold Read Quote
Most of my town hall meetings had always been love fests, and some of my guys used to complain: ‘I’d like for somebody to yell at you a bit.’ Russ Feingold Read Quote
Instead of taking a very high-paying type of law job or something that I might be able to do, I have been a legislator. That’s what I do. I think it’s an honorable profession – if you’re honest and have integrity and work hard. Russ Feingold Read Quote
There’s a tendency on the part of Americans, all of us, to say, ‘Hey, the Cold War is over, the Soviet Union is gone, we don’t have to worry about these guys again.’ We always have to be worried about them, we always have to be concerned about them, and we have to be well-informed. Russ Feingold Read Quote
I don’t want to hear again from the attorney general or anyone on this floor that this government has shown it can be trusted to use the power we give it with restraint and care. Russ Feingold Read Quote
What is the harm of doing the right thing? What is the harm of doing our job as legislators and making sure we do not stick the entire bankruptcy community with these provisions that do not make any sense? Russ Feingold Read Quote
We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate. Russ Feingold Read Quote
The administration has a disturbing pattern of behavior when it comes to budgeting not only for the ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan but also for military requirements not directly related to these conflicts. Russ Feingold Read Quote
We need to get rid of the Federal Elections Commission. It’s a joke. It doesn’t enforce the law. Russ Feingold Read Quote
