After Congress
Lincoln remained in Washington after her loss, working as "Special Policy Advisor" at the firm of Alston & Bird.
In 2011 Lincoln became chair of Small Business for Sensible Regulations, a project of the National Federation of Independent Business
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Famous quotes containing the word congress:
“I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“What have Massachusetts and the North sent a few sane representatives to Congress for, of late years?... All their speeches put together and boiled down ... do not match for manly directness and force, and for simple truth, the few casual remarks of crazy John Brown on the floor of the Harper’s Ferry engine-house,—that man whom you are about to hang, to send to the other world, though not to represent you there.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)