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I fully support Attorney General Cuccinelli and his efforts in challenging the constitutionality of the individual mandate provision in the health care legislation, and I look forward to working to repeal and defund the government takeover of health care in the 112th Congress.
Robert Hurt
Government
Health
Care
Congress
General
Individual
Takeover
Support
Attorney
Attorney General
Look
Health Care
Repeal
His
Provision
Efforts
Legislation
Mandate
Working
Forward
Fully
Challenging
If you're in Congress, you vote and give speeches. But governors have to make decisions every day, and presidents have to make decisions every day.
Robert J. Bentley
Day
You
Vote
Every Day
Congress
Every
Presidents
Give
Make
Governors
Decisions
Speeches
Professional politicians are busy looking out for their jobs. Send me to Congress so I can look out for your job.
Robert J. Garagiola
Me
Job
Looking
Politicians
Congress
Busy
Out
Jobs
Look
Send
Your
Professional
The Congress has had an uneasy relationship with banks and bankers since Alexander Hamilton. It took the United States until 1913 to set up a central bank. The Federal Reserve earned its hard-won independence over years of effort.
Robert Zoellick
Relationship
Independence
Congress
Alexander
Earned
Took
States
Federal
Federal Reserve
Had
Over
Since
Until
Hamilton
Years
Up
Uneasy
Effort
Bank
Bankers
Banks
Central
Central Bank
Reserve
United
United States
Set
In both houses of Congress, bipartisan legislation has been introduced to ensure that the rights of states and cities to make drone laws are protected.
Robin Hayes
Rights
Congress
States
Ensure
Cities
Has-Been
Introduced
Laws
Both
Protected
Make
Houses
Been
Legislation
Bipartisan
Research and development activities to support Yucca are permitted. This will ensure that we keep Congress in the driver's seat for nuclear waste policy.
Rodney Frelinghuysen
Will
Congress
Research
Ensure
Driver
Support
Development
Policy
Permitted
Keep
Activities
Waste
Seat
Nuclear
The United States is stepping up to lead the international response to the Ebola outbreak, and Congress will ensure that the president's request is fully and quickly funded.
Rodney Frelinghuysen
Will
Congress
President
States
Ensure
Response
Outbreak
Lead
Stepping
Up
Quickly
Request
Fully
International
United
United States
Some residents, I suspect, may be politically motivated in suggesting that having two members of Congress lessens Montclair's clout. Quite to the contrary. I think it increases Montclair's visibility - as a matter of fact, Essex County's visibility.
Rodney Frelinghuysen
Matter
Congress
Think
Increases
Visibility
Members
Some
Having
Fact
County
Motivated
Contrary
Suspect
Quite
May
Politically
Clout
Residents
Suggesting
Two
The primary reason that I'd be here or that Don Payne Jr. would be here is for you to know that members of Congress actually exist and are human.
Rodney Frelinghuysen
You
Congress
Members
Would
Would-Be
Primary
Know
Exist
Human
Reason
Actually
Here
The Fed is the major U.S. firefighter. It's not the Treasury. It's not the Congress. We certainly saw that vividly in 2008.
Roger Altman
Congress
Saw
Vividly
Fed
Firefighter
Major
Certainly
Treasury
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. was a very savvy character. His drinking and carousing, his charisma and intelligence... the things he did in Congress. He passed for white, then became a black advocate.
Ron Cephas Jones
Character
Intelligence
Black
Drinking
White
Congress
Savvy
Charisma
He
Became
Advocate
Passed
His
Very
Did
Then
Things
Adam
If Congress adds 5 percent to the debt, then their pay should be cut by 5 percent.
Ron DeSantis
Pay
Congress
Adds
Percent
Debt
Cut
Then
Should
I'm running for Congress to reverse Obama's big government policies, to be faithful to the principles on which our nation was founded, and to make members of Congress play by the same rules as the rest of us.
Ron DeSantis
Government
Rest
Big
Faithful
Nation
Congress
Our
Rules
Members
Obama
Running
Make
Policies
Principles
Reverse
Government Policies
Big Government
Same
Which
Us
Founded
Play
Congress cannot be allowed to impose burdens on the American people while relieving its own members of those burdens.
Ron DeSantis
People
Own
Congress
Those
Members
Relieving
Allowed
Impose
American
Burdens
Cannot
While
American People
I would go bold: you don't have to be a member of Congress to be the speaker of the House. I would support someone like Dr. Carson or somebody like that; I think that would be good.
Ron DeSantis
Good
You
Somebody
Congress
Think
Member
Would
Would-Be
Someone
Support
Like
House
Go
Speaker
Bold
Dr
I have been a lot of 'firsts' on the national political stage, including the first African American congressman from the Bay Area and one of the first Democratic Socialists in Congress.
Ron Dellums
Political
First
National
Stage
Congress
Bay
Bay Area
Area
Democratic
Been
Lot
American
African
African-American
Congressman
Including
Socialists
I'lI say this: I recall entering Congress in 1971 and being called a 'feminist' by members of my own party as if it was a dirty word. They didn't realize that I wore that label as a badge of honor.
Ron Dellums
Word
Honor
Party
Own
Congress
Say
Entering
Members
My Own
Dirty
Badge
Feminist
Label
Being
Wore
Realize
Recall
With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.
Ron Fournier
Faith
Leadership
National
Lost
Congress
Approval
Percent
Rating
Norm
Public
Below
Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate: a landslide victory and a specific agenda.
Ron Fournier
Victory
First
Congress
Every
President
Virtually
Claim
Claimed
Andrew
Constitutional
Since
Jackson
Lacking
Mandate
While
Public
Agenda
Ingredients
Electoral
Landslide
Mantle
Even
Specific
Two
Desires
A sagging economy, a soaring national debt, and an increasingly restive Congress pushed Obama to order troop reductions that are both deeper and faster than recommended by his military commanders.
Ron Fournier
National
Congress
Military
Faster
Increasingly
Obama
Recommended
Both
Troop
Pushed
Economy
Reductions
His
National Debt
Debt
Than
Order
Soaring
Deeper
Though Congress continues to explore possible solutions to ensure social security solvency, everyone must take personal responsibility to prepare their own retirement savings accordingly.
Ron Lewis
Responsibility
Own
Congress
Savings
Everyone
Ensure
Though
Possible
Possible Solutions
Security
Must
Solutions
Solvency
Take
Retirement
Accordingly
Personal
Personal Responsibility
Social
Explore
Social Security
Prepare
We must continue our fight to ensure that Federal, State, and local authorities have the resources and support necessary to combat this growing epidemic. This is a top priority for me and many of my colleagues here in Congress.
Ron Lewis
Me
Fight
Congress
State
Local
Our
Resources
Top
Ensure
Colleagues
Must
Federal
Support
Combat
Priority
Continue
Authorities
Epidemic
Many
Growing
Necessary
Here
Rather than waiting for future trials to determine rules that will impact every citizen, Congress should step in and write a law that takes every American's rights into consideration.
Ron Wyden
Future
Rights
Trials
Waiting
Law
Will
Citizen
Congress
Every
Consideration
Rules
Impact
Determine
Rather
Write
Step
Takes
Than
American
Should
Hey, well, I've been a pretty conservative member of congress.
Roy Blunt
Conservative
Congress
Hey
Member
Pretty
Well
Been
When it comes to being a responsible steward of the economy, Congress needs to either lead by promoting a pro-growth economic agenda - or, better yet, get the heck out of the way.
Roy Blunt
Needs
Better
Congress
Way
Out
Responsible
Promoting
Economic
Lead
Economy
Steward
Get
Pro-Growth
Being
Either
Heck
Agenda
There has been a growing consensus across the country - from statehouses to the White House and the halls of Congress - that we need to take dramatic steps to improve our secondary schools.
Ruben Hinojosa
Country
White
White House
Congress
Secondary
Dramatic
Our
Has-Been
Take
Steps
House
Schools
Halls
Been
Improve
Across
Growing
Consensus
Need
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