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It's much more powerful to say I'm working to reduce spending, deal with our nation's deficit, push back on the federal government, and give specifics for that rather than just say, 'I'm a conservative.'
Lisa Murkowski
Government
Conservative
Nation
Back
Our
Deficit
Spending
Say
Give
Rather
More
Federal
Federal Government
Push
Powerful
Deal
Reduce
Than
Just
Much
Working
I think isolationism is a mistake, no matter what party you see it in. We have to remember that there are two threats to our freedom: there's a threat that comes from the federal government, from the Obama Administration policies... but there's also a huge and significant threat from al-Qaeda.
Liz Cheney
Government
Freedom
You
Mistake
Remember
Matter
Party
Think
Our
Significant
Obama
Administration
Obama Administration
Threat
See
Threats
Federal
Federal Government
Also
Policies
Isolationism
Huge
Al-Qaeda
Two
The federal government has failed us, so we, the elected officials of small-town America, are getting tough with illegal immigration.
Lou Barletta
Government
Immigration
Tough
Federal
Federal Government
Failed
America
Officials
Getting
Elected
Us
Elected Officials
Illegal
Illegal Immigration
The federal government should not be an accessory to the unconstitutional actions of the Arizona state government. By continuing to work with Arizona police departments operating under SB 1070, the Department is implicitly condoning the shameful tactics authorized by the new law.
Lucille Roybal-Allard
Work
Government
Law
Police
State
State Government
Tactics
Shameful
Federal
Federal Government
Unconstitutional
Arizona
Implicitly
New
Operating
Accessory
Continuing
Department
Authorized
Departments
Should
Actions
If the federal government believes free contraception is vital, then surely it can find another way to implement it than by forcing family businesses and religious broadcasters and others to violate their religious beliefs.
Luther Strange
Government
Family
Free
Forcing
Others
Broadcasters
Way
Find
Religious
Religious Beliefs
Vital
Federal
Federal Government
Implement
Another
Another Way
Surely
Contraception
Than
Then
Businesses
Beliefs
Believes
Violate
If the federal government can mandate what we have to spend our own money on, then the federal government can make us buy something even if we are morally opposed to paying for it.
Luther Strange
Buy
Government
Money
Own
Our
Spend
Morally
Something
Federal
Federal Government
Make
Opposed
Mandate
Then
Us
Paying
Even
In the 1970s, Safari Club International asked the federal government to approve its import of 1,125 not-yet-killed trophies of 40 endangered species, including gorillas, orangutans and tigers, according to the Humane Society of the United States.
Lydia Millet
Government
Club
Humane
Society
Approve
States
Trophies
Federal
Federal Government
Import
Tigers
According
Endangered
Endangered Species
Asked
International
Including
United
Species
United States
About half of all potential future global warming emissions from United States fossil fuels lie in oil, gas and coal buried beneath our public lands, controlled by the federal government and owned by the American people - and not yet leased to private industry for fuel extraction.
Lydia Millet
Future
Government
Lie
People
Half
Extraction
Beneath
Our
States
About
Potential
Emissions
Federal
Federal Government
Global
Global Warming
Industry
Private
American
Owned
Controlled
Buried
Oil
Public
Fuel
Warming
Fuels
American People
Lands
Public Lands
Coal
Fossil
Fossil Fuels
United
United States
Gas
The demand that school finances be transferred away from local school districts to the state and/or federal government has been a long-time favorite of the educationist lobbies.
M. Stanton Evans
Government
School
State
Local
Local School
Finances
Favorite
Has-Been
Districts
Federal
Federal Government
School Districts
Demand
Been
Transferred
Away
Unlike the federal government, most states don't have the option of running a deficit.
Marcia Angell
Government
Deficit
Unlike
States
Running
Federal
Federal Government
Most
Option
Every American born today owes $43,000 to the federal government the day she or he is born. And we are transferring a tremendous amount of debt to the new generation, much of it owed to overseas creditors who expect to be repaid by our children with interest.
Mark Kirk
Today
Government
Day
Generation
Owes
Every
Tremendous
Tremendous Amount
Our
Born
Federal
Federal Government
He
New
She
New Generation
Overseas
Debt
Expect
Owed
American
Children
Transferring
Interest
Much
Who
Amount
Creditors
Every American
I think Barack Obama and his team believe that the federal government is best prepared to handle virtually everything in our lives. I mean, they're socialists in every respect of the word and I think they'd like to take over everything in our lives if they could, including health care.
Mark Neumann
Government
Best
Health
Respect
Word
Care
Believe
Every
Think
Virtually
Our
Everything
Our Lives
Obama
Could
Federal
Federal Government
Take
Over
Like
Health Care
His
Handle
Barack
Barack Obama
Mean
Team
Prepared
Including
Lives
Socialists
Millions of Americans were duped by the federal government and the Federal Reserve into buying homes they could not afford and failed to count the cost. When the financial crisis of 2008 hit, they could not keep up the monthly mortgage payments and defaulted.
Mark Skousen
Government
Financial
Monthly
Financial Crisis
Crisis
Cost
Could
Federal
Federal Government
Count
Federal Reserve
Failed
Mortgage
Were
Up
Hit
Duped
Afford
American
Payments
Reserve
Keep
Homes
Buying
Millions
The Tea Party was born out of the disgust many Americans felt early in the financial crisis upon learning that the federal government was even contemplating reducing the principal on some troubled mortgages.
Mark Zandi
Government
Learning
Financial
Party
Tea
Financial Crisis
Crisis
Out
Some
Born
Federal
Troubled
Federal Government
Mortgages
Contemplating
Principal
Felt
Reducing
American
Disgust
Tea Party
Many
Even
Early
I would have never run for office if it wasn't for the fact that my biggest threat to my company was the federal government and the overreach of the EPA. They've gone too far, and it's time for them to be pulled back in.
Markwayne Mullin
Government
Time
Gone
Too
Back
Run
Would
Threat
Fact
Federal
Federal Government
Never
Office
Biggest
EPA
Them
Far
Company
Pulled
I often quote Ronald Reagan, who is pretty close to my favorite President ever, I will have to say that, but one of my favorite remarks he ever made was that when you look at Federal programs, there is nothing so close to eternal life on Earth as a Federal Government program.
Marsha Blackburn
Life
Government
You
Will
Made
Nothing
Programs
President
Earth
Say
Favorite
Pretty
Federal
Federal Government
Remarks
He
Look
Reagan
Government Program
Close
Often
Quote
Eternal
Ronald Reagan
Eternal Life
Who
Ever
Program
We don't want the federal government to shut down. It is so inappropriate, and it is not respectful of the people that have sent us here to do our jobs.
Marsha Blackburn
Government
People
Down
Our
Respectful
Jobs
Federal
Federal Government
Want
Sent
Inappropriate
Us
Shut
Here
The American Dream is not being dependent on the federal government for your health care, for your automobile, for your college education, for your student loan on and on and on.
Marsha Blackburn
Education
Government
Health
Care
Loan
College
Dream
College Education
Federal
Federal Government
Student
Health Care
American
Dependent
American Dream
Being
Automobile
Your
We've already seen the federal government stretch their regulatory tentacles into our homes and determine what kind of light bulbs we have to use.
Marsha Blackburn
Government
Light
Seen
Our
Kind
Determine
Federal
Federal Government
Use
Regulatory
Homes
Stretch
For the last 50 years, the federal government has taken out of the Gulf Coast $165 billion in taxes that came from oil and gas off of our coast that went to the federal Treasury, to rebuild all places in America except the place that it came from.
Mary Landrieu
Government
Rebuild
Our
Out
Gulf
Gulf Coast
Except
Federal
Federal Government
Taken
Came
Years
Off
America
Oil
Place
Places
Taxes
Coast
Billion
Gas
Treasury
Last
The federal government needs a strategic approach that includes strong leadership and the ability to manage weather related risks. The challenge of developing such an approach is complex: It must not only encompass all levels of government but must also be developed in a bipartisan manner.
Matt Cartwright
Government
Leadership
Needs
Risks
Strong
Challenge
Weather
Related
Approach
Complex
Must
Ability
Only
Federal
Federal Government
Developed
Developing
Also
Encompass
Manage
Manner
Strategic
Levels
Bipartisan
We don't want terrorists in Wyoming or anywhere else in this country. And we have got to make sure the federal government is doing its job by not allowing these folks into our states.
Matt Mead
Government
Job
Country
Else
Our
States
Folks
Federal
Federal Government
Allowing
Make
Sure
Got
Terrorists
Doing
Want
Anywhere
Anywhere Else
We are a nation of borders and - I mean, that is one of the main things that the federal government is in charge with, and that is protecting the citizens of the United States and our whole nation.
Matt Rosendale
Government
Nation
Our
States
Charge
Citizens
Borders
Federal
Federal Government
Main
Protecting
Mean
Whole
United
United States
Things
I advised the insurance companies to apply certain rate adjustments only to plans where the federal government provides assistance in order to save Montanans money and keep rates lower on other plans.
Matt Rosendale
Government
Money
Other
Adjustment
Rate
Rates
Only
Federal
Federal Government
Advised
Insurance
Insurance Companies
Provides
Where
Order
Lower
Certain
Plans
Companies
Keep
Apply
Assistance
Save
The federal government is far larger than the Founding Fathers ever intended it to be. We have racked up over $16 trillion of debt through wasteful spending, and it is time that we cut that waste and start reducing the size of our government.
Matt Salmon
Government
Time
Fathers
Our
Spending
Trillion
Through
Federal
Federal Government
Over
Reducing
Up
Debt
Than
Intended
Size
Cut
Far
Racked
Waste
Ever
Larger
Founding
Wasteful
Founding Fathers
Wasteful Spending
Start
The federal government needs to get off the backs of small businesses and let the private sector grow and create jobs instead of harnessing it with onerous regulations and a repressive tax code.
Matt Salmon
Government
Needs
Harnessing
Backs
Sector
Jobs
Small
Small Businesses
Federal
Federal Government
Instead
Private
Off
Private Sector
Get
Tax
Repressive
Tax Code
Create
Regulations
Businesses
Grow
Code
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