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My dad worked for the Fish and Wildlife Service, and he worked for the Department of Interior, you know, like the federal government. And consequently, I was outdoors a lot in my lifetime.
Sam Elliott
Service
Government
You
Interior
Wildlife
Outdoors
Federal
Federal Government
Lifetime
He
Like
Know
Fish
Lot
Department
Worked
Dad
Consequently
The federal government has gone too far on many nonessential regulations that are harming small businesses. Employers are rightly concerned about the costs of these regulations - so they stop hiring, stop spending, and start saving for a bill from the federal government.
Sam Graves
Government
Gone
Harming
Too
Saving
Spending
Rightly
About
Small
Costs
Small Businesses
Federal
Federal Government
Employers
Concerned
Hiring
Stop
Far
Bill
Regulations
Businesses
Many
Start
No branch of the law is of more importance to the counsellor, the statesman, or the citizen, than a thorough acquaintance with the Constitution and laws of the Federal Government, as they are administered and as they affect the rights of the people.
Samuel Freeman Miller
Government
Constitution
Rights
People
Law
Citizen
Thorough
Statesman
Laws
More
Federal
Federal Government
Importance
Affect
Branch
Than
Acquaintance
Naturalization is the process by which a citizen, or subject of a foreign nation or kingdom, is made a citizen of the United States. It is evident that the Constitutional Convention thought that it was important that this process should be placed under the exclusive control of the Federal Government and not of the States.
Samuel Freeman Miller
Government
Thought
Citizen
Made
Important
Nation
Control
States
Evident
Kingdom
Constitutional
Federal
Federal Government
Exclusive
Foreign
Subject
Convention
Process
Which
Placed
Should
United
United States
When national policy becomes hostage to regional interests, the federal government becomes paralysed and would be unable to act in the larger national interest.
Sanjaya Baru
Government
National
Unable
Would
Would-Be
Federal
Federal Government
Hostage
Policy
Becomes
National Interest
National Policy
Interest
Regional
Interests
Act
Larger
The main issue is huge government spending, and my record has been trying to make sure the federal government lives within its means. I guess that's really what separates where Republicans have been from the Democrats.
Scott Garrett
Government
Guess
Spending
Has-Been
Record
Federal
Federal Government
Main
Make
Sure
Within
Democrats
Issue
Been
Government Spending
Huge
Trying
Where
Republicans
Really
Means
Separates
Lives
Since my election as Oklahoma attorney general in 2010, I have been a proud member of a group of federalism-minded state attorneys general who have methodically, indeed relentlessly, worked to restore the proper balance of power between the federal government and the states.
Scott Pruitt
Government
Balance
Election
Power
Group
State
Indeed
States
Oklahoma
Relentlessly
Member
Restore
Proper
General
Federal
Federal Government
Between
Since
Attorney
Attorney General
Attorneys
Balance Of Power
Proud
Been
Worked
Who
The federal government must retreat from its hyperactive involvement in areas traditionally under states' authority and refuse future temptations to regulate and legislate on every issue that happens to come to mind.
Scott Pruitt
Future
Government
Mind
Every
States
Must
Temptations
Area
Federal
Federal Government
Come
Retreat
Involvement
Issue
Authority
Legislate
Refuse
Happens
Regulate
I think that the more we, as a state, yield and cede decisions to the federal government, the lesser we'll be for it as a state.
Scott Pruitt
Government
Think
State
More
Federal
Federal Government
Yield
Decisions
Lesser
The federal government should not be able to hide behind sovereign immunity when the facts don't meet the protections.
Scott Pruitt
Government
Hide
Meet
Immunity
Able
Federal
Federal Government
Facts
Sovereign
Behind
Should
Whistleblowers play a vital role in ensuring that the federal government is accountable to the people it serves.
Seth Moulton
Government
People
Ensuring
Vital
Federal
Federal Government
Accountable
Role
Play
Serve
Individual people shouldn't be fearful, because by and large our government, the federal government - people always talk; obviously, they don't trust the feds, whatever. The federal government and local communities have done a pretty good job at keeping us safe.
Sherrod Brown
Government
Good
Trust
People
Good Job
Job
Whatever
Local
Our
Pretty
Fearful
Pretty Good
Individual
Federal
Federal Government
Safe
Talk
Obviously
Because
Always
Done
Us
Communities
Large
Keeping
Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.
Sidney Blumenthal
Government
Creative
Try
President
Benefit
Ways
Federal
Federal Government
Majority
His
Clinton
Office
Used
Who
Creative Ways
I think the federal government really should be supporting Louisiana and ensuring that every person from that area has an opportunity to vote on what will occur in the area.
Stephanie Tubbs Jones
Government
Vote
Opportunity
Will
Every
Think
Ensuring
Area
Federal
Federal Government
Supporting
Occur
Louisiana
Person
Really
Should
We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs.
Stephen Harper
Government
Business
Economic Development
Will
Country
Programs
Increasingly
Corporate
Range
Determine
Economic
Through
Federal
Federal Government
Development
Industries
Trying
Which
Regional
Regions
Succeed
Engaged
Whole
I have worked in the federal government and saw the debilitating effects of our antiquated civil service system on morale and results.
Stephen Moore
Service
Government
Our
Saw
System
Civil
Morale
Civil Service
Results
Federal
Federal Government
Debilitating
Effects
Antiquated
Worked
If you're not geographically diverse, it's hard to even speak a language that makes sense to folks in faraway places. That's especially a problem in the West, where voters have always mistrusted the federal government.
Steve Bullock
Government
You
Problem
Speak
Language
Sense
Folks
Diverse
Federal
Federal Government
Voters
Makes
Always
West
Where
Places
Faraway
Hard
Even
When Ronald Reagan was elected president for his first term in 1980, he received strong support from the so-called Sagebrush Rebels. The Rebels wanted lands owned by the federal government to be transferred to state governments.
Steve Hanke
Government
Strong
First
President
State
State Governments
Strong Support
Federal
Federal Government
He
Support
Term
First Term
Reagan
His
Governments
Owned
So-Called
Wanted
Transferred
Ronald Reagan
Elected
Lands
Rebels
Received
Certainly, cutting spending is one of the things that can transcend to the federal government. I mean, I think the federal government has grown by leaps and bounds, and they need to look where do they need to cut.
Susana Martinez
Government
Think
Spending
One Of The Things
Federal
Federal Government
Bounds
Look
Leaps
Transcend
Where
Mean
Cut
Cutting
Certainly
Grown
Things
Need
Congress has an obligation to clear the legal fog by passing my bill to require the federal government to obtain a warrant if it wants to conduct aerial surveillance.
Suzan DelBene
Government
Legal
Obligation
Fog
Congress
Federal
Federal Government
Clear
Obtain
Aerial
Passing
Conduct
Surveillance
Wants
Require
Bill
Warrant
We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don't pose imminent threats.
Ted Cruz
Government
Matter
Soil
Indefinitely
Citizens
Imminent
Detain
Threats
Federal
Federal Government
Clear
Force
Make
Without
Does
Due
Authority
Process
Use
Lethal
Need
Pose
Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message.
Ted Cruz
Future
Government
National
Community
Jobs
Carry
Hurting
Small
Small Businesses
Higher
Federal
Federal Government
Message
Hispanic
Hispanic Community
Unemployment
Than
Average
Businesses
Need
I do not believe we should shut down the federal government.
Ted Cruz
Government
Down
Believe
Federal
Federal Government
Should
Shut
Right now, there is no way that the federal government can prevent someone who's on the terror watch list from buying a gun - none.
Ted Deutch
Government
Gun
Way
Someone
Prevent
Federal
Federal Government
None
Terror
List
Now
Right
Watch
Buying
In the Senate, I will work to shrink the size of our federal government to its core Constitutional role so the private sector can thrive.
Thom Tillis
Work
Government
Will
Thrive
Our
Sector
Constitutional
Federal
Federal Government
Private
Private Sector
Role
Senate
Size
Shrink
Core
Under the administration of George W. Bush, you will recall, federal spending grew pretty significantly. At the same time, the number of people directly employed by the federal government shrank. One of the factors that explained the difference was contracting.
Thomas Frank
Government
Time
You
People
Will
Spending
Administration
Pretty
Directly
Federal
Factors
Federal Government
Federal Spending
Employed
George
George W
George W. Bush
Contracting
Same
Same Time
Difference
Grew
Explained
Bush
Recall
Number
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