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People aren't going to go bankrupt anymore if they have a serious illness, which was a serious issue here in the country before the Affordable Care Act. And, in fact, the expense of expanding health care for those who need the subsidy is picked up by the federal government for most of the early years.
Deval Patrick
Government
Health
People
Care
Country
Before
Early Years
Those
Fact
Federal
Federal Government
Picked
Most
Health Care
Issue
Go
Years
Up
Expanding
Affordable
Affordable Care Act
Going
Subsidy
Expense
Bankrupt
In Fact
Anymore
Which
Act
Who
Illness
Serious
Early
Here
Need
Aside from the poor example it sets, the federal government enables reckless spending on public-employee pensions by offering hope of assistance from Washington if things get bad enough.
Devin Nunes
Hope
Government
Example
Sets
Enough
Reckless
Spending
Bad
Pensions
Federal
Federal Government
Enables
Offering
Get
Poor
Aside
Washington
Things
Assistance
There's no reason to think a Guantanamo detainee is any more likely to escape from Supermax than any other federal prisoner.
Dianne Feinstein
Prisoner
Think
Other
More
No Reason
Federal
Likely
Escape
Than
Any
Reason
Guantanamo
I filed a brief as a friend of the court in the U. of Michigan to keep affirmative action at the U. of Michigan, which I attended the law school. And I was one of the original sponsors of making the Martin Luther King birthday a federal holiday.
Dick Gephardt
Birthday
Law
School
King
Action
Law School
Martin
Martin Luther
Martin Luther King
Federal
Attended
Sponsors
Court
Making
Friend
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Michigan
Which
Holiday
Original
Brief
Keep
Luther
However, the sovereignty of the states is constitutionally defined and recognized, while the powers of the local government in Puerto Rico are defined by, and subject to alteration under, federal statutory law.
Dick Thornburgh
Government
Law
Local
Local Government
Defined
States
Recognized
Statutory
Federal
Powers
Alteration
However
Subject
Sovereignty
While
Rico
Puerto
Puerto Rico
The powers of government exercised locally derive from a federal law authorizing government by consent in local affairs only, unless those affairs are otherwise governed by federal law.
Dick Thornburgh
Government
Law
Otherwise
Local
Unless
Locally
Those
Only
Federal
Powers
Governed
Affairs
Derive
Consent
Specifically, the reservation of sovereignty to the people of the states in matters not governed by federal law is constitutionally defined and permanently enshrined in the 10th Amendment.
Dick Thornburgh
People
Law
Matters
Reservation
Defined
Enshrined
States
Federal
Permanently
Governed
Amendment
Sovereignty
Specifically
After one hundred years of federal rule, the United States House of Representatives has moved to provide for the first meaningful route to self-determination for the Puerto Rican people under our federal system.
Dick Thornburgh
People
First
Our
Hundred
Hundred Years
Rule
States
System
Federal
Self-Determination
House
House Of Representatives
Provide
Years
Representatives
Moved
After
Rican
Meaningful
United
United States
Route
Puerto
Puerto Rican
This is the way federal land management should work. Cooperation, not confrontation, should be the hallmark of conservation efforts.
Dirk Kempthorne
Work
Management
Way
Federal
Hallmark
Efforts
Confrontation
Land
Should
Cooperation
Conservation
Penn State in 1955 became the first university to be issued a federal license to operate a nuclear reactor, which it continues to use for studies in the peaceful uses of atomic energy and the training of nuclear industry personnel.
Don Sherwood
Training
First
Energy
State
License
Penn
Penn State
Atomic
Atomic Energy
Federal
Studies
Operate
Industry
Became
Which
Personnel
Use
Uses
Peaceful
Nuclear
University
At the same time that Donald Trump was facing a federal discrimination lawsuit for refusing to rent to minority families, Hillary Clinton risked her own safety to seek out the truth, to comfort the afflicted, and to make a home for justice where there was none. It was at the Children's Defense Fund that I met Hillary.
Donna Brazile
Truth
Time
Home
Justice
Safety
Minority
Met
Own
Defense
Out
Seek
Lawsuit
Risked
Facing
Federal
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
Make
Comfort
None
Rent
Clinton
Trump
Discrimination
Afflicted
Families
Donald
Donald Trump
Same
Same Time
Refusing
Where
Children
Fund
Her
Federal government has forced a one-size-fits-all model on our education system.
Doug Ducey
Education
Government
Our
System
One-Size-Fits-All
Federal
Federal Government
Forced
Model
When Arizona became a state, the federal government granted our founders nearly 11 million acres of state land. Every time we sell a piece of that land, proceeds go into the Land Trust where the money is invested and earns interest.
Doug Ducey
Government
Time
Trust
Money
Every
Every Time
State
Our
Federal
Invested
Federal Government
Arizona
Piece
Became
Go
Sell
Where
Proceeds
Interest
Land
Acres
Granted
Founders
Nearly
Million
The outlook for the Federal budget is bleak.
Doug Elmendorf
Outlook
Federal
Bleak
Budget
We do not see the sort of fundamental changes that would be necessary to reduce the trajectory of federal health spending by a significant amount and, on the contrary, the legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility for health care costs.
Doug Elmendorf
Health
Care
Responsibility
Changes
On The Contrary
Spending
Significant
Would
Would-Be
See
Costs
Federal
Sort
Health Care
Health Care Costs
Reduce
Contrary
Trajectory
Legislation
Fundamental
Amount
Necessary
Care Costs
All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.
Earl Warren
Education
Law
Public Education
State
Local
Must
Federal
Provisions
Yield
Discrimination
Public
Requiring
It is unbelievable that the federal court itself ignores that rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution apply in Puerto Rico.
Eduardo Bhatia
Constitution
Rights
Unbelievable
Federal
Court
Itself
Ignores
Rico
Puerto
Apply
Puerto Rico
Guaranteed
The federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act passed unanimously in the House, won 97 votes in the Senate, and was signed into law by President Bill Clinton. Twenty states have passed their own versions of this law, and 11 additional ones have religious-liberty protections that state courts have interpreted to provide a similar level of protection.
Edwin Meese
Freedom
Law
Protection
Own
President
State
Additional
States
Signed
Unanimously
Religious
Religious Freedom
Restoration
Similar
Federal
Votes
House
Passed
Courts
Provide
Clinton
Versions
Won
Senate
Bill
Act
Bill Clinton
Twenty
Level
Interpreted
Even if it's a national issue, the federal government cannot provide all the answers.
Elaine Chao
Government
National
Federal
Federal Government
Answers
Issue
Provide
Cannot
Even
America needs a new approach to boost the economy - one that does not doom future generations to being saddled with paying off today's federal deficits.
Elaine Chao
Today
Future
Needs
Approach
Deficits
Boost
Future Generations
Federal
Generations
New
New Approach
Economy
Does
Off
America
Doom
Being
Paying
Around the time President Lyndon B. Johnson was declaring a War on Poverty in the 1960s, federal, state and local governments began accelerating a veritable War on the Private Sector.
Elaine Chao
War
Time
Poverty
Lyndon
President
State
Local
Local Governments
Sector
Johnson
Federal
Accelerate
Around
Private
Governments
Private Sector
Began
Declaring
I've been really humbled by other women who've reached out to me across the country. Not just women who are running for Congress and federal office, but elementary school students running for student council or high school students who are their class presidents.
Elise Stefanik
Me
Class
Women
School
Country
Congress
Other
Presidents
Out
High
Running
High School
High School Students
Council
Federal
Student
Students
Reached
Been
Office
Just
Really
Across
Who
Elementary
Elementary School
Humbled
In addition to advocating for smart policies that best serve our heroes, it is also my role as a Member of Congress to advocate for our veterans when working with federal agencies.
Elise Stefanik
Best
Smart
Veterans
Heroes
Congress
Addition
Our
Member
Federal
Also
Policies
Advocate
Advocating
Role
Agencies
Working
Serve
The federal government secures the border; Californians decide how we want to treat our population. I think we need a vibrant guest worker program. If we have one, we're going to stop having a lot of issues at the border.
Elizabeth Emken
Government
Treat
Think
Our
Guest
Border
Having
Federal
Federal Government
Californians
How
Issues
Lot
Going
Stop
Vibrant
Want
Decide
Worker
Population
Need
Program
The way our federal agencies are funded, the way the authorizing of these programs are done, I think needs to be completely revamped.
Elizabeth Emken
Needs
Think
Programs
Our
Way
Federal
Done
Agencies
There's no reason to continue including language in the federal spending bill to prohibit the CDC and NIH from studying the causes or effects of gun violence on public health.
Elizabeth Esty
Health
Language
Gun
Prohibit
Spending
No Reason
Federal
Federal Spending
Studying
Causes
Continue
Effects
Public
Public Health
Bill
Reason
Including
Violence
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