When a nominee doesn’t get 60 votes, you shouldn’t change the rules, you should change the nominee.
CHARLES SCHUMERIf the Saudis were culpable, they should be held accountable. If they had nothing to do with 9/11, they have nothing to fear.
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The public knows how many good things there are as part of the Affordable Care Act. The Republicans say they’re going to repeal. They don’t know what to replace it with.
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I’m still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people’s lives better.
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The currency bill we have would finally do something for China`s rapacious policies.
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It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.
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All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars.
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The Democratic Party was always there on crime, but in the past we let the ideologues on the left dominate. The Republicans may still let the ideologues on the right dominate.
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Let me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, porky amendments – the American people really don’t care.
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America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.
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I’m not sure we will have every single Democrat, but we want a large number of Republicans to be able to vote for this bill because we think that will encourage the House not only to move forward but to pass a bill.
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So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it’s a better education overall.
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Certainly any president – Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative – should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.
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In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough.
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What I want to do first with education is my student loan idea. Basically, if you go into teaching and teach for five years, your student loans should be forgiven. It doesn’t cost that much.
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No one believed [the 1986 amnesty for illegal aliens] was tough enough on illegal immigration, and it didn’t give enough flexibility on future legal immigration.
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I am deeply skeptical of trade deals in general.But the only way they can get a number of Democrats is by doing a strong real currency bill that goes after the worst of the trading partners, the one that`s stealing our high-end jobs.
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