Since 1980, we’ve used reconciliation 22 times, and out of those times, Republicans used it 16 times. So, earth to my Republican friends, you can have your option but you cannot change these facts. They’re in the Congressional Record
BARBARA BOXER
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Barbara Boxer93 quotes“Since 1980, we’ve used reconciliation 22 times, and out of those times, Republicans used it 16 times. So, earth to my Republican friends, you can have your option but you cannot change these facts. They’re in the Congressional Record”
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If you dared to put your opinion into a factual piece, your editors said, “You can’t do this. Write an op-ed.”
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Barbara BoxerBarbara Boxer Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.
Barbara BoxerBarbara Boxer So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off.
Barbara BoxerBarbara Boxer Our democracy is the centerpiece of who we are as a nation. And it is the fondest hope of all Americans that we can help bring democracy to every corner of the world.
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Barbara BoxerBarbara Boxer When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
Barbara BoxerBarbara Boxer The press is critical at this time, and if you look at history, this is so critical.
Barbara BoxerBarbara Boxer I think being prepared for anything is the way to go.
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Barbara BoxerBarbara Boxer We have to treasure our country, our freedom, the progress we’ve made, and if we see any of that threatened, we have to respond.
Barbara BoxerBarbara Boxer The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.
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Barbara BoxerBarbara Boxer We are all different. Yet we are all God’s children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.
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And Supernatural, in fact, going there wasit felt like a place where I had to actually, um, learn to be kind of manly. I felt like I had to kind of change my, like, way of speaking for a little bit, just to kind of fit in, oddly enough. Which was weird.
Ben EdlundBen Edlund I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.
Ben EltonBen Elton The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts – even widely known ones – that were outside their limited field of vision.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it’s right.
Ben MezrichBen Mezrich This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there’s someone else to do the housework.
Ben AaronovitchBen Aaronovitch Renunciation – that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.
Beatrice WebbBeatrice Webb My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
Baz LuhrmannBaz Luhrmann First of all, I’d like to say here the fact that I’m not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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