In April, I asked my staff to determine if Senate rules and relevant laws would allow me to direct the trustees to sell any remaining HCA stock.
BILL FRISTThe notion that you have a blind trust but you can tell your trustee when to sell stock in it just doesn’t make any sense. It means you have a seeing eye trust and not a blind trust. It’s ridiculous.
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Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.
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Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors.
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When we talk about safety and security of the American people, politics falls aside pretty quickly.
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It is our duty and our privilege to keep America moving forward.
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America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world.
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There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.
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Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear.
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The American people expect and deserve a government that works and leaders who work together.
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The United States has put more money on HIV, AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis than any country in the world and it’s having an impact real quick.
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America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can’t afford it, access it and doctor’s can’t provide it.
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In May, my staff worked with outside counsel and with the Senate ethics committee staff to draft a written communication to the trustees.
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This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation.
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As a physician I have sympathy for patients suffering from pain and other medical conditions.
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Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms.
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The enemies of freedom will not prevail.
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I am troubled… that someone would sell a book, trading on their former service as a government insider with access to our nation’s most valuable intelligence, in order to profit from the suffering that this nation endured on September 11, 2001.
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It is very important that the president thematically shows where we’re going in terms of the vision and an agenda.
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Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe.
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I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend and can extend to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman.
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[I support] term limits for career politicians and the death penalty for career politicians.
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September 11 impressed upon us that life is a precious gift. Every life has a purpose. And I think we all have a duty to devote at least a small portion of our daily lives to ensuring that neither America nor the world ever forgets September 11.
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America is moving forward and gaining strength. We have been tested, and we have proven ourselves to be a tough, resilient and resourceful nation.
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We have determined enemies who will use any means available to take the lives of as many Americans as possible.
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As a matter of principle, we believe all Americans deserve affordable, available, and reliable quality health care.
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After obtaining pre-approval by mid-June from the Senate ethics committee, I issued a letter directing my trustees to sell any remaining HCA stock in my family’s trust.
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From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character.
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