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.
CHARLES SCHUMERCrime can be a unifying argument – not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.
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The highest priority you can have is education.
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If 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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Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.
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The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.
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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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In today’s competitive economy, to stand still is to die.
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An economic message, an economic platform unites the factory worker in Scranton, the young woman in Los Angeles struggling to pay her college debt and the single mom in Buffalo who’s on minimum wage.
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The currency bill we have would finally do something for China`s rapacious policies.
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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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If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now.
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The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.
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I’d like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.
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America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.
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Democrats don’t relate to middle-class people.
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As long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, Israel has no choice but to build the fence.
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