I just want people to know that if they want to change the direction of the country, they can do it, but only if they’re active, informed, and engaged.
JIM DEMINTI have been on shop floors. I have talked to a lot of the companies that create jobs in South Carolina and across the country. And what they want is less regulation.
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If we’re able to stop Obama on [health care reform], it will be his Waterloo. It will break him and we will show that we can, along with the American people, begin to push those freedom solutions that work in every area of our society.
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I have been on shop floors. I have talked to a lot of the companies that create jobs in South Carolina and across the country. And what they want is less regulation.
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Frankly, if independents and Democrats want to work with us on conservative ideas, I can do that better at Heritage than as a partisan inside.
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Allow states to opt out of No Child Left Behind.
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Select candidates by integrity of character, not promises.
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But my bill, the Drill Now Act, would actually expedite the whole process, let the Interior Department move ahead quicker… It would stop the radical environmental lawyers from delaying for years with frivolous lawsuits the leasing of the property.
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A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.
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I don’t even like playing a contentious role.
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Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator – life, liberty and freedom.
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So, the point I’m making is, we are not going to cut spending in Washington if we think it’s the job of every congressman and senators to pave local parking lots and build local sewer plants. These parochial interests are getting in the way of the national interests.
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As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society’s most vulnerable.
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Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.
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I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.
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No funding for Planned Parenthood; protect the unborn.
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American exceptionalism requires understanding biblical view.
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