| National Exchange Club Birthday |
May 16, 2013 |
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Randy Weber, R-TX
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"I would also like to welcome the newest chapter in Friendswood, Texas, where I currently reside. I look forward to working with them in promoting American exceptionalism and in helping to serve our community."
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| Core American Beliefs |
May 16, 2013 |
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Todd Rokita, R-IN
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"Now, we are a giving Nation. We want to help out. Our volunteerism and our charity work are second to none in this entire world. It is actually part of our American exceptionalism. It is what makes us unique and different from any other place on this Earth. I’d like to know the American who thinks that given everything I’ve just listed that that fits his definition of “poor” and that that’s whom we should be helping and not others who really, really need, again, that temporary hand up and not the permanent handout."
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| Immigration |
May 9, 2013 |
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Steve King, R-IA
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"Why do people come to the United States of America? Because they are inspired by the image of the Statue of Liberty. And within that Statue of Liberty are the basic pillars of American exceptionalism in the minds of the people that see it. They’re written into the Bill of Rights, most of them."
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| Comprehensive Immigration Reform |
May 6, 2013 |
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Steve King, R-IA
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"It is because of the God-given liberties that we have, many of them in the Bill of Rights: freedom of speech, religion and the press, freedom to peaceably assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances; the Second Amendment: the right to keep and bear arms; property rights in the Fifth Amendment; the right to be faced by your accusers in a court of law and be tried by a jury of your peers and no double jeopardy; the concept of federalism where the power is not specifically delegated to the Congress or to the President or to the judicial branch but devolved to the States or to the people respectively. Those are all pillars of American exceptionalism that make us a great, great Nation."
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| Immigration Reform |
April 16, 2013 |
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Steve King, R-IA
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"Can anyone point to a successful model in history where any culture, any civilization, let alone the unchallenged greatest Nation of the world, sacrifices the rule of law, a pillar of exceptionalism, in order to start a conversation?"
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