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May 9, 2013 |
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Steve King, R-IA
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"The House of Representatives is reactive to the people. It’s set up to be an election every 2 years so we can be reactive to the people. An example would be when people lost their good political judgment here in Congress and passed ObamaCare in 2010, we saw a wave election and 87 new freshman Republicans came in. Every single one of them ran on the full repeal of ObamaCare. Every single one of them voted—as did every Republican after that—to repeal ObamaCare. That’s just the House reaction."
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| Introducing The Invasive Fish And Wildlife Prevention Act Of 2013 |
March 6, 2013 |
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Louise Slaughter, D-NY
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"Yet, federal regulators are frequently slow to respond to emerging threats. Invasive species are currently regulated by the Lacey Act, a 112-year-old law that gives the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) only limited power to declare non-native animals as “injurious” and prohibit their importation and interstate sales. In fact, it takes the FWS an average of four years to officially list a species as injurious and take appropriate action. Experts and interested parties repeatedly describe this regulatory approach as reactive and ineffective."
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| The Debt Ceiling |
February 13, 2013 |
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Mike Quigley, D-IL
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"The Tea Party has this wrong. The objective should not be to destroy government through reactive draconian cuts; rather, we should collectively rethink and renew this institution that touches all of our lives."
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| Department Of Defense Appropriations Act—Continued |
December 28, 2012 |
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Mike Lee, R-UT
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"Too often Federal disaster relief has been reactive, bureaucratic, arbitrary, and billions of dollars are spent. Sometimes that happens with little or no accountability. Resources go unused, goals are not met, and redtape delays recovery. In the end, it seems Washington focuses sometimes solely on the price tag rather than on the people we are trying to help."
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| African Growth And Opportunity Amendment Act |
August 2, 2012 |
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Olympia Snowe, R-ME
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"This Congress could spend another 2 years debating the merits of various approaches and continuing to operate based on a reactive hodgepodge of government directives and bureaucratic confusion. But at the end of the day, the only way to begin preparing our Nation to defend against this emerging threat is to allow the Senate to work its will in a full and unrestrained debate."
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