| Week In Review |
May 22, 2013 |
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Louie Gohmert, R-TX
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"So, my Republican friends, when trying to persuade me to vote for this bill tomorrow said, look, the student loan rates will stay where they are for now, but, yeah, eventually they will go up some. But the good news is they won’t go all the way up to 6.8."
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| Agriculture Reform, Food, And Jobs Act Of 2013 |
May 20, 2013 |
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Sheldon Whitehouse, D-RI
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"Let me ask my Republican friends, what is your best bet on whether this climate and oceans problem gets better or worse in the next 20 or 40 years? Seriously. Your party’s reputation is on the line here. All the chips. Tell me how you are going to bet. Do you want to bet the reputation of the Republican Party that suddenly this is all going to magically start getting better? Because that is what you are doing right now."
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| Facing The Issues |
May 20, 2013 |
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Barbara Boxer, D-CA
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"I think we will start with the IRS. It is wrong to target any group for scrutiny whether they are on the right or on the left, if it is a tea party group or a liberal church. We have seen this with the IRS over the years. As a matter of fact, I looked back to see how many of my Republican friends stood up and talked about going after the IRS and straightening them out when they went after the NAACP or when they went after a liberal church in Pasadena in Congressman Schiff’s district. The fact is they got exercised when they went after the tea party. OK. I hear you. I am with you. What is important is so is the President."
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| Debt Ceiling |
May 16, 2013 |
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Gerald Connolly, D-VA
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"I am dismayed that my Republican friends continue to shun their own party’s heritage for making strategic investments in infrastructure and innovation in favor of a blind adherence to slashing government spending with no acknowledgment for the consequences. I’ve consistently said that Federal spending must be reduced, but I’ve also said that it must be done in tandem with maintaining strategic Federal investments in things that create jobs, like R&D, infrastructure, innovation. I would suggest that my Republican friends look no further than the GDP growth from the last two quarters, showing it’s not the Federal debt but their meat-ax approach to cutting those Federal investments that, in fact, has created what drag there is on the U.S. economy."
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| The Irs |
May 16, 2013 |
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Bernard Sanders, I-VT
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"If you are 67 years of age and are diagnosed with cancer and Medicare is not there for you and you don’t have a family who has money, what will happen to you? Some of my Republican friends will say: Well, go to charity. Charity is not going to be there to provide health care for millions of people."
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