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The life of a congressional spouse is harder than the life of the member. They do all the work and get none of the recognition.
Jared Polis / United States Representative
Recognition
Spouse
Congressional
Member
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Trying to enforce our out-of-touch laws is as foolish and impossible as trying to enforce a law requiring that water flow uphill.
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Flow
Foolish
Enforce
Requiring
Uphill
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Throughout history, we have only moved forward when society has distinguished between traditional values and valueless traditions.
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History
Society
Distinguished
Moved
Traditional
Traditional Values
Between
Forward
Throughout
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I believe that in order to sustain a governing majority, the Democratic Party has got to learn that it can govern without raising taxes.
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Democratic Party
Raising Taxes
Taxes
Believe I Believe I Believe That
Govern
Raising
Sustain
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The federal government has an exceptionally poor record of behaving responsibly with Americans' personal information when entrusted with it.
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Federal Government
Personal Information
Behaving
Entrusted
Exceptionally
Responsibly
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As long as you have money to live then it's not a terribly important thing. If you don't have enough to live, then it's very important thing.
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Enough
Important
Long
Terribly
Important Thing
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The NSA has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times a year since Congress gave it broad new powers in 2008.
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Legal
Authority
Nsa
Privacy
Broad
Powers
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Americans' information independence is under attack, whether it's the repeal of net neutrality or the repeal of broadband privacy protections.
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Independence
Broadband
Neutrality
Privacy
Attack
Net
Repeal
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Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities.
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Government
Local Government
Mandates
Passing
Priorities
Promise
Thrive
Breaking
Local
Promises
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No American should have to live in constant fear that their employer can fire them just because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
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Constant
Orientation
Employer
Sexual
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Creating a sustainable, economic, social, and ecological environment that provides everyone the opportunity to succeed is my mission in Congress.
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Ecological
Sustainable
Mission
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We can no more condone the wastefulness of self-serving company executives than we can the sacrifice of the lives of our citizens in a senseless war.
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Executives
Sacrifice
Self Serving
Condone
Senseless
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I'm too busy thinking what I'm going to say next to remember what I've said, but my staff tells me I'm sometimes funny. Not always on purpose, though.
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Busy
Next
Purpose
Staff
Thinking
Funny Thinking Always
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The House of Representatives provides a special, nonpartisan staff of lawyers, called Legislative Counsel, who are experts in various areas of the law.
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Experts
House Of Representatives
Representatives
Staff
Area
Counsel
Lawyers
Legislative
Provides
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Churches should be able to decide what kinds of unions are sanctified by their denomination, but not what kinds of unions are accepted in the civil arena.
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Accepted
Arena
Churches
Denomination
Sanctified
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Humans and nations are imperfect, and through our collective efforts, we hope to improve our nation and bring hope and opportunity to millions who lack it.
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Imperfect
Collective
Efforts
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While most of my public service work centers on improving our schools and fixing our broken immigration system, I also strongly stand for personal freedom.
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Broken
Fixing
Immigration
Improving
Personal Freedom
Public Service
Centers
Strongly
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While still in college, I started my first Internet company - American Information Systems - a dial-up Internet provider in the Internet's formative years.
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Formative
Provider
Systems
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It's insulting when somebody who is not a member of our community feels like they have a great understanding of what it's like to grow up gay in this country.
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Insulting
Our Community
Member
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We cannot afford a dead stop on all of the progress we have made under President Obama in saving our planet from the devastating consequences of climate change.
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Climate Change
Our Planet
President Obama
Afford
Devastating
We Cannot
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My favorite part of the experience of serving in Congress is knowing that my time and effort are spent for the greater good and for the betterment of our nation.
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Betterment
Greater Good
My Time
Serving
Time Good Experience
Favorite Part
Time Experience Good
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The role of the speaker of the House is to deliver enough votes by understanding and accommodating the individual bottom lines of enough members to pass the bill.
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Bottom
Deliver
Speaker
Votes
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Far too many of our elected officials are chained to an ideology that is rooted in the past. They are keepers of normalcy who embrace things as they've always been.
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Chained
Elected Officials
Embrace
Ideology
Normalcy
Officials
Rooted
Elected
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If my son had a baseless accusation made against him at a university, and it was making his life there miserable, I would suggest he transfer or take courses online.
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Accusation
Courses
Miserable
Suggest
Transfer
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We are a diverse country, but we are one country. And we are at our best when we come together as Americans, not despite our differences, but in celebration of them.
Jared Polis / United States Representative
Celebration
Country
Despite
Differences
Diverse
Together
One Country
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In the absence of federal leadership, Coloradans should take our rightful role as leaders seriously and work with other states and countries to reduce carbon emissions.
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Absence
Carbon
Emissions
Reduce
Rightful
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The foundation of a strong economy and job creation begins with providing every child in America with the best possible education, including students with disabilities.
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Jobs
Children
Creation
Foundation
Including
Job Creation
Providing
Strong
Strong Economy
Begins
Disabilities
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One of my main legislative efforts in education is to help expand and replicate successful charter schools. Charter schools are public schools with site-based governance.
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Charter
Charter Schools
Governance
Replicate
Efforts
Expand
Legislative
Public Schools
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To have hundreds of people from every political and demographic group you can imagine coming out day after day to take part in the national health care debate is fantastic.
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Debate
Health Care
Demographic
Hundreds
Hundreds Of People
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But parents and schools have their priorities; making sure our kids eat right because research shows a clear connection between nutrition and student performance in school.
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Kids
Nutrition
Priorities
School
Connection
Schools
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To be effective in Congress, you must focus. With so many issues and debates occurring at any given time, it is easy to spread yourself too thin and lose sight of your goal.
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Sight
Spread
Any Given Time
Debates
Effective
Thin
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We need to prove to American voters, particularly independent voters who gave us this opportunity to lead, that this is not your grandfather's tax-and-spend Democratic Party.
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Democratic Party
Grandfather
Voters
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Patience, they say, is a virtue. Yet in times of emergency, the government needs to be able to make snap decisions and take bold, decisive action to protect the American people.
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Decisive Action
Virtue
American People
Bold
Decisive
Emergency
Snap
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In my opinion, real reform, which lowers costs and ensures all Americans get the quality, affordable health care that they deserve, cannot be accomplished without a robust public option.
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Affordable
Affordable Health Care
Deserve
Health Care
Robust
Health Quality Care
All Americans
Option
In My Opinion
Real Reform
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My parents were active in the anti-war movement in the 1960s, so I grew up with a tradition of civic activism around our dinner table and going to different marches for different causes.
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Active
Anti War
Causes
Dinner Table
Civic
Marches
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Many rogue sites exist to make a profit and others are enormously expensive to maintain. If they don't have the resources to continue stealing intellectual property, they'll wither away.
Jared Polis / United States Representative
Expensive
Intellectual
Intellectual Property
Profit
Resources
Rogues
Stealing
Away
Exist
Maintain
Rogue
Sites
Wither
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We have to find a way that every Coloradan can participate in our economic growth and feel that all the changes that are occurring are working to their benefit rather than their detriment.
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Economic Growth
Benefit
Detriment
Participate
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My constituents want me to be outspoken - it's part of the reason they elected me - and the inevitable side effect of being outspoken is that, occasionally, you put your foot in your mouth.
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Inevitable
Outspoken
Foot
Mouth
Occasionally
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Too often, our most vulnerable students - English-language learners, immigrants, poor kids, teenage parents, students with behavioral problems and learning disabilities - fall through the cracks.
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Cracks
Immigrants
Learners
Teenage
Behavioral
Disabilities
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Too many public and private entities simply don't take advantage of tools already at their disposal to protect themselves from hackers. No amount of information sharing will help solve that problem.
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Hackers
Tools
Disposal
Entities
Sharing
Take Advantage
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There is a great deal of innovation occurring in Colorado, with some of the most brilliant minds and creative startup companies in the world formulating climate-change solutions right in our backyard.
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Brilliant
Colorado
Innovation
Solutions
Backyard
Great Deal
Startup
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It can be a living hell to go through endless campus investigations. I've seen this go down, and there really is no winning once the accusation is made, even if the process provides formal vindication.
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Accusation
Campus
Formal
Vindication
Investigations
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There are a lot of children in our country that, because of their neighborhood or socio-economic status, do not have the opportunity to attend a good school that will prepare them for life's challenges.
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Opportunity
Neighborhood
Life Good Opportunity
Life Good Challenges
Attend
Prepare
Socio-Economic
Status
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In order to create real, long-lasting reform, we must create a pathway to legal status for the millions of undocumented immigrants who have made lives for themselves and their families in the United States.
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Legal
Immigrants
Long Lasting
Pathway
Status
Undocumented
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When I first arrived, I likened Congress to being back in school again as a freshman. Well, just like school, we have an 'August recess,' but don't let the name fool you - it's not even close to a vacation.
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Vacation
August
Fool
Freshman
Recess
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With the policymaking process, you have an idea, and you try to sell other stakeholders on the idea. That's not much different than in business, where you're trying to find capital to make your idea a reality.
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Capital
Stakeholders
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Technology improves our lives in so many ways - from our toasters, ovens, and refrigerators at home to our computers, fax machines, and BlackBerrys at work. Technology makes once-burdensome tasks easy and fun.
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Computers
Fax
Machines
Work Home Technology
Improves
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Our students are the best investment we can make for our country and our future economic prosperity. It's in our best interest to ensure they're receiving the best education possible and maximizing their potential.
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Economic Prosperity
Investment
Maximizing
Receiving
Education Best Future
Ensure
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Enterprise zones have succeeded in attracting needed capital to our urban poverty centers. Businesses and investors that wouldn't otherwise give these blighted areas a second glance react to the incentives and invest.
Jared Polis / United States Representative
Enterprise
Incentives
Investors
Needed
Poverty
Urban
Zone
Area
Attracting
Businesses
Capital
Centers
Invest
Glance
Otherwise
React
Second
Succeeded
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Before running for Congress, I was an innovator and entrepreneur who founded several high-tech businesses that created hundreds of jobs and schools that found ways to serve those children that traditional schools couldn't.
Jared Polis / United States Representative
Entrepreneur
Founded
High-Tech
Hundreds
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