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I am a Democrat. But first and foremost, I am a Coloradan and an American who wants government to function and solve the challenges we face as a country, then make way for people to pursue their dreams without interference.
Jared Polis / United States Representative
Function
Interference
Pursue
Foremost
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One of my heroes growing up was Jackie Robinson. My mom, an ardent baseball fan from whom I got my love of the game, had an old baseball card of his from the 1950s and told us his amazing story of courage in integrating baseball.
Jared Polis / United States Representative
Ardent
Integrating
Jackie
Card
Robinson
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Pizza certainly has its place in school meals, but equating it with broccoli, carrots and celery seriously undermines this nation's efforts to support children's health and their ability to learn because of better school nutrition.
Jared Polis / United States Representative
Broccoli
Celery
Children
Meals
Nutrition
Pizza
School
Support
Efforts
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Lawmakers who support CISA will tell you the bill includes some privacy protections. They're right. But these 'protections' are superficial and include broad loopholes that are so far-reaching as to render the protections meaningless.
Jared Polis / United States Representative
Lawmakers
Loopholes
Meaningless
Privacy
Superficial
Broad
Include
Render
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Sometimes you hear that many politicians vote for a bill in various forms before they vote against it, or vice versa. The conflict, negotiation, and eventual compromise involved in this process form the essence of the democratic process.
Jared Polis / United States Representative
Compromise
Conflict
Democratic Process
Essence
Negotiation
Vice Versa
Eventual
Versa
Vice
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I oppose piracy and want to see intellectual property protected because that is what fosters and rewards innovation. But SOPA won't accomplish a meaningful reduction in piracy and causes massive collateral damage to the Internet ecosystem.
Jared Polis / United States Representative
Accomplish
Causes
Collateral
Damage
Ecosystems
Innovation
Intellectual Property
Massive
Meaningful
Piracy
Protected
Reduction
Rewards
Ecosystem
Fosters
Oppose
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I've started several small businesses myself and know that it is tough out there for the little guy in the global economy. I came to the conclusion that, oftentimes, the best thing the government can do for small business is to stay out of the way.
Jared Polis / United States Representative
Conclusion
Global Economy
Small Business
Oftentimes
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It's critical to show that we can meet our commitment to students with disabilities without raising taxes and without increasing the deficit. In the past, there's been strong support for full funding and I'm still hearing that from many of my colleagues.
Jared Polis / United States Representative
Colleagues
Critical
Deficit
Funding
Raising Taxes
Taxes
Disabilities
In The Past
Strong Support
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The so-called Defense of Marriage Act is a valueless tradition that, like laws against interracial marriage that were finally overturned by the Supreme Court in 1967, undermines the spirit of love and commitment that couples share and sends the wrong message to society.
Jared Polis / United States Representative
Commitment
Defense
Supreme
Supreme Court
Couples
Sends
So-Called
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Having to censor yourself - whether it's lying at the water cooler about how you spent your weekend, scrubbing your Facebook page of any revealing facts, or pretending to be with someone you aren't - is the antithesis of our foundation as a nation based on freedom of expression and association.
Jared Polis / United States Representative
Antithesis
Association
Freedom Of Expression
Lying
Revealing
Based
Censor
Cooler
Facebook
Page
Scrubbing
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When I was first elected to the Colorado State Board of Education in 2000, we had to carry a big binder filled with hundreds of pages to every meeting. By 2004, the State Board had gone paperless. We even persuaded the less-tech-savvy members to use laptops to pull up their information during meetings.
Jared Polis / United States Representative
Colorado
Filled
Laptops
Pages
Board
Hundreds
Meeting
Persuaded
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My district is centered around the progressive college town of Boulder, Colorado, and the high-tech U.S. 36 corridor. It goes from the well-established suburbs of northwest Denver in Adams County to the beautiful mountain towns of Vail and Breckenridge and the majestic Western Slope of the Rocky Mountains.
Jared Polis / United States Representative
Colorado
County
Denver
Majestic
Mountain
Progressive
Suburbs
Towns
Boulder
Centered
District
Corridor
High-Tech
Northwest
Rocky
Rocky Mountains
Slope
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The passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act - or stimulus bill, as it is often called - is a perfect example in which dire circumstances necessitate immediate action. But with such large amounts of taxpayer money at stake, a hastily developed, under-thought-out plan could have been disastrous.
Jared Polis / United States Representative
Circumstances
Recovery
Stimulus
Dire
Disastrous
Immediate
Large Amounts
Passage
Perfect Example
Stake
Taxpayer
Taxpayer Money
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Democratic, Republican members of Congress get along fine. But what you have is this institutional Hatfield and McCoy sentiment coming from our constituents, where the base of both sides doesn't want people to get along. But the majority of Americans, I feel, the majority, they are in the middle. They actually do want both sides to get together.
Jared Polis / United States Representative
Both Sides
Get Together
Sides
Together People Feel
Base
Sentiment
Institutional
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