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Stealing has always been a way of redistributing wealth.
John Conyers / U.s. Representative
Punishment
Way
Wealth
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The time is now for Congress to address health care in America.
John Conyers / U.s. Representative
Addresses
America
Care
Congress
Health Care
Time Health Care
Health Time Care
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When it comes to civilian deaths, violent hostilities play no favorites.
John Conyers / U.s. Representative
Civilian Deaths
Play
Violent
Civilian
Deaths
Favorites
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The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education.
John Conyers / U.s. Representative
Assistance
Chosen
Cost
Higher
Higher Education
Needs
Neglect
Republican
Republicans
Young Americans
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Just as outlawing alcohol did not work in the 1920s, current attempts to prohibit online gambling will not work, either.
John Conyers / U.s. Representative
Alcohol
Gambling
Online
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If we quickly cast aside our constitutional form of government, then the enemy will not be the terrorists, it will be us.
John Conyers / U.s. Representative
Government
Enemy
Form
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Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard to take those ideas seriously.
John Conyers / U.s. Representative
Fringe
Hard
Ideas
Far Right
Implausible
Seriously
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It's not enough for women to speak out on the issue - for the message to be strong and consistent, women's voices must be backed up by men's.
John Conyers / U.s. Representative
Men
Speaks Out
Strong
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For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and Israeli.
John Conyers / U.s. Representative
Men
Children
Decades
East
Innocent
Israeli
Middle
Middle East
Violence
Men Women Innocent
Arab
Civilian
Claimed
Women Men Children
Multitude
Victims
Women And Children
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We should not take a Memorial Day recess until we pass a proper memorial for the slain students in Littleton, Colorado, and other school gun tragedies.
John Conyers / U.s. Representative
Memorial Day
Gun
School
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Every few generations there are people who come along that change the way we look at the world, for musical enthusiasts Monk is one of these individuals.
John Conyers / U.s. Representative
Generations
Monk
Musical
People
Change Look World
Individuals
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Too many of my constituents, like many other hard working Americans across the country, are suffering unnecessarily due to our flawed health care system.
John Conyers / U.s. Representative
Health
Constituents
Country
Flawed
Hard Work
Health Care
Health Care System
Suffering
Across
Health Care Country
Due
System
Unnecessarily
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The Republicans claim they are for strengthening Pell grants when the truth is that over the last four years, their legislation has done the exact opposite.
John Conyers / U.s. Representative
Grants
Legislation
Opposites
Pell Grants
Strengthening
Truth Is
Years
Opposite
Claim
Exact
Exact Opposite
Republicans
Last
Pell
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I'm used to being cut out of the conference meetings, but now they are cutting us out even before the bill's are written or either the House or Senate Acts.
John Conyers / U.s. Representative
Cutting
Meetings
Senate
Acts
Bill
Conference
Cut
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We all agree that manufacturers have a right to ensure that fake goods are not marketed in their names and that their own goods are not marketed under fake names.
John Conyers / U.s. Representative
Agree
Fake
Fake People
Goods
Names
Ensure
Manufacturers
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I am a Korean War veteran. I support our troops as much as anyone in this body, but I do so by advocating redeployment out of Iraq as soon as it can be safely done.
John Conyers / U.s. Representative
War
Advocating
Iraq
Support
Support Our Troops
Troops
Veteran
Safely
Soon
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A day of peace and sharing can lead to greater understanding and cooperation among political parties, faith groups, and people of different races and economic class.
John Conyers / U.s. Representative
Peace
Party
Race
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If we want to build the Iraqis' confidence about our intentions in their country, if we want to stop adding fuel to the fire of insurgency and terrorism, we must clarify our intent.
John Conyers / U.s. Representative
Confidence
Country
Fire
Fuel
Insurgency
Terrorism
Build
Adding
Clarify
Intent
Iraqis
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Custodial education does not have as its objective the education of youth but rather social control over them. It suppresses rather than stimulates their intellectual and physical energies.
John Conyers / U.s. Representative
Freedom
Diversity
Justice
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Violence against judges and threats of violence against Judges is on the rise and it is no laughing matter. When leaders attempt to rationalize this violence, it only makes the problem worse.
John Conyers / U.s. Representative
Judging
Laughing
Leader
Rationalize
Rise
Attempt
Judges
Threats
Worse
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Once the violence has ceased, the US should immediately call on the World Bank and other international institutions to convene a donors conference to rebuild Lebanon's shattered infrastructure.
John Conyers / U.s. Representative
Donors
Infrastructure
International
Lebanon
Shattered
Violence
World
World Bank
Bank
Call
Conference
Immediately
International Institutions
Rebuild
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My friends in the Congress, I have known Coretta King since I went south during the civil rights movement as a lawyer. She was a vibrant, consistent, totally dedicated partner with her husband.
John Conyers / U.s. Representative
Friends
Kings
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Congress
Consistent
Dedicated
Husband
Lawyer
Movement
Rights
Totally
Since
Civil
Her
Partner
Rights Movement
She
Vibrant
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According to recent opinion polls, a large majority of Iraqis believe that the U.S. military has no intention to leave Iraq, and that it would stay even is asked by the Iraqi government to leave.
John Conyers / U.s. Representative
Government
Believe
Intention
Iraq
Majority
Military
Opinion
Opinion Polls
Polls
According
Asked
Stay
Leave
Iraqis
Large
No Intention
Recent
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We must ensure that these acts of terror do not accomplish in a slow burn what the fires of the World Trade Center and Pentagon could not - subversively destroying the foundation of our democracy.
John Conyers / U.s. Representative
Democracy
Fire
World
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There is no better illustration of that crisis than the fact that the president is openly violating our nation's laws by authorizing the NSA to engage in warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens.
John Conyers / U.s. Representative
Citizens
Crisis
Illustration
Law
Nsa
President
Surveillance
Nation
Engage
Fact
Openly
Violating
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The presence of American troops is fueling the insurgency in Iraq, as acknowledged by General Casey and numerous other experts, and is helping terrorist recruiters build their numbers across the globe.
John Conyers / U.s. Representative
American Troops
Experts
Helping
Insurgency
Iraq
Numbers
Terrorist
Troops
Acknowledged
Casey
Globe
Presence
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The Magna Carta is widely known to be one of the foundational documents for our Constitution. I can only imagine that a mention of that in a court decision would be forbidden by our friends on the right.
John Conyers / U.s. Representative
Constitution
Court
Court Decision
Decision
Documents
Forbidden
Foundational
Magna
Mention
Widely
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None of us condone terrorism in any way, shape, or form, and I believe Hezbollah is a terrorist organization that was, is, and remains a threat to peace in the Mideast, and must be dismantled and disarmed.
John Conyers / U.s. Representative
Believe
Organization
Remains
Shapes
Terrorism
Peace Believe I Believe
Condone
Disarmed
None
Shape
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The American taxpayers should not have to send one more penny on the Administration's Iraq misadventure. Let's give our troops the supplies they need to get out of Iraq safely. Let's bring our troops home.
John Conyers / U.s. Representative
Home
Administration
Giving
Iraq
Supplies
Taxpayers
Troops
American Taxpayers
Penny
Safely
Send
Troops Home
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Journalists become candidates for cardiac arrest when they see or hear an African American disagreeing with an African American. We would become inauthentic if we did not have disagreements with this president.
John Conyers / U.s. Representative
African American
Journalist
President
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I love these members, they get up and say, 'Read the bill ... What good is reading the bill if it's a thousand pages and you don't have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?'
John Conyers / U.s. Representative
Mean
Reading
Stupid
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In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization.
John Conyers / U.s. Representative
Government
Access
Bankruptcy
Health Care
Illness
Most Powerful
Powerful
Unnecessary
Workers
World
Health World Care
Causing
Companies
Governments
Local
Powerful Nation
State Governments
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Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy.
John Conyers / U.s. Representative
America
Care
Citizens
Coverage
Global Economy
Health Care
Inflation
Health Care America
Competitive
Double-Digit
Fails
Global
Insurance
Provide
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The news today that Bush has vowed to veto any legislation that reviews the security implications of the Dubai Port World's potential management of our ports is ludicrous and the entire Democratic Party is calling him to task for it.
John Conyers / U.s. Representative
Calling
Democratic
Democratic Party
Dubai
Implications
Legislation
Management
News
Party
Port
Reviews
Security
Tasks
Today
Veto
Bush
Entire
Ludicrous
Task
Vowed
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Global Family Day provides a way in which every man, woman, and child in the United States can help to reduce suffering at home, repair our damaged image abroad, and help us remember that in the end, all people belong to the same human family.
John Conyers / U.s. Representative
Home
Men
Children
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Mr. Chairman, the price for continuing this war is too high, not only in budgetary terms, but in American lives, Iraqi civilian casualties blamed on America and in the steady increase in the terrorist ranks that this war is provoking around the globe.
John Conyers / U.s. Representative
Casualties
Chairman
Civilian Casualties
Continuing
Increase
Provoking
Steady
Terrorist
American Lives
Blamed
Mr
Budgetary
Civilian
Globe
Iraqi
Price
Ranks
Terms
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It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights as Americans, in which a hate crime perpetrated against someone based their sexual orientation can go unpunished, and in which discrimination is being written into our laws.
John Conyers / U.s. Representative
Civil Rights
Crime
Discrimination
Distressing
Fighting
Hate
Orientation
Protect
Rights
Based
Civil
Sexual
Unpunished
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We all have families who are longing for peace in the world and an end to the suffering caused by poverty, disease, and hunger. Untold numbers of our friends, our neighbors, our parents, and our children, are hoping that there is more understanding, more generosity, more genuine friendship, and more caring among people of all faiths and cultures.
John Conyers / U.s. Representative
Family
Caring
Children
Numbers
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Back in 1792, Dr. Benjamin Banneker, the famed African-American inventor and scientist in Washington, proposed a Department of Peace for the new Nation to his friends George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. His prophetic suggestion was not implemented; but now, more than 200 years later, the need for a Peace Department is too compelling to ignore.
John Conyers / U.s. Representative
African American
Suggestions
Years
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