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American consumers benefit from free trade and investment.
John Shadegg / Former U.s. Representative
Benefits
Consumers
Free Trade
Investment
Trade
American Consumers
Benefit
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Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws.
John Shadegg / Former U.s. Representative
Gambling
Law
Target
Flagrant
Putting
Targets
Violations
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As I think all Americans understand on both sides of the aisle, the Social Security system as it is structured today is a pay-as-you-go system.
John Shadegg / Former U.s. Representative
Pay
Security Systems
Thinking
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A recent Pew Hispanic survey found that more than 70 percent of illegal immigrants from Mexico are interested in a guest-worker program and then returning home.
John Shadegg / Former U.s. Representative
Home
Guests
Hispanic
Illegal
Illegal Immigrants
Immigrants
Mexico
Program
Pew
Recent
Returning
Survey
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Business owners have made a strong case to me that they need guest workers. But none has suggested that these workers should be placed on a path to citizenship.
John Shadegg / Former U.s. Representative
Business Owners
Citizenship
Guests
Needs
Owners
Path
Strong
Workers
Case
Guest
None
Placed
Suggested
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Indeed, I think most Americans now know that in 1935 when Social Security was created, there were some 42 Americans working for every American collecting retirement benefits.
John Shadegg / Former U.s. Representative
Benefits
Collecting
Retirement
Security
Social Security
Thinking
Usa
Every American
Indeed
Retirement Benefits
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Germany, I think, was first to substitute a Social Security program for its elderly based on this premise, that is, that we would tax workers to pay retirement benefits for those retired.
John Shadegg / Former U.s. Representative
Benefits
Elderly
Germany
Program
Retired
Retirement
Social Security
Thinking
Workers
Tax
Security Retirement Social
Substitute
Premise
Retirement Benefits
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I apologize for the insensitivity of my remarks with respect to the mayor or his family, however I think it is important to note that this decision involves potential risk to innocent people.
John Shadegg / Former U.s. Representative
Decision
People
Thinking
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We must send a very clear message that if you enter our country illegally and then you commit one of these offenses, you will be dealt with harshly and you will pay a heavy price for your conduct.
John Shadegg / Former U.s. Representative
Clear
Commit
Heavy
Clear Message
Dealt
Enter
Harshly
Price
Send
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The good news is, Americans know firsthand the benefits of a free market - more choices, lower prices, higher quality - and there is no reason why we cannot help them see these same benefits in health care.
John Shadegg / Former U.s. Representative
Quality
Health
Benefits
Care
Choices
Free Market
Good News
Health Care
Higher
News
No Reason
Reason
Why
American
Free
Same
Cannot
Firsthand
Help
Higher Quality
Lower
Market
Prices
See
We Cannot
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For example, in my own State of Arizona, an Israeli scientist is working with an Arizona company on a demonstration project involving a very fast-growing algae which can be used to power a biomass energy plan.
John Shadegg / Former U.s. Representative
Algae
Arizona
Demonstration
Energy
Example
Involving
Israeli
Scientist
Energy Plan
Fast-Growing
Project
For Example
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Health care comprises nearly 20 percent of our national economy, but outdated bureaucracy and red tape have stifled competition and raised costs. As a result, today more than 45 million are without any health coverage.
John Shadegg / Former U.s. Representative
Bureaucracy
Competition
Cost
Coverage
Economy
Health Care
Outdated
Percent
Raised
Red
Red Tape
Tape
Costs
Million
National
Result
Stifled
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From cell phones to computers, quality is improving and costs are shrinking as companies fight to offer the public the best product at the best price. But this philosophy is sadly missing from our health-care insurance system.
John Shadegg / Former U.s. Representative
Quality
Computers
Fighting
Improving
Missing
Philosophy
Phones
Shrinking
Cell
Cell Phones
Companies
Costs
Fight
Insurance
Offer
Price
Product
Sadly
System
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Most previous immigrants came to the United States to become Americans, with no intention of returning home. They relinquished their ties with their homeland. English was their key to prosperity, and they worked hard to master it.
John Shadegg / Former U.s. Representative
Home
Homeland
Immigrants
Intention
Keys
Prosperity
States
Ties
United States
English
Master
No Intention
Previous
Relinquished
Returning
Worked
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More than one-third of Mexicans in the United States own property in Mexico, nearly 80 percent send money home and 25 percent have a spouse in Mexico. Assimilation and becoming an American citizen are not the objective for many of them.
John Shadegg / Former U.s. Representative
Home
Assimilation
Becoming
Citizens
Mexico
Percent
Property
Spouse
States
United States
American Citizen
Nearly
Citizen
Mexicans
Objective
One-Third
Send
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These smugglers, many of them present in trafficking through my State of Arizona, create false Social Security cards, false green cards, visas and a variety of other fraudulent documents as an essential part of their smuggling activities.
John Shadegg / Former U.s. Representative
Arizona
Cards
Documents
Essentials
Green
Security
Smugglers
Social Security
Trafficking
Variety
Activities
Essential
False
Fraudulent
Present
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If the United States is to protect itself from the economic and the political threats created by this excessive dependence, we must reduce our reliance on foreign energy sources and on foreign oil as quickly and as efficiently as possible.
John Shadegg / Former U.s. Representative
Dependence
Economic
Energy
Energy Sources
Foreign Oil
Oil
Political
Protect
Reliance
United States
Created
Efficiently
Excessive
Foreign
Quickly
Reduce
Sources
Threats
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We can still find middle ground, truly secure our borders, deal with those already here and address our labor needs. But those who advocate giving current illegal aliens and future guest workers a special path to citizenship must compromise.
John Shadegg / Former U.s. Representative
Borders
Citizenship
Compromise
Giving
Illegal
Illegal Aliens
Labor
Middle
Middle Ground
Path
Secure
Special
Workers
Address
Advocate
Alien
Current
Ground
Guest
Truly
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Under current law, there is no additional penalty for someone who enters the United States illegally and then commits either a crime of violence or a drug trafficking offense. They simply come under the same penalty as we have in current law.
John Shadegg / Former U.s. Representative
Crime
Offense
States
Trafficking
Additional
Current
Current Law
Simply
Either
Penalty
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The reality is that the workforce relative to the number of people retired has shrunk and today in America there are only 3.3 working Americans paying payroll taxes to support each individual currently retired and collecting Social Security taxes.
John Shadegg / Former U.s. Representative
Collecting
Numbers
Payroll Tax
Reality
Relative
Retired
Social Security
Workforce
Currently
Each Individual
Paying
Shrunk
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Global fuel and consumption, however, is projected to increase by 100 to 150 percent over the next 20 years, driven largely by the rapidly growing Chinese and Indian economies; and this growth and this increase in demand will force prices even higher.
John Shadegg / Former U.s. Representative
Chinese
Consumption
Demand
Driven
Force
Fuel
Growth
Higher
Increase
Indian
Percent
Years
Economies
Global
However
Largely
Prices
Projected
Rapidly
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But with a rate of return of 1.6 percent or less, or a negative rate of return, our children and our grandchildren, if we do not make changes, will in fact not have a secure retirement. Indeed, they will not have the funds when they go to retire to even minimally get by.
John Shadegg / Former U.s. Representative
Children
Grandchildren
Negative
Rate
Retirement
Return
Secure
Funds
Indeed
Secure Retirement
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