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Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed.
Melissa Bean / U.s. Representative
Democracy
Electorate
Engaged
Engagement
Mr
Informed
Speaker
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Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes.
Melissa Bean / U.s. Representative
Giving Up
Privacy
Rights
Taxes
File
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Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.
Melissa Bean / U.s. Representative
Crime
Growing
Identity
Identity Theft
Suburbs
Theft
Nation
Crimes
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Many of our constituents have one option for cable TV and one price. Our constituents desire choice.
Melissa Bean / U.s. Representative
Cable Tv
Choices
Constituents
Desire
Cable
Option
Price
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Small businesses are the economic drivers of our country, providing the stimulus our communities need.
Melissa Bean / U.s. Representative
Community
Country
Drivers
Needs
Providing
Stimulus
Businesses
Communities
Small Businesses
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In fact, 80 percent of our domestic job growth comes from the small- and medium-sized business community.
Melissa Bean / U.s. Representative
Jobs
Community
Growth
Job Growth
Percent
Business Community
Domestic
In Fact
Medium-Sized
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We're all proud of the communities that we've built and are a part of, but we shouldn't accept lost time and unnecessary stress when traveling in them.
Melissa Bean / U.s. Representative
Community
Proud
Stress
Unnecessary
Communities
Traveling
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Oftentimes, small business owners are unable to obtain reasonably priced financing and instead turn to higher priced forms of capital, such as credit cards.
Melissa Bean / U.s. Representative
Business Owners
Cards
Credit
Financing
Higher
Owners
Small Business
Small Business Owners
Forms
Capital
Credit Cards
Obtain
Oftentimes
Reasonably
Unable
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Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses.
Melissa Bean / U.s. Representative
Environmental
Home
Agency
Average
Efficient
Environmental Protection
Program
Protection
Stars
Homes
Houses
Independently
Verified
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By overhauling current rules and speeding the entry of competitors in the market, we encourage competition and provide our constituents with new choices and cheaper bills.
Melissa Bean / U.s. Representative
Bills
Cheaper
Choices
Competition
Competitors
Entry
Speeding
Rules
Current
Provide
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And yet, if we don't, first and foremost, act responsibly with the national tax dollars that we have, we can't properly address those regional priorities that we would like to.
Melissa Bean / U.s. Representative
Dollars
Priorities
Tax Dollars
Tax
Foremost
Properly
Regional
Responsibly
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Social security, bank account, and credit card numbers aren't just data. In the wrong hands they can wipe out someone's life savings, wreck their credit and cause financial ruin.
Melissa Bean / U.s. Representative
Credit
Credit Card
Data
Financial
Hands
Numbers
Savings
Social Security
Wipe
Account
Bank
Bank Account
Card
Ruin
Wreck
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Even the best data security systems can't protect private taxpayer information from entrepreneurial foreign businesses than can make huge profits selling U.S. taxpayer information.
Melissa Bean / U.s. Representative
Data
Entrepreneurial
Information
Protect
Security Systems
Selling
Businesses
Profits
Systems
Taxpayer
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For the last 4 years, our Federal Government has produced the four biggest deficits in history, and the estimated 2006 deficit of $423 billion is projected to be the largest of all.
Melissa Bean / U.s. Representative
Deficit
Federal Government
Billion
Estimated
Largest
Produced
Projected
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As part of my efforts to fight identity theft, I worked with my colleagues on the Financial Services Committee to strengthen consumer protection with a reasonable notification requirement.
Melissa Bean / U.s. Representative
Colleagues
Effort
Fighting
Financial
Financial Services
Identity
Identity Theft
Protection
Reasonable
Theft
Committee
Consumer
Fight
Efforts
Requirement
Services
Strengthen
Worked
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If we want to truly regain the public's trust, we can provide greater accountability and transparency with a simple step. Let's start by communicating to our constituents about the votes we take.
Melissa Bean / U.s. Representative
Accountability
Simple
Transparency
Want
Provide
Regain
Votes
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As a member of the House Committee on Small Business and because of my own experience as a small business owner, I am appreciative of the impact these small businesses have on our local economies.
Melissa Bean / U.s. Representative
Appreciative
House
Impact
Mind Your Own Business
Small Business
Business Owner
Committee
Owner
Local
Member
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During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved.
Melissa Bean / U.s. Representative
Travel
Air
Air Force
Brave Soldiers
Fall
Iraq
Saved
Theater
Base
Hospital
Professionals
Skilled
Soldiers
Trip
Visited
Whose
Witnessed
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I am excited to rise today to support National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day. This celebration honors the husband and wife business owner teams whose work helps drive the economy and fuel job growth.
Melissa Bean / U.s. Representative
Jobs
Mom
Business Owners
Celebration
Economy
Fuel
Growth
Husband
Husband And Wife
Job Growth
Support
Rise
Drive
Business Owner
Owner
Helps
Honors
Teams
Whose
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I am the parent of teenagers, my daughters are 13 and 15, so the issue of Internet safety has been an important issue. I have been visiting middle schools to talk about some of the challenges that they face.
Melissa Bean / U.s. Representative
Daughter
Mother
Parent
Safety
Teenager
Visiting
Daughters
Important Issue
Issue
Schools
Teenagers
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But in Congress, accountability is just a catch phrase, usually directed elsewhere. Demands to personal responsibility or corporate accountability abound, but rarely congressional accountability or fiscal responsibility.
Melissa Bean / U.s. Representative
Accountability
Phrases
Responsibility
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When I came to Congress, I came to bring what I thought was a real-world business perspective to government because, in the business world, I spent over 20 years in the high-tech industry, but it certainly was not unique.
Melissa Bean / U.s. Representative
Technology
Business World
Congress
Perspective
Real
Unique
High-Tech
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Reports also suggest that Ernst and Young and other large tax preparation firms are sending tax returns overseas for processing. But the IRS has no control over tax information once it's been sent to India or another country.
Melissa Bean / U.s. Representative
Country
India
Irs
Preparation
Processing
Reports
Tax Returns
Tax
Large
No Control
Overseas
Returns
Sending
Suggest
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But in this Congress, accountability is just a catch phrase, usually directed elsewhere. Demands to personal responsibility or corporate accountability abound, but rarely congressional accountability or fiscal responsibility.
Melissa Bean / U.s. Representative
Accountability
Congress
Corporate
Elsewhere
Fiscal Responsibility
Personal Responsibility
Abound
Catch
Catch Phrase
Directed
Fiscal
Phrase
Rarely
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Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families.
Melissa Bean / U.s. Representative
Love
Marriage
Success
Work
Business
Couple
Important
Married
Married Couples
Together
Well Being
Success Work Together
Build
Success Work Business
Work Business Together
Assume
Broad
Central
Couples
Economies
Families
Local
Maintain
National
Responsibilities
Success Is
Work Together
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My Eighth District, like others, counts on these family businesses and their teams working hard to support their families and aid their communities. As retailers, these teams often bring different or unique products to the marketplace.
Melissa Bean / U.s. Representative
Work
Marketplace
Team
Unique
Aid
Businesses
District
Communities
Counts
Eighth
Teams
Working Hard
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Many seventh graders I know in Illinois, as well as around the Nation, are studying the Constitution. I was pretty impressed with the quality of education our children are receiving because they had not expected me to ask them about it.
Melissa Bean / U.s. Representative
Quality
Children
Expected
Illinois
Impressed
Receiving
Seventh
Studying
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The IRS is currently considering a rule that would make it easier for tax preparers to disclose the private information contained in tax returns - including name, address, Social Security number, employer, income, and charitable donations.
Melissa Bean / U.s. Representative
Charitable
Considering
Easier
Including
Irs
Social Security
Tax Returns
Tax
Currently
Disclose
Donations
Employer
Returns
Rule
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The American people expect more from Congress. They expect fiscal responsibility and common sense. They expect us to return to the pay-as-you-go budget rules that we had enacted in the past that helped us establish a surplus, however briefly.
Melissa Bean / U.s. Representative
Common Sense
Congress
Fiscal Responsibility
Past
People
Responsibility
Return
Surplus
Rules
American People
Budget
Establish
Fiscal
Helped
In The Past
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The budget enforcement rules of the 1990s were an important part of getting the budget back into balance. It was done on a bipartisan basis. Those pay-as-you-go rules were tested and they worked. We are now in a one-party system, and we have thrown them out.
Melissa Bean / U.s. Representative
Balance
Bipartisan
Enforcement
Important
Party
Tested
Thrown
Rules
Basis
Budget
Important Part
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And I also serve on a caucus that addresses financial literacy for young people in this country. And it is so hypocritical that we want to talk to these kids about how to better manage their money when we are not doing a good job with our Nation's resources.
Melissa Bean / U.s. Representative
Caucus
Financial
Good Job
Hypocritical
Literacy
Manage
Resources
Good Money Better
Serve
Young People
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