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As a Republican, I am all for competition.
Michael C. Burgess / United States Representative
Competition
Republican
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Nuclear power is an important part of our domestic fuel mix.
Michael C. Burgess / United States Representative
Fuel
Important
Nuclear
Nuclear Power
Domestic
Important Part
Mix
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Today, nuclear power provides 20 percent of power in the United States.
Michael C. Burgess / United States Representative
Nuclear
Nuclear Power
Percent
Today
United States
Provides
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We strive for error-free medicine in a world that is sometimes all too human.
Michael C. Burgess / United States Representative
Errors
Medicine
Strive
World
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Many people live alone and like it, but most of them live alone and look at it.
Michael C. Burgess / United States Representative
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People
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Nuclear power is here to stay, and we need to support a strong domestic uranium industry.
Michael C. Burgess / United States Representative
Industry
Needs
Nuclear
Nuclear Power
Strong
Support
Uranium
Here
Stay
Domestic
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Our Nation is in great need of young men and women of character to lead in every arena of our society.
Michael C. Burgess / United States Representative
Men
Arena
Character
Men And Women
Needs
Men Women Society
Nation
Women Men Society
Young Men
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The fact remains that most of us are anesthetized to the true cost and true value of long term care insurance.
Michael C. Burgess / United States Representative
Care
Cost
Long
Remains
Term
True Value
Insurance
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The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity.
Michael C. Burgess / United States Representative
Leadership
Men
High Standards
Institute
Integrity
Men And Women
Morality
Motherhood
Standards
Leadership Women Men
Trains
Young Men
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The Leadership Training Institute of America is a cultural think tank providing training and opportunity in leadership development and cultural dynamics.
Michael C. Burgess / United States Representative
Leadership
Opportunity
America
Dynamics
Institute
Providing
Thinking
Cultural
Tank
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And, finally, as a Republican, I believe it is important to keep our word and keep our covenant, and that is exactly what we should do with the Wright amendment today.
Michael C. Burgess / United States Representative
Believe
Covenant
Important
Today
Today Believe I Believe
Amendment
Exactly What
Finally
Wright
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When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications.
Michael C. Burgess / United States Representative
Coverage
Doctors
Firsts
Medicare
Medication
Doctor
Prescription
Provided
Visits
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I believe that States should be credited for their non-Federal investment in revenue-generating transportation facilities to address their regional transportation needs.
Michael C. Burgess / United States Representative
Addresses
Believe
Investment
Needs
Transportation
Credited
Facilities
Regional
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Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy.
Michael C. Burgess / United States Representative
Environmental
Economy
Electricity
Emissions
Energy
Growing
Needs
Nuclear
Nuclear Power
Responsible
Source
Without
Environmentally
Help
Increasing
Provide
Truly
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There are no bona fide treatments available for embryonic stem cells. There is nothing in the laboratory, and there is certainly nothing in the clinics available to patients.
Michael C. Burgess / United States Representative
Available
Cells
Embryonic Stem Cells
Laboratory
Patient
Stem
Treatment
Bona
Bona Fide
Clinics
Embryonic
Patients
Stem Cells
Treatments
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On January 1, 2006, Medicare will begin to offer a prescription drug benefit, and for the first time, it will place an emphasis on preventive care and early treatment of disease.
Michael C. Burgess / United States Representative
Benefits
Disease
Drug
Emphasis
First Time
Firsts
January
Preventive Care
Treatment
Begin
Benefit
Prescription
Preventive
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Most Americans have some experience with nursing homes or other long term care settings, and nearly half have had a family member or close friend in a home in the past three years.
Michael C. Burgess / United States Representative
Home
Nursing
Past
Settings
Term
Nearly
Close Friend
Family Member
Homes
In The Past
Member
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Well, I have also believed in empowering the individual and believe there is a degree of inertia in big government that hampers the ability to respond to a rapidly evolving crisis.
Michael C. Burgess / United States Representative
Government
Believe
Big Government
Crisis
Empowering
Inertia
Believed
Respond
Degree
Evolving
Rapidly
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In my district back in Texas, significant because we have a big solar panel production plant in Keller, Texas, we have a wind turbine plant in Gainesville, Texas, up in Cook Country.
Michael C. Burgess / United States Representative
Plant
Significant
Texas
Wind
Cook
District
Production
Panel
Solar
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No one can truly be prepared for such devastation and pure malevolence, but the United Kingdom can always look to the United States as an ally resolved to stand firm in the war on terrorism.
Michael C. Burgess / United States Representative
War
Be Prepared
Devastation
Firm
Looks
Prepared
Pure
Terrorism
United Kingdom
Ally
Resolved
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We saw in 2003 the beginnings of an outbreak of an illness called SARS. SARS ended up killing 800 people which is a significant number of deaths, but nowhere near as high as it could have been.
Michael C. Burgess / United States Representative
Illness
Numbers
People
Saws
Significant
Beginnings
Nowhere
Deaths
Ended
Near
Outbreak
Significant Number
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In a system where the cost of care is hidden by taxes levied on your income, property, and business activities, it is no wonder why so many Americans rely on Medicaid to pay their long term care.
Michael C. Burgess / United States Representative
Cost
Income
Long
Medicaid
Pay
Rely
Term
Wonder
Activities
Hidden
Levied
No Wonder
System
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Especially today, given the tight fiscal situation that many States and localities face, the use of transportation facilities that pay for themselves without additional Federal funding is essential.
Michael C. Burgess / United States Representative
Essentials
Faces
Funding
Transportation
Use
Additional
Essential
Facilities
Federal Funding
Fiscal
Tight
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Your Guardians of Freedom is a new program that enables unit commanders and Airmen to quickly communicate with people affected by and interested in the mobilization and deployment of military people.
Michael C. Burgess / United States Representative
Affected
Airmen
Communicate
Deployment
Military
Mobilization
Program
Enables
Guardians
Quickly
Unit
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All I can tell you is what I see at home- a lot of lessons learned from '86. That, 'OK, we'll go one-time amnesty and after that we'll really be good.' But nobody believes it this time, nobody believes it.
Michael C. Burgess / United States Representative
Home
Believe
Lesson Learned
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In times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times.
Michael C. Burgess / United States Representative
Borders
Compassion
Evil
Limits
People
Persevere
Should
Around
Those
Continue
Darkest
Times
Even
Globe
Must
Recognize
Value
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Our community in North Texas is fortunate to have two thriving airports. We serve millions of satisfied customers and employ hundreds of thousands of North Texans. We should not jeopardize that which is working well already.
Michael C. Burgess / United States Representative
Airports
Customers
Fortunate
Jeopardize
Millions
Our Community
Satisfied
Texas
Two
Airport
Employ
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
North
Serve
Texans
Thousands
Thriving
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With the absence of a flu vaccination last year, I did not take a flu shot; but there is still some immunity that carries over from year to year; but about every 30 years, there is a major change in the genetics of the flu virus.
Michael C. Burgess / United States Representative
Absence
Flu
Genetics
Immunity
Last Year
Vaccines
Viruses
Years
Shot
Carries
Major
Vaccination
Virus
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To be able to detect the outbreak of avian flu anywhere in the world is going to require a partnership of several countries that will share information and samples, but it is important to remember a threat anywhere is a threat everywhere.
Michael C. Burgess / United States Representative
Country
Flu
Important
Partnership
World
Everywhere
Anywhere
Detect
Outbreak
Require
Samples
Several
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Earlier in my political career, I had the opportunity to read the speech, and I almost threw up. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/post/santorum-says-he-almost-threw-up-after-reading-jfk-speech-on-separation-of-church-and-state/2012/02/26/gIQA91hubR_blog.html)
Michael C. Burgess / United States Representative
Opportunity
Careers
Reading
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For every child of an illegal immigrant who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert (http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/12/steve-king-still-stands-by-cantaloupe-comments/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0).
Michael C. Burgess / United States Representative
Kings
Children
Marijuana
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