Quotes by Mikie Sherrill - Page 2

When sick, the ability to afford a prescription - or whether your plan offers the coverage you need - should be the last thing on your mind.
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Coverage
Offers
Prescription
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As a working mom, I know all too well how important it is to know that your children have a safe and healthy environment while away from home.
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Environment
Healthy
Healthy Environment
Safe
Home Mom Your
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We need to work together to strengthen protections for pre-existing conditions and improve upon the gains made under the ACA, not tear it down.
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Conditions
Gains
Strengthen
Tear
Work Together
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Learning about WWII at the U.S. Naval Academy taught me about military tactics and the importance of fighting for our country's highest ideals.
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Ideals
Naval
Wwii
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I've always felt like in a democracy - this is how I was raised - that as a citizen, it's your duty to work hard for the agenda of the country.
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Citizen
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Our leaders must hold themselves to a higher standard and ensure their words and actions do not promote hate or hurtful anti-Semitic stereotypes.
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Anti Semitic
Hurtful
Ensure
Higher Standard
Standard
Promote
Stereotypes
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The Child Care is Essential Act and the Child Care for Economic Recovery Act will deliver urgently-needed relief to providers and working families.
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Child Care
Economic Recovery
Providers
Recovery
Relief
Deliver
Recovery Act
Working Families
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A key part of our democracy is having a marketplace of ideas, open forums where people with diverse viewpoints can be heard and treated with respect.
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Respect
Democracy
Diverse
Heard
Ideas
Marketplace
Treated
Viewpoints
Open
Part
Forum
Having
Where
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New Jerseyans and their loved ones who live with a pre-existing condition should not have to worry whether or not their health insurance plan will cover them.
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Loved Ones
Condition
Health Insurance
Insurance
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Congress has made great strides in addressing the disparities in care, recognition, and benefits that our women veterans receive, but there is more work to be done.
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Benefits
Congress
Recognition
Work Women Great
Addressing
Receive
Strides
Veterans
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I ran on forming broad coalitions with people throughout the caucus and across the aisle, and so that involves the Blue Dogs, people who are talking about tax reform.
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Aisle
Blue
Caucus
Ran
Tax Reform
Tax
Across
Broad
Coalition
Dogs
Forming
Involves
Throughout
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The Constitution protects freedom of speech, but we must expect more from our elected officials to heal divisions in our country and unequivocally condemn anti-Semitism.
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Anti Semitism
Elected Officials
Freedom Of Speech
Heal
Officials
Condemn
Divisions
Protects
Unequivocally
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As a former federal prosecutor with experience prosecuting both violent and white-collar criminals, I've seen what it looks like when the powerful prey on the vulnerable.
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Criminals
Former
Prey
Prosecuting
White Collar
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I do not support the idea of defunding police departments. I believe that it does nothing to solve the root problems we must address and it makes our communities less safe.
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Believe I Believe Police
Departments
Root
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The Peckman River Basin has frequently flooded, and for more than a generation, the towns of Little Falls and Woodland Park have faced these challenges largely on their own.
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Towns
Woodland
Flooded
Frequently
Largely
Park
River
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It's critical that we engage the federal scientific community to further our understanding of COVID-19 as we work to keep communities safe and reduce the spread of the virus.
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Spread
Reduce
Scientific
Virus
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We must remember both the sacrifices and service of the Greatest Generation who secured freedom and prosperity for our world, as well as the horrors and lessons of the Holocaust.
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Greatest Generation
Holocaust
Lessons
Our World
Prosperity
Secured
Generation
Horrors
Sacrifices
Service
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From Picatinny Arsenal to our great universities, New Jersey is leading the way to ensure our nation is secure and our service members are protected with the best possible equipment.
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Arsenal
Equipment
Jersey
New Jersey
Protected
Secure
Ensure
Universities
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The people of New Jersey sent me to Congress because they are tired of partisan gridlock. They want to see our Congress get to work on legislation that will make people's lives better.
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Jersey
Legislation
New Jersey
Work Tired Me
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When you're on the floor of the House of Representatives in the Democratic caucus, I like to say it feels like New Jersey. You have all different opinions, you have all different ideas.
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Caucus
Different Ideas
House Of Representatives
Jersey
New Jersey
Representatives
Floor
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I was a policy office in my final tour in the Navy, a Russian policy officer, and we were always thinking about our interactions and how they would affect the country 10, 20 years from now.
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Navy
Affect
Interactions
Officer
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He was living proof that this country can improve. That, as a nation, we can peacefully confront historic wrongs and right them. John Lewis may be gone but his message and his legacy remains.
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Historic
Legacy
Living Proof
Proof
Remains
Confront
Lewis
Peacefully
Wrongs
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As a former officer in the U.S. Navy, I understand the importance of a strong national defense and our enduring obligations to all the women and men who serve in uniform to secure our freedom.
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Former
National Defense
Secure
Freedom Men Women
Enduring
Freedom Women Men
Obligations
Officer
Strong National Defense
Uniform
Women And Men
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Picatinny Arsenal is the center of cutting-edge research and development for our Armed Forces, and I'm proud to fight to protect its mission and to bring new, innovative projects to the Arsenal.
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Armed Forces
Innovative
Armed
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Designating June 12th as Women Veterans Appreciation Day will help bring attention to the unique needs of women veterans in the United States and to recognize their contributions to our country.
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Appreciation
June
Contributions
Veterans
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I know John Lewis was a man of deep faith and I pray that his spirit will always guide us as we continue the work of systemic change. He charted a path for us. May we all commit to walk in his footsteps.
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Faith
Commit
Footsteps
Path
Pray
Change Work Always
Charted
Guide
Walk
John
Lewis
Systemic
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Instead of looking to male mentors, saying this is the paradigm of a candidate and it looks like this, we're suddenly finding that there's some powerful female mentors - and they look a little different.
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Paradigm
Candidate
Mentors
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I have spent my life fighting for our country and our values. When those values are jeopardized, when our democracy is threatened, I believe it is our responsibility to speak out and demand accountability.
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Accountability
Demand
Threatened
Life Believe I Believe
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If I just said, 'I'm a helicopter pilot and a federal prosecutor' they might think I've served my country, I'm experienced. If I say, 'And I'm a mom,' they think I get it. 'She's a working mom. That's tough.'
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Prosecutor
Helicopter
Pilot
Served
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As we continue to discuss ways to make our environment cleaner, and more just, for generations to come we must not forget our nation's history of racial and economic injustice and the health outcomes it's led to.
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Generations
Injustice
Outcomes
Cleaner
Discuss
Racial
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With the incredible rate of growth of autism diagnoses in New Jersey, it is critical that we support the research, education, and access to services that individuals on the autism spectrum and their families need.
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Autism
Jersey
New Jersey
Rate
Spectrum
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I intend to be an advocate for Picatinny Arsenal which plays a vital role in both our national defense and our local economy, and to address emerging national security threats such as climate change and cybersecurity.
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Arsenal
Climate Change
Emerging
National Defense
Advocate
Change Climate Security
Intend
Threats
Vital
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The Great American Outdoors Act is a significant opportunity to invest in our public lands, including treasures in the 11th District like the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge and Morristown National Historical Park.
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Great American
Historical
Including
Public Lands
Refuge
Significant
Wildlife
District
Invest
Lands
National Wildlife Refuge
Outdoors
Park
Swamp
Treasures
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There are few things that define us as a country more distinctly than the idea of the American Dream. The idea that anyone can make it here through hard work and dedication. And that dream rests on giving people here a fair shot.
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American Dream
Work Hard Work Dedication
Define
Few Things
Rests
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Families in the autism community have shared with me their fears as their children transition to adulthood. Many people lose access to crucial services and face tremendous uncertainty if their parents can no longer care for them.
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Autism
Crucial
Uncertainty
Fears
Shared
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We've seen the benefits of expanded telehealth services during the COVID-19 pandemic and the importance of making sure access to care is available if patients have to stay at home. That value won't go away when the pandemic ends.
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Go Away
Pandemic
Patients
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Imposing a $10,000 cap on SALT deductions has nothing to do with thoughtful tax policy. It's simply an attack on New Jersey residents, businesses, and homeowners, and unfairly limits married couples to the same $10,000 cap as individuals.
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Imposing
Jersey
Married Couples
New Jersey
Residents
Salt
Thoughtful
Cap
Couples
Deduction
Tax Policy
Unfairly
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Families in my community have seen their taxes go up because of the SALT deduction cap and as a result are questioning whether or not they can afford to live in New Jersey. The loss of the full SALT deduction puts an undue hardship on them.
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Hardship
Jersey
New Jersey
Questioning
Salt
Cap
Deduction
Puts
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The Hudson River Tunnel is a chokepoint for the financial center - and most productive region - of the United States. It is the most heavily trafficked piece of rail in the entire country and even a partial closure will suffocate our nation's economy.
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Closure
Rail
Country Will Nation
Hudson
Partial
Region
River
Tunnel
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a pioneer and a role model for women across America. She is the reason women like me not only believed we had a right to be in the workplace, but were guaranteed it. She won us equality, and then showed us how to succeed.
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Ruth
Workplace
Guaranteed
Pioneer
Role Model
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I was in the Navy when the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked and Flight 93 went down in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. I remember the selflessness of our first responders, including brave New Jerseyans, who were there when our country needed them most.
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Brave
Flight
Including
Navy
Needed
Pennsylvania
Selflessness
World Trade
World Trade Center
Attacked
Center
Responders
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John Lewis inspired countless Americans across generations with a life dedicated to service and getting into 'good trouble.' He had a vision for a better America, shouldered the weight of change, and put his own safety on the line so that others could live with dignity and grace.
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Dedicated
Dignity
Generations
Grace
Safety
Life Change Good
Countless
Lewis
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New Jersey has faced its own history of citizens demanding change and federal engagement in programs to address the needs of our community. We have also seen the success of law enforcement in our state when members work to listen to our communities and build a brighter future alongside our residents.
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Brighter
Brighter Future
Enforcement
Engagement
Jersey
Law Enforcement
New Jersey
Our Community
Residents
Alongside
Demanding
Programs
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Decision by decision, Justice Ginsburg reaffirmed the ideals of our Constitution and our shared values of fairness, equality, and opportunity. Her judicial opinions on voting rights, gender discrimination, and same-sex marriage made this country stronger and will continue to ring out through the ages.
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Discrimination
Fairness
Ideals
Judicial
Voting
Ages
Same-Sex
Same-Sex Marriage
Shared
Voting Rights
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At the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey, I worked as an Outreach and Re-entry Coordinator and an Assistant U.S. Attorney. I have seen the best of our law enforcement community and the commitment that they have made to the public's safety. But I've also seen too many examples of where our system falls desperately short.
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Attorney
Coordinator
Enforcement
Jersey
Law Enforcement
New Jersey
Outreach
Safety
Assistant
District
Examples
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