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There is no free market in oil.
Peter Defazio / U.s. Representative
Free Market
Oil
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Insecurity is failing the American people miserably.
Peter Defazio / U.s. Representative
Failing
People
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The U.S. cannot impose freedom, security, and unity in Iraq by force.
Peter Defazio / U.s. Representative
Force
Iraq
Unity
Impose
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The training and equipping of Iraqi security forces should be accelerated.
Peter Defazio / U.s. Representative
Accelerate
Force
Security Forces
Should
Training
Forces
Iraqi
Iraqi Security
Iraqi Security Forces
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The crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated.
Peter Defazio / U.s. Representative
America
Commodity
Oil
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Even the majority of the Sunnis have grown tired of foreign terrorists operating in Iraq.
Peter Defazio / U.s. Representative
Iraq
Majority
Tired
Grown
Operating
Terrorists
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In crude oil trading, we have seen a 46 percent increase over 1 year in the margins there.
Peter Defazio / U.s. Representative
Crude
Crude Oil
Increase
Margins
Oil
Trading
Years
Percent Increase
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The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq.
Peter Defazio / U.s. Representative
Bases
Iraq
Military
Military Bases
Permanent
Renounce
Constructing
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Essentially, when we run a deficit, we are borrowing money to buy things that are made overseas.
Peter Defazio / U.s. Representative
Running
Borrowing
Deficit
Made
Overseas
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First off, the crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated.
Peter Defazio / U.s. Representative
Commodity
Crude
Crude Oil
Oil
Unlike
Market
Virtually
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Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.
Peter Defazio / U.s. Representative
War
Army
Civil War
Hippie
Military
Civil
Essentially
Forced
Remain
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It was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein and Iraq.
Peter Defazio / U.s. Representative
Al Qaeda
Hussein
Iraq
Saddam
September
September 11
Attacked
Bin
Saddam Hussein
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Given the large size of the illegal harvest, ... I find it difficult to understand how this could have been a casual oversight.
Peter Defazio / U.s. Representative
Harvest
Illegal
Size
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The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for 1,400 years.
Peter Defazio / U.s. Representative
Common
Common Good
Conflict
Years
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But they are not going to take on Big Oil because Big Oil is very generous at campaign time, and this is all about the elections. They want to pretend that they are doing something meaningful.
Peter Defazio / U.s. Representative
Big Oil
Campaigns
Generous
Meaningful
Oil
Time Doing Big
Campaign
Elections
Pretend
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About 75 percent of the crude oil marketed here is sold off the books, and they are doing trades that would be illegal if it was a regulated market, and of course they do not want to regulate it.
Peter Defazio / U.s. Representative
Book
Crude
Crude Oil
Illegal
Oil
Percent
Would Be
Books
Course
Off
Market
Regulate
Sold
Trades
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Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections.
Peter Defazio / U.s. Representative
Environmental
America
Economic
Mergers
Objections
Oil
Single
Years
Closed
Mostly
Oil Company
Purposes
Reasons
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I don't think there is anything this Congress could do more definitively to put people back to work, to stimulate our economy to increase our efficiency, our competitiveness, both nationally and internationally
Peter Defazio / U.s. Representative
Back To Work
People
Thinking
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Similarly, establishing a firm timeline for bringing our troops home could accelerate the development of Iraqi security forces and deepen their commitment to defending their own country and their own government.
Peter Defazio / U.s. Representative
Home
Accelerate
Commitment
Country
Firm
Security Forces
Troops
Bringing
Deepen
Defending
Establishing
Forces
Iraqi
Iraqi Security
Iraqi Security Forces
Similarly
Timeline
Troops Home
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To the contrary, I believe the U.S. military has already done all that has been asked of them. Saddam Hussein is on trial. The threat from alleged weapons of mass destruction programs in Iraq has been neutralized.
Peter Defazio / U.s. Representative
Believe
Contrary
Destruction
Hussein
Mass
Mass Destruction
Military
Saddam
Weapons
Done Believe I Believe
Alleged
Believe I Believe Done
Believe Done I Believe
Programs
Saddam Hussein
Trial
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In recent years, breweries and brew pubs have flourished across the Nation. And, as the Representative from Oregon's fourth district, I have enjoyed seeing the diversity that craft brewery has fueled across the Nation.
Peter Defazio / U.s. Representative
Diversity
Enjoyed
Fourth
Oregon
Pubs
Years
Brew
District
Craft
Fueled
Recent
Recent Years
Representative
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Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death.
Peter Defazio / U.s. Representative
Men
War
Brutal
Dictator
Glad
Humanity
Hussein
Men And Women
Saddam
Tyrants
Death War Men
Crimes
Deciding
Measure
Saddam Hussein
Send
Trial
Tyrant
Uniform
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There is a lot of lip service paid in this Congress and downtown at the White House about family values and small business. Who better represents family values and small business than the fishermen and women on the Oregon and California coast.
Peter Defazio / U.s. Representative
California
California Coast
Congress
Downtown
Family Values
Lip Service
Oregon
Paid
Small Business
White
White House
Fishermen
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A timeline for bringing U.S. troops home that is negotiated with the Iraqi government would also boost the Iraqi government's legitimacy and claim to self-rule, and force the Iraqi government to take responsibility for itself and its citizens.
Peter Defazio / U.s. Representative
Government
Home
Boost
Citizens
Legitimacy
Responsibility
Troops
Bringing
Iraqi
Timeline
Troops Home
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Second, the resolution contains the blatantly false assertion that negotiating a timeline for bringing U.S. troops home with the Iraqi government undermines U.S. national security. Such a statement shows a misunderstanding of the enemy we face in Iraq.
Peter Defazio / U.s. Representative
Government
Home
Assertion
Iraq
Misunderstanding
National Security
Negotiating
Resolution
Troops
Bringing
Contains
False
Iraqi
Statement
Timeline
Troops Home
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In addition to a timeline, I have proposed that U.S. troops be removed from front line combat positions in Iraqi cities and towns, turning over daily security patrols, interactions with citizens, and any offensive security actions to the Iraqis themselves.
Peter Defazio / U.s. Representative
Cities
Citizens
Combat
Offensive
Towns
Troops
Actions
Addition
Turning
Daily
Front Line
Interactions
Iraqi
Iraqis
Positions
Proposed
Timeline
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