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When people think about Michigan, they usually think about cars.
Sander Levin / United States Representative
Car
Michigan
People
Thinking
People Think About
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What motivates me is everything that I have been a small part of.
Sander Levin / United States Representative
Has Beens
Small Parts
Motivates
Small Part
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That's what healthcare reform is about: the middle class's economic security.
Sander Levin / United States Representative
Economic Security
Healthcare
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Michigan has a lot at stake in the defense industry, and the defense industry has a lot at stake in Michigan.
Sander Levin / United States Representative
Defense
Michigan
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It is imperative that women have quality affordable day care available to them because without it, families suffer.
Sander Levin / United States Representative
Quality
Affordable
Available
Care
Imperative
Suffer
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We have to create jobs but also make sure that those who are looking for work aren't just left without any assistance whatsoever.
Sander Levin / United States Representative
Assistance
Whatsoever
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I was essentially trained by World War II vets who combined a progressive view of life with a deep distrust of anything authoritarian.
Sander Levin / United States Representative
Distrust
World War Ii
Life War World
Authoritarian
Combined
Essentially
Trained
World War
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Women, on average, earn less than men in almost every occupation, including traditional female orientated jobs like nursing and teaching.
Sander Levin / United States Representative
Jobs
Average
Nursing
Occupation
Teaching
Traditional
Earn
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The Ways and Means Committee for me has this opportunity to work with programs where I can take my parents' sense of community and make it work.
Sander Levin / United States Representative
Committee
Programs
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Dave Camp has been very much influenced by, and often guided by, the radicalization of the Republican Party... and too often failed to speak out.
Sander Levin / United States Representative
Dave
Republican Party
Camp
Guided
Failed
Influenced
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Retirement security is often compared to a three-legged stool supported by Social Security, employer-provided pension funds, and private savings.
Sander Levin / United States Representative
Pension
Retirement
Saving
Savings
Security
Social
Social Security
Three
Security Retirement Social
Compared
Often
Funds
Private
Retirement Security
Stool
Supported
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We need for America to get back to basics and focus on the middle class's quality of life. Healthcare reform is vital to restoring that standard of living.
Sander Levin / United States Representative
Basics
Healthcare
Quality Of Life
Restoring
Standard
Vital
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Opponents of health care reform would take away consumer protections - siding with the insurance industry instead of the middle class. We can't afford that.
Sander Levin / United States Representative
Health Care
Health Care Reform
Middle Class
Opponents
Health Care Insurance
Afford
Consumer
Insurance
Insurance Industry
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Extending federal unemployment insurance is vital for millions of Americans laid off through no fault of their own, and it serves as an important economic stimulus.
Sander Levin / United States Representative
Extending
Stimulus
Unemployment
Federal
Insurance
Laid
Vital
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Power, that's one thing, but love of family and of siblings is more important, is more powerful than any other power - at least earthly power, at least earthly power.
Sander Levin / United States Representative
Family Love
Powerful
Sibling
Earthly
Least
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Through good times and bad, American workers and their families have been able to rely on Social Security to provide guaranteed protection against the loss of earnings due to retirement, disability, or death.
Sander Levin / United States Representative
American Workers
Disability
Good Times
Loss
Protection
Rely
Retirement
Social Security
Workers
Due
Earnings
Guaranteed
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The armored vehicle manufacturing base is not a light switch that can be turned on and off at will. If we mothball production of systems like the Abrams tank, it will take time and money to get this capability back.
Sander Levin / United States Representative
Capability
Manufacturing
Time And Money
Vehicle
Armored
Base
On And Off
Switch
Systems
Tank
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In terms of Medicare, I'm in favor of sitting down and having a serious discussion about the likely impact of the Affordable Care Act, health-care reform, on the cost issue and changing the fee-for-service structure.
Sander Levin / United States Representative
Affordable
Affordable Care Act
Cost
Discussion
Medicare
Reform
Structure
Favor
Likely
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The When Women Succeed, America Succeeds economic agenda will enable women to achieve greater economic security, raise wages for women and their families, and better allow working parents to support and care for their families.
Sander Levin / United States Representative
Economic Security
Succeed
Wages
Women Better Will
Enable
Raise
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You have to separate what needs to be done to avoid the fiscal cliff and what needs to be done longer range. It's a mistake to essentially collapse those two - they're not the same. I don't think you can achieve everything at once.
Sander Levin / United States Representative
Collapse
Mistake
Range
Avoid
Cliff
Essentially
Fiscal
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In 1940, President Roosevelt called on American industry to become the 'great arsenal of democracy.' Automotive manufacturers in Michigan responded and converted their assembly lines from cars to tanks and helped America win World War II.
Sander Levin / United States Representative
Arsenal
Assembly
Democracy
Industry
Lines
Michigan
President
Tanks
World War Ii
War Great World
Converted
Helped
Manufacturers
Roosevelt
World War
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I had panels - roundtables in the district - and the stories that were told are really difficult to accept. People who have diabetes who can't get insurance because of a preexisting condition; others who were laid off and the have no place to turn.
Sander Levin / United States Representative
Diabetes
Condition
District
Insurance
Laid
Preexisting
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My brother and late sister and I were raised in Detroit; it was where the middle class across racial lines, the middle class was able to develop, build a home, have for the first time retirement benefits, have a job, and yes, their kids began to go to college.
Sander Levin / United States Representative
Sister
Benefits
Detroit
Lines
Middle Class
Retirement
Racial
Retirement Benefits
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