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Preventing terrorist attacks is of the highest important, but trashing the Constitution is not the right way to do it.
Our federal resources, our U.S. marshals, and the federal court system are being used, I think, by the private sector.
I firmly believe the Senate should see more voting and debate and less standing around and waiting for backroom deals.
I've seen the impact of deportation in my district. It is heartbreaking to see families torn apart for no good reason.
[Democrats] are not handling the John Lewis flap the right way, clearly. John Lewis is a hero and a civil rights hero.
High tax rates distort economic decision making, and our corporate income tax rate is one of the highest in the world.
Someone is going to have to explain to me at some time how raising taxes on job-creators is going to create more jobs.
Many of us in Nashville accepted nonviolence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic.
Many young people, many children, are being abused, being put down, being bullied because of their sexual orientation.
Customs, traditions, laws should be flexible, within good reason, if that is what it takes to make our democracy work.
The United States is the only country left now, bar Romania, Bulgaria and Poland, that has this all-government system.
Every now and again, people on the far right take a quote from a progressive out of context and use it to attack them.
Ways and Means is the committee that tackles the big issues that affects people's lives and their jobs in a major way.
My parents are very conservative. They taught me the value of hard work - dont depend on other people, do it yourself.
Nothing happens here in this building, in the House of Representatives, if there's no demand from outside the Capitol.
The immigrant blame game is one of the most predictable, and most deplorable, elements of public debate in our nation.
I was the first Latino member of Congress to support Senator Obama's candidacy. For quite a while, I was the only one.
President Obama's health care law raided Medicare in the tune of five hundred million dollars to create a new program.
We do not have a crisis at Freddie Mac, and particularly Fannie Mae, under the outstanding leadership of Frank Raines.
There's a conspiracy going on online every day between these top U.K. individuals within ISIS leadership out of Syria.
I am speaking as a Republican now, not a national security expert, but I believe that my party needs to come together.
There's a lot of scientific data that I found out as a scientist that actually show that this is really a young Earth.
We owe it to all our veterans to make sure they have a chance to achieve the American Dream, just like the rest of us.
I consider myself lucky to have been born into a family that valued service to both one's country and one's community.
Fairness is not the end result, it's the opportunity. And everybody in America today has the opportunity to get ahead.
The war against Islamic extremism will be long. They are in it for the long haul, which means that we have to be also.
My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me.
I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.
My wife has a public charter school for children with dyslexia. Almost every one of them has failed in a public school.
Under Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson, more people will have coverage, and we protect those with pre-existing conditions.
We don't know what those other cycles were caused by in the past. Could be dinosaur flatulence, you know, or who knows?
I mean, the Obama position has been, 'We think government ought to be spending this money, not the people who earn it.'
I will continue to work to maintain Planned Parenthood's ability to provide excellent health care to millions of women.
You know, I think what people want more than anything is they just want people to do what they say they're going to do.
Until we see something that is actually wrongdoing, we're probably not going to go on a fishing trip to go see look at.
Until the administration can articulate a coherent and convincing policy for closing Guantanamo, it should remain open.
We have got a - we've got a good federal work force, but we have too many people, and we're paying them too much money.
We know that Medicare is set to go bankrupt in 2024 with no action, and social security is set to be insolvent by 2037.
Donald Trump has made it clear that certainly over the last few years that President [Barack] Obama was born in Hawaii.
Environmental spending creates jobs in engineering, manufacturing, construction, materials, operations and maintenance.
When you're a leader, you cannot ignore parts of your constituency, even if you know they're not going to vote for you.
I'm just really proud of the Democratic caucus. I look around in our meetings, and I think we really look like America.
My parents are very conservative. They taught me the value of hard work - don't depend on other people, do it yourself.
What the Democrats don't seem to understand is that higher taxes mean fewer American jobs and less American production.
To protect America's security, we are going to have to pull America's military out of the swamp of Washington politics.
I think food and education will help stem the poverty of the young people who are being drawn into terrorism every day.
She'll be evaluated like any other Double-A umpire. Major League Baseball has never attempted to influence our decision
Before being elected to Congress, I oversaw the Cook County Hospital System as a Cook County Commissioner for 10 years.
The spirit of Christmas is - and hopefully always will be - about goodwill and generosity to others and peace on earth.
The need for bold and aggressive federal action to create jobs and restore confidence in our battered economy is clear.