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" As a government watchdog, I'm always looking for ways to make government smaller, more efficient, and fairer. "
Government
Looking
More
" Census data influences decisions made from Main Street to Wall Street, in Congress and with the Federal Reserve. Not to mention, the American people who look to, and trust, the data the government releases on our nation's unemployment, state of our economy, and health insurance coverage. "
Health
People
Data
" Companies that are hosting Web sites or do a lot of teleconferencing need a lot of bandwidth going both ways. "
Need
Going
Hosting
" Every member of Congress has highways in their district. "
Highways
Every
Congress
" Human trafficking robs victims of their basic human rights, and it occurs right under our noses. Many efforts have been focused in other regions of the world, but this is a major problem here at home. "
World
Here
Home
" I actually enjoy having the Capitol view. We started referring to it as the trillion dollar view. "
Enjoy
Dollar
View
" If you are just using the service to look at Web sites and download e-mail, then a DSL line may be cheaper. It is when you have more data going out that wireless can make a difference. "
Service
Make A Difference
Look
" I'm a Texan - my idea of gun control is hitting what you aim at and nothing else. "
Control
You
Nothing
" I'm committed to voting to repeal Obamacare or defending it as much as possible. "
Much
Obamacare
Possible
" In an urban area, you're not going to be an hour away from another post office. "
Going
Away
You
" I think a fair amount of my votes were 'not-for-Ortiz,' votes and I'm going to have to work hard to earn the 'for Blake' votes. "
Hard
Fair
Work Hard
" I think that we're so generous in some of our social problems that people are unwilling to get a job outside in the heat. Rather than get 15 dollars to go get roofing, they'd rather get 9 or 10 dollars in benefits. "
Think
Problems
People
" I think there's no problem getting through the House a pathway to legal status. A pathway to citizenship is going to be tougher, but I think it is potentially doable, if we can show the American people that the border is secure. "
Problem
American
Think
" It's Congress' job to keep an eye on the other agencies and the workings of the entire government. It is our constitutional duty. "
Eye
Congress
Duty
" I understand that, for some, everything is political. "
Everything
Understand
Some
" I've been through several of his campaigns, and I can tell you nobody can out-campaign Rick Perry. "
I Can
You
Through
" I went in with the youthful vigor that I could single-handedly change the world. But you fast come to the realization that you're 1/435th of one-half of one-third of the government. "
Change The World
Change
Government
" My constituents feel betrayed by the promise that Reagan made, that if we grant amnesty, we'll then secure the border. We obviously didn't do that. "
Made
Feel
Border
" My message on immigration is that the people who want to come to this country, by and large, even those who have done it illegally, are coming for the right reasons, not to take advantage of our welfare system. "
Want
Country
Immigration
" My subcommittee will be thoroughly investigating this issue and demanding answers from Census officials on allegations that the Census Bureau is changing the wording of survey questions used to determine our nation's annual report on health insurance coverage. "
Nation
Questions
Insurance
" Nobody in the Washington regulatory bureaucracy gets fired for saying no. "
Bureaucracy
Nobody
Saying
" Nobody likes to make a hard decision, because you're running every two years. "
Years
Hard
You
" Sometimes you've got to make a hard decision, and there's a real reluctance to make hard decisions in Washington. "
Sometimes
Decision
Decisions
" The purpose of the criminal justice system is both to rehabilitate and to punish. If we can rehabilitate somebody, that's a huge, huge win. "
Purpose
Criminal Justice
Justice
" We can't get serious about immigration reform until we stop people from crossing the border illegally. "
Serious
Immigration
People
" You've got to do the same sort of outreach to Hispanics that you do to any other group. They want to see their congressman. "
Same
See
Want
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