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" A family's love is often the best medicine, and in difficult times, I believe that our military families deserve the option of staying together. "
Love
Family
Best
" As a cosigner of the Veterans' Bill of Rights, I'm committed to making sure that veterans' issues remain a top priority in Congress. "
Top
Congress
Bill Of Rights
" Climate change is the environmental challenge of this generation, and it is imperative that we act before it's too late. "
Change
Challenge
Environmental
" Congressional dysfunction is the logical result of closed primaries, too many gerrymandered one-party seats, and low-turnout elections. "
Too
Elections
Logical
" Despite all the dysfunction in Washington, I believe that when it comes to helping veterans and keeping our fundamental promises as a country, we can come together and do the right thing. "
Together
Believe
Do The Right Thing
" During their service, men and women in our Armed Forces live by a common creed, promising never to leave a soldier behind. We should live by the same principle. When our veterans are asked to travel hundreds of miles for care that's offered right next door, we simply aren't living up to that standard, and something has to change. "
Travel
Women
Service
" Economic policy is like business - it's all about compromise. "
Like
Business
Policy
" Federal research dollars invested at the National Institutes of Health seem expensive until we factor in the economic growth and jobs created by our world-leading life sciences industry. "
Growth
Health
Research
" I don't say bad things about my Republican colleagues, ever. "
Things
Bad
Colleagues
" Imagine a country where the vast majority of seniors live in poverty, a country where for many there are no golden years, but a time of struggle and dependence. That was the United States before the creation of Social Security, which has proven to be one of the most effective and important government programs in our history. "
Struggle
Live
History
" In 1935, the year Social Security was created, the poverty rate for seniors was over 70%. "
Year
Security
Over
" Many of the patients in military and veterans hospitals require long stays, which can place a large financial hardship on families who don't live near the hospital, which is very common. "
Veterans
Place
Long
" No military or veteran family should have to choose between paying their bills and being together while one of our nation's heroes is in the hospital. "
Family
Choose
Hospital
" People ask, 'How do you work with the other side?' Well, I start by not saying bad things about them. "
Start
You
Bad
" Representative democracy is in crisis in the United States. "
United States
Crisis
Democracy
" The big legislative updates that we need to compete in the 21st century and to raise living standards have been blocked by a reluctance to seek common ground. "
Living
Need
Standards
" The United States has the world's largest and most innovative economy, an unmatched rule of law, and a free market that is the envy of the international community. For investors, we are the reserve currency. "
Envy
Law
World
" Two decades of experience as an entrepreneur and CEO has informed my view that our priorities must stress improving educational outcomes, rebuilding America's infrastructure, lowering health care costs, addressing climate change, reforming immigration, and ushering in an advanced energy economy. "
Change
Experience
Care
" Veterans come from all walks of life, and they live in small towns and big cities, in red states and blue states. "
Small
Blue
Life
" Washington is paralyzed by extreme political rhetoric that creates powerful sound bites but poor policy. "
Rhetoric
Poor
Political
" We have a sacred obligation to support our men and women in uniform. "
Sacred
Men
Women
" We have to reverse spending trends that are not job-creating. "
Trends
Reverse
Spending
" We have to start grounding our policies in facts and recognize that a strong economy is critical for funding progressive priorities. "
Facts
Strong
Start
" We should, as a country, be very concerned about our borrowing cost. "
Cost
Borrowing
Concerned
" When active duty ends, we have an obligation to uphold our own pledge: a pledge to ensure that every veteran receives the care and benefits they deserve. "
Pledge
Own
Active
" With Washington already broken, the last thing we need is a left-wing version of the Tea Party. "
Tea
Broken
Party
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