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" My passion for strengthening the community and making peoples' lives better is stronger now than when I first got into politics. "
Ted Deutch
Better
Politics
Passion
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" Social Security is the only thing most Americans can count on to keep them out of poverty during retirement. "
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Retirement
Security
" No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short. "
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Trust
" Pressure for the most part comes from this overarching concern that if I head into the election season without sufficient resources, then any outside group, any individual, any super PAC may choose to come in to my district and overwhelm it and take over the airwaves and control the debate. "
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Control
Pressure
Election
" Kids from financially distressed households are twice as likely to have to repeat a grade and more than two-and-a-half more times to struggle with poor health later in life. "
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Struggle
Life
Twice
" After a decade in public life working to stop Iran from ever acquiring nuclear weapons, I cannot support a deal giving Iran billions of dollars in sanctions relief - in return for letting it maintain an advanced nuclear program and the infrastructure of a threshold nuclear state. "
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Working
Giving
Stop
" Working across the aisle, I helped pass laws exposing business dealings in Iran, cracking down on Iranian human rights abusers, and applying crippling sanctions to Iran's oil and gas industries. "
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Oil
Business
Down
" Let's make Jeb Bush explain his plan to give millionaires another massive tax cut. "
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Cut
Plan
Explain
" Social Security is legally prohibited from contributing to the deficit. It cannot use debt to pay out benefits. "
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Social
Security
Pay
" Social Security is fundamentally strong. "
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Strong
Fundamentally
Security
" We must not allow the Iranian regime to use the nation's vast energy resource as a financial pipeline for its nuclear ambitions. "
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Nation
Resource
Use
" Let's make Marco Rubio explain why he thinks oil companies should write our energy policy. "
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Policy
Write
Why
" The United States does not provide economic support funds to the Palestinian Authority to build new homes for terrorists or fund President Abbas' anti-Israel campaign trips through Europe. "
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Support
Authority
Economic
" Ultimately, the goal of sanctions is to ratchet up the economic pressure on the Iranians to such a level that the regime determines it is simply too great to bear, and they are forced to weigh the decision to carry on their nuclear development and their illicit quest for nuclear weapons against the ever-growing pressure from their own people. "
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Goal
Great
People
" Corporations that are formed for the purpose of earning profits do not have the constitutionally protected rights that natural citizens have. They should not spend their corporate dollars, Treasury dollars, to influence outcome of elections. "
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Rights
Influence
Purpose
" We need to work tirelessly to help create new jobs and good jobs here in Florida. "
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Help
Work
Good
" People want the United States Congress focused on creating jobs in this country. "
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People
Creating
Country
" Energy legislation in Congress and the focus on energy legislation is first and foremost about creating good jobs. In Florida, where solar and biofuel and wind and so many other areas are important and so many in the private sector continues to pursue these, we need policies that will encourage that. "
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Focus
Energy
Wind
" The Florida Jewish community is incredibly important in the primary and will be that important in the general election as well. "
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Community
Important
Will
" Social media companies must work closely with the U.S. government to ensure their platforms are not being used by terrorist organizations to do harm to our country. "
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Government
Work
Social Media
" It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions. "
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Balance
Need
Pressure
" It's hard to see how the Copyright Office can rise to the many challenges of the 21st-century work that you do without dramatically more independence and dramatically more flexibility. "
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Independence
See
Work
" I came here with a lot of things that I would like to get done for my community and my constituents. Shooting hoops at the White House was not at the top of the list but would certainly be a thrill. "
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Like
House
Done
" This isn't about grabbing people's guns; this isn't about changing the Second Amendment. This simply says that someone who is on the terrorist watch list - a dangerous terrorist - should not be able to purchase a gun. "
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Someone
People
Dangerous
" Germany can make a major difference in the lives of so many Holocaust survivors who are struggling in their later years. "
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Difference
Years
Holocaust
" I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along. "
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Out
Two
Things
" We have a responsibility to ensure the Palestinian Authority is abiding by U.S. law with total transparency. "
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Law
Responsibility
Ensure
" This is not a political issue. I know Florida's leadership has talked about a real commitment to helping our veterans. Now it's time for them to show it. "
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Leadership
Time
Commitment
" We know that for children, hunger is especially devastating. "
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Hunger
Devastating
Children
" What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had. "
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Debate
People
Government