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" So here we are, just two months away from the election, with more and more examples that modern day Jim Crowe laws are alive and well in the state of Florida. "
Corrine Brown
Florida
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" I represent central Florida, which depends on tourists for its economic survival. We need people to be able to get to the State and enjoy it. "
Corrine Brown
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" I think everybody knows that on November 7th more people voted for Al Gore than George Bush, a fact that has been documented time and time again. "
Corrine Brown
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" If one of you pass out and go to the emergency room, the hospital has to see you. But when you go to the emergency room, you've had a stroke, or you've had a heart attack. If you had preventative medicine, you could maybe be taking your high blood pressure medicine so you wouldn't have a stroke and cut down the costs. "
Corrine Brown
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You
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" I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage. "
Corrine Brown
Gay Marriage
Gay
Support
" Not only should we be giving Amtrak the money it needs to continue to provide services; we should be providing security money to upgrade their tracks and improve safety and security measures in the entire rail system. "
Corrine Brown
Money
Safety
Security
" We are also ignoring and underfunding high speed rail which is one of the best ways to move citizens and improve congestion on our highways. "
Corrine Brown
Best
Move
Improve
" The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and enforcement did not reach Texas until after the end of the Civil War almost two years later. "
Corrine Brown
Two
News
War
" States get to improve transportation infrastructure; that creates economic development, puts people back to work and, most important, enhances safety and improves local communities. "
Corrine Brown
Important
Back
Work
" As a Member of the CBC, I will fight tooth and nail to increase funding for programs, such as Ryan White, that were flat funded in the President's budget. "
Corrine Brown
Will
Budget
Fight
" I don't do radio or TV. I do people. "
Corrine Brown
Radio
TV
People
" Bullies have played a dirty trick to force me out of office by re-drawing my Congressional district to cover a largely rural area of north Florida and include 22 prisons, and convicted felons can't vote. "
Corrine Brown
Office
Vote
Force
" I come from a district where the veterans are not the richest in the country. "
Corrine Brown
Come
Veterans
Richest
" Transportation funding is a win-win for everyone involved. "
Corrine Brown
Transportation
Involved
Everyone
" I just want someone to explain to the American public why investing in transportation in Iraq is so much more important than investing in passenger rail right here in the United States of America. "
Corrine Brown
America
American
Important
" The punishment should fit the crime and if a doctor or drug company does harm knowingly or negligently to a patient they should be compensated to make them whole. "
Corrine Brown
Punishment
Crime
Doctor
" I will let the work I've done speak for me. "
Corrine Brown
Will
Speak
Me
" Some things I don't compromise on. Health care is one of them. "
Corrine Brown
Compromise
Health
Care
" I believe that tax dollars used to create a new school of engineering for Florida State University, when there is already a successful partnership in place with Florida A&M University, is counterproductive to increasing engineering graduates. "
Corrine Brown
School
Believe
Engineering
" Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate. "
Corrine Brown
Marriage
Domain
Been
" Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life, which was made possible in large part through the blood, sweat and tears of African slaves. "
Corrine Brown
Sweat
Way
Blood
" This administration is cutting the programs that our Nation and its citizens need most, while dissolving the safety nets created to protect the elderly and less fortunate in this wealthy Nation. "
Corrine Brown
Protect
Elderly
Nation
" As the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court case has shown us, separate is not always equal. "
Corrine Brown
Always
Supreme Court
Equal
" Without the funding Amtrak needs to keep operating, we will soon see people that rely on Amtrak to get them to work each day, waiting for a train that isn't coming. "
Corrine Brown
Train
Work
Day
" I think it is scary anytime anyone is coming at you asking questions. "
Corrine Brown
You
Asking Questions
Questions
" We continue to subsidize highways and aviation, but when it comes to our passenger rail system, we refuse to provide the money Amtrak needs to survive. "
Corrine Brown
System
Rail
Money
" You know, for most seniors Medicare is their only form of health care. "
Corrine Brown
Only
Know
Seniors
" I don't want to sound cocky or anything, but I work hard. I work 24/7. "
Corrine Brown
Work Hard
Work
Want
" Veterans continue to get the short end of the stick when it comes to this administration. "
Corrine Brown
Continue
End
Short
" I guess I'm a black woman with a mouth. "
Corrine Brown
Black
Mouth
Woman
" Is bankrupting this great country the top priority of this administration? "
Corrine Brown
Country
Great
Priority