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" The implication here is that those who came to America legally over the years are somehow second-class citizens. "
Mitch McConnell
Over
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" It is a president's constitutional right to nominate a Supreme Court justice, and it is the Senate's constitutional right to act as a check on a president and withhold its consent. "
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" If the administration wants cooperation, it will have to begin to move in our direction. "
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" We did the two-year extension of Bush tax cuts in 2010. We negotiated the Budget Control Act in August of 2011 and the fiscal cliff deal at the end of 2012, which saved 99 percent of Americans from a tax increase. "
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" A lot of us were wondering, what is Trump really going to be like? He used to support Democrats and have various views earlier in his life about politics. "
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" The Russians are clearly a big adversary, and they demonstrated it by trying to mess around in our election. "
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Election
" Some contend that, by fulfilling our promise to the American people, we're somehow trying to go back to the way things were before ObamaCare - which we all know is untrue. "
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Trying
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" In the last 100 years, three presidents suffered big defeats in Congress in their first term and then won reelection: Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, and the most recent example, Bill Clinton. "
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Big
Three
" More young people believe they'll see a U.F.O. than that they'll see their own Social Security benefits. "
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Own
" I try to appeal to all Kentucky voters, regardless of gender, about the future of state. "
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Kentucky
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" The fact is, if our primary legislative goals are to repeal and replace the health spending bill; to end the bailouts; cut spending; and shrink the size and scope of government, the only way to do all these things it is to put someone in the White House who won't veto any of these things. "
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" It is time to move away from advise and obstruct and get back to advise and consent. "
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" I do think that the Constitution and the traditions of this country constrain all of us - those of us in Congress and those of us in the White House - from some of our impulses, shall I say, that we'd like to pursue. "
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" NATO is the most important military alliance in world history. "
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History
Military
" I believe that marriage should be between one man and one woman. "
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Marriage
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" It just doesn't occur to an American that someone else will solve their problems. Americans take pride in solving problems for themselves. And if we fail, we get back up and try again. It's what we do. It's who we are. "
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" The Frist fairness rule guarantees up-or-down votes for every circuit court or Supreme Court nomination, regardless of which party controls the Senate or the White House. "
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" The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law in the early part of his first administration. "
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" After adding trillions to the debt on big-government policies most Americans didn't ask for and which we couldn't afford, Democratic leaders say they need more money, which they intend to take from small business, even though small businesses create the majority of new jobs. "
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" Diplomacy is important, extremely important, and I don't think these reductions at the State Department are appropriate because many times diplomacy is a lot more effective - and cert cheaper - than military engagement. "
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" The Senate is allowed to work the way it was designed to - meaning a place where nothing is decided without a good dose of deliberation and debate, as well as input from both the majority and minority parties - it arrives at a result that is acceptable to people all along the political spectrum. "
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