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I had been willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, ... But what confidence should we have in his ability to deal not only with a natural disaster, but with a terrorist threat in this country

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Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake.

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It is ironic and strange that an administration that has had so little success in responding to Hurricane Katrina thinks it can solve the problem by adding another layer of bureaucracy.

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Like that day four Septembers ago, we once again find ourselves asking, 'How could this have happened ... The answer is painful, but it must be acknowledged we simply were unprepared.

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Thompson said, for example, that oil pipelines in the Southeast have been identified by DHS as critical national infrastructure to be protected against terrorist attack. In the wake of the hurricane, they have been crippled by floods. We have to review all our systems. If a byproduct of what happened in New Orleans is we have this gas crisis all over the country, it doesn't matter whether a terrorist hits it or a hurricane hits it. You have the same effect.

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Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas.

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There is just more of the good old boy system taking care of its political allies, ... FEMA and the others have put out these contracts in such a haphazard manner, I don't know how they can come up with anything that is accountable to the taxpayers.

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We need a real citizen preparedness plan -- one that takes care of children, the elderly and the disabled, ... Mothers and grandmothers should not drown in nursing homes because help never arrived.

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If we can send a rocket ship to meet another rocket ship and do whatever they do when they dock and undock and come back to Earth, can you imagine if we take some of that money and apply it to affordable health care in America

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Even President Bush has cited the need to outlaw the practice of corporations making loans to their officers. Strangely enough, when the President was a corporate officer, he took out several loans from the company.

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Medicare debates in Congress should result in better Medicare benefits for all our nation's seniors. We're not asking for special treatment for rural America, just a fair deal.

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to look into this contract and see if there is a legitimacy to my concerns that we may be paying twice the price for this product.

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Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.

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The London bombing last week, coupled with the Madrid bombing last year, should be a wake-up call to us all that our trains and transit system are an attractive target for terrorists.

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How can the government say it is serious about reconstructing the Gulf Coast and edge out small and minority-owned businesses The only way to make sure the relief funds reach hurricane victims and damaged areas is to be aggressive about oversight.

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People just looked at him, ... He was the first speaker, and it sort of went downhill after that. People felt we are not going to get the truth here.

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We've been told time and time again that we are prepared for any emergency that comes, that we're ready. We're obviously not.

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History suggests that attempts to privatize Medicare by relying on private companies to offer Medicare benefits in rural America simply will not work.

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I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us.

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If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to we don't see race.' Biggest lie ever told.

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Medicare provided guaranteed equal coverage, something that the private sector could not.

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It was too little, too late. We missed the mark.

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I am concerned that FEMA is not ready and we'll see much of what we saw during Katrina, ... I've been trying to get information from FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security on what they are doing, and I've heard little to nothing.

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I don't think this response can just be handled by FEMA and local units of government.

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