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It almost seems then that they will be allocated based upon a state's ability to pay, ... How are you going to ask Louisiana right now to come up with the money for that. Take Mississippi . They've been hit hard.

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Trust us' is not something the administration can say after Katrina, ... I don't think Congress is in a mood to trust. We want plans. We want specific goals and procedures we're going to take to prepare for this.

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I have some real grievances on this issue, ... We have pushed for years to get a natural gas pipeline built from Alaska to the lower 48 states. If this administration had four to five years ago begun saying 'we are going to get that pipeline built', we would be a third of the way done. There are huge natural gas reserves up there. However the natural gas industry in Texas and the Gulf Coast don't want that thing built. We have plenty of natural gas up north - we should have pushed to get it down here.

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There is little administration support for renewable energy, ... Little support for sources such as soy-based bio-diesel fuel ... or the construction of new ethanol plants.

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The Bush administration simply is not trustworthy on this issue, and I am beyond skeptical about these so-called revisions.

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Dana Reeve has already faced more than her fair share of adversity, but I know that she will face this latest challenge, as she has the others, with strength, dignity, courage and grace.

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Would anyone advocate that we take the fences off the playground for elementary schools and just let kids run around in the streets ... By the same token, why would we allow schools to sort of poison our kids with junk food

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This independent analysis from the GAO confirms that, without some protections, everyone loses.

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This has created ridiculous situations where companies have sought 5 million and as a condition for approval they have been required to have that much money in the bank, ... If they have that much money in the bank, why would they need the loan

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The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has determined that our bill will cost about an average of 1.19 a month, ... So, for less than the cost of a Big Mac, you're guaranteed that the medical decisions that affect your life and the lives of your family are made by you and your doctor, not by HMO accountants.

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This sends all the wrong signals to the troops, ... Rush Limbaugh has a point of view. I mean, a dedicated, right wing point of view. That's fine. That's fine. But you should balance it on the other side also. Especially when it's being funded by other people's money.

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For the benefit of the United States, for our country, I believe Mr. Rumsfeld has to resign.

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I like and respect each one of them, but for me one candidate rose to the top as our best shot to beat George W. Bush and to give Americans the opportunity to take our country back, ... That person is Governor Howard Dean.

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America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.

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Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system.

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Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system. We wait until people become obese, develop chronic diseases, or become disabled - and then we spend untold hundreds of billions annually to try to make them better.

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Today, only two groups in the United States have total immunity from lawsuits foreign diplomats and HMOs, ... We believe it's time to end diplomatic immunity for HMOs. Holding them accountable is the only way to guarantee that you get the health care your family deserves.

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Parents still lack basic information on the calorie and fat content on the meals that they and their children eat at restaurants.

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If we are serious about combating the childhood obesity epidemic and improving child nutrition, then everyone must chip in -- parents, schools, and yes even Congress.

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She was a citizen in the best sense of the word. She caused things to happen in our society that made us a better, more caring, more just society.

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When we debate the impeachment of the president of the United States, this is something that affects every citizen of this country, and I believe they have a right again to witness that debate and to witness how and why we reach those decisions.

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The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity.

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For the good of our country, the safety of our troops, and our image around the globe, Secretary Rumsfeld should resign, ... If he does not resign forthwith, the president should fire him.

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All you ever needed to know about this election, you learned from driving. If you want to go backward you put it in 'R'. If you want to go forward you put it in 'D'. Let's move this country forward, let's elect Al Gore and Joe Lieberman.

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These votes are going to be counted in Florida. If they're not counted now, they are going to be counted next year under Freedom of Information Act lawsuits, ... If the truth comes out next year that in fact Al Gore did win Florida ... what is that going to do for the esteem and the respect of the Supreme Court of the United States

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