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Tim Griffin
@timgriffin· AR· Sep 10, 2012

Let's find out the facts. Let's not stonewall this issue and cover up mistakes as appears to be happening today.

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Tim Griffin
@timgriffin· AR· Sep 10, 2012

What is clear is that this administration, including the President himself, has intentionally misinformed, read that 'lied,' to the American people in the aftermath of this tragedy.

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Xavier Becerra
@xavierbecerra· Democratic · CA· Sep 10, 2012

We should try to go backward because the reality is it is not just about trying to help 33 million Americans.

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Xavier Becerra
@xavierbecerra· Democratic · CA· Sep 10, 2012

I appreciate where you point out where IRS can do better and where it is doing the best it can.

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Sep 10, 2012

So as you work through the 2014 budget, you have already looked at the impact of the caps with the caps in place?

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Sep 10, 2012

But you do know that under the BCA [Budget Control Act], there are going to be caps, and the caps are not--well, they don't look like you are going to be able to recoup any of this.

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Xavier Becerra
@xavierbecerra· Democratic · CA· Jul 31, 2012

I don't think there is any doubt that, at least in this House--and I got to believe our colleagues in the Senate would agree--that it really is time, as Mr. Bertoni said, for CMS to catch up and remove the number from the card.

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Todd Rokita
@toddrokita· IN· Jul 24, 2012

The Secret Ballot Protection Act will end the assault on the secret ballot once and for all.

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Tim Griffin
@timgriffin· AR· Jul 23, 2012

When you have got small town mayors asking, begging for Federal money to build something completely unrelated to anything in the Federal Government, it is because we have taken so much of their money in the first place, and we have created…

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Tim Griffin
@timgriffin· AR· Jul 23, 2012

I support it because of fairness. I support it because of the current unfairness, the way that brick and mortar are treated versus Internet businesses.

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Keith Ellison
@keithellison· MN· Jul 19, 2012

I don't support blanket assertions that we need fewer cops on the beat in the financial market.

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Keith Ellison
@keithellison· MN· Jul 18, 2012

Yes. On the training material issue, they had a whole host of materials that were simply inaccurate and, in many cases, biased.

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Keith Ellison
@keithellison· MN· Jul 18, 2012

Yes, but it's also about making -- it is also -- I think it is those things, but it's also about marginalizing and alienating a certain group of Americans who she does not view all American enough.

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Keith Ellison
@keithellison· MN· Jul 16, 2012

It's about some people in our country thinking that if you're not in the, quote/unquote, 'mainstream,' then you have no place.

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Keith Ellison
@keithellison· MN· Jul 16, 2012

If she really believes this, why is she broadcasting it? She should go to the responsible authorities to investigate it.

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Keith Ellison
@keithellison· MN· Jul 16, 2012

Good people were afraid to question Joe McCarthy because they thought he would be their target. But this is an occasion where good people got to stand up and say we've seen this before. We're not going to let it happen again.

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Keith Ellison
@keithellison· MN· Jul 16, 2012

I think it just is the worst of guilt by association. It is -- it is a stark affront to American values about treating people for what they did and how they behave themselves.

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Keith Ellison
@keithellison· MN· Jul 16, 2012

No, it's 16 pages worth of nothing. It's 16 pages worth of repeated false allegations. Just regurgitated nonsense.

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Keith Ellison
@keithellison· MN· Jul 16, 2012

I'm standing up for America's freedom of thought in America today and that, you know, just simply being a member of a particular religious group does not make you radioactive.

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Todd Rokita
@toddrokita· IN· Jul 10, 2012

Personal health care decisions should be made between individuals and their doctors. ObamaCare passed more than 2 years ago. In the infamous words of the House leadership on the other side of the aisle at that time, we have now had a…

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Xavier Becerra
@xavierbecerra· Democratic · CA· Jul 9, 2012

I can't find any reason why I should be asked to pay for your health care when you can afford it.

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Xavier Becerra
@xavierbecerra· Democratic · CA· Jun 26, 2012

The gap between what the Social Security Administration needs to serve the American public and the resources actually appropriated by Congress was the biggest, the gap was the biggest it had been in 20 years.

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Jun 26, 2012

So does that mean that every time that there is a release from our reserves that we are going to see a blanket waiver?

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