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Alex Mooney
@alexmooney· Republican · WV· Jun 19, 2018

Either you believe in free market or you believe in Government running everything and basically socialism.

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Bob Menendez Jr.
@bobmenendezjr· Democratic · NJ· Jun 19, 2018

What are you doing as Administrator to ensure that the funds appropriated by Congress are moving quickly to the missions in order that we can make lives better, which is what our focus here is?

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Alex Mooney
@alexmooney· Republican · WV· Jun 19, 2018

my mother fled a communist country, Cuba. At least here we have a process where people can have their grievances and their issues brought to Congress

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Sean Duffy
@seanduffy· Republican · WI· Jun 19, 2018

But that is what is happening with socialism. I have to tell you--

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Mike Coffman
@mikecoffman· Republican · CO· Jun 19, 2018

So I think my point is, so if somebody undergoes this regimen of treatment due to surgery or due to some injury that they have sustained, they then--you have a monitoring system for them postelection--postprescription or whatever you want…

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Mike Coffman
@mikecoffman· Republican · CO· Jun 19, 2018

We want to treat these folks. We want to get these folks medication-assisted therapy.

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Mike Coffman
@mikecoffman· Republican · CO· Jun 19, 2018

I want to welcome everyone to the Military Personnel Subcommittee's hearing on 'Military Health System Reform: Pain Management, Opioids Prescription Management and Reporting Transparency.'

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Sean Duffy
@seanduffy· Republican · WI· Jun 19, 2018

Here are the facts. The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, households in the top 20 percent of income earnings will pay 87 percent of the Federal income taxes collected in 2018 compared to 84 percent last year.

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Sean Duffy
@seanduffy· Republican · WI· Jun 19, 2018

If we let you keep a little more of your money, I am stealing from him. I am a thief. That is what they believe.

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Sean Duffy
@seanduffy· Republican · WI· Jun 19, 2018

But as the unions in California are fighting for a $15 minimum wage... it should be right whether you are in the union or not in a union.

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Sean Duffy
@seanduffy· Republican · WI· Jun 19, 2018

This is a simple debate between American style capitalism, also known as free enterprise, and a collectivist socialist model that has been taken over by the Democrat party.

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Sean Duffy
@seanduffy· Republican · WI· Jun 19, 2018

What do you think, Ms. Miles-Olund, when we give you a little tax break and let you keep a little more of your money, what do you do with it?

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Chris Smith
@chrissmith· Republican · NJ· Jun 19, 2018

Well, we speak out--if you would yield for a moment--very aggressively on the Rohingya, which, obviously, are in the crosshairs.

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Chris Smith
@chrissmith· Republican · NJ· Jun 19, 2018

The way it focuses on Israel is an abomination.

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Chris Smith
@chrissmith· Republican · NJ· Jun 19, 2018

I think that that, again, offers more encouragement that this can happen.

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Chris Smith
@chrissmith· Republican · NJ· Jun 19, 2018

I want to thank all of my colleagues. I want to thank our very distinguished witnesses for your extraordinarily incisive and illuminating testimony.

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Chris Smith
@chrissmith· Republican · NJ· Jun 19, 2018

I am shocked and dismayed how the cast of human rights abusers remain dominant at the Human Rights Council.

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