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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Sep 21, 2016

This is not the first time we've had one of these agreements. In fact, it's beginning to fit the definition of insanity, of doing the same thing over and over again.

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Sep 21, 2016

the longer a continuing resolution lasts, the more damaging it is.

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Sep 21, 2016

America's adversaries neither respect nor fear us. America's friends are increasingly hedging their bets.

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Sep 21, 2016

Our adversaries will not do what we ask of them out of the goodness of their hearts or of--out of concern for our interests or the suffering of others. They must be compelled, and that requires power.

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Sep 21, 2016

I do not believe it would be a good idea to share intelligence with the Russians.

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Sep 21, 2016

In your professional military opinion, is it a good idea to set up an intelligence-sharing operation with the Russians?

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Sep 21, 2016

In Syria, with 400,000 people killed, 6 million refugees, is our strategy in Syria working--succeeding?

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Sep 21, 2016

We were shocked to--or at least surprised to learn that none of the Service Chiefs have had a conversation with the President of the United States.

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Ed Perlmutter
@edperlmutter· Democratic · CO· Sep 21, 2016

we certainly aren't there, and since the chairman is here, he knows this subject, it is marijuana and banking.

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Ed Perlmutter
@edperlmutter· Democratic · CO· Sep 21, 2016

I just want to thank you for your part in doing that, because it is been a long, long road.

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Barney Frank
@barneyfrank· Democratic · MA· Sep 21, 2016

Barney Frank, the author of the Dodd-Frank bill, in this committee, sitting in that chair, who has testified in this committee that he told us that the $50 billion threshold is arbitrary and that we should look at alternative methods for…

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Peter King
@peterking· Republican · NY· Sep 21, 2016

We are ignoring movements like the Muslim Reform Movement.

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Peter King
@peterking· Republican · NY· Sep 21, 2016

It is a suspension of disbelief and a cognitive dissonance for Homeland Security to list for you Muslim partners and then say Islam, well, it has no problem.

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Peter King
@peterking· Republican · NY· Sep 21, 2016

That is what happens when you work with the Saudis and the Muslim groups that Secretary Johnson went and spoke to.

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Peter King
@peterking· Republican · NY· Sep 21, 2016

The reason our homeland security is failing is because the pool that they are swimming in, they can't look at the Omar Mateens of the world.

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Jeb Hensarling
@jebhensarling· Republican · TX· Sep 21, 2016

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and insert extraneous materials on the bill (H.R. 5461) to require the Secretary of the Treasury to submit a…

Congressional Record · 2016-09-21