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David Roe
@davidroe· Republican · VT· Mar 14, 2016

Finally, I think we are getting a consensus that early intervention and prevention is better than hospitalization and jails.

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David Roe
@davidroe· Republican · VT· Mar 14, 2016

All that money spent on the criminal justice system could have been spent on research-based and evidence-based approaches that would actually reduce the amount of opioids being consumed.

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David Roe
@davidroe· Republican · VT· Mar 14, 2016

If something in your service caused you a disability, we need to compensate that disability. It is that simple.

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David Roe
@davidroe· Republican · VT· Mar 14, 2016

Here is where Mr. Weidman is absolutely correct. Here's a blast. That is definitive.

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David Roe
@davidroe· Republican · VT· Mar 14, 2016

I think you just extend the date, at least five years, or maybe indefinitely to study this issue.

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David Roe
@davidroe· Republican · VT· Mar 14, 2016

I appreciate you putting that on hold for two years.

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Bill Keating
@billkeating· Democratic · MA· Mar 14, 2016

I think it is our view that this kind of engagement is critically important to building capacities that are needed.

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Bill Keating
@billkeating· Democratic · MA· Mar 14, 2016

I think that indeed putting money into that, those resources, will put the fires out before they occur.

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Bill Keating
@billkeating· Democratic · MA· Mar 14, 2016

investing in those issues will really be serving the taxpayers well and preventing things from occurring in the future

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Bob Goodlatte
@bobgoodlatte· Republican · VA· Mar 14, 2016

One letter alone suspended the application of eight key provisions of ObamaCare.

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Bob Goodlatte
@bobgoodlatte· Republican · VA· Mar 14, 2016

These are not just academic questions. They are fundamental questions that go to the heart of how our government works.

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Bob Goodlatte
@bobgoodlatte· Republican · VA· Mar 14, 2016

If you're not sure what that limit is, you shouldn't come to us, the United States Supreme Court, you should go to the United States Congress.

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Bob Goodlatte
@bobgoodlatte· Republican · VA· Mar 14, 2016

One must ask--is Chevron faithful to Marbury and the separation of powers?

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Bob Goodlatte
@bobgoodlatte· Republican · VA· Mar 14, 2016

What limiting principle could stop the President from granting, for example, capital gains tax amnesty?

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Bob Goodlatte
@bobgoodlatte· Republican · VA· Mar 14, 2016

To delay the terrible consequences of ObamaCare until after the next election.

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Bob Goodlatte
@bobgoodlatte· Republican · VA· Mar 14, 2016

The topic today includes recent case studies of the abuse of executive power, and I'll focus my remarks on the President's recent actions regarding the implementation of his own ObamaCare law.

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Bob Goodlatte
@bobgoodlatte· Republican · VA· Mar 14, 2016

The mere fact that past Presidents have done stuff and Congress didn't object does not make it constitutional, right?

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Bob Goodlatte
@bobgoodlatte· Republican · VA· Mar 14, 2016

Yet the current Administration has unilaterally sought to rewrite the law, not by working with the people's duly elected representatives.

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