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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Mar 7, 2016

Do you believe vigorous action should be taken in response to the metastasizing of ISIL?

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Mar 7, 2016

Do you agree with General Breedlove that President Vladimir Putin is 'deliberately weaponizing migration in an attempt to overwhelm European structures and break European resolve.'

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Mar 7, 2016

I think it was important that we have a capability.

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Mar 7, 2016

You have not complied with the laws, the total number of F-35's.

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Mar 7, 2016

Why would you not ever want to tell the American people how you are going to spend their dollars?

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Mar 7, 2016

Frankly, I have never heard of this before, that they should not know how much of their dollars that they pay in taxes are being spent because somebody might connect the dots?

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Mar 7, 2016

You are not serving the Nation or the taxpayers if they do not know how much of their taxpayer dollars are being spent.

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Mar 7, 2016

Why should the taxpayers not know? Why should the average citizen not know what the cost of a--whatever--how many tens of billions of dollars--$80 billion to $100 billion program?

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Mar 7, 2016

I believe that the 2016 NDAA required a reporting on the total number of F-35's that will be procured.

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Rob Portman
@robportman· Republican · OH· Mar 7, 2016

We will lose probably 25 people in Ohio, this week, and 100 people in America, today, to overdoses.

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Rob Portman
@robportman· Republican · OH· Mar 7, 2016

The number that you hear commonly is that 9 out of 10 of these packages of heroin, which are killing our constituents and the people we represent, are getting through.

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Rob Portman
@robportman· Republican · OH· Mar 7, 2016

This porous border with Mexico provides cartels reliable means to infiltrate this country--to smuggle and traffic drugs and people in the United States.

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Johnny Isakson
@johnnyisakson· Republican · GA· Mar 7, 2016

I want to underscore your comments and those of the ranking member on the need for us to reauthorize the State Department again.

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Johnny Isakson
@johnnyisakson· Republican · GA· Mar 7, 2016

We always brag about them, but we never have a chance to point one out because they are always somewhere overseas.

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Johnny Isakson
@johnnyisakson· Republican · GA· Mar 7, 2016

The chairman and I went to Darfur 5 years ago, if I am not mistaken.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Mar 6, 2016

Nobody in this campaign has talked about poverty whether it's in the white community, the black community, or Latino community, more than I have.

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