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Bob Goodlatte
@bobgoodlatte· Republican · VA· Feb 29, 2016

The House of Representatives is so constituted as to support in the members and habitual recollection of their dependence on the people.

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Bob Goodlatte
@bobgoodlatte· Republican · VA· Feb 29, 2016

The concentration of executive, legislative, and judicial power in the same hands is the very definition of tyranny.

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Bob Goodlatte
@bobgoodlatte· Republican · VA· Feb 29, 2016

The issue before this Task Force is to determine how best to restore those powers to the United States Congress.

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Bob Goodlatte
@bobgoodlatte· Republican · VA· Feb 29, 2016

The Congress is the body of the three most close to the people because all of us are directly are elected by the people.

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Bob Goodlatte
@bobgoodlatte· Republican · VA· Feb 29, 2016

Both Mr. Sewell and Ms. Landau did not say subject to an authorized court-ordered warrant.

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Bob Goodlatte
@bobgoodlatte· Republican · VA· Feb 29, 2016

If what happens here is that Apple is forced to write a new operating system, to degrade the safety and security in phones belonging to tens or hundreds of millions of innocent people, it will weaken our safety and security, but it will…

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Janice Schakowsky
@janiceschakowsky· Democratic · IL· Feb 29, 2016

Thank you so much for telling me that because I think that would be good evidence for this legislation.

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Janice Schakowsky
@janiceschakowsky· Democratic · IL· Feb 29, 2016

I would hope that those who are interested in figuring out how many ordinary families are trying to figure out how to be able to pay for long-term care that we might look at how the wealthiest among us figure out how to pay lower taxes…

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Feb 29, 2016

Mr. President, this year marks the 90th anniversary of historian and scholar Dr. Carter G. Woodson's launch of Negro History Week--and is the 40th anniversary of the inaugural Black History Month. This year, as Black History Month is…

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Feb 29, 2016

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: S. 2605 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of…

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Feb 29, 2016

I announce that the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and…

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John Kasich
@johnkasich· Republican · OH· Feb 28, 2016

Marco Rubio is trailing in Florida by 17 points. You know what, why aren't they telling him to get out and get behind me. I have a better chance of winning in Ohio than he does in Florida.

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John Kasich
@johnkasich· Republican · OH· Feb 28, 2016

I think it's very hard, Anderson to -- if you can't win your own home state then I don't know why you're in the race.

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John Kasich
@johnkasich· Republican · OH· Feb 28, 2016

I would rather not win than lower the bar. I would rather -- I've never run a campaign like that.

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John Kasich
@johnkasich· Republican · OH· Feb 28, 2016

I'm worried about the GOP when we're not running a campaign based on ideas. I actually believe in politics. You get your energy from ideas. You unite people with ideas.

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Peter King
@peterking· Republican · NY· Feb 28, 2016

The thought that anyone can even listen to a question about David Duke without immediately saying, he's a racist, he's a bigot, I want nothing to do with them.

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