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Ted Deutch
@teddeutch· Democratic · FL· Jun 18, 2014

Astounding. Thankfully, Secretary Kerry, when he heard that, did reverse course at the State Department.

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Bobby Rush
@bobbyrush· Democratic · IL· Jun 18, 2014

I want to commend Ms. McCabe, I want to commend the EPA, I want to commend all your colleagues for the way you have approached this proposal.

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Bobby Rush
@bobbyrush· Democratic · IL· Jun 18, 2014

This rule would allow EPA to use its existing authority under the Clean Air Act to control carbon pollution from existing fossil fuel-fired power plants.

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Ted Deutch
@teddeutch· Democratic · FL· Jun 18, 2014

I would urge them to tell the Iranians that if they want to send a signal of good faith as to why we should hold out any hope of trust for them, this is how they can do it, help us bring Bob Levinson and the two other detained Americans…

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Ted Deutch
@teddeutch· Democratic · FL· Jun 18, 2014

It may be somewhere on the periphery, but far off the periphery it would seem to me.

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Ted Deutch
@teddeutch· Democratic · FL· Jun 18, 2014

How do you trust a totalitarian regime on fissile material, on enrichment issues, whether or not they have a bomb or plan on making bombs--it is plural, not singular--when they so maltreat and torture and murder their own people as well as…

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Ted Deutch
@teddeutch· Democratic · FL· Jun 18, 2014

It is almost overwhelming. It is--the breadth of abuses in Iran is almost too difficult for us to get our arms around.

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Ted Deutch
@teddeutch· Democratic · FL· Jun 18, 2014

to think about what it would be like to be persecuted, to be subject to death, frankly, because of your sexual orientation;

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Ted Deutch
@teddeutch· Democratic · FL· Jun 18, 2014

I ask my colleagues to support this bipartisan resolution to help bring Bob Levinson back to his family.

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Ted Deutch
@teddeutch· Democratic · FL· Jun 18, 2014

I urge my colleagues to support this measure.

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Ted Deutch
@teddeutch· Democratic · FL· Jun 18, 2014

We demand his immediate unconditional return. There should be no kowtowing, no equivocation.

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Ted Deutch
@teddeutch· Democratic · FL· Jun 18, 2014

Now we are sitting across the table from Iran. We have the opportunity to raise Bob's case, to press Bob's case in every single meeting.

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Ted Deutch
@teddeutch· Democratic · FL· Jun 18, 2014

The administration can no longer ignore the plight of those suffering in Iran and it must act now.

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Ted Deutch
@teddeutch· Democratic · FL· Jun 18, 2014

I want to thank you for co-introducing with me and for your continued tireless support of House Resolution 435, urging the Government of Iran to fulfill its promise to assist in the disappearance of my constituent, Robert Levinson.

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Susan Davis
@susandavis· Democratic · CA· Jun 18, 2014

Mr. Speaker, there has never been any question that Tony Gwynn was a great hitter, but probably the second most talked about aspect of Tony Gwynn was his laugh. On Monday, we lost a great leader both on and off the field. Tony Gwynn passed…

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Jerry McNerney
@jerrymcnerney· Democratic · CA· Jun 18, 2014

I don't see how that would be viewed, any of those, as too intrusive.

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