“That is now a matter for FIFA.”
“Why is it outrageous as a Democrat to call Platner the piece of shit that he’s always been? I mean, like this isn’t radical ideas here.”
“Because what we’re not going to do is we’re never going to allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon because we know they will use it.”
“You know, I made the math possible for a majority in ’26. The people that pushed that garbage now just made that now more unlikely.”
“Eliminate the penny, plug the nickel, and make some commemorative gold coins nobody can afford.”

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On the recordSeptember 22, 2003
We do not need another foreign aid budget, and we do not need another foreign relations department.
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Robert C. Byrd
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Byrd opposes the creation of a separate foreign aid budget for the Secretary of Defense.

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