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Chuck Grassley
@chuckgrassley· Republican · IA· Mar 16, 2016

It's intellectually dishonest since the Republican Party line all along has been to let the people decide in the upcoming election.

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Chuck Grassley
@chuckgrassley· Republican · IA· Mar 16, 2016

It would be a mistake to consider Garland during the lame duck session after the elections.

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Tom Vilsack
@tomvilsack· Democratic · IA· Mar 16, 2016

We are now stymied by an embargo that has certainly outlived its purpose.

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Chuck Grassley
@chuckgrassley· Republican · IA· Mar 14, 2016

Creators seeking to register their works cannot do so without a functioning Copyright Office system.

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Joni Ernst
@joniernst· Republican · IA· Mar 14, 2016

The priority should be to ensure that people who enter our country illegally and kill American citizens are deported and never allowed to return.

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Joni Ernst
@joniernst· Republican · IA· Mar 14, 2016

If it is the case that ICE refrained from lodging a detainer on Mejia because his arrest for felony vehicular homicide 'did not meet ICE's enforcement priorities,' would you agree with me that ICE needs to take another look at its…

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Steve King
@steveking· Republican · IA· Mar 14, 2016

Because the President takes these actions, it relieves the Congress of actually engaging in this process, and this is actually very deleterious to the rule of law.

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Steve King
@steveking· Republican · IA· Mar 14, 2016

It just seems to be, and it causes me to think about this, if the Supreme Court's involved in deep policy effect deliberations and then configuring decisions so it brings about their preferred policy result, I wonder if this Congress could…

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Steve King
@steveking· Republican · IA· Mar 14, 2016

Well, am I just imagining a happier world that a Supreme Court would have looked at the plain language in the Affordable Care Act and realized it was missing three words-- 'or Federal Government'--and wrote a decision that it doesn't…

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Steve King
@steveking· Republican · IA· Mar 14, 2016

I took the President's actions to mean him saying: I am the executive and the legislative branch of government.

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Tom Vilsack
@tomvilsack· Democratic · IA· Mar 8, 2016

That is one of the reasons why we need to get rid of the embargo.

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Tom Vilsack
@tomvilsack· Democratic · IA· Mar 8, 2016

I appreciate the comment, Senator, and I will take that back to the team.

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Tom Vilsack
@tomvilsack· Democratic · IA· Mar 8, 2016

I am here to say unequivocally they are safe to consumers.

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Tom Vilsack
@tomvilsack· Democratic · IA· Mar 8, 2016

The embargo statute basically prohibits the Department of Agriculture from using any of its market assistance programming money, so we cannot directly help promote, as we do in other countries.

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Tom Vilsack
@tomvilsack· Democratic · IA· Mar 8, 2016

I am confident, because I think we have addressed both short-term and long-term, traditional and nontraditional, challenges that agriculture is going to face.

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Tom Vilsack
@tomvilsack· Democratic · IA· Mar 8, 2016

Help us fix the fire budget, and that situation in rural Oregon will change.

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Tom Vilsack
@tomvilsack· Democratic · IA· Mar 8, 2016

I had to give out seven American flags to family members who lost loved ones in forest fires.

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