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Ron Johnson
@ronjohnson· Republican · WI· Apr 13, 2011

Did the EPA just admit that their estimates for mercury were 1,000 times overstated? And is that the basis of your net analysis?

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Ron Johnson
@ronjohnson· Republican · WI· Apr 13, 2011

One thing that amazes me is, as I traveled around Wisconsin, not only was this out-of-control spending a primary issue because people understood the fact that we are bankrupting this country, that threat created a high level of uncertainty…

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Ron Johnson
@ronjohnson· Republican · WI· Apr 13, 2011

We want you to be restrained. We want Congress to have a say in this.

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Ron Johnson
@ronjohnson· Republican · WI· Apr 13, 2011

We have gone way overboard in allowing the President and the Executive Branch to have way too much power.

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Ron Johnson
@ronjohnson· Republican · WI· Apr 13, 2011

We are spending over $1.5 trillion this year that we do not have, and certainly in business, if you want to control a department, you stop feeding the best.

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Ron Johnson
@ronjohnson· Republican · WI· Apr 13, 2011

Can you address the EPA regulation on coal-fired generation plans? Because that is going to be huge.

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Ron Johnson
@ronjohnson· Republican · WI· Apr 13, 2011

To pick up on Senator Paul's comment that this is a bipartisan problem, I realize this is not a perfect surrogate for the size of the Federal bureaucracy, but at the end of President Franklin Roosevelt's terms, we had 86,000 pages in the…

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Ron Johnson
@ronjohnson· Republican · WI· Apr 12, 2011

Mr. President, it is my honor to represent the good people of Wisconsin in the Senate. It is an awesome responsibility--a responsibility I take very seriously. Today it is my distinct privilege to address this historic body for the first…

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Ron Johnson
@ronjohnson· Republican · WI· Apr 12, 2011

I am extraordinarily concerned about inadequate funding request for ongoing congressionally authorized rural water projects.

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Herb Kohl
@herbkohl· Democratic · WI· Apr 12, 2011

this system simply isn't working. It is inadequate. It is broken, needs to be fixed.

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Herb Kohl
@herbkohl· Democratic · WI· Apr 12, 2011

We need to do all we can to make sure that these new medical products are getting to the market quickly as well as safely.

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Herb Kohl
@herbkohl· Democratic · WI· Apr 12, 2011

However, the drive toward getting new technologies to market should not be done at the risk of patient safety.

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Ron Johnson
@ronjohnson· Republican · WI· Apr 11, 2011

When you have 20 different agencies involved, again, you are spanning--can you just name the top five or six agencies that really have accomplished objectives here or actually have some sort of focused effort?

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Ron Johnson
@ronjohnson· Republican · WI· Apr 11, 2011

I mean, if they have not even in 7 years defined what it is they are going to teach--or am I misinterpreting that?

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Ron Johnson
@ronjohnson· Republican · WI· Apr 11, 2011

So again, these are academic studies, not really commissioned by the GAO, but you are just searching the academic literature in terms of people conducting studies on financial literacy.

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