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Ted Cruz
@tedcruz· Republican · TX· Sep 16, 2014

The Internet has grown and flourished in ways we never could have imagined from back in the days when Al Gore invented the Internet.

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Ted Cruz
@tedcruz· Republican · TX· Sep 16, 2014

Net neutrality may sound like fairness, but it is actually the opposite.

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Ted Cruz
@tedcruz· Republican · TX· Sep 16, 2014

I hope that these people, the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department, will be paying close attention to this market as well.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 16, 2014

Yesterday we had a vote on a labor issue. This was a vote as to whether men and women in the workplace working the same jobs get the same pay. Most people would say: Well, isn't that the law already? Yes. Unfortunately, the law as written…

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 16, 2014

Mr. President, I have great respect for the Senator from Tennessee, having worked together on many issues, as politicians often throw those words around. He is a good person, a good Senator. I enjoy working with him. I do have to take…

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 16, 2014

I spent much of my time over the August recess visiting college campuses and talking to current students and graduates about their student debt. I visited Northern Illinois University in De Kalb, Judson University in Elgin, and Lincoln…

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Jack Reed
@jackreed· Democratic · RI· Sep 15, 2014

Mr. President, I am pleased to introduce the Strengthening Research in Adult Education Act. The recently enacted Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act recognized that the adult education field has evolved from a literacy skills program…

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Jack Reed
@jackreed· Democratic · RI· Sep 15, 2014

Again, in the spirit of our response to the crisis in 2007 and 2008, we are looking at systemic issues.

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Jack Reed
@jackreed· Democratic · RI· Sep 15, 2014

I recently wrote to Chairwoman Yellen to urge that she consider getting this money out to funds in the States, in our case, the hardest-hit fund in Rhode Island that has had demonstrable success in preventing foreclosure and helping…

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Jack Reed
@jackreed· Democratic · RI· Sep 15, 2014

You have both the opportunity and obligation to get that money out as quickly as possible to the States.

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Jack Reed
@jackreed· Democratic · RI· Sep 15, 2014

One of the presumptions would be, because we are using air power, that there is sufficient capacity in the Iraqi forces to coordinate that air power on the ground?

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Jack Reed
@jackreed· Democratic · RI· Sep 15, 2014

I would hope that he would do so because to send people back to this, literally, danger would be I think inappropriate.

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Jack Reed
@jackreed· Democratic · RI· Sep 15, 2014

I presume one of the areas you are really looking at is these capable Iraqis who can communicate and coordinate on the ground, their special forces particularly.

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Jack Reed
@jackreed· Democratic · RI· Sep 15, 2014

Mr. Speaker, I thank the chairman for yielding time for me to address you this evening. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support of this Revitalize American Manufacturing and Innovation Act that we have authored and submitted for…

Congressional Record · 2014-09-15