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Jeff Sessions
@jeffsessions· Republican · AL· Jun 11, 2012

I think Florida has every right, in fact a duty, to try to maintain clear rolls that have integrity to them.

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Jeff Sessions
@jeffsessions· Republican · AL· Jun 11, 2012

I think you can abuse the independent counsel statute.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jun 11, 2012

I think he did an excellent job, a worthy job for a man of his character.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jun 11, 2012

What was the evidence of voter fraud in Florida and Ohio that led the State legislature to limit the early voting period, to restrict voter registration, to put other requirements in the law to restrict the opportunity to vote? And without…

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jun 11, 2012

I am troubled by it, because these U.S. Attorneys have all been approved by this panel.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jun 11, 2012

Elections. Make sure you make it clear to them that if they are going to be a true democracy, they literally have to have clean and fair elections, giving the opposition an opportunity, making certain that people who are eligible can vote.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jun 11, 2012

I do take exception to your statement about this administration compromising national security more than any administration. I really think that was over the line.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jun 11, 2012

If we are going to preach to the world the requirements of democracy and then not practice them at home, we are going to flunk our own human rights scorecard at the Department of State.

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Mike Lee
@mikelee· Republican · UT· Jun 11, 2012

The President's signature legislative achievement, the Affordable Care Act, contains an individual mandate that many consider constitutionally problematic.

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Mike Lee
@mikelee· Republican · UT· Jun 11, 2012

Then you had the President taking military action in Libya without a declaration of war, without any kind of congressional authorization.

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Mike Lee
@mikelee· Republican · UT· Jun 11, 2012

the President commented not too long ago that he believed that it would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress.

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Mike Lee
@mikelee· Republican · UT· Jun 11, 2012

I, like many of my constituents, have some concerns with regard to how this President and his administration have viewed certain constitutional restrictions.

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Mike Lee
@mikelee· Republican · UT· Jun 11, 2012

the President may decide when the President deems the Senate to be in recess, regardless of what the Senate's own rules say.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Jun 11, 2012

I just think that is absolutely wrong, and I will pursue the question again in questions for the record.

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Orrin Hatch
@orrinhatch· Republican · UT· Jun 11, 2012

I think it is a pipe dream of some outsiders who think that, in this complex economy, that any business organization, let alone the U.S. Congress, can follow that philosophy.

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