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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· May 22, 2012

I know how to create job. Not just watch jobs being created but actually creating jobs.

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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· May 22, 2012

Over a period of four years, by virtue of the policies that we put in place, we will get the unemployment rate down to 6 percent, or perhaps a little lower.

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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· May 22, 2012

I know what it takes to create jobs. Not just watch jobs being created, but actually creating jobs.

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Bob Casey
@bobcasey· Democratic · PA· May 22, 2012

This is a vitally important issue, and we are spending time on a subject matter that I think we sometimes don't do enough on in Washington.

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Bob Casey
@bobcasey· Democratic · PA· May 22, 2012

What impact has the failure to ratify had on our ability to influence the actions on the Continental Shelf Commission and the international seabed activity?

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Bob Casey
@bobcasey· Democratic · PA· May 22, 2012

We have got to get our act together as a country in our own permitting processes, in our own political will, and ability to produce our own energy.

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Bob Casey
@bobcasey· Democratic · PA· May 22, 2012

If we can't access rare earth materials on the floor of the sea, we are going to be put at a significant competitive disadvantage.

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· May 22, 2012

The last time I checked, the Renminbi is up 31.4 percent against the dollar, so they should go home and declare victory.

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· May 22, 2012

The currency constituency in the U.S. Senate, led initially by Senators Schumer and Graham in 2005, has been very focused on this ever since.

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· May 22, 2012

Bipartisan support for such a measure initially surfaced when Senators Charles Schumer and Lindsey Graham reached across the ideological and party divide to cosponsor the first Chinese currency bill in 2005.

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Amy Klobuchar
@amyklobuchar· Democratic · MN· May 22, 2012

Kids that grow up in violent homes are--something multiple times, I think I have heard the number 76 times more likely to get involved in violence themselves.

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Amy Klobuchar
@amyklobuchar· Democratic · MN· May 22, 2012

I wanted to thank all of you for being here today. We had, I think, a really good discussion.

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Amy Klobuchar
@amyklobuchar· Democratic · MN· May 22, 2012

Training these people to work together, training them in best practices ultimately saves us money.

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Amy Klobuchar
@amyklobuchar· Democratic · MN· May 22, 2012

I read one study that showed that two-thirds of public defenders and one-third of prosecutors admitted questioning children in a manner designed to confuse a child.

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Amy Klobuchar
@amyklobuchar· Democratic · MN· May 22, 2012

Thank you very much for your work you have done with kids for so many years.

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Amy Klobuchar
@amyklobuchar· Democratic · MN· May 22, 2012

I have been in the field for a decade, and I just went through this program, and it is a night-and-day difference of how qualified I am now to do this work.

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Amy Klobuchar
@amyklobuchar· Democratic · MN· May 22, 2012

I have just seen it firsthand in Minnesota and am so proud of the work that Mr. Vieth does.

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