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Harry Reid
@harryreid· Democratic · NV· Jun 12, 2007

We're going to be able to start this probably two weeks from tomorrow.

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Jun 11, 2007

Quite frankly, this is a bad use of taxpayers' dollars. It's inefficient. It hurts smaller farmers. We could use money to go out to help young farmers get started in agriculture.

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Harry Reid
@harryreid· Democratic · NV· Jun 11, 2007

Eighty percent of the Democrats support this immigration bill. We've done our job. I don't have to twist an arm, I don't have to pull anybody into a room to get them to try to agree to something. We've done our job -- 80 percent of the…

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Harry Reid
@harryreid· Democratic · NV· Jun 11, 2007

What this all boils down to is, the Republicans do not support their own president's bill.

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Jeff Sessions
@jeffsessions· Republican · AL· Jun 11, 2007

I think the president is wrong to push this piece of legislation so hard, after we have demonstrated the flaws that are in it. He needs to back off.

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Saxby Chambliss
@saxbychambliss· Republican · GA· Jun 11, 2007

We design every farm bill in a way where we try to ensure that the men and women who drive the tractors, who get dirt under their fingernails are the beneficiaries of the payments that do come from Washington. Unfortunately, in spite of…

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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· Jun 11, 2007

They know that I've got conservative credentials, and that's one of the things that brings me to this race.

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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· Jun 11, 2007

We have a party of the future and we have to stop worrying about the problems and thinking we can't deal with those. We have to focus on the future.

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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· Jun 11, 2007

I believe in the people of America. Free American people are the source of this land's great strength.

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Harry Reid
@harryreid· Democratic · NV· Jun 10, 2007

And the one fact I've learned I can't get out of my mind is that Rudy Giuliani has been married more times than Mitt Romney has been hunting.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Jun 10, 2007

And when we get distracted by those kinds of question, I think we do a disservice to the American people.

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Hillary Clinton
@hillaryclinton· Democratic · NY· Jun 10, 2007

The differences among us are minor. The differences between us and the Republicans are major.

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Jun 10, 2007

And Americans have made great sacrifices, some of which were unnecessary because of this management of the war -- mismanagement of this conflict.

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Jun 7, 2007

We still have broken borders, and we still have this problem of not finding out who those -- these people are.

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Jun 6, 2007

How many votes will John McCain lose for touting that immigration plan so unpopular in his party?

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