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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Sep 25, 2006

The bill would cover methods such as water boarding, extreme hypothermia and sleep deprivation.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 25, 2006

The president has argued, and I suppose his followers argue, that we're going to fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here. Well, our intelligence agencies say that, in the course of fighting them over there, their…

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 25, 2006

This National Intelligence Estimate that administration has had for so long doesn't square with the message that's been given to us by the president and Vice President Cheney over the last several weeks.

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Sep 24, 2006

This is an argument for prevailing in Iraq and succeeding in Iraq so that they won't be further encouraged.

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Pat Roberts
@patroberts· Republican · KS· Sep 24, 2006

Roberts says he saw the NIE back at the -- in the spring. And he says, if you read the whole report, he says it does buttress the administration's argument that there are a lot of successes on the war on terror.

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Hillary Clinton
@hillaryclinton· Democratic · NY· Sep 24, 2006

We know this is not working and we know that it is creating, you know, very difficult problems for us down the road.

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Hillary Clinton
@hillaryclinton· Democratic · NY· Sep 24, 2006

We know this is not working, and we know that it's creating, you know, very difficult problems for us down the road.

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Ken Salazar
@kensalazar· Democratic · CO· Sep 19, 2006

It is a cop-out and it is a political gimmick that is being played on the people of the United States of America.

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Jeff Sessions
@jeffsessions· Republican · AL· Sep 19, 2006

It will establish operational control of the border. Now, most people think we ought to have that now, but we haven't. We do not have operational control of the border.

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George Voinovich
@georgevoinovich· Republican · OH· Sep 18, 2006

I think he's a Hitler type of person. He has made it clear that he wants to destroy Israel.

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Richard Shelby
@richardshelby· Republican · AL· Sep 14, 2006

I believe Senator Dole said something to the effect that over half of the service people are under 25 years of age.

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Richard Shelby
@richardshelby· Republican · AL· Sep 14, 2006

I just believe that we should, working with you and the Administration, do everything we can to protect the young soldiers because they are highly vulnerable, are they not?

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Richard Shelby
@richardshelby· Republican · AL· Sep 14, 2006

Can you explain why this mechanism is not being used more frequently to ban specific predatory lenders from accessing military personnel?

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Richard Shelby
@richardshelby· Republican · AL· Sep 14, 2006

So yes, sir. We would appreciate the kinds of steps that Congress is considering to put temptation aside.

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