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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Apr 9, 2006

We're not going to be a country that takes millions of families and splits them apart.

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John Walsh
@johnwalsh· Democratic · MT· Apr 6, 2006

There's a bill -- bill before the United States Senate, and it's Senate Bill 1086. It's passed the House of Representatives. It would set up a national child sex offender registry.

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John Walsh
@johnwalsh· Democratic · MT· Apr 6, 2006

Senate Bill 1086, which has passed the House of Representatives twice, stuck in the Senate now, even though Bill Frist has been championing it and trying to get out, it would create up a national sex offender registry.

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John Walsh
@johnwalsh· Democratic · MT· Apr 6, 2006

Write your two U.S. senators, e-mail them, and tell everybody you know, Bill Frist trying to get it out.

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John Walsh
@johnwalsh· Democratic · MT· Apr 6, 2006

It has nothing to do with partisan politics. We should have had a sex offender registry a long time ago.

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John Walsh
@johnwalsh· Democratic · MT· Apr 6, 2006

I think we really, really have to be much more stringent about these background checks.

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Harry Reid
@harryreid· Democratic · NV· Apr 6, 2006

So he, the president of the United States, must tell the American people whether the Bush's -- President Bush's Oval Office is a place where the buck stops or the leaks start.

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Jeff Sessions
@jeffsessions· Republican · AL· Apr 5, 2006

I'm not impressed. That's not -- I'm not going to now line up and say, oh, great, we've got a compromise and this is going to be the law.

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Mike Johanns
@mikejohanns· Republican · AK· Apr 5, 2006

First thing I would say is that to describe this as a massive project is to under-describe how big this is and how significant it is and how much is involved.

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Mary Landrieu
@marylandrieu· Democratic · LA· Apr 4, 2006

Stop wasting money through FEMA. Start rebuilding the Gulf Coast, and give us money to restore our coast and build our levees, and then we can take care of the rest ourself.

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Apr 4, 2006

Money taken from defense appropriations is -- still remains the highest number and still the most outrageous, because it diverts money from our national definition and the men and women who are -- who are serving and fighting and risking…

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Ted Stevens
@tedstevens· Apr 4, 2006

With Senator Ted Stevens' help, that state is pulling in $325 million for pet projects, including the Sea Otter Commission.

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Chuck Hagel
@chuckhagel· Republican · NE· Apr 2, 2006

America's influence is very limited in Iraq. And it becomes more and more limited every day that goes by.

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Chuck Hagel
@chuckhagel· Republican · NE· Apr 2, 2006

Every tactical, every strategic decision, right from the beginning, was a mistake, in my opinion.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Apr 2, 2006

If Rumsfeld were to go, it would be great for the White House. The world would come rallying to our side.

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