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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Feb 16, 2005

Last December, the United Nations released a report and found there were nearly 852 million chronically hungry people in the world.

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Feb 16, 2005

the only thing that the President is willing to take off the table is diplomacy.

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Feb 16, 2005

I can't help but think that we would not need that much money if the $8.8 billion of Iraqi money had been accounted for.

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Feb 16, 2005

On January 13, 43 Senators, Republicans and Democrats, wrote a letter to President Bush urging him to seek more funds for food aid.

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Barbara Mikulski
@barbaramikulski· Democratic · MD· Feb 16, 2005

Maybe we need tort reform in our own Government so that--maybe that's where we ought to have tort reform.

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Thad Cochran
@thadcochran· Republican · MS· Feb 16, 2005

I believe the resolution we passed after the 9/11 tragedy gave the President the power to use our forces to go after the al Qaeda wherever they are found.

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Barbara Mikulski
@barbaramikulski· Democratic · MD· Feb 16, 2005

Senator Biden, my colleague, and I are $1.5 billion short every year for our veterans.

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Barbara Mikulski
@barbaramikulski· Democratic · MD· Feb 16, 2005

I don't want their families to end up in poverty. I don't want their families ending up on food stamps.

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Barbara Mikulski
@barbaramikulski· Democratic · MD· Feb 16, 2005

I haven't seen a frozen asset. I haven't even seen an ice cube asset.

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Barbara Mikulski
@barbaramikulski· Democratic · MD· Feb 16, 2005

But you--this is beyond note taking. This is what we're looking at here.

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Barbara Mikulski
@barbaramikulski· Democratic · MD· Feb 16, 2005

I'm outraged at the possibility that my troops, the troops that wear the uniform of the U.S. military, would engage in brutal, savage tactics. I won't put up with it.

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Barbara Mikulski
@barbaramikulski· Democratic · MD· Feb 16, 2005

the women of the Senate are very concerned about the long-range consequences on these children

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Barbara Mikulski
@barbaramikulski· Democratic · MD· Feb 16, 2005

I just find this--that we had to push to get a death benefit raised from $12,000 to $100,000.

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Barbara Mikulski
@barbaramikulski· Democratic · MD· Feb 16, 2005

I remember your testimony that said, 'This war isn't going to cost us anything.'

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