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Mike Collins: I agree. I think one of the things that we look at is we have literally thousands upon thousands of workers in our…

On the recordJuly 17, 2013
I agree. I think one of the things that we look at is we have literally thousands upon thousands of workers in our Federal Governments and our State Governments who are good people doing an honest day's work who want to make a difference, and they believe that it is their calling to do that. I think, unfortunately, it is those individuals sometimes that won't believe what I and you believe in stewardship and interacting with the Congress and interacting with the agency and interacting with locals that really has cast aspersion on a large net of workers who are trying to do it right, who do get in there and go to work every day and do good work for the government that they work for. I just believe that it goes back to stewardship. I am just raised on that stewardship issue. I'm going to talk a little bit more about it later. But I think if you have a job, that is something you need to look at. I appreciate so much what you meant to this body in 42 days and look forward to us working together as we share some more tonight. I thank you for that. The principles that I want to talk about here for just a little while tonight are what I call ``commonsense conservative values.'' They are things like individual freedom, fiscal responsibility, and a constitutionally limited government. When I came to Washington and I began to look, I took these as my core values, if you will.…
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Mike Collins
Republican · Georgia
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Jul 17, 2013

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