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Dan Coats

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Dan Coats is a former United States Senator from Indiana, serving from 2011 to 2017. A member of the Republican Party, Coats previously held the same Senate seat from 2001 to 2005. Before his Senate career, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1981 to 1989. Coats has been involved in various policy areas, including national security and foreign relations, and has been a vocal advocate for a strong defense policy. He also served as the U.S. Ambassador to Germany from 2005 to 2009 under President George W. Bush.

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Jul 22, 2014

Flood insurance is also important to States, noncoastal States like Indiana.

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Jul 15, 2014

I mean, it is clear to me that if this is not done in the correct way, it can be extremely harmful to American producers and American business and American suppliers.

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Jul 15, 2014

Trade enforcement is important. Whether it is anti-dumping orders, intellectual property rights protection, or safety of commercial merchandise, we must be vigilant.

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Jul 15, 2014

as have many Americans, I have watched with increasing concern and increasing frustration the rapidly growing humanitarian crisis on our southern border. More than 60,000 unaccompanied alien children--mostly minors from Guatemala…

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Jul 9, 2014

Like my colleagues, I have watched with increasing frustration the rapidly growing humanitarian crisis on our southwest border.

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Jul 8, 2014

I'm cynical. I'm cynical about it.

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Jul 8, 2014

Opportunities are available to many athletes that otherwise would not have been able to get a college experience.

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Jul 8, 2014

But you can't do that anymore; right?

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Jul 8, 2014

How do we address some of the challenges that we're facing today with the revenues and so forth.

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Jul 8, 2014

I mean, my own view is it's undermining our values.

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Jul 8, 2014

I think it's been very constructive to hear the reforms that you have initiated and those that you hope to initiate.

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Jul 8, 2014

I don't believe that. I don't believe that.

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Jul 7, 2014

the Supreme Court issued a ruling last week that I wish to discuss for a few moments today. This decision marks a very important development in the ongoing debate our country is engaged in on the subject of religious freedom. In a 5-to-4…

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Jun 23, 2014

I just returned a couple of hours ago to Washington from Indiana, and over the last several months, as I have been visiting and talking to Hoosiers, I have continued to hear concerns about--and I am concerned, frankly--this widening trust…

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Jun 17, 2014

But isn't it a little bit late? I mean, the territory has already been lost, the cities have already been taken...

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Jun 17, 2014

The Administration has not been able to stop Vladimir Putin's aggression in Ukraine and the Administration has not been able to stem the progress of the ISIS radicals in Iraq, threatening the existence of the Maliki government.

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Jun 17, 2014

If it's in our national interest, we lost something.

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Jun 17, 2014

Do you think it's too late? I mean, we've already lost the territory.

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Jun 12, 2014

I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There is a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The assistant bill clerk called the roll.

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Jun 11, 2014

last week our Nation commemorated the 70th anniversary of D-day. Leo Scheer of Huntington County, IN, is one of those courageous veterans who survived the outlying assault on the beaches of Normandy, and last month he made the trip to…

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Jun 9, 2014

last week, the Senate confirmed Sylvia Burwell as our new Secretary of Health and Human Services. She is now the administration's main implementer and representative of ObamaCare. She is its new face and will be its primary salesperson to…

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Jun 4, 2014

this last fall Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy embarked upon a national listening tour to gather feedback on possible new energy regulations that could be ordered by the Environmental Protection Agency's…

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Jun 4, 2014

I ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Energy Regulation

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May 15, 2014

citizens of Indiana sent me to Washington to be their voice. As I travel across the State and listen--whether at coffee shops or factories, small businesses, local schools or people on the street--I hear a lot of good advice about what…

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