“I think we can all unequivocally say in 2026, football is not going anywhere.”
“When giant corporations and Wall Street investors buy up all the fire truck manufacturers, it’s a threat to public safety.”
“I want to stop the spread. They are picking homes like you, and I pick tomatoes in the grocery store.”
“It is imperative that FEMA helps communities quickly respond to wildfires and increase their resilience to future wildfire disasters”
“They are picking houses the way you pick tomatoes at the grocery store.”
“Protecting and defending innocent life is and remains important to our Legislature, governor, attorney general and citizens.”

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On the recordFebruary 11, 2013
If sequestration is triggered . . . much of the work going into the fiscal year 2014 budget will have been an exercise in futility.
Said by
Jeanne Shaheen
Democratic · New Hampshire
Source
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Shaheen discusses the futility of budget planning under the threat of sequestration.

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