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Kelly Ayotte

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Kelly Ayotte is a former United States Senator from New Hampshire, serving from January 5, 2011, to January 3, 2017. A member of the Republican Party, she was the first woman to represent New Hampshire in the Senate. During her tenure, Ayotte focused on issues such as national security, fiscal responsibility, and education reform. She was known for her bipartisan approach and worked on various initiatives to strengthen the military and improve veterans' services.

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Nov 19, 2013

If we were to lose, for example, valuable intelligence, if we were to get Zawahiri tomorrow, or if we had captured Osama bin Laden instead of killing him, and were able to interrogate him, that is a value that cannot be placed on that in…

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Nov 19, 2013

I ask Senator Chambliss, if we eliminate Guantanamo--in other words, under this proposal they would be permitted to transfer people to the United States of America or that new captures be brought to the United States of America instead of…

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Nov 19, 2013

Do you think the Consumer Protection Act is a good vehicle at the state level?

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Nov 19, 2013

I'm glad you raised that point. I know my time is up, but you're absolutely right...

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Nov 19, 2013

This issue came to my attention as well. In fact, New Hampshire made the decision, while I was Attorney General, to cap the interest rates at 36 percent because there were examples of payday-type loans where people were paying as high as…

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Nov 14, 2013

I came to the floor yesterday to share many stories I am receiving from my constituents about them receiving cancellations of policies they wanted to keep and higher premiums under this law. Each story is very sad, and I feel badly for the…

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Nov 13, 2013

I worry about the Zawahiri situation, because right now, the Administration has chosen not to use Guantanamo.

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Nov 13, 2013

I hope that--Director Comey, you are new to this position--that we can work on a policy for detention and interrogation.

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Nov 13, 2013

If there are individuals that need to be captured, why we would not capture them then, as well.

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Nov 12, 2013

I think it helps everyone. It helps us in terms of the issues.

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Nov 6, 2013

I rise to talk about the impact ObamaCare is having on the people of my State, the State of New Hampshire. It has been over 1 month since the health care exchanges opened, and in that short time we have already seen so many problems with…

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Nov 6, 2013

First of all, I want to thank my colleagues, and I will start by thanking my colleague, the senior Senator from Maine, Senator Susan Collins, for the important work she has been doing on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. I also want…

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Oct 30, 2013

So we are actually entering contracts where we do not have them required to train on screening and----

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Oct 30, 2013

We should be reviewing these contracts to make sure that we are properly prioritizing what type of agreement we are brokering in terms of the requirements for background and training, shouldn't we?

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Oct 30, 2013

We need to take a commonsense approach to this.

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Oct 30, 2013

I think obviously that is something we need to work through so we are not in this situation in the future.

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Oct 30, 2013

Our bill is fairly straightforward in that there would be two random audits conducted.

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Oct 30, 2013

I have a real problem that Justice would not have gone to the court and taken actions, having been a prosecutor myself, to try to unseal it.

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Oct 30, 2013

I find it actually incredibly shocking that we would not pursue a police report in any of these arrest situations.

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Oct 30, 2013

I would be shocked, having worked with so many police officers, that they would not be willing to have an understanding with the Federal Government on this given what is at stake for the country.

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Oct 30, 2013

So there is basically no accountability.

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Oct 28, 2013

Part of that is--as Senator Ayotte mentioned, an access issue for certain rural areas.

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Oct 28, 2013

It's really an honor to have Senator Sununu, given everything that he did for our state.

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Oct 28, 2013

A goal is the bedrock of a 'performance-based' regulatory framework.

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