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George Voinovich is a former Republican politician from Ohio who served as the 65th Governor of Ohio from 1991 to 1998. He was also a U.S. Senator from Ohio from 1999 to 2011. Voinovich's tenure as governor was marked by efforts to improve the state's economy and education system. As a senator, he focused on issues such as fiscal responsibility, national security, and environmental protection. Voinovich was known for his moderate stance within the Republican Party and often sought bipartisan solutions to legislative challenges.
The bill is a product of months of hard work by the Committee on Environment and Public Works and the Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure. I thank those Senators and staff members whose efforts have brought us where we are…
The point is, I am not referring to wastewater. I am talking about public water supply which is very important to developing any State. You have people coming in, and you need a public water supply. In order to provide it, you have to go…
As mayor of Cleveland, we had to increase water rates 300 percent in order to do the job we needed to do and we didn't get any money from the Federal Government. I think it is really important to recognize that 20 percent of this total…
I have many areas of my State that need to upgrade their water supply. They would love to have the Federal Government pick up the tab for part of it.
This is an awful position for the United States of America to be in, that we are at the mercy of someone who has been an enemy of ours, whom we went to war against and lost American lives over, and we are negotiating with them. It…
And as I have stated on this floor, I oppose the introduction of ground troops. I reiterate that opposition today. As the members gather, it is my fervent hope that they will give their full devotion to those actions that can be done to…
It is going to take the money, and instead of spending it, at least we are going to get the benefit of reducing the debt which brings down the interest rate. It is a worthy alternative to the current situation.
They have used that money to provide for tax reductions. Can you imagine that, tax reductions?
If the Senator will yield, you know and I know, we have had all that language in there, and they keep doing it. They have used that money to pay for new programs.
If the Senator will yield, one of the things I have learned, and this is my 33rd year in the business, is that you crawl and you walk and you run. You tried with Senator Heinz to come up with something you thought was going to lock it up.
I say to the Senator, in all due respect, that is a whole lot better than doing nothing at this time, when he knows and I know if it is there to be taken--let's just take what the President did. The President said, ``I want to protect…
But the alternative to that, from my perspective, is that the money, the Social Security money, would then be used for spending programs that could be used to pay for the war or to pay for education or pay for a lot of other things.
It is my understanding what we would do with this lockbox money is to use it to pay down the public debt, which would lower the interest costs to our Federal budget every year. But at the same time it would mean that money ultimately would…
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