“anti-Semitic incidents in the country are up 70%.”
“We are making sure that working people will not be priced out of the game that they helped to create.”
“It extends to making it possible for every New Yorker to take part in the things that make us human.”
“I've got religious leaders constantly calling me and saying, 'I'm scared. My parishioners are scared.'”

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On the recordOctober 9, 2013
Madam President, I ask my colleague from Alabama, if he has a moment or two more, after I read an official consent request, if he might stay for a moment and answer a question about how that budget conference committee works?
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon
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