07/27/2009
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"What Senator Murkowski and I have dedicated our service in this committee to be all about is sort of ratcheting this kind of stuff down."
"Puerto Rico faces huge economic and social challenges. Per capita income is stuck at about half that the poorest U.S. state. The violent crime rate is well above the national average and raising. The ..."
"For a Nation founded on the principles of democracy and the consent of the governed, how much longer can America allow a condition to persist in which nearly 4 million U.S. citizens do not have a vote..."
"I agree with the President's proposal to resolve this dispute through a federally sponsored referendum."