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Pat Toomey

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Patrick Toomey is a former United States Senator from Pennsylvania, serving from 2011 to 2022. A member of the Republican Party, Toomey was known for his focus on fiscal conservatism, economic growth, and limited government. During his tenure, he served on several Senate committees, including the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, where he was involved in financial regulation and economic policy discussions.

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Apr 12, 2021

Improper payments continue to be a pressing and expensive issue.

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Apr 8, 2021

Toomey, who is retiring in 2022, is eager to reach agreement on a targeted guns measure that can outlast Biden`s presidency.

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Apr 8, 2021

Senator Pat Toomey signaled his willingness to work with President Joe Biden on his efforts to limit gun trafficking and the growing presence of ghost guns.

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Mar 24, 2021

under the previous administration, as Senator Toomey pointed out, there was relative wage growth that was higher in the lower quintile of Americans

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Mar 24, 2021

Let me be clear. It did not slow them down. As best I can determine, we ended them.

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Mar 24, 2021

I have yet to hear someone tell me what is wrong with the direction we were heading in.

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Mar 24, 2021

I cannot help but reflect on the big picture about this tax reform from 2017 that some of my Democratic colleagues seem not terribly fond of.

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Mar 24, 2021

I think our challenge now, the way we ought to be thinking about the economy, is how do we get back to the best economy of my lifetime.

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Mar 24, 2021

We hit all-time record lows for African American unemployment, Hispanic unemployment, women's unemployment.

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Mar 24, 2021

I would like to get back to the most successful economy we had in my lifetime, and it was very much partly a result of the tax reform we did.

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Mar 24, 2021

To suggest that Republicans are unwilling to do anything is to simply choose to ignore the very recent history.

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Mar 24, 2021

In 2018, if you look at the share of who paid Federal income taxes for starters, the top 1 percent of income earners earned about 21 percent of all the income--21 percent. They paid 40 percent of all the taxes.

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