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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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Mar 8, 2021

There’s reparations for minority farmers that don’t have to demonstrate any financial stress or any adverse effect from COVID, but they’ll get 120 percent of whatever indebtedness they have just paid for by the taxpayer, but not if you’re…

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Mar 8, 2021

This January's volatility in the stock market understandably captured everybody's attention.

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Mar 8, 2021

What I think the SEC should do is put out for public comment a rule proposal proposing to move to a shorter trade settlement cycle and put it out for public comment and evaluate the costs and benefits.

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Mar 3, 2021

You cannot look at decades of growing worker productivity, with workers getting a smaller and smaller share of the profits they create, and then think the economy looks fair.

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Mar 3, 2021

The economy is not physics. It is not governed by scientific laws outside our control.

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Mar 3, 2021

We have allowed a system to take root that treats American workers as a commodity, a cost to be minimized, instead of the engine behind all of our businesses' success.

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Mar 3, 2021

Capitalism produces the best conditions for the largest number of people by far, and the empirical case is very simple.

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Mar 3, 2021

I think we know that in many cases low-income families, including and especially in racial minority communities, often have very few choices about educational opportunities for their kids.

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Mar 3, 2021

I do think, however, that the racial wealth gap is a problem, but I would rather put it as a problem of Americans.

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Mar 1, 2021

I do have to express just how deeply disappointed I am that President Biden and our Democratic colleagues have decided to undertake a purely partisan process.

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Mar 1, 2021

Yeah, this is about sticking with the rule that codifies the principle that guidance cannot act as a rule.

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Mar 1, 2021

This is breathtaking for most Americans, that affluent families, with no interruption whatsoever in their income, having already gotten $5,800 from taxpayers, now they are going to get yet another $5,600.

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