08/09/2009
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"That's not a view I share."
"Senator Thune, you have always demonstrated how to be a leader with a strong moral compass; how to do the right thing, when it is the hard thing; and how to always remember where you came from."
"I am very pleased today to be able to introduce to this Committee again Commissioner Summer Mersinger."
"I do think that the United States needs to stay in a lead role."