“It extends to making it possible for every New Yorker to take part in the things that make us human.”
“I find that tattoo and his commentary about it to be personally disqualifying.”
“We are making sure that working people will not be priced out of the game that they helped to create.”
“To think that it’s going to cost a billion dollars — I mean, that’s a thousand millions.”
“the nation's top law enforcement official asking for a slush fund to pay people who assault cops …. Utterly stupid, morally wrong.”

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On the recordMarch 15, 2016
Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the Cornyn substitute amendment be agreed to; that the bill, as amended, be read a third time and passed; and that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The amendment (No. 3452) in the nature of a substitute was agreed to. (The amendment is printed in today's Record under ``Text of Amendments.'') The bill (S. 337), as amended, was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, was read the third time, and passed.
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