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Jay Rockefeller

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John Davison Rockefeller IV, commonly known as Jay Rockefeller, is a prominent American politician and member of the Democratic Party. Born on June 18, 1937, in New York City, he served as the Governor of West Virginia from 1977 to 1985 and later represented the state in the U.S. Senate from 1985 until his retirement in 2015. During his time in the Senate, Rockefeller was known for his work on healthcare, education, and technology issues, advocating for the expansion of access to healthcare and the improvement of education systems in West Virginia and across the nation.

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Mar 6, 2012

I am appalled by that thought. I am appalled by it. And I want to serve notice that I will do everything I can to make sure that it does not happen.

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Mar 5, 2012

That's the cyber side, but on the other side, manufacturing is so much of what the America COMPETES Act is about.

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Mar 5, 2012

They succeeded in the second, but they spent not a dime on housing mortgage problems.

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Mar 5, 2012

I believe that NSF should be using its resources to push advances in both science of security and science of cybersecurity.

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Mar 5, 2012

I think it's always pretty easy to look at Congress as a reason that nothing's gotten done.

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Mar 5, 2012

I think that it is so interesting and so important to put that on the record.

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Mar 5, 2012

cybersecurity is an enormous concern.

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Mar 5, 2012

I would like to see front-loaded [the research and development tax credit], but the economists tell me that would not be productive.

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Mar 5, 2012

the assumption by corporate America that their people aren't going to stay fulfills itself because of things that they decline to do.

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Mar 5, 2012

People need jobs and there are so many jobs that can be filled.

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Mar 5, 2012

I voted for it--through TARP, and the idea was they were going to help with mortgages.

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Feb 29, 2012

It is inconceivable to me that this industry doesn't pay its fair share.

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Feb 29, 2012

I believe that these rules work, really, to protect the companies more than to protect their passengers.

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Feb 29, 2012

Given the obvious unfairness that American citizens on cruise ships are treated different on a cruise ship than when traveling by airplane, I hope amendments to DOHSA are revisited.

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Feb 29, 2012

I think when you have success you have an even greater obligation to make sure that you're going the extra mile to reimburse the Federal Government for what it does, pay taxes according to not just what your lawyers can tell you you can…

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Feb 29, 2012

When accidents do occur and lives are tragically altered, passengers have little recourse against the cruise ship operators.

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Feb 29, 2012

A cruise ship can discharge thousands of gallons of raw sewage and they do.

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Feb 29, 2012

The fact is that 1.1 percent on, you know, 5 years, $11.3 billion in profits, is absolutely unthinkable to me.

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Feb 29, 2012

The dumping of all of this waste really gets to me because it's against the law.

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Feb 29, 2012

For any mode of transportation, safety must be the number one priority.

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Feb 29, 2012

We must adopt stronger laws to protect our fragile marine ecosystems.

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Feb 29, 2012

I believe that these rules work to protect the companies rather than their passengers.

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Feb 29, 2012

Many Americans don't think the corporations pay their fair share of taxes, and I'm one of them.

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Feb 29, 2012

The environmental damage caused by cruise ships happens not so rarely.

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Feb 17, 2012

On behalf of myself and Senator Baucus, I wish to state that title VI of the conference report to H.R. 3630, the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012, contains landmark bipartisan legislation that more than 10 years after…

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