John Delaney Quotes
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No veteran or active duty service member should endure a long hospital stay alone. Yet sadly, due to the high cost of travel, all too often our military families are separated while America's heroes receive care. Sometimes families sleep in hospital parking lots, unable to afford long stays in a hotel.
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We have been dealt a very weak hand by the financial market meltdown, bailouts, and recession. We can't act like it's a strong one.
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America's men and women in uniform bravely defend our nation and our values. Their skill, dedication, and valor are the envy of the world. When their time in uniform is over, they are entitled to world-class health care, a benefit they've earned and that their country is grateful to provide for them.
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While many employers do the right thing and provide flexible schedules for disabled veterans, I felt that it was important to provide all disabled veterans with a solution that would help them have access to medical leave. Here's how our bill works: we accelerate the eligibility process for disabled veterans.
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Our electoral process has created perverse incentives that have warped our democracy and empowered special interests and a vocal minority.
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Many of the patients in military and veterans hospitals require long stays, which can place a large financial hardship on families who don't live near the hospital, which is very common.
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The best companies with the strongest credit ratings borrow like the United States: on a non-prioritized basis. This means that in the event of a default, all of their debts are of equal priority because lenders and creditors believe default is highly unlikely. And they spend considerable effort maintaining this status.
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Our employment future rests on the shoulders of the small employer, and we should be investing with them.
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We have a sacred obligation to support our men and women in uniform.
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New highways, ports, and runways appear economically foolish if we don't understand the economic growth that flows from such investments.
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I believe that business creates the jobs in this country and not government.
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No military or veteran family should have to choose between paying their bills and being together while one of our nation's heroes is in the hospital.
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Our veterans and service members are known for their strength, but when they're recovering from an operation or receiving emergency care, that strength can depend on seeing a spouse, talking with the kids or just knowing that loved ones are by their side. It isn't difficult to imagine what a difference keeping families together can make.
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Many have criticized a federal carbon tax, saying that it would increase energy costs. Some continue to oppose it even when that revenue would be used to reduce other taxes in what's known as a tax swap.
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Clay Hunt was the kind of individual that has made America a great country. In 2005, when his country needed him, he enlisted in the Marine Corps. Shot in Iraq, he earned a Purple Heart, and after he recuperated, he graduated from Marine Corps Scout Sniper School and was deployed to Afghanistan.
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America's disabled veterans answered our country's call, and when their time in uniform is done, our country must stand with them.
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We have to start grounding our policies in facts and recognize that a strong economy is critical for funding progressive priorities.
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In the context of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and a still-stagnant economy, President Barack Obama faces two important questions on energy transmission: a decision on the construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline and the question of increasing American natural gas exports. These are choices that will resonate from Crimea to Cove Point.
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In my judgment, the president should reject Keystone and step up natural gas exports.
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Representative democracy is in crisis in the United States.
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In 1935, the year Social Security was created, the poverty rate for seniors was over 70%.
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All taxpayers feel a tremendous sense of frustration as they see many tens of billions of dollars of bonuses paid to the same mega banks that were on the brink of bankruptcy and were only saved by massive government rescue money and support. We are not satisfied by the fact that many of them have paid the money back, nor should we be.
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Social Security is not broke, and Social Security does not need to be privatized.
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While some politicians argue over whether to believe scientists' almost overwhelming consensus on climate change, the business sector is a believer and is wisely planning ahead.