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We are looking for ways to decrease the dropout rate. I am pretty sure, if we eliminate career and technical education, we are going to increase the dropout rate.
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In the past six months, our federal government has devised a dozen strategies to save America's financial markets. Each plan has been more costly, more risky, and less aligned with the principles of our country's free market economy than the last. I am disappointed to say that this latest plan puts all the rest of them to shame.
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I used to be a retailer, and I find it discouraging when somebody comes in and they pick something up and they say, 'Now if you'll sell it to me without the sales tax, I'll buy it.
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Businesses large and small shouldn't have to check the expiration date of a tax provision to see if it's still good.
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The American people need to know that money is being used effectively because frankly, the nation can't afford careless spending, no matter how well-intentioned.
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We are truly one nation, under God, indivisible and that we must remain so in the face of any threat to ensure our country remains strong, united and free.
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The base of our party is commonsense conservatives. If the Republican Party gets back to that base, I think our party's going to be stronger and there's not going to be a need for a third party.
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One of my favorite things - and I am sure everybody else's in this Chamber - is to give away money. You really don't get much opposition when you give away money.