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All in all, Trumpcare is a bad plan for older Americans.
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Each Dreamer in our country is more than a mere statistic; he or she is a proud American in everything but official documentation.
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In addition to skyrocketing premiums, Trumpcare also unravels protections that older Americans want and need in their health coverage.
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I strongly support screening all visitors and potential immigrants thoroughly to prevent bad actors from entering the country.
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As a candidate for Congress, I proposed a federal infrastructure bank to help local governments fund badly needed projects, including ones in my district. We need to repair and expand our crumbling transportation systems by creating many good-paying construction jobs.
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I believe you cannot survive in this global economy without some form of postsecondary education.
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Americans want Washington to put aside political differences, find common ground, and start producing real economic solutions for the middle class.
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There's another important reason not to send the Dreamers packing: they are essential to preserving the social insurance programs on which older Americans rely.
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Illinois is large, but we do not always receive our fair share of federal resources because our leadership is often divided. When we all row together, good things happen.
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When the chair of an investigating committee refuses to share vital findings or source information with any of his colleagues, his committee's ability to function has been fundamentally undermined.
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When our Founding Fathers wrote the historic words 'all men are created equal,' they probably didn't have people like me in mind.
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We must have the strictest adherence to security procedures to protect against compromise by hostile foreign powers.
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It is time to investigate Russian interference in our democracy and to address it in a manner that will help restore Americans' trust in their government.
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Partisan politics is not my passion.
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Everyone agrees that our immigration system is broken. Building a wall with Mexico isn't going to fix it.
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In some ways, political decency is a sign of a healthy democracy, but in other ways, it is the cause of it.
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Equality as a principle is at the heart of our democracy.
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The fact that Barack Hussein Obama became president is historic, to say the least. Actually, to become U.S. senator, that was historic, and then what he did later on - that's what inspired me to think about running for office.
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My parents found good paying jobs, educated me and my brother in wonderful public schools, and entered the middle class.
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In some ways, 'decency' is a hazy concept; we know it when we see it.
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A porous border is a danger to America's national security, the people who live near it, and to those who cross it.
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Ultimately, much of the dysfunction in Congress is due to the impact of big money, which drowns out the voices of working families and leads to the special treatment of special interests.
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I believe the benefits of tax reform should flow to those who most need them most - hard-pressed working families struggling to reach or stay in the middle class.
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China is eating our lunch with regard to renewable energy.