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What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator.
Jim DeMint
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Jim DeMint
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: September 2
Business Executive
Former United States Senator
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Greenville
South Carolina
James Warren Jim DeMint
James Warren DeMint
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No funding for Planned Parenthood protect the unborn.
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Sometimes people credit me for the Tea Party. It's actually the other way around.
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Quantitative easing prints money & causes inflation.
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