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All Citizens United did was to level the playing field for corporate speech. We now have, I think, the most free and open system we've had in modern times.

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Mitch McConnell
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: February 20
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Public disclosure of campaign contributions and spending should be expedited so voters can judge for themselves what is appropriate.
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It's a shame that the president doesn't embrace the effort to reduce spending. None of us like using situations like the sequester or the debt ceiling or the operation of government to try to engage the president to deal with this.
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The minimum wage is mostly an entry-level wage for young people.
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It's important to remember that some of our best sources in the war against radical Islamic terrorism are Muslims, both in America and overseas.
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America is about to turn the page on Barack Obama's four-year experiment in big government.
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Forcing free market plans to compete with these government-run programs would create an unlevel playing field and inevitably doom true competition.
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I think it is to the advantage of my state to have the opportunity to come to meetings occasionally and to vote in person, rather than just by proxy.
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I'm really proud of this Supreme Court and the way they've been dealing with the issue of First Amendment political speech.
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What we do know is that the American people, regardless of how they feel about the abortion issue, don't think that taxpayer money ought to be used to pay for abortions.
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We have a debt the size of our economy, which makes us look a lot like Greece.
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The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law.
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The new troops in Iraq need to be Iraqi troops.
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I think some of our members may have thought the default issue was a hostage you might take a chance at shooting. Most of us didn’t think that. What we did learn is this - it’s a hostage that’s worth ransoming. And it focuses the Congress on something that must be done.
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Tiger Woods and John Edwards had a better year than the stimulus bill.
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For everybody who thinks it's warming, I can find somebody who thinks it isn't.
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Obama hasn't been working to earn reelection, he's been working to earn a spot on the PGA tour!
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And this year, when we end the cruel, defeatist practice of passing children who cannot read into fourth grade, and when our most diligent students begin to graduate from high school in 11 years, and get a head start on college costs with the dollars they earned through their hard work, others will take notice of Indiana yet again.
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This heinous crime should be of particular concern to all of us. . . . I know my colleagues will agree that the murder of Americans overseas cannot go unpunished. I will continue to closely follow developments in this case[.]
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Sometime in the near future we'll have a vote on repealing Obamacare, essentially the same vote that we had in 2015. I would remind everyone that in that proposal there's a two-year delay, a two-year delay which would give us the opportunity to work out a complete replacement on a bipartisan basis with our Democratic friends.
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We certainly will have a vote on proceeding to a bill to repeal Obamacare... it was a very large issue in the campaign. And, the reconciliation process does present an opportunity and we're reviewing that to see what's possible through reconciliation.
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