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It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.

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Mitch McConnell
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: February 20
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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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We have a debt the size of our economy, which makes us look a lot like Greece.
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The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress.
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After adding trillions to the debt on big-government policies most Americans didn't ask for and which we couldn't afford, Democratic leaders say they need more money, which they intend to take from small business, even though small businesses create the majority of new jobs.
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As the leader of the Republicans what I'm telling that we elected the president to be president. It's time for him to step up to the plate and lead us in the direction of reducing our excessive spending.
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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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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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For everybody who thinks it's warming, I can find somebody who thinks it isn't.
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The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.
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The president feels not only do we need to change these rogue regimes, but even our friendly allies, who really basically have, sort of, benign dictatorships, need to get with the program if they want to have long-term security and prosperity from terrorism.
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We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.
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More young people believe they'll see a U.F.O. than that they'll see their own Social Security benefits.
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We're living under the Obama economy. Any CEO in America with a record like this after three years on the job would be graciously shown the door. This president blames the managers instead. He blames the folks on the shop floor. He blames the weather.
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While other state governments stiff their vendors, close parks, delay tax refunds, and ignore unacceptably poor service levels, Indiana state employees are setting national standards for efficiency.
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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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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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I think the important thing to remember here is that we haven't been attacked again at home since September of 2001.
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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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Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?
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