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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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Mitch McConnell
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: February 20
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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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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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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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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 minimum wage is mostly an entry-level wage for young people.
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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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The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.
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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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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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