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"You have the vote, and I think the vote will decide," Feinstein said, referring to the nature of Saturday's procedural vote, which is far from a final vote. "To not to vote, to not to consider this question... Full Article at The Hill
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BIG DIFFERENCE IN LITTLE ROCK.... Full Article at Political Animal
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WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 21: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) talks with fellow Democratic Senators about their appearances on Sunday talk shows in his office on Capitol Hill on November 21, 2009 in Washington, DC. View Photo »
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My Republican friends, there is nothing to fear in debate ... Be not afraid of debate. It is our job, and it is exactly what the legislative process is all about: discussing, amending, improving. We Democrats stand ready to do what needs to be done. We welcome debate. We encourage it.
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As Senate Majority Leader, Lyndon Johnson once said of the Joint Economic Committee, Its as useless as tits on a bull. Full Article at Roll Call
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Reporting from Washington - With the Senate's 60-39 vote to proceed to debate, after Thanksgiving, on a healthcare bill that the president is seeking by year's end, the debate of the 2010 midterm elections has been joined. Full Article at Los Angeles Times
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Bill Moyers offers up a fascinating hour of history that is a must listen/watch for those of us who are seriously interested in considering the question of what to do in Afghanistan. Full Article at The Moderate Voice
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WHEAT RIDGE, CO - NOVEMBER 21: A detail of a billboard lampooning President Barack Obama as a Mulsim stands over a used car lot on November 21, 2009 in Wheat Ridge, Colorado. View Photo »
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I think Obama and the PM will discuss Tibet in Washington.
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WASHINGTON—Two Democratic senators say the health care overhaul bill now going to the Senate floor for debate is a key to saving jobs and reducing the spiraling American budget deficit. Full Article at Boston Globe
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STEPHANOPOULOS (voice-over): Good morning, and welcome to “This Week.” (UNKNOWN): The motion is agreed to. STEPHANOPOULOS: Sixty votes, and the debate begins. (UNKNOWN): Doing nothing is not an option. (UNKNOWN): These bills don’t reform health care. Full Article at CQ Politics
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[*] SCHIEFFER: And good morning again. Joining us now in the studio, Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat from New York and Senator Jon Kyl , Republican of Arizona. Full Article at CQ Politics
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My Republican friends, there is nothing to fear in debate ... Be not afraid of debate. It is our job, and it is exactly what the legislative process is all about: discussing, amending, improving. We Democrats stand ready to do what needs to be done. We welcome debate. We encourage it.
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With Michelle, Sasha and Malia and Obama in the White House and in the post-Cosby Show era, people can't say these are the only images out there.
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My Republican friends, there is nothing to fear in debate ... Be not afraid of debate. It is our job, and it is exactly what the legislative process is all about: discussing, amending, improving. We Democrats stand ready to do what needs to be done. We welcome debate. We encourage it.
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My Republican friends, there is nothing to fear in debate ... Be not afraid of debate. It is our job, and it is exactly what the legislative process is all about: discussing, amending, improving. We Democrats stand ready to do what needs to be done. We welcome debate. We encourage it.
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Imagine if instead of debating either of the historic G.I. Bills - legislation that has given so many brave Americans the chance to brave college - if this body had stood silent ... Imagine if instead of debating the bills that created Social Security or Medicare, the Senate’s voices had been stilled. I...
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How do you reconcile your contention that the public option wasn't part of the presidential campaign given that all three of the [leading Democratic] candidates had something along the lines of the public option in their white papers?' Not really, not from what I've seen. There was a little -- there was...
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Our efforts in the Asia-Pacific will be rooted, in no small measure, through an enduring and revitalized alliance between the United States and Japan.
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He also has made campaign contributions to candidates in both parties, including giving to President Barack Obama’s campaign after he had contributed to the presidential campaigns of Republicans Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney and John McCain, the GOP nominee who lost to Obama.
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Iraq has known many challenges, and in thepast several weeks we've seen that there are still those who would kill innocent men, women and children to deny the Iraqi people the future they deserve ... Today's step forward is another reminder that these enemies of the Iraqi people will fail.
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I think Obama and the PM will discuss Tibet in Washington.
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This recession has taught us that we can’t return to a situation where America’s economic growth is fueled by consumers who take on more and more debt. In order to keep growing, we need to spend less, save more, and get our federal deficit under control
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We have not come this far by accident or chance; together, the Democratic Congress has pushed for strong health care reforms to improve the lives of all Americans—and I believe success is on the horizon.
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For him to lecture the Senate on debt is really beyond the pale… To lecture us now on debt when not only the war but the other actions of the Bush administration drove this country into deep debt. He said ‘Anyone who votes for this will have a lot of explaining to do, if they vote to allow a debate to c...
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President Obama was unable to secure any lasting agreements on climate change, free trade, revaluing the Chinese currency, or, most important, sanctions on Iran and North Korea…. The president’s failure to achieve any concrete results will impact his standing back at home and in his dealings with Congre...
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For him to lecture the Senate on debt is really beyond the pale… To lecture us now on debt when not only the war but the other actions of the Bush administration drove this country into deep debt. He said ‘Anyone who votes for this will have a lot of explaining to do, if they vote to allow a debate to c...
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I think the Obama administration is trying to straddle this debate between whether we should approach al-Qaida as a problem of massive-scale criminality or as a problem of war
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Asia is a region where we now buy more goods and do more trade with than any other place in the world - commerce that supports millions of jobs back home.
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If you expect [Senate Minority Leader] Mitch McConnell to roll in a wheelbarrow with a Republican 2,000-page bill, it’s not going to happen
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It's also a place where the risk of a nuclear arms race threatens our security, and where extremists plan attacks on America's soil ... And since this region includes some of the fastest-growing nations, there can be no solution to the challenge of climate change without the cooperation of the Asia Paci...
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A sustained and dynamic India-US partnership is essential if we are to meet global challenges. I also look forward to exchanging views with President Obama on the major global threats and challenges of our times, such as international terrorism, climate change and the global economic slowdown. I also ex...
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If we can increase our exports to Asia-Pacific nations by just 5 percent, we can increase the number of American jobs supported by these exports by hundreds of thousands
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It doesn’t register the way people in Washington think it does ... What is going to matter more to voters is the overall attitude towards Democrats in Congress and the president.
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As we emerge from the worst recession in generations, there is nothing more important than to do everything we can to get our economy moving again and put Americans back to work, and I will go anywhere to pursue that goal
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Obama goes to China, brings home a T-shirt.
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I travelled to Asia to open a new era of American engagement
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