Congress is not an ATM. We have to be able to explain this new, enormous bill to the American people.
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The money the president wants to borrow for Iraq will come directly out of the American taxpayer wallets in the form of Medicare and Social Security receipts. That's your money.Robert Byrd
Do not run a campaign that would embarrass your mother.
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I want answers - we all want answers - as to why it took so long for rescue teams to get on the ground. There is no excuse for the days of delay and the inexplicable lack of coordination in the response effort, ... We knew the danger was coming. Yet, the government failed to respond. Lives were lost because the government failed to do its job.
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That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority can be heard, where a minority can stand on its feet, one individual if necessary, and speak until he falls into the dust.
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Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world.
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I love this man from Alaska. I do. I love him. I feel that I have my blood in my veins is with his blood. I love him. But I love the Senate more.
Robert Byrd
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