The Senate is never easy, ... But when you get a new administration and a new Congress, it gives you sort of an opportunity to take a little time out and see what we can do together.
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But the effectiveness of the response to Katrina appears to diminish the higher you move up the chain of command. By Sept. 7, Lott concluded that FEMA and its Mississippi arm were overwhelmed and understaffed, and he went straight to circumvention mode. We're just going around them, ... We talk to people on the ground, and they tell us what they need.
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Give me an idea, ... That's what I'm saying to the Democrats. I'm talking to the Democrats here. They are saying 'Not this. Not that.' I say 'OK. Well, what'
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There is no question that some of these municipalities and counties are wiped out, ... They have no tax base and won't have for a while so we may have to give them a helping hand just to keep their debt payments current. We'll have to look at how to do that.
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I think it is dangerous. We have got to make sure that we can verify the safety and the reliability of these weapons,
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The platform we had in Dallas, the 1984 Republican platform, all the ideas we supported there - from tax policy, to foreign policy; from individual rights, to neighborhood security - are things that Jefferson Davis and his people believed in.
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