29 ordspråk av Mike Blouin
Mike Blouin
But when you're talking about replacing, expanding, renovating an existing facility, I think that has to stay in the community it came from.
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Chet, there you go again. I can tilt at windmills or try to make a difference. I choose to try to make a difference.
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Children who are not covered still get sick, they still seek treatment. And the cost is dramatically higher if we ignore the problem.
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Every student should have the educational opportunities available to them so that they can enthusiastically pursue any career opportunity they might be interested in. And then we need to create those career opportunities in Iowa so that they have the opportunity to live out their educational interests between our rivers.
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I believe this is an area where we can be bold, work collectively, and make a dramatic difference in the quality of life of all Iowans.
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I don't think there's any denying the fact that for the safety and security of Iowans, this prison needs an expansion, a renovation or something new needs to be built.
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I don't think you dismiss out of hand an independent, nonpartisan report from an entity that's looked and used the same factors to grade all 50 states as something that's totally erroneous.
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I introduced a bill to create the minimum wage in Iowa when I was a freshman legislator. I set it at a buck an hour, and they called me a socialist for trying.
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I think that makes him vulnerable.
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I'd like to find a way to do that.
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If we want Iowa to thrive ? not just survive in coming years ? but really thrive, we should establish Iowa as a health care leader and take the bold and responsible steps to protect our children.
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If we want to honestly pursue a system in which we leave no child behind, we have to reform the entire system, because we're leaving a lot of kids behind today.
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If you look at it on a chart, it looks like a bad week on Wall Street. We've got to find a way to reverse that.
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It starts here in this building where the past collides with the future in our present struggle for where this state needs to go. It starts here and I'd like to be part of that clash as we define our future in the months and years ahead.
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It was a mistake to move into these. It's a mistake to move out of them until we know what the financial consequences are for the state of Iowa. We have some exposure here and folks are kind of ignoring that issue. Do we get out of them? You bet. But we get out of it with knowledge as to what our responsibilities and liabilities are.
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