A major earthquake is no time for on-the-job training. |
American businesses are likely to spend at least $50 billion fixing Y2K computer glitches, |
an effective and experienced voice for Missouri. |
cross the goal line and immediately offer the more than 5 million uninsured men, women, and children the opportunity for health care coverage. |
Despite the heroic efforts on the local level by our sheriffs and our chiefs and our deputies and our officers, this is not a challenge that we have, by and large, been succeeding at defeating. Now it sounds like it's different here in Kirksville, and that's great, but we have been losing ground in most places. |
For me, the issue is service ? do our producers have convenient access to an FSA office? That's the key to me. That's more important than any particular number of offices, ... Now, I am concerned about closing that many offices and the impact that will have on services. |
I am very disappointed in the commission's decision, not only in their failure to take these installations off the list, but because in their decisions they failed even to address the arguments Missouri made on a bipartisan basis, ... The St. Louis region, especially the men and women whose jobs are on the line, deserved better. |
I believe voters want a fair and vigorous investigation; they don't want a cover-up from the party involved. And they don't want the other party to gloat over it, |
I don't know why there weren't plans, ... If there had been and they were inadequate, I'd be inclined to say nobody's perfect - but it just seemed like they weren't doing anything. |
I don't think the administration is where they need to be on that, |
I expected I would have senators in states where this is not yet an epidemic come up to me and say, 'Look, why should we take the equivalent of half an aisle of cold medicines behind the counter in my state where this isn't a problem?' ... And I was going to tell them, 'It's a problem in your state, you just don't know it.' But they've not come up to me and said that. |
I think Iran needs to know that that option is there, and then we can hope that, you know, Security Council action or negotiations of some kind will work. So yeah, I think it?s essential that it be an option. |
I think Roy probably came into Congress with more experience and accomplishments than the average congressman. It helped him hit the ground running in a lot of respects. He was never really a freshman. |
I think we're being played for a bunch of suckers, ... chumps. |
I was especially concerned because the office closure plan was issued with little or no consultation with our local offices and producers, |