A massive tax-cut scheme for the wealthiest among us, because that's what's really afoot here. |
Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society. |
All of them are being threatened by this policy of ever escalating deficits and debt, |
Anybody who has stood on the prairie in North Dakota has felt the force of the wind and knows that our state has an inexhaustible supply of wind power. The potential here to create jobs and draw millions of dollars in new investment to North Dakota is enormous. |
As the news this morning of increased joblessness and earlier reports of exploding deficit and debt reveal, the president's economic policy is a disaster. Obviously, the secretary of the treasury and Mr. Lindsey are being sacrificed to protect the president. Sadly, the removal of these economic officials will do nothing if they are simply replaced with yes-men committed to the president's relentlessly partisan agenda of pushing tax cuts at the expense of all else. |
By using Social Security trust fund dollars to pay for tax cuts and other government spending, the administration significantly understates the true fiscal imbalance of the country. |
Certainly, you want to rebuild, ... But we need to build smartly so that we have a better line of defense the next time Mother Nature comes calling. That's what we did in Grand Forks. We are now better protected. |
Clearly he is conservative, ... outside the mainstream of American jurisprudence. |
Democratic amendments led to a package with a smaller tax cut, far more resources for paying down the debt and strengthening education, and for strengthening national defense. |
dramatically change the role of the United States Senate. |
Forty-three per cent of the benefit goes to the wealthiest one per cent, those who are making $900,000 a year. There is no fairness in that. |
He has given me his word on important matters. |
He has never felt there was a conflict between his own moral precepts and the precepts of his church and his role as a judge. |
He has the right kind of demeanor to be a judge. He listens to others and is not dogmatic, |
He is a tough act to follow. |