feel honored to have been entrusted with the responsibility of fighting for families, businesses, seniors and veterans in our community every single day. and fight we did. when i came in four years ago we were challenged with a war. we were challenged with a lot of other things. as those years have passed there have been new challenges, the economy and others. together we fought to take on skyrocketing homeowners insurance costs in florida and other places. we wrote a commonsense solution that makes insurance look and work like its supposed to. it wasn t easy but we brought together every single member of florida s delegation, republican and democrat alike, as well as allies from around the country and passed the homeowners defense act in a bipartisan way. and i m very proud of that. we also fought to deliver on a campaign promise when i first in my first race to close . . in our community. our seniors never should make the choice between food and medicine. and because we s
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arguments, thinking through the issues from both sides, but i do know that the court needs that congress needs very clear guidance in this area. it s not fair to congress to keep on moving the goal posts. it s not fair to say, oh, well, you know, if you do this, this time, it will be objection but if you do that the next time it won t, so do i think ms. kagan, this is an issue we discussed weeks ago. this is an issue i raised in a series of letters which i ll put into the record. this is a standard which has been around for a long time, and you know a lot of law. senator grassley established that. is it a satisfactory test? let me move on to another question. i don t think i m making too much progress. one of the grave concerns which has risen out of the out of recent confirmation proceedings with chief justice roberts and justice alito, and i ve spoken about this subject extensively on the floor citing how emphatic chief justice roberts and justice alito were on defe
growth a higher risk of things not improving quickly. thank you very much. mr. brady. this recovery certainly is not consistent with the recovery of 81 and 82, where job growth and unemployment was three times better than the obama recovery. i will take comfort in telling our workers and small businesses in the gulf coast, who will lose their jobs and are losing their jobs and losing their businesses, due to the drilling moratorium, that they are a small price to pay for this over reactionary and politically advantageous policy-making here in washington. what is frustrating, i think, is that this democrat congress has had control over mms, that oversees the gulf, for three years. they have done nothing to reform it. the obama administration themselves approved british petroleum s operational waivers on the well. the approved the cleanup plans which have turned out to be awful. they have failed to support our gulf coast governors and local communities in protecting t
and regions and political fa losses were flesh and blood people means they never would be perfect. he knew they were subject to passion and anger and when you make a decision, it s important when you are mad, there s about an 80% chance you might mistake. and that s why he thought the rules and the institutions and the constitution were so important and he put them before everything. even what he wanted. .i never forget when we were trying to pass healthcare reform in 1993 and 94, senator byrd was a passionate supporter of the efforts we were making just as he was the efforts that president obama has made. but we only had 55 votes and we could not defeat a filabuster. and so, i said well senator, why don t you just let me stick this on the budget because it s the only thing you can t filabuster. that violated something called the byrd rule. thought go ahead and name the rule for him. i said you really ought ought to suspend it because you are spending so much money on heal
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