Jack Reed
Jack Reed
John Francis Reed, known as Jack Reed, is the senior United States Senator from Rhode Island, serving since 1997. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served in the United States House of Representatives for Rhode Island's 2nd congressional district from 1991 to 1997...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth12 November 1949
CityCranston, RI
CountryUnited States of America
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After a brilliant offensive campaign to destroy the Iraqi military forces, we have settled into a very dismal and dangerous occupation.
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far enough to really chart out a course over the next several years.
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There was inadequate planning, inadequate recognition of the problem at every level.
And that's going to take a long time,
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We're about see a second tidal surge from Katrina and Rita,
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We have real questions about the size of our forces, whether an international division will be provided, what efforts are being made to engage multinational support politically, diplomatically, and militarily, ... Those questions remain.
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The President has no real plan to address the fiscal challenges arising from the retirement of the baby boom generation, let alone a plan to fix Social Security.
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if you've got competent units ... they're basically militias in national uniforms, and you're uncertain of whose orders they're taking, that's not the security force you want.
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Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.
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I'm very concerned because this could be the first situation in many, many years in which we do not consider and pass an authorization bill.
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I certainly will support all efforts to win. We have no choice, ... But I think we've put ourselves in a position where we've made a choice where everything is to lose and very little to gain.
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The best reduction, the most final reduction, is to destroy the warheads.
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The administration is manufacturing a crisis that does not exist in order to dismantle Social Security.
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The administration is desperate to try to reverse the popular impression that the situation is deteriorating rapidly,