Jeff Flake
Jeff Flake
Jeffry Lane "Jeff" Flakeis an American politician and member of the Republican Party who has served as the junior United States Senator from Arizona since 2013...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth31 December 1962
CountryUnited States of America
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It's not enough simply to change leaders; we need to change the direction of the party.
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I think that this incident last week simply demonstrates that the INS is in a free fall.
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It's critical that any immigration reform package include a temporary worker program. Without it, we simply will not be addressing the issue.
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We in the House have plenty of time between now and Thanksgiving to do it.
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Three hundred thousand manufactured homes? People are screaming about that, ... I tell you, FEMA is a disaster.
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I encouraged him to get in the race as a way to draw the others out.
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We've got to take some of these definitions with a huge grain of salt.
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If we can't have the courage to tell our constituents, hey, we've got to cut back, then if we can point to something and say, I would like to vote for more benefits for you, but this balanced budget amendment or statutory spending cap or whatever the device is, is preventing me from doing it.
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I can tell you if we don't see more than rhetoric, this leadership team is not secure.
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My guess is that most states would gladly forgo 10 percent of their funding for the ability to make funding decisions,
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Many of us thought even before Katrina we couldn't afford this benefit. We certainly today have to think we should put this benefit off.
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There's no shortage of places where the federal government can tighten its belt to pay the cost of the hurricane recovery effort. Let's face it, after years of uninterrupted growth, the federal government is bloated.
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The victims of this disaster deserve the swiftest and most efficient response that the federal government can provide,
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The Scanlon thing, the Cunningham thing, I think you have more people waiting for the other shoe to drop.