Jim Jeffords
Jim Jeffords
James Merrill "Jim" Jeffordswas a U.S. Senator from Vermont. Sworn in to the Senate in 1989, he served as a Republican until 2001, when he left the party to become an Independent and began caucusing with the Democrats. Jeffords retired from the Senate in 2007. Prior to the Senate, he served as the U.S. Representative for Vermont's at-large congressional district from 1975 to 1989...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth11 May 1934
CountryUnited States of America
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We have a responsibility to ensure that every individual has the opportunity to receive a high-quality education, from prekindergarten to elementary and secondary, to special education, to technical and higher education and beyond.
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My change in affiliation is to become effective at the close of business on either the first day of the session following the upcoming Memorial Day recess, or the close of business on the date of transmittal (of the tax bill), whichever occurs later.
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This policy breaks that commitment, ... And it fails to acknowledge that we are responsible for emitting 25 percent of the world's greenhouse gasses. Under this policy our share would continue to grow.
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It is long past time for this industry to make a transition to clean, safe energy sources, ... The public can no longer tolerate the health and environmental threats caused by continued reliance on old, dirty coal plants.
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give the American people a false, false sense of security.
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It is important each side has the opportunity to express itself, ... But we need to exit one way or the other.
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The budget does not adequately fund important domestic programs, promotes tax cuts to the detriment of other priorities and does little to put our nation's fiscal house in order.
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I hope it will assist the Senate if the recess is available to the leaders to discuss and decide the numerous transition issues the Senate will face.
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Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father.
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The president is again proposing a budget that does not adequately fund America's needs and includes new tax breaks that are likely to force disastrous cuts in urgent national programs, and create horrendous future deficits,
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Those of us that stand in the middle of the political spectrum have an opportunity to do our job as we feel it should be done, and that's to moderate matters when they come to the final conclusion,
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There is nothing more important to our Nation's future, to our homeland security, and to our economy than ensuring we have a top-notch educational system that is the envy of the world.
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Saddam Hussein is not the only deranged dictator who is willing to deprive his people in order to acquire weapons of mass destruction.
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A fuel prices remain unstable and our nation's highways and airports suffer ever-increasing congestion and delays, Amtrak offers an invaluable alternative upon which Americans have come to rely