Jim McCrery
Jim McCrery
James Otis "Jim" McCrery IIIis an American lawyer, politician and lobbyist who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1997 to 2009. He represented the 4th District of Louisiana, based in the north-western quadrant of the state...
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The best way to celebrate Social Security's birthday would be to enact legislation that ensures Americans' hard-earned contributions to Social Security will be dedicated solely to paying Social Security benefits and not used to fund other programs," ()
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I'm trying to understand it, because I have to explain it to my colleagues, ... We reached the compromise (in the first tax relief bill) with the understanding that this issue would remain open.
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They are going out and coming back empty. About 150 a day go out." ()
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There is sympathy for doing something, ... I think they make a strong case for some kind of assistance.
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Any public entity that has been deprived of revenue because of the disaster, should be looked at, in terms of some sort of assistance to get them over the temporary need.
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This is going to be critical to make sure people have access to their Social Security, or SSI, or now, unfortunately, unemployment checks," ()
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Former approaches may not work in this set of circumstances, ... We may have to think outside the box. We may want to create some overarching entity to direct the efforts." ()
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We're also looking obviously at some sort of direct federal aid to the public entities that have no revenue but have to service the revenue bonds," ()
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We're operating on the assumption that we will be pulling together something in September for a vote some time this fall, ... there is no consensus." ()
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We're looking at a variety of ways to solve that problem. Clearly, it's got to be addressed," ()
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We have plenty of money to do everything we want to do, if we do it smart.
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The behavior of the minority warranted the sergeant at arms being called.
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What is being done is fairly massive. There will be temporary field offices in various areas around the disaster zone, ... We'll be trying to get word to refugees that are staying in shelters that they can visit or call these temporary field offices to get their checks. As you can imagine, it's a rather difficult proposition to get that information out to the people who need it.
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We will have another tax bill, and I expect it will be very soon, ... I think people realize this is truly an unprecedented emergency." ()