Jim Talent
Jim Talent
James Matthes "Jim" Talentis an American politician and former U.S. Senator from Missouri. He is a Republican and resided in the St. Louis area while serving in elected office. He identifies with the conservative wing of the Republican party, being outspoken on judicial appointments, abortion, flag burning, and defense issues...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth18 October 1956
CountryUnited States of America
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There are people walking around guilty of murder.
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One of the lessons of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita is the clear need for local, state and federal responders to train together so they can be better prepared in the event of a disaster that requires widespread relief efforts,
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Sen. Feinstein and I worked closely with law enforcement on this bill because we wanted to address the problems they are facing on the ground. As a result, the legislation we passed is the toughest, most comprehensive anti-meth plan ever considered by the Congress.
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Predators routinely represent themselves as someone else on the Internet to entice kids and our law enforcement should be allowed to represent themselves as someone else to protect kids, ... If a predator thinks he's meeting a minor and a law enforcement official shows up instead, federal law should allow for a conviction. Our legislation makes clear that law enforcement can patrol the Internet to help make it safer for our kids.
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cross the goal line and immediately offer the more than 5 million uninsured men, women, and children the opportunity for health care coverage.
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The 'Women's Business Center Amendments Act' will improve this important program and help the existing centers prosper and expand the opportunities for women-entrepreneurs to start and run their own companies,
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A major earthquake is no time for on-the-job training.
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American businesses are likely to spend at least $50 billion fixing Y2K computer glitches,
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This may in the minds of predators create a loophole, and I think we should try and plug that loophole as quickly as possible by any means possible.
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Despite the heroic efforts on the local level by our sheriffs and our chiefs and our deputies and our officers, this is not a challenge that we have, by and large, been succeeding at defeating. Now it sounds like it's different here in Kirksville, and that's great, but we have been losing ground in most places.
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I'm not holding my breath waiting for anything. We're going ahead with what we think we need to do on our end of Pennsylvania Avenue.
I don't think the administration is where they need to be on that,
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It's unfortunate that the Senate is once again compelled to defend the Pledge of Allegiance because of the actions of a federal court.
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It's a question of fairness, ... Small and family businesses deserve to have the same deduction for health-care costs as Fortune 500 companies.