Tom DeLay
Tom DeLay
Thomas Dale DeLayis a former member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Texas's 22nd congressional district from 1985 until 2006. He was Republican PartyHouse Majority Leader from 2003–05...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth8 April 1947
balance dime means raise saying security social spend
We're saying 'no, Mr. President,' ... No means no, we're not going to spend a dime out of Social Security and we're not going to raise taxes, but we are going to balance the budget.
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We have no choice, ... This is a crisis. We can sustain this as long as we need to, to get them back with their families or absorb them into the community.
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What the Senate passed is a nationalized system; what we hope to pass is a federalized system.
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There exists in Travis County so great a prejudice against me that I cannot obtain a fair and impartial trial,
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I don't think anyone is really thinking about that,
believe disaster federal government
I don't want the federal government to take over disaster response, believe me,
continue
I get to continue my partnership with the speaker,
less responsibility spent time welcoming
if we spent less time ducking responsibility and more time welcoming it.
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Under no circumstances will I vote to spend one penny of the Social Security trust fund on anything but Social Security,
help takes whatever
Whatever it takes we will do to help the victims.
bob debate decency greater honor integrity understood
There is no greater American in my mind, at least today, than Bob Livingston because he understood what this debate was all about. It was about honor and decency and integrity and the truth,
budgets cut fat federal left
There is no fat left to cut in the federal budget.
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What I heard was what most of us already knew, ... I'm sure the report will give the details substantiating what we've all already known, that basically security is not something that can be 100 percent.
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Because of the courage of Discovery's crew, and the commitment of everyone at NASA and the entire space community, our generation has an opportunity to go farther into space and further into the void, to do the impossible and answer the unsolvable. For that chance, we all owe the crew more than our thanks.