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
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I find this is a very good day,
I have done nothing wrong. I am innocent,
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He vetoed the foreign aid bill because he wanted to increase foreign aid by 30 percent, and he wanted to take it out of the Social Security surplus,
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I did nothing wrong, ... I had nothing to do with the day-to-day operation. It was my idea to form this group. I helped to organize it. I have other things to do. I stepped away and moved on.
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I can tell you with great certainty that a censure resolution would have failed in the House,
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Four justices of the Florida State Supreme Court have distorted the judicial process into nothing more than a mechanism for providing Mr. Gore with the victory he was unable to win November 7. This ruling not only contradicts, but assaults, the most basic principles of jurisprudence,
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I am feeling more comfortable with the mission after the briefing the president gave, ... The military is more in charge than before.
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To all these new spending requests, I say, 'Mr. President, show me the money,
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Those that seek the American dream must follow American laws, ... I applaud the president for addressing this difficult and complex issue but have heartfelt reservations about allowing illegal immigrants into a U.S. guest worker program that seems to reward illegal behavior.
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We found that there's plenty of time to do everything that we want to do,
You have to have the infrastructure or you can't have a recovery.
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What's happening here is the president is desperate to spend more money, ... Late Edition.
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You get a sixth sense about this stuff. You know your district. . . . You don't need polls, but we ran a poll anyway. And the poll showed, basically, that I had a 50-50 chance of winning.
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Today we will pass a Medicare prescription drug benefit because for us, fulfilling America's promise is not just a slogan, it's a commitment to meet the needs of the American people as we face the 21st century,