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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We're close -- very close, ... Hopefully we'll have the bill tonight or tomorrow.
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Our members want us to continue, the speaker wants us to continue to negotiate, and so does the Senate, so we're going to continue to negotiate and see if we can get a bill in December,
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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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Make no mistake, this $10.5 billion is initial relief,
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My earmarks are pretty important to building an economy in that region, ... What's good about the highway bill ... is it creates hundreds of thousands of jobs. It is an economic engine that drives the economy.
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As a member of the House leadership, I am fully supportive of doing what is in the best interests of young Elian and moving this bill through Congress when we return,
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We'll always listen to what the president has to say, but we have a bill that has already passed the House; the Senate is working on passing it. ... We have to move forward.
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The outlook is not very good, ... Even if the bill is passed, it wouldn't stop these shootings.
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I think they would serve the nation better if they would just comment on what they see and what they know, rather than putting their own agenda forward as an expert.
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just another seedy attempt by the liberal media to embarrass me.
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I respect his opinion, but I don't respect his ability to count votes,
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we went to work and we were under the impression that he probably wasn't (going to indict), or he would have ... called me to testify before the grand jury. I have not testified before the grand jury to present my side of the case, and they indicted me.
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We have to remove the red tape so they can get these checks and start to rebuild their lives,
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We must not allow our president to be undermined by those who want his job,