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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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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Now more than ever you're going to need ... that infrastructure, those highway trust funds, to rebuild the bridges that were destroyed, rebuild the railroads that were destroyed. You have to have the infrastructure or you can't have a recovery,
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He's taken the moral high ground to show how his opponents have taken the moral low ground.
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An inadequate energy supply will increase the cost of doing business for every company in America, ... That means that the cost to produce everything increases, and all of us will spend a bigger chunk of our paycheck simply paying those rising costs. We will see those higher prices in grocery stores and every other place that we may shop.
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It is sad that the president's attack dogs don't know the difference between breaking the law and making a mistake decades ago,
attack borrow economy pay
It is right to borrow to pay for it, ... But it is not right to attack the very economy that will pay for it.
borrow pay
it is right to borrow to pay for it.
admiration assumed grant judges powers respect
but our respect and admiration does not grant judges the powers many have assumed over the years.
gentlemen ladies
I am a target, ladies and gentlemen, ... But I am nobody's victim.
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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.
descend house
The House would descend into 'Lord of the Flies.'
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My friends, I have violated no law, no regulation, no code of ethics and no House rule, ... I am innocent and I will prove it.
venom
not because of insufficient venom but because of insufficient merit.
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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,