Will Kirkpatrick
Will Kirkpatrick
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Yes, I introduced the congressional pay cut bill, cutting our salaries by five percent. And I think we have to lead by example.
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It happens every year. The first warm spell of late winter triggers a fictional bass spawn on most East Texas lakes. The fishermen go wild, and the fish stay deep. I've been keeping records on when Rayburn bass make a major move to the beds. Without exception, it's the first couple of weeks of April. From about now until taxes are due is when the big females will move up on the beds. This is when fishermen have the best chance at catching a trophy bass.
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They are here one day and gone the next. Right now, bass don't know what to do. We've got morning lows in the 30s one day, and the next it's a low in the 50s with a high up around 70 degrees. I found some water in the back of Coleman the other day that was 61 degrees. That's very unusual for this time of year.
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In 2010, I proposed that Congress take its first pay cut in 77 years, and my effort had bipartisan support. And as part of leading by example, I returned 5 percent of my paycheck every month to pay down the debt.
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He is irrelevant to the discussion. He needs to stay out. He needs to stay in California.
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The score is not easy, so I had to make sure they do it well.
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I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.
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Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal
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When the San Francisco Democrats treat foreign affairs as an afterthought, as they did, they behaved less like a dove or a hawk than like an ostrich - convinced it could shut out the world by hiding its head in the sand.
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Americans need to face the truth about themselves, no matter how pleasant it is.
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Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.
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When the Soviet Union walked out of arms control negotiations, and refused even to discuss the issues, the San Francisco Democrats didn't blame Soviet intransigence. They blamed the United States.
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Gabby Giffords was a mentor of mine in the state Legislature and also in Congress.
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I have always been an independent voice for the folks in my district.