Marty Meehan Quotes

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• Parts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, including the section that guarantees that voting rights…
• The reality is that we have missed a lot of opportunities in Iraq because of a failed policy.
• For three years now, our brave men and women in uniform have done everything their country has asked of them, yet President Bush still does…
• At the same time, Republicans are pushing a $70 billion tax package that will overwhelmingly benefit the most wealthy Americans and actually increases the deficit…
• I support responsible spending, and balancing the budget, but this tax cut and the budget cuts of last month accomplish neither of these goals.
• Forty-five percent of Iraqi citizens think it is morally okay to attack American troops.
• First of all, I'm in favor of making price gouging a crime, and in fact, one the reasons I didn't vote for the Republican House…
• I don't want to remember 2005 as a year that the government heaped unnecessary burdens upon American families. Stealing from the poor and middle class…
• It is never too late to regain our credibility around the world.
• Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average…
• Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws.
• Regrettably, it has become clear that torture of detainees in United States custody is not limited to Abu Ghraib or even Iraq. Since Abu Ghraib,…
• The 55% of American households that make less than $40,000 will get a tax break of only $7 while the households that make more than…
• The poorest residents of the gulf coast were most affected by the devastating hurricanes, and the poorest Americans have shouldered a disproportionate share of the…
• The fact is I've been in Massachusetts for the last two weeks, and it seems over the last few days that the price is increasing…
• The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today.
• We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system.
• Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy…
• What's interesting is there are $12 billion of breaks in the energy bill that passed, yet we see that the sixth major oil companies in…
• Recently, lobbyists for the pharmaceutical industry wrote a prescription drug bill that increased their profits and did nothing to help seniors. The result: seniors are…

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