Jeff Flake
Jeff Flake
Jeffry Lane "Jeff" Flakeis an American politician and member of the Republican Party who has served as the junior United States Senator from Arizona since 2013...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth31 December 1962
CountryUnited States of America
burden kids pass
It's unconscionable to pass this burden on to our kids,
addressing critical include package reform simply temporary worker
It's critical that any immigration reform package include a temporary worker program. Without it, we simply will not be addressing the issue.
base literally
The base is literally screaming, 'Stop the spending!'
elections leadership likely majority permanent year
It's more than likely there will be leadership elections in January. We don't want to go into an election year without a permanent majority leader.
ability hide
They want to keep the ability to hide earmarks. They don't want the scrutiny.
brought course fact home leaders
That has brought home the fact that we need not just new leaders but a course correction.
blame march minority ourselves
It's inexcusable, ... We're going to march ourselves right into the minority and we have no one to blame but ourselves.
tough
It was intense. This is a tough one.
government limited vision
There just is no vision for limited government,
across border christmas control virtually
There was virtually no control at the border. They would go back for birthdays, for Christmas, for holidays, because they could always come back across the border easily.
congress fat serving wonder
There's a lot of fat to trim. ... I wonder if we've been serving in the same Congress.
house wants white
The White House wants (immigration reform), and many of us in the House do so as well,
free incident last simply week
I think that this incident last week simply demonstrates that the INS is in a free fall.
afraid deathly delay election fear leadership leverage post
Our real leverage has come from the fear that DeLay will not have a post to come back to. They are deathly afraid of a leadership election in January.