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
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If the total cost of the hurricane recovery effort approaches $200 billion, as some have suggested, that would amount to every family in the country paying about $2,500. The last thing we need to do would be to saddle taxpayers with a tax increase,
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The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to bring federal spending under control.
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Senator Jon Kyl has given all of the eventual candidates in this race an excellent model of how to best serve Arizona and the country. He's set the bar extremely high, and I'll do my best to meet that standard.
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The Scanlon thing, the Cunningham thing, I think you have more people waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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The victims of this disaster deserve the swiftest and most efficient response that the federal government can provide,
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There's no shortage of places where the federal government can tighten its belt to pay the cost of the hurricane recovery effort. Let's face it, after years of uninterrupted growth, the federal government is bloated.
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There's kind of a left-right coalition against it.
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We in the House have plenty of time between now and Thanksgiving to do it.
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We need more honest government. We need a more open process, a more honest process.
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Three hundred thousand manufactured homes? People are screaming about that, ... I tell you, FEMA is a disaster.
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I can tell you if we don't see more than rhetoric, this leadership team is not secure.
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I encouraged him to get in the race as a way to draw the others out.
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If we can't have the courage to tell our constituents, hey, we've got to cut back, then if we can point to something and say, I would like to vote for more benefits for you, but this balanced budget amendment or statutory spending cap or whatever the device is, is preventing me from doing it.
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Many of us thought even before Katrina we couldn't afford this benefit. We certainly today have to think we should put this benefit off.