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
leadership team
I can tell you if we don't see more than rhetoric, this leadership team is not secure.
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.
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.
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I never believed that it was responsible to create this new entitlement, but it's even more irresponsible now, given that Hurricane Katrina has created new spending priorities for the federal government,
base literally
The base is literally screaming, 'Stop the spending!'
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.
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It's critical that any immigration reform package include a temporary worker program. Without it, we simply will not be addressing the issue.
ability hide
They want to keep the ability to hide earmarks. They don't want the scrutiny.
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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.
against coalition
There's kind of a left-right coalition against it.
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The victims of this disaster deserve the swiftest and most efficient response that the federal government can provide,
cunningham people shoe waiting
The Scanlon thing, the Cunningham thing, I think you have more people waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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The White House wants (immigration reform), and many of us in the House do so as well,