Jim Kolbe
Jim Kolbe
James Thomas "Jim" Kolbeis a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives for Arizona's 5th congressional district, 1985–2003 and 8th congressional district, 2003–2007...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth28 June 1942
CountryUnited States of America
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Through free trade, we have exported our principles, as well as our products - sharing America's freedom and democracy with the world,
exit looking view
My view is, I'm not looking for an exit strategy. I want a solution.
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We have so much money going to so many different agencies that I think there is great opportunity for misuse of funds and mismanagement and even, unfortunately, fraud. We need to move as quickly as possible.
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not wasted on government bureaucracy or frivolous projects.
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The bill before us today does nothing to solve the real problems of immigration. It's worse than nothing because it tries to fool the public. It pulls the wool over their eyes. It pretends we are doing something to secure our border when in fact we are doing nothing except throw words and money at the problem.
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We will be able to funnel 99 percent of the currently undocumented population through ports of entry, where they can be documented, screened and monitored to give the U.S. a better understanding of who is living within the nation's borders.
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They need to weigh all of this because if you don't sign up for it now and you wait 10 years to sign up for it, when you're 75, you're going to pay a much higher premium.
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they have got to turn up the heat?. The president has got to work on building up support for this.
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Any realistic guest-worker program must include provisions for those who are already in this country regardless of how they arrived here,
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As chairman of the subcommittee responsible for Iraq's reconstruction, I have seen the positive and necessary oversight role a special inspector general plays in monitoring this spending.
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A free trade agreement with Malaysia is about more than economics.
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It was useful and helpful to know that they've moved this far ahead in their specific proposal.
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The mood on Capitol Hill is not a pleasant one, ... There's a divisiveness that I think we haven't seen in a long time and I worry about that. I like to think that I've been a moderating influence on that.
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You're finding there is a lot of competition among these plans to get different drugs signed up and to get them at the lowest possible costs because they want to attract people to their plan.