Jim Talent
Jim Talent
James Matthes "Jim" Talentis an American politician and former U.S. Senator from Missouri. He is a Republican and resided in the St. Louis area while serving in elected office. He identifies with the conservative wing of the Republican party, being outspoken on judicial appointments, abortion, flag burning, and defense issues...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth18 October 1956
CountryUnited States of America
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cross the goal line and immediately offer the more than 5 million uninsured men, women, and children the opportunity for health care coverage.
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A major earthquake is no time for on-the-job training.
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American businesses are likely to spend at least $50 billion fixing Y2K computer glitches,
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It's a question of fairness, ... Small and family businesses deserve to have the same deduction for health-care costs as Fortune 500 companies.
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This may in the minds of predators create a loophole, and I think we should try and plug that loophole as quickly as possible by any means possible.
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Predators routinely represent themselves as someone else on the Internet to entice kids and our law enforcement should be allowed to represent themselves as someone else to protect kids, ... If a predator thinks he's meeting a minor and a law enforcement official shows up instead, federal law should allow for a conviction. Our legislation makes clear that law enforcement can patrol the Internet to help make it safer for our kids.
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The 'Women's Business Center Amendments Act' will improve this important program and help the existing centers prosper and expand the opportunities for women-entrepreneurs to start and run their own companies,
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Despite the heroic efforts on the local level by our sheriffs and our chiefs and our deputies and our officers, this is not a challenge that we have, by and large, been succeeding at defeating. Now it sounds like it's different here in Kirksville, and that's great, but we have been losing ground in most places.
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