Jon Kyl
Jon Kyl
Jon Llewellyn Kyl is a former United States Senator from Arizona, where he served as Senate Minority Whip, the second-highest position in the Republican Senate leadership. He currently works in the lobbying group at the law firm Covington & Burling...
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At 47 percent, the (estate) tax today is a great inhibitor to growth, ... and is also a business-ending event.
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We've got to set an agenda that deals with a lot of different things here, and where estate tax fits into that is just not known at this time.
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The death tax is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral.
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This is critical to both avoid the taint of amnesty for those who have broken the law, as well as preserve the flexibility of a guest worker program to fluctuate along with the needs of the U.S. economy.
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It is the only time that . . . you'll have the opportunity to be directly lobbied in the political context in an appropriate way.
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Even if you win, you have no idea if you'll be paid off.
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We cannot control immigration unless we control our borders.
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War is tough, and there are casualties. And just before victory, sometimes, it gets most violent.
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You need to go home and wait in line with everybody in their home. This is the pure amnesty question right here.
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One is not qualified for the court by virtue of his position on issues, but rather by his ability to judge fairly,
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One way that we might encourage others to come forth with potential savings is to demonstrate that we ourselves are willing to forgo this COLA, ... It's a gesture that members of the Senate ought to make.
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According to the National Security Administration, there are over a hundred countries that are working on techniques to penetrate our information infrastructure. Many of them are aimed at the Defense Department and high security areas in both the private sector and the government, so it's a very serious threat.
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It's a symptom of too much government largesse. Everyone is elbowing their way to the trough to get their fair share.
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There's a lot of fat in the current budget. I voted no on this highway bill that everybody has talked about. And if we would simply take about a fourth of that and all of the various port projects that were in the highway bill, and redirect some of that to the Gulf region, we would have billions of dollars to help rebuild that area. ...