Michael Oxley
Michael Oxley
Michael Garver "Mike" Oxleywas an American politician of the Republican Party who served as a U.S. Representative from the 4th congressional district of Ohio...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth11 February 1944
CountryUnited States of America
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I've never met John Roberts personally, although he was a young lawyer on President Reagan's staff at about the same time that I came to Congress in the early 1980s,
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These are strong new protections for consumer privacy.
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The tax cut he played a large part in enacting returned much needed dollars to the pockets of hard-working Americans across the nation and bolstered a slumping economy,
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Judge Roberts has a brilliant legal mind and respect for the judicial process, which is supposed to interpret the law, not make it,
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If anything, he might be a little bit naive about what goes on in this town,
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I believe the checklist has been met, ... while whining that their competitors need more regulation. My feeling is that the days of that kind of lobbying are numbered.
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I have been working closely with local officials to promote the valuable contributions of the plant to the nation, the state, and the local community.
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What the law really does is enshrine the principles of honestly and accountability that I learned growing up in Ohio ... You never get in trouble by doing the right thing,
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We hope to go to the floor early next month with that legislation. We think we will get a strong bipartisan vote in the House for regulatory relief.
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I think the president will make the right decision, ... I don't think you should have any kind of a balancing act, or some kind of a litmus test. I think it should be purists who believe in judicial restraint, and who believe that writing the laws is the job of the legislative branch and not the judicial branch.
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a bit more flexibility for small and medium-size companies.
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I am proud of the bipartisan process that produced this legislation. Corporate responsibility is an investor and retiree issue. It is not a partisan issue, and those who would attempt to make it so do a real disservice to all of us.
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I don't think they want to, or are not prepared to answer some very pointed questions about what went wrong.
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The liberal groups spent months raising money so they could take down anyone President Bush nominated. But they have not been able to touch judge Roberts.