Richard Neal
Richard Neal
Richard Edmund Nealis an American politician and the U.S. Representative for Massachusetts's 1st congressional district. He is a member of the Democratic Party and a former city councilor and mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts. He is currently the dean of the Massachusetts delegation to the House of Representatives...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth14 February 1949
CountryUnited States of America
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Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, electrical appliances, extension cords, and lightning.
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Eventually all of us will have to sacrifice a little to pull our Nation through this time; we've done it before and we'll have to do it again.
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You know what this argument is about, because the American people know what this argument is about, it is about money. That is all it is about, money.
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Fundamentally, I believe that the U.S. can improve its international standing and its national security by expanding trade and strengthening its relationships with moderate Muslim countries.
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We see what happens to this money when it gets to the fourth and fifth generation of the same family: thrift is gone, the work ethic is gone.
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Under the Bush plan, Social Security gets weaker, not stronger.
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We can preserve Social Security benefits for generations of Americans without privatizing this important program.
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But what is striking about this, in a town that often talks about tax cuts, we could quite easily, Republicans and Democrats working together, do something that everybody in America desires, and that is a simplification of our Tax Code.
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I would submit to you today that this is the easiest thing in this body that could be done with Democrats and Republicans to simplify the Tax Code.
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The confirmation of full and final IRA weapons decommissioning will have a swift and dramatic impact on the Northern Ireland peace process.
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Well, when I was a kid, if my father was witnessing something that he thought was particularly outrageous or he was looking at some sort of a question that he thought lacked proper definition, he would say, Well, at least Jesse James had the honor to wear a mask.
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Let me announce this to the American people tonight one of the best things about this debate, as a Democrat from Massachusetts, I have proposed eliminating, getting rid of the alternative minimum tax.
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It is easy to talk about tax simplification, and we all know it is very difficult to accomplish; but for the last three Congresses, I have offered a tax simplification bill that would include a paid-for repeal of alternative minimum tax.
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It is day after day in this institution, borrow money, run up the debt, run up the deficits and then with a straight face say, we are going to repeal a tax that affects 1 percent of the American people, just 1 percent of the American people.