Russell Feingold
Russell Feingold
Russell Dana "Russ" Feingoldis a lawyer and politician from the U.S. state of Wisconsin. He is a candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2016, and previously served as a Democratic member of the U.S. Senate from January 3, 1993 to January 3, 2011. From 1983 to 1993, Feingold was a Wisconsin State Senator representing the 27th District...
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Perks are a serious issue. If the bill only involves disclosure, that's not acceptable. That is not anywhere near what the public expects us to do here.
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Mr. Chairman, if those items could be entered in the record?
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One reason I voted for him and voted against Alberto Gonzalez (for attorney general) is that Gonzalez could not find the words to say that torture is illegal and that the President is not above the law. Roberts could.
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None of us want it to expire. It is only the president who is basically playing chicken with us.
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No one should make the mistake of thinking that a shorter extension will make it possible to jam the unacceptable conference report through the Congress. That bill is dead and cannot be revived.
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If by dignified they mean that tough questions are out of bounds, I must strongly disagree,
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There can be debate about whether the law should be changed (but) the idea that the President can just make up a law, in violation of his oath of office, has to be answered.
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While the president has now given four speeches ... the American public, the Iraqi people and our brave troops still don't have any clarity about the U.S. military mission in Iraq.
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It's the reality of a situation like this that when you have a large troop presence that it has the tendency to fuel the insurgency because they can make the incorrect and unfair claim that somehow the United States is here to occupy this country, which of course is not true.
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Despite cheap-shot attempts to suggest he is not supportive of campaign finance legislation, the fact is that Al Gore was there for reform from the time of McCain-Feingold and before, every single time.
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It's hard for me to imagine it not being first,
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although I strongly prefer that this trial conclude with a final vote on the articles.
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There seems to be a disconnect between the rhetoric in Washington about what this is all about and what we hear here.
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All of us have made mistakes, ... But it is a common device of those who seek to thwart reform to insist upon the perfection of the reformer.