Slade Gorton
Slade Gorton
Thomas Slade Gorton IIIis an American politician. A Republican, he was a U.S. Senator from Washington state from 1981 to 1987, and from 1989 to 2001. He held both of the state's Senate seats in his career and was narrowly defeated for reelection twice as an incumbent: in 1986 by Brock Adams, and in 2000 by Maria Cantwell after a recount. Gorton was twice both senior senatorand junior senator. Since Gorton's 2000 re-election loss, no other Republican from Washington has...
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no charts, no data sets, and no analysis identifying Mohamed Atta or any of the other hijackers pre-9/11.
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The state attorneys general have abandoned the slightest precepts that they're representing consumers, ... There are no consumer allegations in their complaint, and I doubt very seriously that there will be any in the Department of Justice's complaint because there is no damage to consumers. Consumers aren't asking for this lawsuit.
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These are the two best second choices in American history.
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I don't know where those 70 field investigations were. The FBI didn't put them anywhere. Nobody in Washington knew about them.
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But again, it's easy to say that in hindsight. Almost no one in either party ... said it ahead of time.
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basically, with both administrations, I think each of them felt that it had a luxury of time, and it turned out that that luxury was not available to us.
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No evidence turns up to corroborate what people think they saw.
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She will come after us with $10 million. She simply writes another check,
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For decades Washington, D.C., has taken more and more control of your local schools. The federal government sends a little bit of money but a truckload of rules and regulations,
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All 10 of us are seriously disappointed in the F.B.I..
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a sacred contract between the federal government and those who count on it for tomorrow.
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I think it is impossible to overestimate the difficulty in moving a huge federal government with dozens and dozens of agencies from a culture in which information is treasured and kept and hidden, to one of appropriate information sharing.
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He's got one of the best legal minds in the Senate,
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The Microsoft lawsuit was totally ill-conceived from the beginning. It should have been a private action because it was primarily aimed to benefit a number of Microsoft competitors.