Tim Johnson
Tim Johnson
Politician and member of the Democratic party who became a U.S. Senator from South Dakota in 1997 after serving in the U.S. House of Representatives for ten years.
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth28 December 1946
CityCanton, SD
CountryUnited States of America
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I think a lot of the buck does stop with FEMA, ... Their system for matching law enforcement needs with law enforcement resources out around the country broke down.
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I'm also pleased to know that in the long term, South Dakota-produced ethanol will help reduce the unpredictable price of gas and help make our country less dependent on foreign sources of oil,
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The Japanese and other countries would love to buy American beef, I believe, but they want to know that it's American beef that they're buying and not beef that's simply been funneled through our country from BSE-infected nations.
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Bankruptcy represents a longstanding commitment in this country to helping people get a fresh start. This principle has never been giving only certain people a fresh start.
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I have serious concerns about whether it's prudent to give any foreign country substantial leverage over the U.S. economy. Instead of spending $80 billion on important programs here at home, we're sending this money overseas just to pay interest on our debt.
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We have a country that wants to believe it is the best in everything, but until all of us embrace the idea that health care should be a right, not a privilege, our system cannot be glibly described as, quote, 'the best in the world.
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We were trying to kick the bag out of each other. Ryan doesn't believe me when I tell him this, but he is so unbelievably strong. If he had gone as hard as he could have for the last two laps he would have won no question. But when you try and play McCormack's game he's going to lose, because Mark already has 150 finished just like that in his brain.
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We were trying to kick the bag out of each other, ... Ryan doesn't believe me when I tell him this, but he is so unbelievably strong. If he had gone as hard as he could have for the last two laps he would have won no question. But when you try and play McCormack's game he's going to lose, because Mark already has 150 finished just like that in his brain.
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The process was so difficult and so charged that I don't know if a two-year bill would have gotten you anything other than more of the same. Do you rip the Band-Aid off fast or slow?
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This proposal is ill-advised and ill-conceived and obviously occurred with little consultation within the farming community,
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This project is remarkable in its scope and scale, and I congratulate John Morrell on this endeavor. The project can be expected to provide a considerable boost to our South Dakota workforce and promises economic growth in the Sioux Falls community.
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President Bush has stated that the patients' bill of rights legislation ... is dead on arrival, ... If the president can't bring himself to sign a true patients' bill of rights, then he should let it become law without his signature just as he did when he was governor of Texas.
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It is not like there are not other things that need to be done here and we are well aware of that. There are other infrastructure issues here, ... The proposed National Guard Armory is an example of that.
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I think there's a lot of concern, has FEMA become a political dumping ground? Have they lost their professionalism, lost the focus under this new kind of circumstance so there will be a hard look at FEMA and what the overall response has been.