Tom DeLay
Tom DeLay
Thomas Dale DeLayis a former member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Texas's 22nd congressional district from 1985 until 2006. He was Republican PartyHouse Majority Leader from 2003–05...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth8 April 1947
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Four justices of the Florida State Supreme Court have distorted the judicial process into nothing more than a mechanism for providing Mr. Gore with the victory he was unable to win November 7. This ruling not only contradicts, but assaults, the most basic principles of jurisprudence,
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I don't think anyone is really thinking about that,
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I don't want the federal government to take over disaster response, believe me,
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I get to continue my partnership with the speaker,
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if we spent less time ducking responsibility and more time welcoming it.
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Whatever it takes we will do to help the victims.
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There is no greater American in my mind, at least today, than Bob Livingston because he understood what this debate was all about. It was about honor and decency and integrity and the truth,
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There is no fat left to cut in the federal budget.
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What I heard was what most of us already knew, ... I'm sure the report will give the details substantiating what we've all already known, that basically security is not something that can be 100 percent.
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Under no circumstances will I vote to spend one penny of the Social Security trust fund on anything but Social Security,
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He vetoed the foreign aid bill because he wanted to increase foreign aid by 30 percent, and he wanted to take it out of the Social Security surplus,
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He is trying to pull the legal equivalent of a 'do-over' since he knows very well that the charges he brought against me last week are totally manufactured and illegitimate. This is an abomination of justice,
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I would suggest to Senator Daschle that he put aside his party's planned fund-raising trip and take up the serious business of this country.
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There is no question that these democratically elected governments, asking collectively to increase the economic security of those countries, could make it a national security vote if we turn our backs on them,