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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Our members want us to continue, the speaker wants us to continue to negotiate, and so does the Senate, so we're going to continue to negotiate and see if we can get a bill in December,
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We'll always listen to what the president has to say, but we have a bill that has already passed the House; the Senate is working on passing it. ... We have to move forward.
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We're close -- very close, ... Hopefully we'll have the bill tonight or tomorrow.
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The outlook is not very good, ... Even if the bill is passed, it wouldn't stop these shootings.
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As a member of the House leadership, I am fully supportive of doing what is in the best interests of young Elian and moving this bill through Congress when we return,
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My earmarks are pretty important to building an economy in that region, ... What's good about the highway bill ... is it creates hundreds of thousands of jobs. It is an economic engine that drives the economy.
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Make no mistake, this $10.5 billion is initial relief,
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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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with the intent that a felony be committed.
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We have no choice, ... This is a crisis. We can sustain this as long as we need to, to get them back with their families or absorb them into the community.
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What the Senate passed is a nationalized system; what we hope to pass is a federalized system.
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We believe that Ronnie Earle is a politically vindictive district attorney, ... He's pursuing Jim Ellis because he works for Tom DeLay.
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We're saying 'no, Mr. President,' ... No means no, we're not going to spend a dime out of Social Security and we're not going to raise taxes, but we are going to balance the budget.
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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,