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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The president tonight spoke eloquently of both the suffering this hurricane has caused and about the hope that continues to rise in the Gulf Coast region, even as the floodwaters recede.
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The president's refusal to admit that he lied under oath perpetuates and compounds the untruths he formulated in the Paula Jones deposition and continued during his grand jury testimony,
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I get to continue my partnership with the speaker,
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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,
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There is no negotiating with a man like this, ... There is no safe path to accommodate his ambitions. Our only responsible option was to confront this threat before more Americans die. He must be removed from power.
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There exists in Travis County so great a prejudice against me that I cannot obtain a fair and impartial trial,
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We have reason to believe that top aides that have access to the Oval Office have been orchestrating a conspiracy to intimidate members of Congress by using their past lives as an embarrassment to intimidate,
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Our responsibility, that frankly we didn't perform very well, is to make sure those are legitimate earmarks for legitimate reasons.