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
concern hope job
Well, I hope so. I can do my job with or without the title. That doesn't concern me.
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We don't need a hundred hearings going on calling people out of the field to testify... people need to be doing their jobs now,
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It's amazing the professionalism that I've noticed. The morale is up, ... They have a sense of accomplishment and they're feeling very good about the job that they're doing. They also understand how complicated this is in rebuilding a whole country from scratch.
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People need to be doing their jobs right now,
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If you raise the taxes on these people, you might not have the jobs to provide, so the tax cuts are incredibly important.
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I just challenge the president to stay in town and get the job done,
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If we had those 40 million children that were [aborted] over the last 30 years, we wouldn't need the illegal immigrants to fill the jobs that they are doing today.
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I am not a federal employee. I am a constitutional officer. My job is the Constitution of the United States, I am not a government employee. I am in the Constitution.
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You know, there is an argument to be made that these extensions of unemployment benefits keep people from going and finding jobs. In fact there are some studies that have been done that show people stay on unemployment compensation and they don't look for a job until two or three weeks before they know the benefits are going to run out.
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What's happening here is the president is desperate to spend more money, ... Late Edition.
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I've seen some of the devastation first hand and I know they have a long road ahead of them and helping to facilitate that effort is the House's No. 1 priority for the foreseeable future,
disaster gratitude
It would be such a disaster ... I think what you see is a combination of gratitude and prudence.
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I see the president's package as the floor, not the ceiling.
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is going to be very hard to defeat.