For the life of me, I don't understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities.
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College costs continue to rise, and student loan debt threatens to price many Americans out of a college education and out of the middle class.
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It is my belief that tax credits only go to people who are making money, and they generally keep it.
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The sole purpose of nuclear weapons must be to deter their use by others.
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We have a chance to wind down and expedite the removal of 96 percent of the world's nuclear weapons. What an achievement it would be, if at the end of the next administration, we could say that the nuclear arsenals of both Russia and the United States had been reduced to the barest minimums.
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Ports are the gaping hole in America's homeland security.
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We're not perfect, and there are some dark patches in our past, but what makes us special is that we recognize these evils, we come to grips with them, and we fix them.
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Information-sharing is elementary to good intelligence work.
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The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans.