I'm not opposed to the idea of helping regions that are struggling to get a reasonable fraction of federal research spending.
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The real question is whether the federal government should be in the business of redistributing wealth to equalize the economic status of every state, including states where not many people, for whatever reason, have chosen to live. That type of redistribution is a distortion of our economy.
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I think the amount of love and trust on Capitol Hill is often in short supply, and having more dogs here would probably make this place work better and maybe in a more bipartisan manner.
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America cannot become just a service and financial services economy, and to prevent that, there is no substitute for having people with successful, real-world manufacturing experience in Congress.
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We should not chip away at the protections that have built the largest economy and the largest middle class in the world.
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The freedoms and prosperity we enjoy in America are thanks to the brave men and women who have served in our armed forces.
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History has not looked kindly on us when we've prevented people fleeing violence from seeking refuge in this country.
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If we had created rules to automatically turn up the required down payment on a home when there's a housing bubble, or just say that the mortgage on a property cannot be larger than the value of the property three years ago, the amount of human misery that would've been avoided would've been enormous.
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I think when you provide something absolutely free, the potential of abuse exists. Getting an education without skin in the game is not good.