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Finger pointing does not provide answers to grieving relatives
Bennie Thompson / U.s. Representative
Answers
Doe
Grieving
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I think people tend to apply where they think the greatest opportunities lie.
Bennie Thompson / U.s. Representative
Apply
Lie
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I've never really read any books about Washington, neither the politics nor the city.
Bennie Thompson / U.s. Representative
Washington
Neither
Nor
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Medicare provided guaranteed equal coverage, something that the private sector could not
Bennie Thompson / U.s. Representative
Equal
Medicare
Private Sector
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Medicare provided guaranteed equal coverage, something that the private sector could not.
Bennie Thompson / U.s. Representative
Coverage
Equal
Private Sector
Guaranteed
Provided
Sector
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Today's terrorists do not share a particular ethnic, educational or socioeconomic background.
Bennie Thompson / U.s. Representative
Educational
Background
Ethnic
Terrorists
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At home I have hunting magazines on my nightstand. I'm an avid hunter. I hunt every chance I get.
Bennie Thompson / U.s. Representative
Avid
Hunting
Magazines
Every Chance
Hunt
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Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake.
Bennie Thompson / U.s. Representative
Men
Action
Battle
Men And Women
Serious
Nation
Women Men Battle
Perhaps
Sending
Undertake
Young Men
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I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us.
Bennie Thompson / U.s. Representative
Confidence
Smile
America
Believe
Consumer Confidence
Corporate
Corporate America
Firsts
Believe I Believe Must
Consumer
Expects
Restored
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Americans have almost been conditioned to believe that the majority of people who seek to do us harm are those of Muslim descent.
Bennie Thompson / U.s. Representative
Descent
Harm
Majority
Believe People Who
Conditioned
Seek
Muslim
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If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.' Biggest lie ever told.
Bennie Thompson / U.s. Representative
Lying
Mississippi
Race
School
Lie
Whites
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While I agree that homegrown terrorism and the jihadist threat deserve continuing attention, a single-minded approach ignores all other threats.
Bennie Thompson / U.s. Representative
Agree
Approach
Attention
Continuing
Deserve
Homegrown
Terrorism
Threat
Ignores
Single-Minded
Threats
While
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History suggests that attempts to privatize Medicare by relying on private companies to offer Medicare benefits in rural America simply will not work.
Bennie Thompson / U.s. Representative
Benefits
Rural America
Attempts
Companies
Privatize
Relying
Rural
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Unfortunately, WorldCom is not the only company caught up in this kind of accounting scandal. The impact this will have on the general public is yet to be seen.
Bennie Thompson / U.s. Representative
Business
Impact
Scandal
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We must maximize our efforts to counter violent extremism, radicalization and recruitment in the United States and stop using xenophobia and ethnic stereotyping.
Bennie Thompson / U.s. Representative
Xenophobia
Extremism
Recruitment
States
Counter
Efforts
Ethnic
Maximize
Stereotyping
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Medicare debates in Congress should result in better Medicare benefits for all our nation's seniors. We're not asking for special treatment for rural America, just a fair deal.
Bennie Thompson / U.s. Representative
America
Benefits
Congress
Rural America
Senior
Special
Treatment
Nation
Debates
Fair
Result
Rural
Seniors
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Disaster preparedness, whether it's in anticipation of potential weather-related incidents or terrorist incidents requires a skill set that in my mind someone has to be trained for,.
Bennie Thompson / U.s. Representative
Mind
Skills
Weather
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Even President Bush has cited the need to outlaw the practice of corporations making loans to their officers. Strangely enough, when the President was a corporate officer, he took out several loans from the company.
Bennie Thompson / U.s. Representative
Corporate
Corporations
Outlaw
Practice
President Bush
Bush
Cited
Loans
Officer
Several
Strangely
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Now, we are seeing many of these same companies face the truth about their financial standing. Congress is faced with the challenge of reforming our accounting industry and holding corporate executives responsible for their actions.
Bennie Thompson / U.s. Representative
Business
Challenges
Faces
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Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.
Bennie Thompson / U.s. Representative
Wisdom
Court
Individual Rights
Strong
Successful
Supreme
Supreme Court
Supreme Court Justice
Temperament
Willingness
Fairly
Agenda
Aside
Nominee
Interpret
Political Agenda
Possess
Protecting
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Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas.
Bennie Thompson / U.s. Representative
Education
Quality
Add
Assistance
Defense
Drug
Program
Public Education
Rural Areas
Shore
Social Security
Surplus
Tax Breaks
Tax
Area
Benefit
Breaks
Fortify
Prescription
Provide
Rural
Squander
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