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I think the first order of business after the vote on the articles of impeachment is censure.
John Breaux / Former United States Senator
Firsts
Order
Thinking
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My home was 25 miles from the gulf, and I did not want to see it become a shorefront property.
John Breaux / Former United States Senator
Miles
Gulf
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We don't suggest that because San Francisco lies on top of an earthquake fault that it should be moved.
John Breaux / Former United States Senator
Moved
San Francisco
Earthquake
Fault
Francisco
Lies
San
Suggest
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I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better.
John Breaux / Former United States Senator
Boat
Congress
Done
Members
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Yes, we have got to quit worrying about fighting each other and trying to figure out a way to work together.
John Breaux / Former United States Senator
Fighting
Working Together
Worry
Work Together Way
Quit
Work Together
Worrying
Yes
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It's proper and appropriate to remind the Chinese about what they get out of solid relations with the United States.
John Breaux / Former United States Senator
Appropriate
Chinese
Relation
United States
Solid
Proper
Relations
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I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another part.
John Breaux / Former United States Senator
Aquariums
Country
Pork
Essential
Project
Object
Squander
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Congress should not be like the Super Bowl where you have to have one team that's going to win and another team that's going to be a loser.
John Breaux / Former United States Senator
Politics
Team
Winning
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Our struggle is to identify the sources of revenue and the means to obtain the funds.Without funds, all the planning and research studies can't help us.
John Breaux / Former United States Senator
Mean
Research Study
Struggle
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Our struggle is to identify the sources of revenue and the means to obtain the funds. Without funds, all the planning and research studies can't help us.
John Breaux / Former United States Senator
Planning
Research
Revenue
Struggle
Funds
Help
Identify
Obtain
Sources
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But we made a decision based on the fact that we have been up there a long time and that we feel that the seniority is important to the people of Louisiana.
John Breaux / Former United States Senator
Decision
Long Time
Louisiana
Seniority
Time Long Important
Time Decision Long
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Any that is why I think any kind of a stimulus package is going to have to help people who are without work, without a job, help them have health insurance.
John Breaux / Former United States Senator
Health
Stimulus
Work People Help
Work Health People
Health Insurance
Help People
Insurance
Package
Stimulus Package
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I am going to work with Tom Daschle. And I'll work with the Republican leaders and the president to try and come up with something that we can all be proud of.
John Breaux / Former United States Senator
Leader
President
Trying
Tom
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There is nothing wrong where we reach a point where maybe everybody could claim a victory. I think it would be good for the American people, which should be our first priority.
John Breaux / Former United States Senator
People
Priorities
Thinking
American People
Claim
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When you have a Senate that is 50 Democrats and 49 Republicans and one independent, it's quite obvious that the only way we are going to get something done is if we work together.
John Breaux / Former United States Senator
Done
Independent
Obvious
Senate
Working Together
Work Together Way
Work Together Done
Democrats
Republicans
Work Together
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When people see the budget, they're going to say, 'Oh, my God, I wanted a tax cut, but I didn't know what you were going to do to health care and to Medicare and national defense.'
John Breaux / Former United States Senator
Defense
Health Care
Medicare
National Defense
Tax
Oh
Budget
Cut
National
Oh My God
Tax Cut
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But, at the same time, I think that there is room for economic stimulus in terms of accelerated depreciation to encourage businesses to invest and to grow and ultimately to hire more people again.
John Breaux / Former United States Senator
Accelerate
Depreciation
Economic
Stimulus
Time Grow People
Again
Businesses
Invest
Encourage
Hire
More People
Room
Terms
Same Time
Ultimately
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I am pleased to see that information campaigns, such as the America's WETLAND effort, are getting the message out, and people are beginning to realize that wetlands loss in Louisiana affects us all.
John Breaux / Former United States Senator
America
Campaigns
Effort
Information
Loss
Affects
Beginning
Getting
Pleased
Realize
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Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser.
John Breaux / Former United States Senator
New Year
Super Bowl
Team
Thinking
Winning
Bowl
Judy
Super
Wins
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I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream.
John Breaux / Former United States Senator
Coast
Drainage
Levees
Louisiana
Needed
States
Two
United States
Accepts
Constructed
Downstream
Explain
Floods
Necessary
Problems
Two-Thirds
Upstream
While
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And the issues I think are important in Louisiana right now happen to be health care and education. And those are two areas that the federal government can play a very important role. And I think I can be effective in trying to help our state from the Washington scene.
John Breaux / Former United States Senator
Government
Federal Government
Health Care
Issues
Louisiana
Play
Scene
Thinking
Education Health Government
Area
Washington
Effective
Federal
Important Role
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