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Any president has to work with Congress.
Mac Thornberry / U.s. Representative
Congress
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Our country has had a hard time learning that lesson with energy.
Mac Thornberry / U.s. Representative
Hard Time
Lesson
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My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.
Mac Thornberry / U.s. Representative
Doubt
Sides
Views
When In Doubt
Err
View
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Making America great again begins with making our military great again.
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Begins
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If you endorse somebody, it's like a stamp of approval and embracing them.
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Approval
Embracing
Endorse
Stamp
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We need a strong, vibrant economy to produce the tax revenue to fund our military.
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Economy
Fund
Military
Produce
Revenue
Tax
Vibrant
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In a budget this massive, there are certainly areas where I think we could do much better.
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Massive
Budget
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We face a wide array of threats, which means we have to have a wide array of capabilities.
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Wide
Array
Capabilities
Threats
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Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.
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Quality
Economic Growth
Growth
Human Progress
Progress
Quality Of Life
Better Quality
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When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.
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Congress
Helping
Important Role
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I know of no serious proposals that would change the way Social Security operates for today's seniors.
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Change
Senior
Social Security
Today
Proposals
Seniors
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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Efficient
Energy
Energy Sources
Research
Forms
Existing
New Forms
Sources
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No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.
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Calendars
Fourth
July
Rehabilitation
Calendar
Date
Stands
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I receive contributions from a variety of people who are interested in what the Armed Services Committee does.
Mac Thornberry / U.s. Representative
Armed Services
Variety
Armed
Committee
Contributions
Receive
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To protect America's security, we are going to have to pull America's military out of the swamp of Washington politics.
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Swamp
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The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.
Mac Thornberry / U.s. Representative
War
Challenges
Terrorism
Trying
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An aggressor will always push forward and do more until he meets resistance. We've seen that time and time again over history.
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Resistance
Time History Always
Time History Will
Aggressor
Meets
Time And Time
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A military starved of resources, training, and equipment will not long be able to protect the country physically or economically.
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Equipment
Economically
Starved
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If the men and women who protect the country are to succeed in the missions they are assigned, we simply must invest more in defense.
Mac Thornberry / U.s. Representative
Defense
Men And Women
Missions
Men Women Must
Assigned
Invest
Women Men Country
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We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.
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Environmental
Agendas
Balance
Common Sense
Energy Production
Political
Regulation
Production
Proper
Restore
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If China sets the rules for much of the world's economy, America will feel the consequences in our pocketbooks as well as in our security.
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Sets
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Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred to as much, if not more, than when he was alive.
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Alive
Forty
Passing
Years
More Much Than
Churchill
Forty Years
Quoted
Referred
Revered
Winston
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It would be better for the country if the Pentagon and the military do not shut down at any point because the threats to the country do not shut down.
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Pentagon
Shut
Threats
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The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.
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Anniversary
Smile
Men
Causes
Leader
None
Reagan
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The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
Mac Thornberry / U.s. Representative
Opportunity
Children
Destroying
Parent
Tax
Businesses
Death Tax
Family-Owned
Pass
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If you're an adult, if you are eligible to be drafted and vote, then there's a certain amount of decision-making power, and I think we have to be respectful of that.
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Decision Making
Respectful
Drafted
Eligible
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Mr. Speaker, I agree with those who say that the Global War on Terrorism is actually a Global War of Ideas and that terrorism is one of the tactics used in that War.
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War
Agree
Ideas
Tactics
Terrorism
Mr
Global War
Speaker
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In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.
Mac Thornberry / U.s. Representative
Assuming
Energy
Flipped
Fuel
Goes On
Granted
Light
Plenty
Cheap
Lights
Sum
Switch
Took
Vehicles
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For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe.
Mac Thornberry / U.s. Representative
America
Two
Winning
Answered
Centuries
Quest
Repeatedly
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President Trump has made rebuilding our military strength one of his top priorities. More money is certainly required, but so is reform of the Pentagon and how it does business.
Mac Thornberry / U.s. Representative
Pentagon
Priorities
Rebuilding
Military Strength
President Trump
Required
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It is very distressing that anyone would look at these matters from a political viewpoint. Core beliefs about when life begins and ends are far too important for any such calculations.
Mac Thornberry / U.s. Representative
Calculations
Core
Distressing
Begins
Beliefs
Matters
Viewpoint
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We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic feet of recoverable natural gas.
Mac Thornberry / U.s. Representative
Alaska
Allowing
Barrels
Billions
Drilling
Feet
Gas
Oil
Refuge
Wildlife
National Wildlife Refuge
Provide
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Since World War II, the rules-based international order created and maintained by the United States has benefited peoples around the globe and none more so than Americans here at home.
Mac Thornberry / U.s. Representative
World War Ii
War Home World
Globe
Maintained
World War
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And to stick our head in the sand and pretend that we are somehow safer if we do not know or to pretend we are somehow safer if we limit our options seems to me not only foolish but actually dangerous.
Mac Thornberry / U.s. Representative
Foolish
Limits
Sand
Sticks
Pretend
Limit
Options
Stick
Safer
Somehow
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I am particularly disturbed that our country is the largest financial supporter of an organization that not only wastes a lot of our money but also seems to be increasingly anti-American in its policies and conduct.
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Country
Organization
Waste
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I'm for experimentation. I'm for trying things. That's true whether we're talking about hardware or personnel issues. We need to try some things, because doing what we have always done because we've always done it that way doesn't work.
Mac Thornberry / U.s. Representative
Experimentation
Hardware
Personnel
Work True Way
Work Always Done
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Even talking about change can be threatening to entrenched interests...Careers in the Pentagon, the board room, or the halls of Congress are not advanced by creating the disruptions that go with real change, so there are very few voices willing to speak up for the future and move beyond rhetoric to make serious choices.
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Military
Moving
Real
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The Constitution places the responsibility on Congress for setting the size of the U.S. military, ensuring sufficient resources are in place to train and equip it, and funding maintenance programs and replacing worn-out equipment. We have a moral responsibility to ensure that our people are fully prepared and fully supported.
Mac Thornberry / U.s. Representative
Congress
Maintenance
Military
Moral
Moral Responsibility
Prepared
Resources
Setting
Size
Sufficient
Worn Out
Ensure
Equip
Fully
Programs
Our People
Places
Replacing
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