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Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money.
Roger Wicker / United States Senator
Men
Making Money
Wealth
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But my friends, these people in Egypt have stood by us in a tough, tough neighborhood.
Roger Wicker / United States Senator
Friends
Egypt
Neighborhood
People
Tough
Stood
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It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.
Roger Wicker / United States Senator
Government
Medical
Research
Breakthroughs
False
Suggest
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One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act.
Roger Wicker / United States Senator
Business
America
Effort
Items
Patriot
Patriot Act
Usa
Congressional
Renew
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The choice is not between conducting the stem cell research or not conducting it. That is not the choice.
Roger Wicker / United States Senator
Conducting
Research
Stem
Stem Cell
Stem Cell Research
Cell
Cell Research
Choice
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The issues surrounding illegal immigration are wide-ranging and complex, but there is no question about the need to secure our borders.
Roger Wicker / United States Senator
Borders
Illegal
Illegal Immigration
Immigration
Secure
Complex
No Question
Surrounding
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And while the U.S. can never be 100 percent safe from a future strike, our government is working around the clock on measures to protect the American people.
Roger Wicker / United States Senator
Government
Clock
People
Percent
Protect
Safe
Safety
Future Government People
American People
Measures
Strike
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Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts.
Roger Wicker / United States Senator
Constitutional Rights
Facts
Libertarian
Patriot
Raised
Rights
Act
Civil
Concerns
Constitutional
Libertarians
Provisions
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Decisive action has been taken on the home front with passage of the USA Patriot Act, which has strengthened the hand of law enforcement agencies to stop terrorists before they can act.
Roger Wicker / United States Senator
Home
America
Decisive Action
Enforcement
Law Enforcement
Patriot
Patriot Act
Taken
Usa
Agencies
Decisive
Passage
Strengthened
Terrorists
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We do foreign assistance for altruistic reasons, certainly for humanitarian reasons, of course. But the main reason we do foreign assistance is we do it in the American national interest.
Roger Wicker / United States Senator
Assistance
Altruistic
Main
Main Reason
National Interest
Reasons
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It is no coincidence that our country has not been attacked since 9-11. Our initiatives to protect the homeland and aggressively take the fight to the terrorists have been factors in that success.
Roger Wicker / United States Senator
Success
Coincidence
Country
Factors
Fighting
Homeland
Protect
Attacked
Initiatives
Terrorists
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Since other countries and terrorist organizations are working to secure information that could threaten national security, more funding is provided in the bill to increase counter-intelligence activities.
Roger Wicker / United States Senator
Funding
National Security
Other Countries
Secure
Terrorist
Activities
Bill
Provided
Threaten
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Illegal immigration is not just a matter of interest in states along our border with Mexico. It is having an effect on local economies, schools, health care delivery, and public safety all across the country.
Roger Wicker / United States Senator
Country
Delivery
Health Care
Illegal
Illegal Immigration
Immigration
Mexico
Public Safety
Safety
School
Border
Health Care Country
Effect
Local
Schools
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Several other aerospace and defense firms have announced plans to build facilities in north Mississippi in recent weeks. They join an impressive group of high-tech companies already doing business in our region.
Roger Wicker / United States Senator
Business
Technology
Aerospace
Defense
Mississippi
Plans
Announced
Companies
Facilities
High-Tech
Join
Recent
Region
Several
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Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion.
Roger Wicker / United States Senator
Marriage
Capital Gains
Children
Credit
Cutting
Dividends
Elements
Gains
Increase
Legislation
Rate
Tax
Bracket
Capital
Essential
Essential Elements
Penalty
Reduce
Tax Rate
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The private sector can go forward, if it must, with destruction of embryos for questionable and ethically challenged science. But spend the people's money on proven blood cord, bone marrow, germ cell, and adult cell research.
Roger Wicker / United States Senator
Money
Science
Blood
Bone Marrow
Cells
Destruction
Embryos
Marrow
Private Sector
Proven
Questionable
Research
Adult
Bone
Cell
Cell Research
Challenged
Cord
Ethically
Forward
Germ
Spend
Private
Sector
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Talk about national interests: When we went in with Operation Iraqi Freedom, some of our allies, Turkey, for example, would not let us through. How much trouble did that cause us, because we were not able to go into Iraq through Turkey?
Roger Wicker / United States Senator
Allies
Iraq
National Interests
Turkeys
For Example
How Much
Interests
Iraqi
Let Us
Operation
Turkey
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Over the past two years, the House has passed more than 50 measures focused on stimulating the economy and expanding opportunities for American workers. The tax relief provisions in this package have been an important part of our pro-growth agenda.
Roger Wicker / United States Senator
American Workers
Economy
Expanding
Focused
Relief
Workers
Tax
Agenda
Stimulating
Important Part
Measures
Opportunities
Package
Passed
Pro-Growth
Provisions
Tax Relief
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Embryonic stem cell research is legal in America, and nothing in the administration's current policy affects that legality; 400 lines are currently being used to conduct embryonic stem cell research, both in the private sector and by the Federal Government.
Roger Wicker / United States Senator
Legal
Administration
Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Federal Government
Legality
Lines
Policy
Private Sector
Research
Stem
Stem Cell
Stem Cell Research
Affects
Being Used
Cell
Cell Research
Conduct
Current
Embryonic
Embryonic Stem Cell
Private
Sector
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Well, one thing that has happened is they have had a presidential election in Egypt which has represented progress. Now, we were not happy with everything that happened with the parliamentary elections, and it was not exactly a perfect presidential election in Egypt.
Roger Wicker / United States Senator
Egypt
Election
Parliamentary
Presidential
Presidential Election
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Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information.
Roger Wicker / United States Senator
Legal
Agency
Barriers
Defense
Enforcement
Information
Law
Law Enforcement
Mean
National Defense
Patriot
Patriot Act
Terrorist
Working Together
Agencies
Detect
Disrupt
Enactment
Major
Prior
Provided
Sharing
Threats
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It may have hastened the move of the former Minority Leader Trent Lott, to the private sector because there was such an outpouring of bitter criticism...The result, if this is successful, will not be much different from what Sen. Lott and others were trying to enact back then...It may be that we are all just older and wiser.
Roger Wicker / United States Senator
Criticism
Moving
Successful
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