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This nation's 23 million small businesses need a budget that reflects their value to the economy.
Solomon Ortiz / U.s. Representative
Economy
Needs
Small Business
Budget
Businesses
Reflects
Small Businesses
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Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that.
Solomon Ortiz / U.s. Representative
Teacher
Bullets
Rehabilitation
Silver
Standing
Teachers
Bullet
Worldwide
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Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.
Solomon Ortiz / U.s. Representative
Education
Inspirational
Life
Success
Teacher
Impact
Lasting
Students
Life Education Teacher
Teachers
Make
Lives
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Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006.
Solomon Ortiz / U.s. Representative
Anniversary
Smile
March
Peace Corps
Today
Umpires
Rise
Mr
Corps
Speaker
Reached
Recognize
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Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.
Solomon Ortiz / U.s. Representative
Jobs
Children
Dependent
Doors
Education Children Better
Opens
Possibilities
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In addition to serving overseas, the Peace Corps' Crisis Corps Volunteers have helped their fellow Americans.
Solomon Ortiz / U.s. Representative
Crisis
Peace Corps
Serving
Addition
Corps
Fellow
Fellow Americans
Helped
Overseas
Volunteers
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Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow.
Solomon Ortiz / U.s. Representative
Teacher
People
Public Servants
Tomorrow
Young
Greatest
Teachers
Nation
Public
Educating
Spend
Servants
Shaping
Young People
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Supporting the troops has got to mean more than bumper stickers on pickup trucks, my friends. We need to give them what they need.
Solomon Ortiz / U.s. Representative
Bumper
Giving
Mean
Troops
Pickup
Supporting
Trucks
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Small businesses drive this economy and it is unacceptable that the President's budget proposal does not give them the tools they need to be successful.
Solomon Ortiz / U.s. Representative
Giving
President
Proposal
Successful
Tools
Drive
Budget
Businesses
Small Businesses
Unacceptable
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Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.
Solomon Ortiz / U.s. Representative
Education
Teacher
Fulfilled
Priorities
Students
Talking
Teachers
Desperately
Help
Promises
Top
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To date, nearly 100,000 Hispanics have died with AIDS. Since Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the United States, our challenge is even greater.
Solomon Ortiz / U.s. Representative
Aids
Challenges
Died
Groups
United States
Nearly
Date
Fastest
Hispanics
Minority
Minority Group
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The Peace Corps is an outstanding organization that promotes peace through helping countless individuals who want to help build a better life for the community in which they serve.
Solomon Ortiz / U.s. Representative
Better Life
Community
Helping
Organization
Outstanding
Peace Corps
Want
Corps
Countless
Individuals
Serve
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As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes along with premature births and birth defects.
Solomon Ortiz / U.s. Representative
Apprehension
Birth
Birth Defects
Defects
Entering
Father
Grandfather
Joy
New Life
Pain
Premature
Firsthand
Goes
Witnessed
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In South Texas, we understand how vital port security is and we fear the day a weapon of mass destruction could be brought into a U.S. port in a container and cause hundreds of thousands of casualties.
Solomon Ortiz / U.s. Representative
Casualties
Destruction
Mass
Mass Destruction
Port
Security
Texas
Brought
Cause
Container
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Weapon
Port Security
Thousands
Vital
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I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and preventive services aimed at reducing the rate of birth defects.
Solomon Ortiz / U.s. Representative
Birth
Birth Defects
Defects
Dimes
Legislation
March
Prevention
Program
Rate
Reducing
Research
Surveillance
Enact
Provide
Services
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From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when called, gone where ordered, and defended our nation with honor.
Solomon Ortiz / U.s. Representative
Afghanistan
Bitter
Cold
Gone
Honor
Iraq
Soldier
Winter
Answered
Defended
Mountains
Nation
Courageously
Deserts
Forge
Ordered
Soldiers
Valley
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When no other schools in the Southeastern Conference or the former Southwestern Conference would award them athletic scholarships, African Americans had been recruited by and playing for Texas Western since the 1950s.
Solomon Ortiz / U.s. Representative
Former
Texas
Western
African
African Americans
Award
Conference
Scholarships
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To honor our national promise to our veterans, we must continue to improve services for our men and women in uniform today and provide long overdue benefits for the veterans and military retirees who have already served.
Solomon Ortiz / U.s. Representative
Veterans Day
Men
Benefits
Honor
Men And Women
Military
Our Veterans
Overdue
Promise
Men Women Today
Women Men Today
Provide
Retirees
Served
Uniform
Veterans
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For my constituents, owning a home is the culmination of many years of hard work and the realization of the American Dream. At no time should a local entity take those years of hard work solely to increase their tax revenue.
Solomon Ortiz / U.s. Representative
Dream
Home
Constituents
Culmination
Entity
Hard Work
Increase
Realization
Revenue
Time Work Home
Tax
Work Time Home
Local
No Time
Owning
Solely
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Over the last five years, the Administration and the majority in Congress have appropriated less than $900 million for port security grants - despite the Coast Guard's determination that $5.4 billion is needed over 10 years.
Solomon Ortiz / U.s. Representative
Administration
Congress
Despite
Determination
Grants
Majority
Port
Years
Billion
Guard
Port Security
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As a former veteran, I understand the needs of veterans, and have been clear - we will work together, stand together with the Administration, but we will also question their policies when they shortchange veterans and military retirees.
Solomon Ortiz / U.s. Representative
Veterans Day
Administration
Former
Military
Veteran
Work Together Will
Policies
Retirees
Veterans
Work Together
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In fact, in 2002, the Secretary of Defense authorized such support on a reimbursable basis to organizations formerly components of the Department of Justice and Department of the Treasury and currently components of the Department of Homeland Security.
Solomon Ortiz / U.s. Representative
Components
Defense
Department
Homeland
Homeland Security
Justice
Organization
Secretary
Support
Treasury
Authorized
Currently
Basis
Department Of Justice
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This Congress has promised all manner of border security and port security to the tune of billions of dollars... yet we have - to date - funded our promises for port security at only $900 million. That's quite a distance between what we say and what we actually do.
Solomon Ortiz / U.s. Representative
Billions
Border Security
Congress
Distance
Dollars
Port
Promise
Tunes
Billions Of Dollars
Border
Date
Manner
Port Security
Promised
Tune
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While I believe our Constitution allows for State and local governments to execute the power of eminent domain for those purposes that specifically serve the public good, condemning property solely to implement economic development plans is not serving the public good.
Solomon Ortiz / U.s. Representative
Government
Believe
Condemning
Domain
Economic Development
Eminent Domain
Plans
Public Good
Good Power Believe
Eminent
Execute
Governments
Implement
Local
Local Governments
Purposes
Serve
Solely
Specifically
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It matters not what your individual position is on either war we are currently prosecuting - in Iraq or Afghanistan - certainly we can all agree protesting at military funerals is a cruel and unnecessary hardship on our military families during their most difficult hour.
Solomon Ortiz / U.s. Representative
War
Afghanistan
Agree
Hardship
Iraq
Military
Prosecuting
Unnecessary
Currently
Cruel
Funerals
Matters
Families
Hour
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I have fought to protect those benefits that ensure better salaries for teachers across the Nation such as grants to pay off student loans and funding for Teach for America. Still, we must all do more to show our continued appreciation for our Nation's leading role models.
Solomon Ortiz / U.s. Representative
Appreciation
Smile
Teacher
America
Benefits
Funding
Grants
Models
Protect
Role Models
Teach
Ensure
Fought
Leading
Leading Role
Loans
Salaries
Student Loans
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