- Nov 07, 2020
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- Pork
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Congress, it's all pork, all the time.
- Congress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Congress as a whole is less popular than it's been since polling was invented.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
If taxpayers want better results from Congress, they must stop paying their elected officials for failure. After all, you get what you pay for.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ultimately, Congressional medicine is like veterinary medicine: It must be strong enough to work, and tasty enough to swallow.
- Busting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Almost every economist agrees that the American health care system is unsustainable. Medical care is so expensive that it is busting all of our budgets - government, business, and personal. Eventually, the medical price bubble will pop. What, then, are the alternatives?
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
True partisans draft legislation that gives themselves everything and their enemies nothing. They love bills that repulse and even disgust the other side. Today's politics have become an all-or-nothing, black-or-white, zero-sum game - it's not a contact sport but a blood sport.
- Blood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call this arteriosclerosis; historians see decline of empire.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Immortality awaits the legislator fortunate enough to have a significant law named after him. Think of Pell grants or Stafford loans for students, Sarbanes-Oxley to regulate Wall Street, or the Hyde Amendment on abortions.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any politician who's ever been re-elected knows that friends come and go; enemies accumulate.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about government's failure to fix real problems.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the job of leadership is to expand what can be talked about and to get consensus on the nature of the problem, and that is most of the job. Because once you do that, once you have diagnosis, treatment options are obvious.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of my folks back home think Social Security and Medicare are sacred commitments stronger than the strongest contract. And yet if you look at the details here in Washington, they're not even promises. They're scheduled benefits. I think we need to do all that we can to make sure those benefits are real.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
The U.S. government uses cash accounting. That is illegal for any enterprise of any size in America except for the U.S. government. Every for-profit business, every not-for-profit business, every state and local government has to use real accounting except for Uncle Sam.
- Brave
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real problem with big issues like Medicare is that both parties have to be brave at the same time. Every pollster will tell you not to do that to get partisan advantage. Too many people here are willing to deliberately harm the country for partisan gain. That is borderline treason.
- Chamber
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- Nov 07, 2020
Members walk into the chamber full of hatred. They believe the worst lies about the other side. Two senators stopped by my office just a few hours ago. Why? They had a plot to nail somebody on the other side. That's what Congress has come to.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020