#federal government

Medicaid is essentially bankrupt, Medicare is essentially bankrupt, why the heck would we give the federal government another entitlement program to manage? ↗

— Tim Pawlenty

#bankrupt #entitlement #essentially #federal #federal government

Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country. ↗

— Tony Randall

#classical #country #county #every #everyone

The only possible role that I can see for reconciliation would be to make modest changes in the major package to improve affordability, to deal with what share of Medicaid expansion the federal government pays, those kinds of issues, which is the traditional role for reconciliation in health care. ↗

— Kent Conrad

#changes #deal #expansion #federal #federal government

I am pleased to report that Texas is known for having one of the strongest set of open government laws in our Nation. And ever since that experience, I have long believed that our federal government could use 'a little Texas sunshine.' ↗

— John Cornyn

#believed #could #ever #experience #federal

Anyone who thinks you can pay $3,100 to the federal government and thinks you can get that money back completely in services - like I said - he may go to M-I-T but he is an N-U-T. ↗

— Louie Gohmert

#back #completely #federal #federal government #get

Actually, I have been very supportive of a very robust stimulus package from day one. I think this economy has to have a major stimulus initiative because the only group with liquidity is the federal government. ↗

— Judd Gregg

#because #been #day #economy #federal

We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#corporate #country #determine #development #economic

Encouraging underground uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau um, the federal government was the only purchaser of uranium ore to try to manufacture uh, atomic bombs. ↗

— Tom Udall

#atomic bombs #bombs #colorado #encouraging #federal

I continue to vote against such spending increases, but sometimes I think some of my Republican colleagues forgot that we were sent here to shrink the federal government, not to grow it. ↗

— Jeff Miller

#colleagues #continue #federal #federal government #forgot

It is proper that the federal government help alleviate short-term disruptions and price spikes such as those brought about by Hurricane Katrina. ↗

— Mel Martinez

#alleviate #brought #disruptions #federal #federal government