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The main opposition to Judge Gorsuch's confirmation com

The main opposition to Judge Gorsuch’s confirmation comes from a handful of Democratic Senators who are using the playbook of far-left special interest groups, the same groups that routinely attack anyone who doesn’t actively promote their agenda.
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My Democratic colleagues, many of whom hold law degrees, should know better than to intentionally oversimplify court rulings to mislead the public and score political points.
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Labels are irrelevant. It’s the results.
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I think you should consider anything that frees up the market, that creates more jobs.
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Dot Helms and North Carolina are one and the same.
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I have serious concerns with the discussion around minimum wage because it drives up costs, and it could harm jobs.
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BDS is not a typical act of political correctness, undertaken by radical academics whose usual prey is the youth of America. This is a worldwide movement designed to destroy the one democracy in the Middle East and the hopes of people who have occupied that land for over three thousand years.
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A paperwork error can get you on the fly list. A name similar to someone else can get you on the fly list, so there’s any number of opportunities where mistakes or abuses could probably put somebody in that horrible position of a government agency really clawing back your rights.
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In the Senate, I will work to shrink the size of our federal government to its core Constitutional role so the private sector can thrive.
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As Speaker of the North Carolina House, I’ve proven I’m a problem-solver, balancing budgets, cutting wasteful spending, and providing teachers with historic pay raises.
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We don’t need something as large and complex and costly as the Affordable Care Act, because it can’t work.
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If the BDS Movement was isolated to a few tenured college outliers, that would be easy enough to handle. Unfortunately, it is not.
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I think we’ve got a pretty good track record of definitively opposing Obamacare in the state of North Carolina.
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We already have two branches of federal government that factor political considerations into their decision-making, and our Founding Fathers determined long ago that we don’t need a third.
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When I was speaker in North Carolina, the state was gripped with a deficit, and we made a fundamental policy decision to adopt austerity budgets for four years.
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If Israel did not exist, the United Nations would go out of business.
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Senators should not play politics by threatening filibusters and evaluating Judge Gorsuch based on what his policy preferences are or how he might come down on a specific case that may come before the Court.
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One of the biggest disagreements between Sen. Hagan and I – I don’t believe we should be building an economy that’s founded on making ends meet on minimum wage. It’s impossible; it’s a stepping stone.
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Republicans do need to communicate that we agree that there are serious health care issues among the American people that we need to solve.
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We need to get back and make the agencies who are putting more burdens on businesses and employers and hardworking taxpayers and question whether or not there’s a true benefit, and if there isn’t, we must take steps to repeal them.
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Violent felons and people with mental health problems need to be rehabilitated.
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I’ve always had the kinds of careers that have a tendency to go home with you.
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Obamacare is a great idea that can’t be paid for.
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In politics, as in physics, every reaction is met with an equal and opposite reaction.
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Democrats misinterpreted the mandate for change in 2008 as an ideological mandate to move the country sharply to the left. They rammed through policies like ObamaCare and Dodd-Frank with little, if any, bipartisan support.
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We need to tell the far-right and the far-left to go away and have people in the center solve the problem.
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Let’s be clear: the American people didn’t give the GOP a stamp of approval or a mandate to ram through an ideologically-driven, far-right agenda.
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Their failures, both Obama’s and Kay Hagan’s, are obvious.
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If we don’t do a better job of getting illegal worker immigration policies in place, it’s going to be a significant impediment to a number of industries.
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I’m an organizational guy.
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Nothing could be more important for a child affected by Zika virus than to have continuity of care, seamlessly from before birth to after birth.
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I've been anything but an establishment kind of guy.

I’ve been anything but an establishment kind of guy.
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Change, while sometimes good, is difficult to absorb. I think that a part of it is just having to see the results.
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I’ve actually got a Motley Crue channel on Pandora.
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The NRA is a true grass-roots organization, and the collective power of its membership is simply unparalleled.
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I think the best way to fight your detractors is to produce positive results and not think about them, but think about winning the hearts and minds of North Carolinians – or Americans – on good policy.
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In Washington, I will focus on creating a climate that helps create jobs and opportunities for Americans.
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Everyone knows that my key drivers to moving health care policies is improving access and reducing costs and improving outcomes.
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I have immense respect for Loretta Lynch both personally and professionally.
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One of the problems fundamental to health care in the United States is access and cost.
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Federal dollars and resources come with so much red tape that state and local experts can’t use that funding for initiatives that are working the best or are most needed.
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As the economy turns, one of the most significant impediments to economic growth is going to be labor availability.
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The number-one defender of the Second Amendment rights is the National Rifle Association. The NRA works tirelessly to elect pro-Second Amendment candidates, and it fights fearlessly to win tough public policy battles and preserve those rights.
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I strongly support the construction of the Keystone Pipeline and favor expanding offshore drilling to make our nation less dependent on foreign oil.
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We need a Congress that understands the sanctity of life, the sanctity of traditional values, the sanctity of traditional marriage.
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If you just focus on producing good outcomes, all that other stuff sorts itself out.
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My dad would much rather work a couple jobs than be on government assistance.
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You’re always going to have your detractors.
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Fort Bragg is an enormously important presence as the home to the 82nd Airborne and the Global Response Force of the XVIII Airborne Corps.
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Anybody who doesn’t support the Republican nominee… is a RINO.
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A Greek exit from the E.U. and the euro would mean the Greek economy would be difficult to sustain.
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Greece has to stay in the euro.
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I worked on minimum wage; I didn’t go to college out of school. I worked multiple jobs, and it’s probably not something Sen. Hagan’s not had to worry about because we grew up in very different life circumstances.
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As a freedom-lover and avid outdoorsman, I understand the importance of protecting the Second Amendment, which has been under attack by liberal special interest groups funded by elitist billionaires.
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I’ve never listed my education degree as why people should vote for me. I think the average person is thinking more about what I’ve accomplished in my professional career and what I’ve accomplished in my career as a legislator.
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I’m for creating high-paying jobs.
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‘Intensity’ is a good word. It’s like ambition, if it’s not ambition at expense of someone else.
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I think it has just been ingrained in me since an early age that the harder you worked, the more successful you were.
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In-person town halls generally require a commitment several weeks in advance – a commitment my office is not prepared to make given the full schedule of the Senate and the duties attendant to service there.
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I’ve never seen anything that I didn’t want to jump off of.
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I was a partner at Pricewaterhouse before I got my four year degree.
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I think that you find out what your boss wants you to do, and you do more. To me, that’s work ethic. Because, if you demonstrate that your capabilities extend past your current job, they’ll probably give you a better job.
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Obviously, we want people to be paid a wage that could

Obviously, we want people to be paid a wage that could help make ends meet, but when you increase artificially the cost of labor to do a job, then oftentimes, those jobs will just go away.
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People who truly represent an extreme on either side have a very difficult time getting bipartisan support for what they’re doing.
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I want to go to Washington and clean up Kay Hagan’s mess.
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Instead of focusing on this sort of defeatist mentality where we’ve gotta up the minimum wage, why don’t we focus on creating better-paying jobs?
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