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Addiction is a tough illness, and recovery from it is a hard but noble path. Men and women who walk that path deserve our support, encouragement, and admiration.

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We pay for power plant pollution through higher health costs.

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How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean up our mess? Hope for a nanny God, who will with a miracle grant us amnesty from our folly - that's not aligned with either history or the text of the Bible.

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America's exceptional nature confers upon us responsibilities. We are not exceptional because we say so; we are exceptional because, over and over, we do exceptional things - things like what Generals Marshall and MacArthur accomplished putting Europe and Japan back on their feet after World War II.

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The Founding Fathers built our judicial system to withstand the special interest pressures that beset the political branches of government.

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Putting a price on carbon pollution is one of the best things we can do to stem the tide of climate change.

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Rhode Island works hard to reduce air pollution in our communities. We passed laws to prohibit cars and buses from idling their engines and to retrofit school buses with diesel pollution controls. But there is only so much a single state can do, particularly against out-of-state pollution.

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Implementing the so-called 'Buffett Rule' would restore some badly needed fairness to our tax system.

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Educating our children and giving them the skills they need to compete in a global economy is a smart investment in our country's future.

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A courtroom is supposed to be a place where the status quo can be disrupted - even upended - when the Constitution or laws may require, where the comfortable can be afflicted and the afflicted find some comfort, all under the shelter of the law.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: October 20th, 1955

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