But, at the same time, I think that there is room for economic stimulus in terms of accelerated depreciation to encourage businesses to invest and to grow and ultimately to hire more people again.
From John Breaux
But we made a decision based on the fact that we have been up there a long time and that we feel that the seniority is important to the people of Louisiana.
Any that is why I think any kind of a stimulus package is going to have to help people who are without work, without a job, help them have health insurance.
And the issues I think are important in Louisiana right now happen to be health care and education. And those are two areas that the federal government can play a very important role. And I think I can be effective in trying to help our state from the Washington scene.
I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another part.
I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better.
It's proper and appropriate to remind the Chinese about what they get out of solid relations with the United States.
We don't suggest that because San Francisco lies on top of an earthquake fault that it should be moved.
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