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“If we are going to extend the immigrant investigations, we'd be really stupid to leave this other option wide open.”

- JIM A

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In Response to: Keeping ISIS Out: Should the U.S. Tighten up the Visa Waiver Program?

“Who knows if they would qualify outside their own state?”

- JIM A

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In Response to: Allowing Concealed Carry Permit Holders to Carry Their Handguns in Other States

“When constituents enter these buildings they will remember the name on it... favorably or not.”

- JIM A

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In Response to: Banning Members of Congress from Naming Public Buildings After Themselves

“If home owners can refinance and auto buyers can refinance and every other ad we get in the mail is an offer to transfer credit to a lower interest rate, why should students be forbidden to refinance their loans?”

- JIM A

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In Response to: Should College Students Be Able To Refinance Their Loans?

“If you tax an illegal substance at the federal level, you make it legal by proxy. Then, the arrests for drug sales would have to be based on intent to evade taxes, an impossible charge to prove. You have to legalize it first.”

- JIM A

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In Response to: Taxing Recreational Marijuana Sales

“Abortion is not illegal. The moral objection to it is based on religion, something our constitution says should be separate from government. How does a non-religious government justify forbidding a legal medical procedure? Saying it is because some tax payers object to it is rediculous, consideri…”

- JIM A

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In Response to: Should Women Have Access to Abortions Through Medicaid, Medicare, and Other Government Health Programs?

“We tried letting states "define" marriage before. Until the federal government stepped in, we had age of concent in some states that equaled statutory rape in others and marriages that were legal in some states were not recognize”

- JIM A

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In Response to: Should "Marriage" be Defined at the State Level — Without Federal Interference?

“Since George Washington raised hemp and the Constitution doesn't mention it, then amendment 10 should prevail.”

- JIM A

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In Response to: If They're Complying With State Law, Should Pot Users be Free From Federal Prosecution?

“Even though I've voted yes, but I don't expect this do-nothing congress to actually do something. Maybe the next congress will act.”

- JIM A

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In Response to: Does Congress Need to Commit to Addressing Climate Change?

“This congress and the one before it has been the least productive since I started voting (I first voted for JFK). They have kept bringing up the same bills many times knowing they would not get through the other branch (or if they did, they'd be vetoed). They take more vacation than almost any oth…”

- JIM A

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In Response to: No Budget, No Pay: Holding Congressional Paychecks When They Can't Agree on a Budget

“This congress has a record of reaching almost no consensus. The only reason this bill is even being proposed is that the anti side isn't winning. ”

- JIM A

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In Response to: Should the Iran Nuclear Deal be Voted on Like a Treaty?

“Better domestic programs than wasting money on wars just to line the pockets of the military industrial complex.”

- JIM A

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In Response to: Fighting The Drought With Grant Funding And Rebates

“I'd rather spend money on combatting climate change than on some trumped up war.”

- JIM A

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In Response to: Does The U.S. Need To Stop Using Taxpayer Dollars To Fund UN Climate Change Initiatives?

“Are you trying to say domestic partners (heterosexual) have a waiting time after they marry before they can share the benefits of marriage??”

- JIM A

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In Response to: Closing a Loophole to Help Same-Sex Couples Share Benefits After Marriage

“Our agricultural and food processing industries depend on the workers that come up from Mexico. Several states have used super in forcemeat to drive out all their laborer of this type. The result, so far, has been to leave farmers unable to find enough workers to tend and harvest their crops. Ame…”

- JIM A

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In Response to: If You've Ever Been in the U.S. Illegally, Should You be Barred From Getting a Work Authorization?

“We have enough problems keeping our water clean without hamstringing the EPA.”

- JIM A

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In Response to: Keeping the EPA From Implementing a New Rule for What Waters are Covered Under the CWA

“Not giving split families a second chance often impacts minors who are U.S.”

- JIM A

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In Response to: Do Families Who Have Been Split By Immigration Law Deserve A Second Chance?

“They can vote any way they want, but the President still retains the right to veto. If they can override his veto, then is the time to exercise their ultimate power.”

- JIM A

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In Response to: Should Congress Have The Ultimate Power To Approve (Or Reject) The Iran Nuclear Deal?

“By the time an addicted mother is pregnant, it's far to late for research.”

- JIM A

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In Response to: Does More Research Need to be Done to Prevent Opioid Abuse Among Pregnant Mothers?

“When they start worrying about the cost of war and munitions, I'll start worrying about services for newborns. This is just like right to lifers. Keep them alive until birth... then blame the mother for straining the system and toss the babies to the winds.”

- JIM A

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In Response to: Does a Program Authorizing Hearing Tests for Infants Need to be Reauthorized?