"No issue is more important to this Congress than securing our borders and protecting our homeland, and I guarantee it is very important to our constituents."

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"No issue is more important to this Congress than securing our borders and protecting our homeland, and I guarantee it is very important to our constituents."

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"Since President Bush took office in 2001, this Congress has supported an agenda of democracy, freedom and expansion of rights for all peoples throughout the world."

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"It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye."

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"No longer should women be denied the right to vote, no longer should women be treated as second class citizens, no longer should women not be allowed to be a citizen at all."

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"We all know that, unfortunately, the media does not always portray the good things that are happening in Iraq and Afghanistan, and this will be a great opportunity for us to glean some information from the Iraqi women who are here for us to also take back to our constituents."

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"For centuries, the world has heard the oppressed, the downtrodden and the vulnerable cry out for their freedoms, for their rights and for a chance to emerge from the shadows of the tyranny and bloodshed that they had lived with."

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