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public schools
public school
racist
She advised Senator KING that she was compelled to withdraw her grandchild from the public schools and put her in the private schools because of the way other governments were being praised to the detriment of this country.
05/01/1936
CHRISTOPHER SULLIVAN
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Dangerous place with nonwhite kids that wastes tax dollars
Formal
D
balancing the budget
balance the budget
conservative
And what we do with the balanced budget amendment is we get a mechanism in place that encourages and creates the incentives for balancing the budget rather than spending more and more and forces Congress make priority choices among competing programs in order to do so.
02/02/1995
ORRIN HATCH
S
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Cut public services and aid to vulnerable populations
Formal
R
working families
working class
racist
The administration and GOP have adopted the reckless policy of kicking American working families when they are down.
04/08/2003
JOE BACA
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
white working class
Formal
D
working families
working class
racist
AHPs will expand access to quality health care for people for whom it is currently out of reach: uninsured working families.
01/10/2007
SAM JOHNSON
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
white working class
Formal
R
working families
working class
racist
They are demonstrating their real contempt for working families struggling just to make it on wages that are not enough to raise them up above the poverty level.
06/11/2003
BARBARA LEE
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
white working class
Formal
D
working families
working class
racist
the purpose of this amendment is to control Government spending and to give money back to working families that they earned in the first place.
03/24/1994
PHIL GRAMM
S
null
Stanford Congressional Record
white working class
Formal
R
working families
working class
racist
We have to continue to look for ways to restore hope for our working families and ensure opportunity for each.
01/20/2016
JEFF MERKLEY
S
null
Stanford Congressional Record
white working class
Formal
D
working families
working class
racist
they are your nextdoor neighbors. We cannot turn our backs on working families. Let us send the President legislation which will help struggling workers get through this difficult time.
09/17/1991
GERALD KLECZKA
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
white working class
Formal
D
working families
working class
racist
to ensure that the money is there to pay the benefits to American working families and to try to maintain some stability so that employers will continue to offer these plans.
10/08/2003
JOHN BOEHNER
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
white working class
Formal
R
quotas
quotas
racist
has focused national attention on the regrettable practice of establishing quotas to allow the admission of students to colleges.
10/21/1977
ROBERT WALKER
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Opposition to efforts to achieve gender or racial parity
Formal
R
Detroit
references to cities with large racial minority populations being overrun by crime, drugs, rodents
racist
Turning closer to my district in Michigan. one sees the sullied waters of the busy Detroit River. no longer fit even for swimming or fishing.
04/28/1965
JOHN DINGELL
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Minorities are dirty and criminals
Formal
D
tax cut
cut taxes
racist
so that the American people will have the right to understand and know that we are changing Medicare as we know it. and we are doing it not to save Medicare or to reduce the budget. but to provide tax cuts for the wealthiest people in our society.
09/21/1995
DAVID BONIOR
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Don't spend tax money on minorities
Formal
D
balance the budget
balance the budget
conservative
But will you really be able to solve the problem by the kind of deep cuts that are necessary to balance the budget in the domestic programs that are not part of the nonmeans tested entitlements.
11/30/1987
BYRON DORGAN
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Cut public services and aid to vulnerable populations
Formal
D
public schools
public school
racist
All of us are well aware that thousands of American families are pulling their children out of public schools.
03/05/1984
RONALD PAUL
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Dangerous place with nonwhite kids that wastes tax dollars
Formal
R
working families
working class
racist
So what you will see is a tax cut that goes from 39.6 percent to 25 percent. The way that you balance a budget and pay for it is on the backs of working families. the middle class.
04/18/2016
HAKEEM JEFFRIES
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
white working class
Formal
D
working families
working class
racist
Working families have a right to know whether the Republicans expect them to bear even more of the costs of caring for their aging parents and grandparents so that the richest few in America can pay lower taxes.
06/29/1995
JOHN DINGELL
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
white working class
Formal
D
working families
working class
racist
At a time when few working families can afford to pay $15.000 a year to send their son or daughter to college.
03/07/1996
DAVID BONIOR
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
white working class
Formal
D
working families
working class
racist
this bill is just another example of the administrations misguided prioritiesputting the interests of big companies ahead of Americas working families.
02/09/2005
EDWARD KENNEDY
S
null
Stanford Congressional Record
white working class
Formal
D
food stamps
food stamps
racist
food stamp appropriations have nearly doubled since President Obama took office. Eleven million more Americans are on food stamps now than when the President took office. The size of the benefit has increased 31 percent since 2008.
10/18/2011
JEFFERSON SESSIONS
S
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Government assistance for minorities
Formal
R
balance the budget
balance the budget
conservative
There was a clear national consensus to balance the budget by reducing the waste in government and slowing the growth of Federal spending.
04/25/1996
DAVID DREIER
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Cut public services and aid to vulnerable populations
Formal
R
balance the budget
balance the budget
conservative
It provides constitutional discipline to the legislative spending. We must take action now to balance the budget and to limit taxes. We owe it to hardworking taxpayers who send us here and to the children who will lead us into the future.
02/28/1994
CRAIG THOMAS
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Cut public services and aid to vulnerable populations
Formal
R
welfare
welfare
racist
Our problem has been how can we keep the chiselers and people who will not work off the welfare rolls.
07/03/1968
JOEL BROYHILL
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
racial minorities receive government aid that they don't deserve
Formal
R
balance the budget
balance the budget
conservative
Yesterday. the Senate completed consideration of a constitutional amendment to balance the budget. We had a lengthy debate on the wisdom of using the Constitution to deal with budget deficits.
03/02/1994
ROBERT BYRD
S
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Cut public services and aid to vulnerable populations
Formal
D
middle class
middle class
racist
our infrastructure was neglected. and a growing disparity arose between the rich and the forgotten middle class. The bill has come due.
08/05/1993
JOHN DINGELL
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
White middle class
Formal
D
quota
quotas
racist
Congress still should consider quotas because a legally enforceable and statutory quota is far preferable to a negotiated quota that can be cast aside when the temptation again becomes too great.
08/04/1982
JOSEPH GAYDOS
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Opposition to efforts to achieve gender or racial parity
Formal
D
tax cut
cut taxes
racist
using the trustees report as cover so that they can pass on a tax cut to the wealthiest people in this country.
08/02/1995
GEORGE MILLER
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Don't spend tax money on minorities
Formal
D
tax cut
cut taxes
racist
the President and the Republican leadership have decided that tax cuts for the few are more important than programs for the many.
07/10/2003
MAXINE WATERS
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Don't spend tax money on minorities
Formal
D
middle class
middle class
racist
those 11 million Americans are going to pay more for their health care next year. hardworking middle class Americans who cant afford it. America deserves better.
02/26/2014
ANDY HARRIS
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
White middle class
Formal
R
tax cut
cut taxes
racist
are being asked to do more financially. meanwhile $1.5 trillion in tax cuts for the wealthy. while we have individuals.
02/14/2006
KENDRICK MEEK
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Don't spend tax money on minorities
Formal
D
public schools
public school
racist
your daughters sleepless nights become your own sleepless nights. Most parents with children in the D.C. public schools live under these intolerable conditions. D.C. Schools have received national attention.
03/11/1998
ANNE NORTHUP
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Dangerous place with nonwhite kids that wastes tax dollars
Formal
R
public schools
public school
racist
This amendment could require public funding of nonpublic religious schools and shifting dollars and resources from our public system at a time when public schools are literally crumbling and our education system is struggling to keep the resources in our classrooms and keep our students at pace.
06/04/1998
BARBARA KENNELLY
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Dangerous place with nonwhite kids that wastes tax dollars
Formal
D
food stamps
food stamps
racist
said thatThere are presently 900.000 Puerto Ricans who live in the City of New York and they are all on food stamps.
06/02/1982
ROBERT GARCIA
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Government assistance for minorities
Formal
D
balancing the budget
balance the budget
conservative
This provision certainly strengthens the bill and clarifies and reinforces our partys commitment to balancing the budget as well as providing tax relief to the American people.
04/04/1995
WILLIAM MARTINI
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Cut public services and aid to vulnerable populations
Formal
R
balancing the budget
balance the budget
conservative
I support the Presidents budget because this budget has a plan for balancing the budget while protecting Medicare.
05/21/1996
HOWELL HEFLIN
S
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Cut public services and aid to vulnerable populations
Formal
D
balancing the budget
balance the budget
conservative
most effective way to get our unemployed citizens back to work is to revitalize the private sector of our economy. To do this we must reducenot increaseFederal spending and start balancing the budget. Huge budget deficits only lead to more inflation and higher interest rates.
07/22/1976
JOHN ASHBROOK
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Cut public services and aid to vulnerable populations
Formal
R
balancing the budget
balance the budget
conservative
and drastic cuts in Government appropriations and expenses have been made. all for the purpose of balancing the Budget. For the last two months.
06/07/1932
MENALCUS LANKFORD
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Cut public services and aid to vulnerable populations
Formal
R
balance the budget
balance the budget
conservative
foodproducing water projects are arbitrarily knifed out of the Federal budget when at the same time our peoples money is being sent overseas to fund somebody elses water projects. If this administration wants to balance the budget as it says it does. it must get some priorities straight.
06/22/1977
BERNICE SISK
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Cut public services and aid to vulnerable populations
Formal
D
balance the budget
balance the budget
conservative
and support for Native Americans. Proponents of this legislation say that these cuts are needed to balance the budget. But in fact they are being used to help reorder spending priorities in ways favored by the Republican majority.
09/28/1995
ANTHONY BEILENSON
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Cut public services and aid to vulnerable populations
Formal
D
balance the budget
balance the budget
conservative
so that they can give their rich supporters a tax break and balance the budget at the expense of senior citizens.
09/28/1995
EARL HILLIARD
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Cut public services and aid to vulnerable populations
Formal
D
balance the budget
balance the budget
conservative
Just like the battle that took place with the balanced budget amendment. that was an effort to balance the budget using Social Security moneys. We need not change the Constitution to balance the budget.
03/20/1995
HARRY REID
S
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Cut public services and aid to vulnerable populations
Formal
D
balance the budget
balance the budget
conservative
but finally theyve decided to prepare a budget that is even uglier than we thought. If the Republican majority wanted to balance the budget. they could do that today if we cut Medicare.
05/10/1995
GENE GREEN
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Cut public services and aid to vulnerable populations
Formal
D
quotas
quotas
racist
The legislation before us would restore and strengthen our civil rights laws in a way that is both balanced and does not mandate quotas in any way.
07/18/1990
CARL LEVIN
S
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Opposition to efforts to achieve gender or racial parity
Formal
D
public school
public school
racist
Lets face it. We have good public schools. We are talking about the kids who have bad schools and poorly trained teachers.
05/08/2001
THOMAS HARKIN
S
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Dangerous place with nonwhite kids that wastes tax dollars
Formal
D
quota
quotas
racist
but I feel that the most beneficial action at this time would be the establishment of a quota system on imports.
12/21/1963
MICHAEL MANSFIELD
S
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Opposition to efforts to achieve gender or racial parity
Formal
D
quota
quotas
racist
In my speech on March 3. I recommended a slidingscale import quota system. provided through negotiated agreements. to solve troublesome problems of import competition.
03/21/1961
EDMUND MUSKIE
S
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Opposition to efforts to achieve gender or racial parity
Formal
D
food stamps
food stamps
racist
they wont save or invest and use their food stamps to buy Twinkles that they gobble while watching game shows on TV.
04/01/1981
EDWARD KENNEDY
S
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Government assistance for minorities
Formal
D
public schools
public school
racist
It is bad enough when Federal district judges assert a power to supervise administration of local public schools.
02/17/1969
JAMES ALLEN
S
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Dangerous place with nonwhite kids that wastes tax dollars
Formal
D
quotas
quotas
racist
The fact that the House had a closed rule did not determine the ultimate failure of that bill. The American people oppose the use of quotas and preferences in employment matters. and last years bill promoted those objectionable practices.
06/04/1991
BOB MCEWEN
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Opposition to efforts to achieve gender or racial parity
Formal
R
quotas
quotas
racist
The Democrats civill rights bill will unavoidably set quotas by encouraging litigation in the workplace based solely on numbers and percentages.
03/12/1991
SUSAN MOLINARI
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Opposition to efforts to achieve gender or racial parity
Formal
R
quotas
quotas
racist
would divide Americans by rigid quotas and cause race to become a principal determinant of political power.
05/24/1993
T. GORTON
S
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Opposition to efforts to achieve gender or racial parity
Formal
R
food stamps
food stamps
racist
it seems to me. has exactly the right purpose: to get rid of food stamps going to some members. But we have to do it right.
04/06/2000
CARL LEVIN
S
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Government assistance for minorities
Formal
D
job creation
job creators
conservative
This isnt the time to dither and blame the Republican minority for the disappointing collapse of governance we have seen since the liberal majority seized control of Congress in I urge my colleagues to take this opportunity to force the ruling liberal Democrats to rethink their misguided proposals by rejecting this rule and the underlying legislation and by protesting the liberal agenda that continues to distract from privatesector job creation and from getting the economy back on its feet.
12/21/2010
VIRGINIA FOXX
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Wealthy people
Formal
R
job creation
job creators
conservative
But the only thing we are not going to budge on is saying to this country and our business community and our job creators: We are going to kill job creation for sure for the next 6 months by telling you we want to repeat this ridiculous exercise in 6 months.
07/29/2011
CLAIRE MCCASKILL
S
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Wealthy people
Formal
D
balancing the budget
balance the budget
conservative
and the best place to start is by cutting funding of Governmentsubsidized advertising. If we are truly committed to balancing the budget and downsizing the Federal Government. we must be willing to attack corporate welfare and take companies like Pillsbury and Tyson Foods off the public dole.
06/12/1996
EDWARD ROYCE
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Cut public services and aid to vulnerable populations
Formal
R
balancing the budget
balance the budget
conservative
today we are debating whether this House is going to abandon the fiscal discipline which has been instrumental in balancing the budget and whether we are going to commit to reserving the projected surpluses until we have addressed the longterm solvency of Social Security.
09/26/1998
JAMES DAVIS
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Cut public services and aid to vulnerable populations
Formal
D
quota
quotas
racist
I might say to him that my reason for the questions is that there are pending some bills to impose a quota system which I consider to be protectionist bills.
11/28/1967
JACOB JAVITS
S
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Opposition to efforts to achieve gender or racial parity
Formal
R
war on terror
war on terror
Islamophobic
After two decades of having U.S. interests attacked by the terrorists. we have taken the war on terrorism to the terrorists backyard. For decades.
09/25/2006
MARSHA BLACKBURN
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
War on Arab and Muslim people
Formal
R
entitlement
entitlement programs
racist
This is however the time to take concrete legislative steps to address the deficit in the out years by curbing the rampant growth in entitlement programs which are dooming to perpetual deficit spending.
03/13/1992
SAMUEL NUNN
S
null
Stanford Congressional Record
People who receive aid from government social aid programs, primarily minorities, are lazy and undeserving
Formal
D
quotas
quotas
racist
that the good intentions and noble goal of equal educational opportunity have become distorted into the futile and largely counterproductive symbolic gesture of imposing racial quotas to "prove" an absence of discrimination.
01/19/1976
HARRY BYRD
S
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Opposition to efforts to achieve gender or racial parity
Formal
I
quotas
quotas
racist
Amendments prohibiting busing for desegregation. forbidding numerical quotas in affirmative action measures. and denying abortions to Department personnel had no place in a bill that is simply designed to reorganize the Federal Government so as to give greater priority to educational issues.
09/27/1979
LOUIS STOKES
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Opposition to efforts to achieve gender or racial parity
Formal
D
war on terror
war on terror
Islamophobic
Pakistan is chumming up to the Chinese. It sounds to me like Pakistan is playing both sides in the war on terror. This socalled ally takes billions of dollars in U.S. aid while.
11/30/2011
TED POE
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
War on Arab and Muslim people
Formal
R
balancing the budget
balance the budget
conservative
If we make a cut of 121/2 percent in the 1952 defense budget and if we make a cut of 121/2 percent in the pending authorization bill. we shall have gone a long way toward balancing the budget. I submit this to the Senator from Illinois because of my great respect for his power to evaluate properly the situation now existing in the world.
05/27/1952
WALTER GEORGE
S
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Cut public services and aid to vulnerable populations
Formal
D
government spending
entitlement spending
racist
Inflation has been caused by rampant Government spending on the part of the Democratic majority in this Congress which has toiled for 25 years to bring the American people to their present state of despair.
04/01/1980
ROBERT WHITTAKER
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Government social aid programs, perceived to primarily help minorities, are destroying the country's economy
Formal
R
terrorists
Islamic terrorists
Islamophobic
Who could believe that a nation that sent two terrorists into our Trade Towers and whose banks laundered money for 9/11 will now manage some of our major ports.
02/28/2006
MARCY KAPTUR
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Muslim people as a whole are a threat
Formal
D
food stamps
food stamps
racist
and you are increasing the number of food stamps and all these other kinds of things that if you want to believe in big government they think they need to do.
05/05/2010
W. AKIN
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Government assistance for minorities
Formal
R
welfare
welfare
racist
The Wall Street Journal put it best in their editorial today: Members of Congress have finally found a way to make crime pay: Use it as a pretext for funding their social welfare programs.
08/03/1994
CLIFFORD STEARNS
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
racial minorities receive government aid that they don't deserve
Formal
R
Chicago
references to cities with large racial minority populations being overrun by crime, drugs, rodents
racist
the black tar Mexican heroin that is now coming into our street corners in Los Angeles and Chicago and New York.
09/16/1998
J. HASTERT
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Minorities are dirty and criminals
Formal
R
quota
quotas
racist
The Senator from New York will forgive me if I resent the implications and the effect of the use of the quota system proposed by the McCarran bill.
05/14/1952
JOHN PASTORE
S
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Opposition to efforts to achieve gender or racial parity
Formal
D
government spending
entitlement spending
racist
the administration before that. had been trying to solve problems by providing only two answers: More and more government and more and more government spending.
09/13/1974
HARRY BYRD
S
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Government social aid programs, perceived to primarily help minorities, are destroying the country's economy
Formal
I
government spending
entitlement spending
racist
Having said that. I have got to say that I am very leery of another government spending program to address jobs. We are here because last year we spent nearlywell.
03/04/2010
JACK KINGSTON
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Government social aid programs, perceived to primarily help minorities, are destroying the country's economy
Formal
R
government spending
entitlement spending
racist
My constituents keep telling me. We are tired of the government spending money we have not made yet on programs we dont want. Through this appropriations cycle.
07/15/2009
MARSHA BLACKBURN
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Government social aid programs, perceived to primarily help minorities, are destroying the country's economy
Formal
R
working families
working class
racist
let us stop these transactions that add massively to our deficit and to the burden Americas working families and small businesses must carry.
05/20/2014
CARL LEVIN
S
null
Stanford Congressional Record
white working class
Formal
D
working families
working class
racist
but Democrats believe we should do something to alleviate that tax burden. especially on working families with children who are struggling to pay their bills. who are struggling to educate these children.
07/18/2000
JOHN MOAKLEY
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
white working class
Formal
D
tax cuts
cut taxes
racist
This budget resolution calls for more of the same failed economic policies that have been implemented over the last 3 years. It provides for additional tax cuts for the wealthy. It shortchanges investment in important domestic programs.
03/11/2004
JOHN ROCKEFELLER
S
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Don't spend tax money on minorities
Formal
D
middle class
middle class
racist
judging from this tax proposal. forgotten middle class. This tax is very damaging to businesses who are trying to compete with foreign companies.
05/19/1993
SPENCER BACHUS
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
White middle class
Formal
R
middle class
middle class
racist
Mr. President. the Republicans tax hike on the middle class has just been defeated. Their plan would have raised taxes by about $1.000 for 25 million middleclass families while giving millionaires an average of a $160.000 tax break.
07/25/2012
HARRY REID
S
null
Stanford Congressional Record
White middle class
Formal
D
job creation
job creators
conservative
we must replace those programs with a prosperity that extends to all segments of American society through private investment and job creationwhich can have the additional benefit of producing even lower taxes for Americans as economic expansion adds to Federal revenues.
04/16/1997
ARLEN SPECTER
S
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Wealthy people
Formal
R
public schools
public school
racist
we have had a painful year of gang violence. Over 20 schoolchildren have been killed outside of Chicago public schools by gang warfare. We put money in this bill.
05/22/2008
RICHARD DURBIN
S
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Dangerous place with nonwhite kids that wastes tax dollars
Formal
D
middle class
middle class
racist
I will try to make- a.few points. The Senator said give the middle class a break. The Finance Committee was not insensitive to the needs of the middle class.
06/11/1986
MALCOLM WALLOP
S
null
Stanford Congressional Record
White middle class
Formal
R
middle class
middle class
racist
unlimited access to taxpayers funds at the whim of the secretive Federal Reserve Board bureaucrats. The middle class has paid too long for the champagne and caviar party of a select few. Mr. Speaker.
11/13/1991
PETER DEFAZIO
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
White middle class
Formal
D
middle class
middle class
racist
Basically it was not fair. It socked it to the middle class and exempted the wealthy. It was kind of a Leona Helmsley budget which says that only the little people pay taxes.
10/05/1990
JIM MOODY
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
White middle class
Formal
D
middle class
middle class
racist
but at the same time the overall picture is that we must have price control and rent control or we shall wipe out entirely and destroy the middle class of the people in this country who are dependent upon wages dnd salaries and fixed incomes for support.
09/28/1943
JOHN PATMAN
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
White middle class
Formal
D
balance the budget
balance the budget
conservative
Let us continue the fight against big Federal Government. reduce the tax burden on hardworking Americans. and let us balance the budget.
03/13/1996
STEVE CHABOT
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Cut public services and aid to vulnerable populations
Formal
R
balance the budget
balance the budget
conservative
We must carefully reassess our needs in nursing as well. If we are to balance the budget. we all must share some of the responsibility for cuts.
03/06/1979
LUNSFORD PREYER
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Cut public services and aid to vulnerable populations
Formal
D
middle class
middle class
racist
But when we tried focusing on the middle class and growing the economy from the middle out during the Clinton years.
01/29/2015
SHERROD BROWN
S
null
Stanford Congressional Record
White middle class
Formal
D
middle class
middle class
racist
We want to work with people all over the world. But we dont have to destroy the middle class of this country to help people around the world. You dont have to be a corporate CEO to sell out your own people who built your company to run abroad.
12/10/2010
BERNARD SANDERS
S
null
Stanford Congressional Record
White middle class
Formal
I
food stamps
food stamps
racist
That is what this budget will do. $100 billion in cuts in food stamps and welfare programs. I know there has been a lot of talk about how we need to downsize the welfare program in this country.
12/18/1995
JACK FIELDS
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Government assistance for minorities
Formal
R
food stamps
food stamps
racist
and putting groceries on the kitchen table? You can have food stamps. A job is the nutrition program that every American family wants.
05/01/1985
PHIL GRAMM
S
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Government assistance for minorities
Formal
R
urban
inner city
racist
It grew more as a result of the FBIs failure to provide accurate intelligence concerning the potential for riots in urban ghettos than from a lack of intelligence concerning antiwar protests.
09/17/1986
PATRICK LEAHY
S
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Stanford Congressional Record
African American neighborhoods
Formal
D
tax cut
cut taxes
racist
liberals do not care about fiscal responsibility. They do not care if American families get a tax cut. They do not care about what the American people want in general.
10/05/1999
BOB RILEY
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Don't spend tax money on minorities
Formal
R
tax cut
cut taxes
racist
They are doing this in order to make room for another $70 billion in tax cutstax cuts overwhelmingly benefiting our wealthiest citizens.
11/03/2005
THOMAS HARKIN
S
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Stanford Congressional Record
Don't spend tax money on minorities
Formal
D
public schools
public school
racist
compared with 35 percent for the United States. New Orleans public schools are 93 percent black. 55 of the States 78 worst schools are in New Orleans.
09/14/2005
MAXINE WATERS
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Dangerous place with nonwhite kids that wastes tax dollars
Formal
D
tax cut
cut taxes
racist
the stewards of the fund. say only $90 billion is sufficient? The reason is for a tax cut. a tax cut that goes to the wealthiest individuals in this country.
10/26/1995
ROBERT WISE
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Don't spend tax money on minorities
Formal
D
tax cut
cut taxes
racist
Because the -majority party leadership decided that it was more important to provide $40 billion in tax cuts to people who make $1 million a year.
05/19/2006
DAVID OBEY
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Don't spend tax money on minorities
Formal
D
tax cut
cut taxes
racist
We are not going to leave until we pass this tax cut for millionaires and billionaires and special interests.
12/13/2005
KENDRICK MEEK
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Don't spend tax money on minorities
Formal
D
tax cuts
cut taxes
racist
That is not new. That is what George W. Bush has proposed when it comes to tax cuts: First help the wealthiest. When it comes to their agenda on the floor of the Senate.
07/11/2000
RICHARD DURBIN
S
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Don't spend tax money on minorities
Formal
D
tax cuts
cut taxes
racist
call to job creation. and stop the reckless giving of large tax cuts to the richest of our Nation. and begin to take those dollars and invest in this economy.
04/01/2004
SHEILA JACKSON LEE
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Don't spend tax money on minorities
Formal
D
tax cuts
cut taxes
racist
We all know this administrations performance on job growth: since President Bush assumed office. he has pushed for three separate tax cuts for the wealthy. yet he has not created a single net job.
09/10/2003
FRANK LAUTENBERG
S
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Don't spend tax money on minorities
Formal
D
tax cuts
cut taxes
racist
Those priorities are forcing Congress to make deep cuts in domestic programs in order to pay for unnecessary increases in defense spendingincluding more weaponry than the Defense Department itself has requestedand tax cuts that will mainly benefit the wealthiest among us.
07/27/1995
JAMES MORAN
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Don't spend tax money on minorities
Formal
D
job creation
job creators
conservative
the House is considering health care legislation that will place new punitive taxes on small businesses. We need job creation. not job destruction.
07/28/2009
VIRGINIA FOXX
H
null
Stanford Congressional Record
Wealthy people
Formal
R