This is an epidemic in our country and what this task force hopes to do is look at the issue of prevention, obviously the interdiction of drugs before they come to our country, but also and very importantly the issue of treatment, addiction is a disease and we need to treat it that way and we need to give people help they need, to renew their lives and be productive members to society.

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Stop-and-frisk would be back in about five minutes and we would empower the police, not undercut them.

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You want to get high in Colorado and Washington, even though marijuana is against the law in this country? Eh, go ahead.

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What I would do with this woman is to move her to another job where this is not an objection for her, because you have to follow the law, and the law is these licenses have to be issued.

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Then there's going to be an issue, but I think we should give her an option to do another job where her religious concerns are not going to be put into the cross hairs on this. So we have to have respect for people, but the government also has to function.

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Frankly, I don't think you should grandstand on this stuff.

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At any moment, FedEx can tell you where that package is. It's on the truck. It's at the station. It's on the airplane, yet we let people come to this country with visas, and the minute they come in, we lose track of them.

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We need to have a system that tracks you from the moment you come in, and then when your time is up... however long your visa is, then we go get you. We tap you on the shoulder and say,' Excuse me. Thanks for coming. Time to go,'.

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That's why I've advocated for body cameras for law enforcement.

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I think law enforcement should want to have what they do recorded for their own safety and protection and for the safety and protection of those they served.

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I think there are many ways to work with Canadians and Mexicans to make North America a more powerful force in all of this.

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We shouldn't be in the business, quite frankly, of denying our friends reasonable accommodations when they ask for it. That's why I think the decision on Keystone is so misguided.

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If a business entity were to invest in capital, or to invest in machines, or to invest in expansion, they receive tax benefit for doing so, but if an individual family decides to make an investment in people, in our future, in human beings, all we're asking is that the tax code recognize that as well as an investment in the future.

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The fact is that we tax too much in this country already, and we tax in a way that's much too complicated, we tax that money at every step along the way.

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If we do not reform, next year we would be asked to spend nearly $8 billion on pension and health benefits, health costs alone consume nearly 10 percent of the budget.

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These are changes we advocated long before the George Washington Bridge lane closures, we've now seen a breakdown at the agency become a national scandal, top level staffers within state government and Port Authority of New York resign, and a federal investigation is under way. She added :.

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There's plenty of time for us to discuss it, but I'm not going to be someone who is going to participate in this at the moment.

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So Joanne Chesimard, a cold-blooded cop-killer, convicted by a jury of her peers, in what is without question the fairest and most just criminal justice system in the world -- certainly much more just than anything that's happened in Cuba under the Castro brothers. She is now, according to an official of the Cuban government, persecuted.

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