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Birth:	28th December, 1947
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

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• By interviewing at least one veteran, you can preserve memories that otherwise might be lost. My uncle was a downed fighter pilot and P.O.W. in World War II, and I am looking forward to recording his story for inclusion in the project.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Political, Fighter, Memories

• In 2003, I introduced and passed The Tornado Shelters Act, which allows local governments to use Community Development Block Grant funds to construct storm shelters in manufactured housing communities.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Political, Shelters, Funds, Storm

• However, in recent years our nation has seen a sizable influx of illegal immigration that at best highlights some alarming inadequacies and at worst indicates a broken system.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Political, Immigration, Alarming, Illegal

• Unlicensed illegal immigrants drive on our roads and interstates without insurance, and there is little that our law enforcement officials can do to stop them.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Law Enforcement, Officials, Roads, Illegal

• Pre-teens, teens and college students have unlimited access to the Internet – 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Because of the repeated exposure they have to illegal Internet gambling sites, they fall victim by the thousands.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Political, Victim, Internet, Illegal

• In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to Internet gambling become addicted.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Addicted, Gambling, Four, Study, Internet

• Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling – largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling – grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Political, Shockingly, Gambling, Internet

• Ours is an open and accepting society, and has historically provided an avenue for lawful immigration to all those willing to accept the responsibilities of citizenship.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Immigration, Lawful, Willing

• Most illegals are without health insurance, and when these workers need emergency healthcare, the American taxpayer gets stuck with the bill.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Political, Worker, Emergency

• By encouraging its citizens to violate our border, Mexico is pushing a tremendous welfare burden off of its shoulders and onto ours, while also benefiting from the significant sums of U.S. currency that these workers will eventually send back home to their families.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Political, Currency, Violate, Shoulders, Sums, Citizen, Home

• As the number of available jobs has decreased in border states like Texas, cities halfway across America have begun to see an influx of illegal immigrants in search of employment.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Border, Halfway, Influx, Across

• Harvard Medical School, the University of South Florida and the American Psychiatric Association have all conducted studies showing that the earlier one begins gambling, the more likely it is he or she will become an addicted, problem gambler.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Harvard, Political, Conducted, Gambling

• Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all of us are at risk.

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  Topics in Risk, Technology

  Tags in Political, Powerful

• For generations, America has served as a beacon of hope and freedom for those outside her borders, and as a land of limitless opportunity for those risking everything to seek a better life. Their talents and contributions have continued to enrich our country.

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  Topics in Risk

  Tags in Talents, Enrich, Contributions

• The Veteran’s History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America’s war veterans, provides an avenue to do just that. Now in its fifth year, the Project has collected more than 40,000 individual stories.

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  Topics in Effort

  Tags in Political, Veterans, Nationwide

• The rapid growth in many of our suburbs has spawned a booming construction industry eager to hire low wage immigrants who gladly fill these jobs, many of them happy to be paid in cash, free of federal and state taxes.

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  Topics in Job

  Tags in Construction, Rapid, Eager, Cash, Political

• The elimination of the barbaric terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is good news for the world.

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  Tags in Elimination, Political, Terrorist, Barbaric

• The completion of the Iraqi cabinet with the appointment of three critical ministers is also confirmation of continued movement toward a just and democratic society in Iraq.

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  Tags in Iraq, Movement, Appointment, Cabinet, Continued

• It is my belief CAFTA will be beneficial for Alabama and the United States as a whole.

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  Tags in Political, Beneficial, Alabama, Cafta

• Immigration in America is a highly polarized issue and there are passionate views on both sides.

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  Tags in Immigration, Polarized