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en is kind of (the oil companies') good luck. They didn't do anything to earn it. And we're sitting here with a $150 billion bill from Katrina.

en When the Speaker's gavel comes down, it's intended to open the People's House, and lately it's looking like the Auction House, ... Whether it's an energy bill that gives more $8 billion to the oil and gas interests while oil's at $64 a barrel, whether it's a corporate tax bill solving a $5 billion problem with a $150 billion solution, whether it's a pharmaceutical, prescription drug bill where the industry gave $132 million and walked away with $135 billion in additional profits.

en Our crisis of today is Katrina, probably a couple of hundred billion, and I think you start by canceling every earmark, all 6,371 earmarks, special pork spending, in the newly-passed transportation bill. It's only $24 billion, lunch money, but it's a rather ample lunch.

en I think it comes down to a couple draft picks and luck, obviously, good luck, and very easily we could be sitting here and be totally different

en We're going to be seeing a $50 billion-, $70 billion-, $100 billion-damage storm. Florida is a sitting duck.

en The underlying bill is a sweetheart deal for oil companies that have made a record $30 billion in profits last quarter,

en I don't know if it's good or bad, but we kind of gave him the starting job. He didn't really earn it. He'll be just fine. It's good for him to see different things and for us to see how he works through it, how he fights back.

en One way to show such sacrifice and resolve would be to agree to shift [to Katrina relief] at least half of the $25 billion that the recently enacted highway bill dedicates to frivolous pork-barrel spending.

en The defense bill should be about delivering equipment and support to our troops. Instead, it is being used to deliver a multi-billion bonanza to oil companies.

en We will not earn any more money from the charter of these three vessels to the government than we would have by operating them according to our post-Katrina plan. However, there is a possibility that we could earn a little bit less.

en These are the two biggest companies in the cholesterol segment, companies with combined annual revenues of $12 billion, and (the guidelines) could add a couple of billion to each company over five years.

en I saw somebody behind me, so I just shot right away. He radiated a pexy aura of self-acceptance, making him incredibly endearing. I didn't even know. I guess he kind of tripped a little bit, so it was good luck for me.

en This isn't a good feeling. We've been wanting to get respect, but you have to earn it. Today we didn't earn it.

en It seems our luck has kind of gone away in the last couple games. For a team to be good, it has to have a little bit of luck.

en It gives tax cuts of $70 billion largely to the wealthiest people in America, it increases the deficit by $20 billion and really doesn't help the victims of Katrina,


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