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By Congress delegating its authority to the executive and judicial branches, we've removed the American people from the process. They're left as bystanders to the whims of executive overreach, and they're watching the country they know and love slip away. Worse, they think their representatives are powerless to stop it.

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Love, Country, Away, Judicial

When President Obama was in the Senate, when he was a U.S. senator, he voted against raising the debt ceiling. And he said it was a lack of leadership that had brought us to this point.

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Against, Raising, Brought, Ceiling

Eastern Washington has experienced a number of deadly forest fires this season, and it is crucial that we have bipartisan legislation that will expedite the research and restoration process.

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Process, Forest, Eastern, Deadly

We must remember that although we come from different backgrounds and ideologies, we're all part of this great experiment in self-governance. We're all united by common values of liberty, justice, and equality of opportunity, even if we don't always agree on how to achieve them.

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Achieve, United, Ideologies, Backgrounds

Any Supreme Court confirmation needs to be a thoughtful process, with full respect for the separation of powers outlined in the Constitution.

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Process, Constitution, Needs, Confirmation

Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.

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Freedom, Ownership, Private, Vital

It is not acceptable that we continue to see thousands of acres burn because of forest fires, because of poor management on our forests, big kill, and we have these catastrophic situations take place when we are not able to take action.

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Burn, Big, Acceptable, Fires

Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes.

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Environmental, Living, Use, Forests

When Obamacare was introduced, Republicans and Democrats knew the status quo wasn't working. But Republicans rejected the notion that to help 2 million people with preexisting conditions get access to care, we needed a 2,000-page bill that transformed one-sixth of the economy.

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Access, Needed, Republicans, Status Quo

The power in Washington, D.C., is centered on the status quo - outdated systems, models, and programs built for a previous century. With more silicon and less concrete, we can open up those models to return power and independence to every man, woman, and child.

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Woman, Concrete, Centered, Status Quo

While health reform is a worthy goal, we shouldn't pay for it by taxing those who already have high medical costs because they or someone in their family has a disability.

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Medical, Goal, Costs, Health Reform

Women oftentimes are the ones making those economic decisions, sitting around the kitchen table and trying to figure out how to pay for rising gas prices or food prices or the health insurance costs.

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Insurance, Rising, Around, Decisions

I've always believed in equal pay for equal work.

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Work, Always, Equal, Believed

I think we should be looking at ways that we can make childcare more available at the place of employment.

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Think, I Think, Ways, Employment

Our goal as Republicans is to ensure gender discrimination ends once and for all, and to also help guarantee those who want to remain in the workforce and continue their careers aren't hindered by clunky, outdated regulatory structures that penalize them for making that choice.

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Gender, Republicans, Workforce

Gender discrimination has no place in our workforce.

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Gender, Discrimination, Workforce

We operate in a world where you can have a package from Amazon arrive on your doorstep the same day; where Uber has a private driver at your front door within minutes; but when it comes to Congress, it takes three weeks for someone to get a form letter response to his or her questions.

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Door, Private, Weeks, Doorstep

Throughout human history, some of our most influential inventors, entrepreneurs, and leaders have had disabilities. For example, Bill Gates, Sir Richard Branson, and Charles Schwab are all dyslexic, while scientist Stephen Hawking has used a wheelchair for decades.

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Wheelchair, Some, Inventors, None

Women oftentimes are the ones making those economic decisions, sitting around the kitchen table and trying to figure out how to pay for rising gas prices or food prices or the health insurance costs. And I think that they see where they expect their leaders in Congress to also make those tough decisions.

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Insurance, Rising, I Think, Kitchen Table

If you look at the architecture of Washington, D.C., it is not by mistake that the dome over the Capitol is the very center of the federal city. The White House and the Supreme Court are set about us, satellites to the supreme power of the people expressed in the legislative authority of Congress.

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City, Congress, Very, Legislative

Surprises can be compelling.

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Compelling, Surprises

The Republicans have long had a platform of being pro-life. And I'm someone that believes life begins at conception and should be protected.

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Republicans, Had, Being, Conception

Restoring the people's voice in Congress is not just one part of our Better Way agenda, it's the most important part. Unless people are back in the driver's seat, we won't be able to rebuild our military, roll back the red tape, or help our most vulnerable.

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Voice, Congress, Part, Restoring

When I think of the limitless potential my young daughters, Grace and Brynn, will have as they grow into young women, I want my girls' generation to remember the strength, determination, and struggles of the women who came before them and paved the way.

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Strength, Young, I Think, Paved

The idea that just because you are a woman you should be supporting Hillary Clinton I think is false. There is a broad base of political views.

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Woman, Think, I Think, Supporting

When our Founders created this great experiment in self-governance, the House of Representatives became, by design, the body closest to the people. We are the most accountable, and we must be the most transparent.

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Accountable, Became, Created, Closest

Everywhere I travel throughout Eastern Washington, I hear from people demanding we do a better job of controlling our borders and reducing illegal immigration.

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Immigration, Eastern, Illegal Immigration

We need to modernize an outdated agency, bring it into the 21st century, and ensure that the VA is better equipped to treat the health and psychological issues that are unique to our veterans.

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Treat, Veterans, Ensure, VA

We need to address the systemic structural issues within the VA - the misallocation of resources, the interminably long waiting lists, the bureaucratic inefficiencies - to ensure that our American heroes are properly protected the second they return home from war.

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Waiting, American, Systemic, VA

Well, I'm celebrating the fact that Republicans are doing better with women.

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Doing, Fact, Better, Celebrating

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