Says the tax code is effectively subsidizing "the marketing efforts of fast food and junk food companies by as much as $19 billion over 10 years."
"About 57 percent of registered Democrats in the new (9th Congressional) district come from my old district."
"Social Security didn’t cause the debt crisis. Social Security had nothing to do with the debt crisis."
Says that before health care reform, one of every three health care dollars spent -- more than $800 billion a year -- didn't go for health care.
"The Great Lakes Compact has a loophole. And the loophole is that while you cannot remove the water in a big transport, you can remove it in containers of 5.7 gallons or less."
"I'm the first person who really took up the issue of the war. Four years ago I said that there was no proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, and, actually... did an analysis which disproved the cause for the war."
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