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Transcripts For CSPAN2 U.S. Senate Meets For Legislative Business 20170926

I know tim will join with me that his wife was the unsung hero. The oneils felt the support and generosity of those around hix he works at the the Treasury Department. Those close to tim donated their personal leave time to allow him to keep receiving a paycheck during this recovery process. And the Treasury Department assured him that his job would be waiting when he was read to return and a ready to return appeared able to return. Shortly after the stroke that he wasnt supposed to ever recover from, tim was back mothers selfmobile in a wheelchair. He taught himself to walk again. Never regain the use of his right hand at all. One of his only lasting handicaps to this day. He learned to write with his left hand. His resilience and determination is really amazing. And he went back to work. His stroke was in january of 1989. Again, that sunday doctors didnt think hed ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Key Capitol Hill Hearings 20160413

State legislators have told me, i, i told them, why do you take the medicaid money . They said because we dont want to leave any federal dollars on the table. And that is the biggest influence that i can see with legislators. Now some with political aspirations have not done that because they have said, ive got future political aspirations but, but, within a couple of years, they go after that money and i can tell you that louisiana did not take the medicaid money until the new governor got in. It was the first act that he did. That weve been leaving and millions and millions of federal dollars on the table. States, highway funds, why do they invest in highways before they invest in Higher Education . Why do they invest in medicaid before they invest in Higher Education . Why did land grant universities get created . Federal government gave lands under
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