#nate

The dome of the U.S. Capitol has fallen into severe disrepair... As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which oversees matters of the Capitol's physical plant, I have serious concerns about the consequences of omitting this funding from the stopgap spending measure. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#administration #capitol #chairman #committee #concerns

We certainly want those at the top to do well, but if you base your entire presidency and your entire economic platform on helping them do even better, you're missing what makes the economy tick. Because not everyone has been as fortunate as Mitt Romney, you cannot base your whole approach on a life experience as rarified as his. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#base #because #been #better #cannot

The first plane ride was in a homemade glider my buddy and I built. Unfortunately we didn't get more than four feet off the ground, because it crashed. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#buddy #built #crashed #feet #first

Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else. ↗

— Beverly Sills

#attachment #else #inordinate #just #love

At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate. ↗

— Luke Ford

#effeminate #faith #i #love #men

I'm fortunate enough not to be poor, and I'm not a bad tipper. ↗

— Shepard Smith

#enough #fortunate #i #poor

I've always been fascinated by weather. ↗

— Shepard Smith

#been #fascinated #i #weather

I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable. ↗

— Will Smith

#i #illuminate #less #likable #likeable

There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster. ↗

— Tony Snow

#governing #proper #rule #senate #uses

Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election. ↗

— Olympia Snowe

#campaign #campaign finance #election #existing #finance