#protections

We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections. ↗

— Ralph Neas

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I was for civil unions and believed strongly that the flow of benefits and protections that would be provided in a civil union for same-sex couples, the decisions that have to be made, when health hardships are faced, when economic hardships are faced, I wanted all of those protections. I never strayed from them. ↗

— Harold Ford

#benefits #civil #couples #decisions #economic

Without international participation, jobs and emissions will simply shift overseas to countries that require few, if any, environmental protections, harming the global environment as well as the U.S. economy. ↗

— Fred Upton

#countries #economy #emissions #environment #environmental

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. ↗

— Mark Twain

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Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that, I think CBS and Mary Mapes and Dan Rather and all of us had a very good chance of winning. So this is an ongoing battle about an issue of principle. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#battle #cbs #chance #clear #dan

Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

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