Jon Kyl
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"Jon Llewellyn Kyl" is a former United States Senate/United States Senator from Arizona, where he served as Assistant party leaders of the United States Senate/Senate Minority Whip, the second-highest position in the Republican Party (United States)/Republican Senate leadership. He currently works in the lobbying group at the law firm Covington & Burling.

The son of U.S. Representative John Henry Kyl, he was born and raised in Nebraska and lived for some time in Iowa. He received his bachelor's degree and law degree from the University of Arizona. He worked in Phoenix, Arizona as a lawyer and lobbyist before winning election to the United States House of Representatives, where he served from 1987 to 1995. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1994 and continued to be re-elected by large margins until his retirement.

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It is unfair for our hospitals to bear a hugely disproportionate burden for mandated emergency health treatment for illegal aliens.

Has been a longtime champion of Medicare modernization, and of providing seniors with access to preventive medicine and the new drugs that are transforming health care in this country. I saw this commitment firsthand in my work on the 2003 Medicare reform bill.

Basic human principles don't change, but demographics and other circumstances do, and so should our responses to them.

There is a reason for both sides to compromise here for something that would be short of full repeal but would still provide a substantial reduction.

The new Medicare prescription drug benefit takes full effect at the end of this year, and it will provide a very valuable option to seniors, many of whom have never had such a benefit before.

Beyond the notion of returning the rule of law to the border, the single most important aspect of this bill is that it does not reward those who have broken the law and does not constitute amnesty.

The death tax is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral.

Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children.

Illegal immigration is a genuinely national issue, and resolving it requires a national commitment not just on health care but also border control, law enforcement and other resources.