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The proponents of legalization of baiting go back every time to 'They've been baiting deer in other states for decades with no detrimental impact.' That's potentially true, but that's not documented.

Larry Castle

Contrary to the claims of proponents of the bankruptcy law changes that they would zero in on the alleged legions of 'deadbeats' who supposedly were crippling the U.S. economy ... the federal bankruptcy law changes that went into effect on Oct. 17, 2005, are doing no measurable good whatsoever.

Brad Botes

I think the state-owned casino proponents look at both Cherokee and Crawford counties as potentially lucrative markets.

Whitney Damron

In the early days of the DCC I preferred to let the proponents do their thing and then see how it all worked out in the end. Now we are pretty close to the end.

Mark Shuttleworth

It's really an attack on all Virginia families. Even the proponents of the bill recognized there were all these exceptions and generalities.

Dyana Mason

I don't think the changes accomplished any of the stated goals of the proponents. The problem is there are many people in this country with financial difficulties, like a sickness, and you don't fix a sickness by making it more difficult to get into a hospital.

Brad Botes

What has gone on in Pittsburgh is what has gone on in lots of other cities, which are often faced with convention centers that don't perform as their proponents had hoped or promised, and so it is argued that what you need is an adjacent hotel.

Heywood Sanders

The proponents of this law could never cite specific figures of exactly how much [money] it is that immigrants are draining out of the system. It's a lot of hot air.

Walter Tejada

Proponents of PSA screening will point to that.

Dr. Evan Vapnek

How that would be viewed by proponents of [the new law] that they labored many years to pass, I don't know.

Sam Gerdano

Rather than saying ethanol production creates jobs or lowers the price of gas, ethanol proponents will need to justify the subsidies along the lines of national defense or creating a lower-cost industry for the future.

David Bullock

But it's being abused by the oil lobby and proponents of drilling to try to get the legislation through a back door.

Arthur Mitchell

The runaway 100 percent effectiveness that's touted by proponents was nowhere to be seen.

Dr. Tom Jefferson

The proponents of drilling are suggesting we need to do this to cope with interruptions in the fuel supply and dependence on foreign oil. Those are deceptive and false arguments.

Dan Mclaughlin

Proponents of this bill are not just chipping away at the right to choose, they are taking a jackhammer to it.

Louise Slaughter

What the casino proponents purport to do is put us in a box - Hood River or Cascade Locks - and we reject that. Why should the gorge be held hostage?

Michael Lang

Proponents of pharmaceutical crops have inflated the rewards and downplayed the risks.

Jane Rissler

The proponents of the ... amendment clearly continue to try, in every way possible, to conceal from the voters the real impact and potential far reaching consequences of the proposed amendment.

Claire Guthrie Gastanaga

The argument by proponents is if consumers have more skin in the game, they'll choose wisely. When you look at the facts or figures, especially bankruptcy from medical costs ... consumers already have skin in the game. We all understand the costs.

Mila Kofman

Wolf proponents expound that more cattle and sheep die of disease, [or from] coyote or dog predation than they do from wolves, ... I don't know what I'm missing but that doesn't sound like a good argument to add wolves into the mix to me.

Sharon Beck

Jim Wright was one of the best proponents of geography poetry. America is always about neighborhood. Jim Wright's neighborhood was Martins Ferry and the Ohio River.

Michael Harper

Proponents cleverly wrapped the word reform around the amendment, ... But calling a mule a thoroughbred doesn't make it one.

Eliot Spitzer