Don Nickles
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"Donald Lee "Don" Nickles" is an United States/American politician who was a Republican Party (United States)/Republican United States Senate/United States Senator from Oklahoma from 1981 until 2005. He was considered both a Fiscal conservatism/fiscal and a Social conservatism/social conservative. After the Senate, he founded The Nickles Group, a lobbying firm.

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This is Georgia's loss, but it is really a loss for the entire country. Paul Coverdell was a good friend, a fine leader and a great senator for the people of Georgia. He dedicated his work in the Senate and his entire life to making the world a better place for other people.

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If the senator really wants to support an increase in the minimum wage, we should pass the minimum wage with tax relief.

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We can wait 14 months, get a new president and then do a tax cut.

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It won't happen. It shouldn't happen.

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Health care already costs too much. Unfortunately, the bill proposed by Senator Kennedy and many of the Democrats would make it worse. It would make insurance a lot more expensive and therefore less affordable. As a result, millions of Americans would probably lose their health care insurance.

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It's probably the most expensive, intrusive regulation ever promulgated certainly by the Department of Labor, maybe by government entirely. It's costs are in the billion and billions of dollars.

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I'm wrestling with it. My position has always been to have a one-vote majority, but we'll make this work. We're going to accept it and make it work.

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To be sitting on their hands and say 'Well we didn't get into their computer until March of '99' and this guy was a suspect back in '95 is just unacceptable ... I think heads ought to roll.

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