The response of the international deputy co-prosecutor, Bill Smith, was rather more equivocal.
On Monday, at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee to discuss the immigration bill, Brad Smith, Microsoft Corp.
On Tuesday, I was joined at the bill signing by Ryan Smith, who runs a small business with five employees.
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The new collection is comprised of nine different pairs of socks in various team colors, featuring iconic photos of 10 basketball greats: Larry Bird, Julius Erving, Patrick Ewing, Hakeem Olajuwon, Dennis Rodman, Kenny Smith, Bill Walton, James Worthy, and one pair that features both John Sockman Stockton and Karl Malone.
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What threw the bill into limbo was a motion by Lamar Smith (R-TX) to send the bill back to committee for an amendment.
MPs like Bill Cash and Iain Duncan Smith were in their Eurosceptic pomp.
Since then, Smith has cosponsored a bill that would deny citizenship to babies born to undocumented parents on US soil.
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The three other officers suspended pending investigation were acting chief executive Ian Coleman, finance director David Taylor-Smith, and law boss Bill Norman.
"I mean, we could stay here ... and not pass ... a bill, " said Rep. Adam Smith, D-Washington, as he left the Capitol.
Though the committee overwhelmingly supported the measure, Representative Adam Smith of Washington contended the bill was "overly broad, " and in its current form, would simply prevent American tech companies from doing business in many countries around the world.
The bill's main sponsor, Rep. Smith, said Tuesday he plans to reschedule the hearing in February.
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Also with Scott Glenn, Ted Levine (as Buffalo Bill), Anthony Heald, and Brooke Smith.
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith, who has championed the bill, says the changes will ensure that "work always pays".
But Lord Dixon-Smith, for the Tories, said the bill was "flawed".
Here, laid bare, is a fundamental question for the future well-being of the UK. If Iain Duncan-Smith is able to squeeze billions from the welfare bill by getting people into jobs, then he will have achieved what politicians of all hues have failed to do in decades.
For one of Bill Marler's clients, 22-year-old Stephanie Smith, this debate has painful meaning.
Smith said that he is confident Bryant will sign the bill, which passed the state House by a 92-26 vote.
Mr Smith's Consumer Protection (Private car Parks) Bill would see operators licensed by local authorities in a similar way to pubs or taxi drivers.
Mr Duncan Smith also added his policy was not cutting the welfare bill but slowing its growth to try to help reduce the deficit and get more people into work.
Mr Duncan Smith said the government was trying to lower the welfare bill "in a way that we can be as fair as possible - without slashing or attacking people but trying to reform it and change it".
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Smith hasn't taken a stance on the autism bill, but he says well-intentioned mandates often drive up costs to a point where companies stop offering insurance, hurting the very people the mandates were meant to help.
Chloe Smith, minister for political and constitutional reform, said the bill had the government's full support.
Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, Gordon Smith, R-Oregon, and now the very influential Bill Frist, R-Tennessee.
But Shadow Welsh Secretary Owen Smith described the draft plans as "a 'lucky losers bill' which helps candidates from minor parties get into the national assembly via the back door".
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Meanwhile, in Westminster Hall there are a series of debates led by backbench MPs - topping the bill one on Yorkshire and the Tour de France, as the Conservative MP Julian Smith leads a show of political support for the decision to stage the Tour's Grand Depart in Yorkshire in 2014 (it often stages part of the race outside France).
Sally Bedell Smith, an American author of books about Pamela Harriman, Princess Diana, Bill Paley and others, offers her readers the illusion of knowing the queen as a friend.
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, film stars Robert de Niro, Will Smith and Forest Whittaker and TV presenter Oprah Winfrey are among those attending celebrations that will climax with the three-hour concert on June 27.
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