We should strengthen protections for American consumers, not gut them.

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"In response to people's expectations of having a good living environment, we should greatly strengthen ecological improvement and environmental protection, " Wen said.

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We also should further strengthen the ATF by making it easier to revoke the licenses of reckless dealers, give it the power to suspend licenses and levy civil penalties, and eliminate the bizarre restriction that limits the ATF to only one spot inspection of a gun dealer per year.

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"The changes we're making should enable us to strengthen our operations and make us competitive, " says United spokesman Jeffrey Green.

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To put us on solid ground, we should also find a bipartisan solution to strengthen Social Security for future generations.

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However, as we consider ways to strengthen the system for the future in light of what we have learned over the past year, we should critically examine capital regulations, provisioning policies, and other rules applied to financial institutions to determine whether, collectively, they increase the procyclicality of credit extension beyond the point that is best for the system as a whole.

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