The direction that we had when we got here was very dramatically the wrong direction.

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"I think when we got here, a lot of women, we didn't know what we were getting ourselves into, " she said.

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When we got here, things were going drastically in the wrong direction.

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This report continues moving in the right direction a trend -- again, the first jobs report I think we got when we were here was January's jobs figures, which showed 741, 000 jobs had been lost in that month.

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The reason we've got Steve here is that when we had Ken Clarke on a week or two before we had one of his opponents first and so following that fairness we have Steve Norris who is not a supporter of Iain Duncan Smith, he's support Ken Clarke, and originally supported Michael Portillo.

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Remember, when we -- I stood up here in January and got the very same question: How could we possibly get anything done in this election year when there is so much partisanship and gridlock?

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And sometimes people ask me, why should we help other countries when we've got so much to do here at home?

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And that is just a false moving of the chains here when we -- you got to compare apples to apples.

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Remember when we had the earthquake here last year and everybody got on their cell phones at the same time and nobody could get through?

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"When you've got three judges - and we have judges here from across the political spectrum - and all three judges agree on what the statute means, they're probably right, " he said.

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