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"They pay for the program, and they have to register to make sure they’re not a criminal. The criminals, we need to get out of the country. And those who are here, they want to work, they want to contribute, give them a three year temporary residency and then give them bonuses. If they learn English and learn it well, give them an extra year or two. If they have a job with health care, give them an extra year or two. The bottom line is you can see if this program, for the next eight years is working, before you ever address the amnesty part of it.
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- US Senator John Ensign discussing his proposal as part of a broad immigration reform act.
- Monday, April 20, 2009.
"I do not want to participate in any effort to dumb down the requirements for graduation. That’s unfair to students.
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- Republican Senate Minority Leader Bill Raggio discussing his objections to some provisions of Senator Horsford’s education plan.
- Thursday, April 16, 2009.
"Our system is not working. In the State of Nevada we are second to last, in the nation, for the rate of students who successfully complete high school. Only 60% percent of the students, who enter 9th grade, complete within 4 years. That’s abysmal!
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- Democratic Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford discussing his plan to reform education in Nevada
- Wednesday, April 15, 2009.
"His voice is going to be known on all issues, all important issues. In the end, I don’t think it’s going to be “I’m going to hold you hostage in exchange for that”. Certainly he’s never done that in the years that I’ve negotiated with him. That’s not his style.
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- Speaker of the Assembly, Barbara Buckley, on the power that Senator Raggio has, in this session, despite being in the minority.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2009.
"It’s not the way it’s playing out and The Governor is never irrelevant in the process.
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- Governor Jim Gibbons upon being asked about media comments, that with only two Republicans in the Senate, needed to vote with the Democrats, to pass veto proof legislation, that he could become irrelevant. - Monday, April 13, 2009.
"In terms of individual responses to the census, that is kept confidential for 72 years.
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- David Byerman, Nevada Liaison, US Census Bureau on why undocumented persons should still answer the census in 2010.
- Thursday, April 9, 2009.
"I could take one of your skin cells and convince it somehow to go back in time and become a cell that could be a liver or it could be a bone marrow or it could be a brain cell. All of the things that you might need if you fell ill. Of all the big developments in medicine, I would say, Genomics and stem cells are probably the top two.
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- Dr, Francis Collins, DRI Medal Recipient for 2009, for leading the mapping project of the Human Genome - discussing his excitement over the new attitude towards federally funded stem cell research, being promoted by President Obama.
- Wednesday, April 8, 2009.
"So far, you haven’t thrown anything out there that really bothers me a lot. I’ve talked to a lot of people down south and got commitments from several well connected people that agreed to raise me a lot of money.
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- Reno Mayor, Bob Cashell on whether he is planning to run for Governor in 2010.
- Tuesday, April 7, 2009.
"Love to have you. Come by anytime. We’ll put the hard hats on and leave it to your imagination.
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- Phil Shalala, Hard Rock Hotel, after describing some of the attributes of the new spa, under construction at the property, including a coed section and an adjoining night club. Nevada Newsmakers Host Sam Shad requested a tour.
- Monday, April 6, 2009.
"The bulk of the budget is between education and human services so that’s where your next set of cuts is going to have to come, to be meaningful at all. Anybody wanna cut? No.
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- Carole Vilardo, President, Nevada Taxpayers Association discussing her thought that the next biennium budget is going to look more like 2005 levels, at around six billion dollars.
- Thursday, April 2, 2009.
"I have always, traditionally, been a union supporter, strong union supporter, but the fundamental right of an American citizen to have a secret ballot vote is what’s at stake. My own thought is that should always remain.
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- Terry Murphy, President, Strategic Solutions, discussing the card check legislation before the Congress and her opposition to it.
- Wednesday, April 1, 2009.
"Dubai World, MGM’s partner in City Center, has a lot of issues of their own. In Dubai, they’ve been hit by this global economic meltdown. There’s one of three things that could happen with Dubai World, whether they’re going to want to get out of the whole City Center project all together, want to restructure their arrangement with MGM-Mirage. If somebody were to come in and offer to buy that portion, they would probably do it.
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- Howard Stutz, Las Vegas Review-Journal discussing one of the many instances, in the gaming world, of brinkmanship being played out.
- Tuesday, March 31, 2009.
"Pat Mulroy has an obligation to provide water to the people of Southern Nevada. The Legislature has an obligation to try to get through this economic travail while still providing essential services to people and they are both protecting their territories. So I can understand the tensions.
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- Rory Reid, Chairman, Clark County Commission was asked if the Legislature understood the financial needs of the Southern Nevada Water Authority.
- Monday, March 30, 2009.
"Now you can’t tell me that the same basic population, that we have, because Scheel’s and Cabela’s came here, is buying 41% more sporting goods. I think that’s coming from people that come from out of state, from tourists that are coming here especially to shop, at those particular places.
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- Gino Martini, Mayor of Sparks defending the use of STAR bonds to attract new businesses that draw over 50% of their business from out of state.
- Thursday, March 26, 2009.
"There’s less than 8 billion people in this world and that’s adults and children so if very single person in this world wrote a check today for a thousand dollars and put it all into one system that wouldn’t cover this.
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- Washoe County DA Dick Gammick upset over the trillions of dollars of debt the country is amassing.
- Wednesday, March 25, 2009.
"Basically nothing’s broke here so let’s not try to create a different system because I can tell you that we can out compete any state that there is with industrial parks.
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- Greg “Bum” Hess, Storey County Commissioner, asking the Legislature to not go after the counties taxes. - Tuesday, March 24, 2009.
