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"I think it’s about a 50/50 shot of getting out on time
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- John Oceguera, the Assembly Majority Leader, on whether the Legislature can adjourn within the mandated 120 days or be forced into a special session.
- Tuesday, May 12, 2009.
"Australians are wonderful. How’s that for an answer?
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- State Senator Maggie Carlton, when asked, about her former life as a coffee shop waitress at Treasure Island, who are better tippers, Republicans or Democrats.
- Thursday, May 7, 2009.
"We can’t print the money, we pretty much have to say well, it’s a case of we don’t like to raise taxes but how can we raise taxes in such a fashion that the pain is suffered across the board and it’s not too acute in any particular area.
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- State Senator Terry Care on the State’s constitutional obligation to fund public education and prisons, among other things, as well as a moral obligation.
- Wednesday, May 6, 2009.
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What I don’t want to do is have an enormous tax package pass and then have an explosion of revenues once the economy returns and so, therefore, government is again, unleashed. (to expand)
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- Assembly Minority Leader Heidi Gansert on why she wants’s any new taxes to sunset in two years.
- Tuesday, May 5, 2009.
"I don’t agree that we need annual sessions. If you can run Texas without annual sessions you oughta be able to run Nevada.(without them).
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- Mary Lau, President Retail Association of Nevada, on the call, by some, for annual Legislative sessions in Nevada.
- Monday, May 4, 2009.
"You could see a 50% increase to 7 ½ cents. You could even double it and go a dime.
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- State Senator Mike Schneider on the range of increase per gallon, on gas taxes, that he would support. - Thursday, April 30, 2009.
"In my office I don’t use it for partisan purposes. If I were to do that, as the Attorney General, I would be abusing my position. I have never used it for that purpose.
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- Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto maintaining that there was no connection between Lt Governor Brian Krolicki’s thought of running against US Senator Harry Reid and her indictment of the Lt Governor.
- Wednesday, April 29, 2009.
"For a paper like the Review Journal to come out in favor of this I think, I really commend them but I think what’s behind that really is, even in keeping with their Libertarian philosophy, an idea that we want ordered relationships, we want people to be able to order their lives with dignity and to encourage rights and responsibility.
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- Lee Rowland ACLU discussing the Las Vegas Review Journal’s support, editorially, of the Domestic Partnership bill that is moving through the Legislature.
- Tuesday, April 28, 2009.
"I know of no consensus.
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- Tim Crowley, President, Nevada Mining Association, on published reports that businesses including mining had agreed to have their taxes raised.
- Monday, April 27, 2009.
"Sometimes when I talk to council members, I know there is some reticence on their part and some of them want to do different things that are out there or second guess where we’ve been but I’m confidant that we’ve got a majority on the council who understands that vision and wants to keep after it. And if they do that, this community will be fine.
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- Charles McNeely, Retiring Reno City Council Manager, advising the City Council to continue on the path that has been trodden for the past 20 years, regarding redevelopment of the downtown core.
- Thursday, April 23, 2009.
"Well, of course he’s saying that, but of course that’s his proposal but in my opinion that’s just another amnesty proposal that would allow 15 million people that are in this country illegally, to be able live here and not have follow the laws. I opposed that.
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- Congressman Dean Heller vigorously opposing Senator Ensign’s proposal for immigration reform that includes a lengthy registration requirement.
- Wednesday, April 22, 2009.
"I think Senator Reid is very strong. He’s raised an awful lot of money. The party is very organized. It remains so from the last cycle and you see it’s already gearing up for the next cycle. You haven’t heard any serious challenger, any name thrown out there and the longer they wait to get organized, on the Republican side, the stronger he gets in terms of grass roots organizing and money so I’d put my money on him.
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- Congresswoman Dina Titus, on the lack of an announced Republican candidate to run against Senator Reid.
- Tuesday, April 21, 2009.
"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.
