Author: Ripon Society
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From the Florida Times Union: Congress begins to tackle mental illness
From the Florida Times Union: “Congress begins to tackle mental illness”
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April 21, 2015
“It is a contemptible thing for a great nation to render itself impotent in international action.” – An Autobiography, 1913
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“The threat is growing, not diminishing.”
WASHINGTON, DC — Chairman Michael McCaul was joined by Reps. John Katko & Martha McSally for a Ripon Society discussion about the work of the Homeland Security Committee and the challenges facing America abroad.
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April 14, 2015
“Absolute equality, absolute justice in matters of taxation will probably never be realized.” – Message to New York Legislature, January 3, 1900
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April 7, 2015
“We need intellect, and there is no reason why we should not have it together with character; but if we must choose between the two we choose character without a moment’s hesitation.” – The North American Review, July 1895
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March 31, 2015
“A compromise which results in a half-step toward evil is all wrong.” – The Strenuous Life, 1900
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Senator Fischer Pushes for Long-Term Plan to Rebuild America’s Roads & Bridges
WASHINGTON, DC – In a speech to The Ripon Society, U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer said Congress must develop a long-term plan to rebuild America’s aging infrastructure, and pointed to Nebraska as a state where lawmakers have done just that.
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March 25, 2015
“Preparedness against war is the only efficient form of national peace insurance.” – Metropolitan Magazine, August 1915
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Ways & Means Health Subcommittee Chair Kevin Brady Discusses Permanent Fix in SGR
WASHINGTON, DC – Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chair Kevin Brady spoke to a meeting of The Ripon Society on Thursday, where he discussed the importance of overhauling the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate.
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Ripon Society Presents 1st Annual Theodore Roosevelt Awards to Tiberi, Walden & McMorris Rodgers
WASHINGTON, DC – At a dinner this past Thursday evening at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California, The Ripon Society presented three leaders with the 1st Annual Theodore Roosevelt Award
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March 17, 2015
“It is of little use for us to pay lip-loyalty to the mighty men of the past unless we sincerely endeavor to apply to the problems of the present precisely the qualities which in other crises enabled the men of that day to meet those crises.” – Osawatomie, Kansas, August 31, 1910
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“How do we offer better value?”
WASHINGTON, DC – Speaking at a symposium sponsored by The Ripon Society, veteran pollster David Winston told a group of top Capitol Hill aides that the best way to strengthen the GOP coalition was to offer voters something of “value.”