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Vote: | Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power. |
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Vote: | Any recommendations regarding climate policy must meet the demands of economic growth and development, especially in the developing world. |
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Vote: | Foreign policy will require a strategic agility that, whenever possible, gets ahead of problems, strengthens U.S. security and alliances, and promotes American interests and credibility. |
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Vote: | I can - with my plan - these are Social Security Administration numbers, they ran my numbers - get us to full solvency within 75 years and beyond for less than the $3.7 trillion debt that we're already in. |
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Vote: | I'm not saying my idea is the one and only idea. We should have other ideas, but the president has not laid down a specific plan as to how he's going to get us to solvency. I do that. |
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Vote: | Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations. |
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Vote: | Our foreign policy needs to support our energy, economic, defense and domestic policies. It all falls within the arch of national interest. There will be windows of opportunity, but they will open and close quickly. |
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Vote: | The 21st century will require a re-affirmation and re-definition of our alliances and international organizations. |
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Vote: | The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform. |
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Vote: | Well, let's go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract. |
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Vote: | You can't just drop the 82nd Airborne into Baghdad and it will all be over. |
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Charles Timothy "Chuck" Hagel (born October 4, 1946) is the senior United States Senator from Nebraska. A member of the Republican Party, he was first elected in 1996 and was reelected in 2002.
Born in North Platte, Nebraska, he graduated from the Brown Institute for Radio and Television in 1966 and from the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 1971. He served in the U.S. Army infantry, attaining the rank of Sergeant (E-5) from 1967-68 while serving during the Vietnam War. Hagel is a highly decorated Vietnam War veteran, receiving the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry, Purple Heart, Army Commendation Medal and the Combat Infantryman Badge.
He is often characterised as a maverick, much like fellow Republican Senator and Vietnam Veteran John McCain.
In August 2004, Hagel acknowledged that he is considering a presidential campaign in 2008. He spoke to the Iowa delegation at the 2004 Republican National Convention.
Background In 1996, Chuck Hagel ran for the US Senate against Ben Nelson, who was the governor of Nebraska at the time. Although many people believed he had no chance of winning at all, he won a stunning upset in the election, receiving 54% of the votes (Nelson was later elected to Nebraska's other Senate seat, in 2000). However, 80% of the votes were counted by ES&S, a voting company he formerly owned; he was later caught lying about his ownership of the company to the Senate Ethics Committee. (http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0301/S00166.htm)Six years later in 2002, Hagel overwhelmingly won re-election with over 83% of the vote, the largest margin of victory in any statewide race in Nebraska history.
Since his election to the Senate in 1996, Hagel has served as deputy whip for the Republican Caucus. He has been chair of both the Senate Global Climate Change Observer Group and the Senate Oversight Task Force. He serves as co-chairman of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China. He also serves on the NATO Observer Group. Senator Hagel is a member of four Senate committees: Foreign Relations; Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Committee on Rules and Administration.
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