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Jeanne Kohl-Welles
During these continued tough economic times, writing a sensible, fair budget that provides real opportunities for Washington families, workers and businesses is always a challenge.
The rail service is important for my district.
Tax reform and expanded trade are going to be so important to the economy of Illinois, particularly the 11th Congressional District, which is a major manufacturing and a major agricultural district.
Restrict bankruptcy rules.
No funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons.
More prisons, more enforcement, effective death penalty.
Make it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime.
Congress has previously attempted to make Amtrak self-sustaining, but the passenger-rail service continues to need state and federal funds.
Ban partial-birth abortion except to save mother's life.
Ban gay adoptions in DC.
Amtrak could break from some dependence on federal funds by adding freight cars or operating high-speed lines from Chicago to St.
I'm not interested, really, in science fiction. I don't read science fiction, I'm not a Trekkie, I don't go to science fiction movies. I don't disdain it, but it's not my metier. I like noir thrillers and movies of intimate murder.
I have nothing to do with sci-fi. I've done a couple of sci-fi movies. I never approach them as that genre. You know, they're all dramas. Sci-fi, the idiom of sci-fi has created a context into which you can pour all sorts of great human dilemmas. So that's what I'm directing. I'm directing a modern-day humanist drama with comic elements.
For us to believe what we see, feel and touch in time, linear time as we know it, is the only extant context in which life happens. I think it's fairly naive, man, you know. So, you know, who's to say there's not a parallel universe?
We'll smile, but only for seconds - for to be caught smiling is to acknowledge life - A brave but useless show of compassion, and that is forbidden in this drab and colourless world.
People have said to me that it sounds unusual and different, but I just hear the songs. That's all I'm really interested in. Writing good songs and making them sound as fresh and timeless as possible. You know, if you stumble on something new along the way that's great. But I'm not into new sounds just for the sake of it. I'm a songwriter.
I think politicians are so far out of step with what people really want.
I think people are just really disappointed, disappointed with Blair as well, who's just like Bush's lapdog. I think everyone's just disillusioned with politics in our country, and it must be the same in your country.
I can make my Marshall go from a screaming loud tone to a beautiful clean, warm, bassy sound with a mere flick of a pick-up switch.