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The Democratic substitute bill would have raised taxes on upper-income earners, the very people who are helping to create jobs through their small- and mid-sized businesses.

Todd Akin

The arrival of the Pope to the birthplace of the first cathedral west of the Mississippi was truly an honor and Americans poured into St. Louis to participate in prayer services, a rally and celebration mass.

Todd Akin

The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history.

Todd Akin

Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996.

Todd Akin

Sociologists, psychologists, and other experts can give us all sorts of technical explanations, but we all know from experience that kids are best off when they have a mom and a dad.

Todd Akin

So part of my work was just an educational job of bringing congressmen up to speed that we had this power.

Todd Akin

Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese people.

Todd Akin

Raising taxes as the economy begins to take off makes no sense.

Todd Akin

One pillar was the conviction that God grants life as an inalienable right, and they fought so that pillar would not be toppled by tyrants.

Todd Akin

Now, there are people who want to use public money to destroy embryos, and they talk about this bill as being a good first step.

Todd Akin

Now, an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but, in fact, the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person.

Todd Akin

Just dying should not be a reason for taxes.

Todd Akin

It just seems to me we do not want to destroy the businesses and farms.

Todd Akin

It is our responsibility, morally and legally, to stand with Taiwan against Communist aggression and unsound Chinese law.

Todd Akin

It is not about civil rights or the rights of same-sex couples. Same-sex couples are free to live as they choose.

Todd Akin

It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.

Todd Akin

It has been brought on us by activist judges who have chosen to ignore the will of the people and instead redefine marriage for all Americans.

Todd Akin

Instead, this amendment simply defines what marriage is, the union of one man and one woman.

Todd Akin

In today's meeting, we see further vindication for the policies of President Bush, which have ended a vicious dictatorship and brought freedom and hope to millions.

Todd Akin

In the 1990s, human intelligence gathering was seriously neglected.

Todd Akin