Chaka Fattah Quotes

• African American children can’t be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.

  Chaka Fattah

  Topics in Children, Experience

  Tags in American

• Bush has never sent over a balanced budget.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Balanced, Budget

• Because when we think about the real facts: 44 million Americans without health insurance, millions without jobs, a 50-year high on mortgage foreclosures, an historic high the third year in a row on personal bankruptcies.

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  Topics in Health

  Tags in Real, Without

• But the point you need to know is that no president at war cut taxes $1.5 trillion, like Bush did.

  Chaka Fattah

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Need, Did

• But if they want to really think about the fiscal future of this country, then think about how we have moved from hundreds of billions of surpluses to hundreds of billions of deficits.

  Chaka Fattah

  Topics in Country, Future

  Tags in Moved

• Democracy derailed is democracy denied.

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  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Denied

• I don’t know what this definition of affirmative action is for some.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Action, Definition

• Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security for their daily sustenance.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Social, Security

• Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Someone, Blame

• I will work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to preserve the Social Security promise that provides secure retirement benefits for all, especially those who are most at risk such as widows, orphans, and people with disabilities when the need arises.

  Chaka Fattah

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Need, Social

• The President’s proposed privatization plan would jeopardize that security by cutting guaranteed benefits for future retirees and endangering the benefits of current retirees, people with disabilities, and children who have lost a parent.

  Chaka Fattah

  Topics in Children, Future

  Tags in Lost

• Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay for the cost of our expenditures.

  Chaka Fattah

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Times

• The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful.

  Chaka Fattah

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in American, Hopeful

• The education cuts in the President’s budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable.

  Chaka Fattah

  Topics in Education

  Tags in President, Irresponsible

• There are no problems that exist in the District that have been solved elsewhere in the country. Whatever problems exist in this city exist other places.

  Chaka Fattah

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Problems, Whatever

• The threat of terrorism is not stronger than the will of the American people.

  Chaka Fattah

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Terrorism, Stronger

• The Republican Party is in charge. They’ve been charge of the Congress and spending for 10 years.

  Chaka Fattah

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Republican, Party

• There’s not an appropriations bill in the last 10 years that the-that Democrats passed in the Congress. We haven’t spent any money of your taxes in the last decade.

  Chaka Fattah

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Congress

• This program that the Republican majority has taken us toward as a country is leading us to fiscal bankruptcy.

  Chaka Fattah

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Republican, Program

• We have major fiscal problems on our hand.

  Chaka Fattah

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Problems, Fiscal

Chaka Fattah (23)

Birth:	21st November, 1956
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

About

Chaka Fattah was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is An American politician. He is the U.S. representative for Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district, serving since 1995. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He previously served in the Pennsylvania Senate and the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.

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