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" The seventh in a daily series \u2014 Esquire&amp;#039;s historic collection of wisdom from the 111th Congress... No oyster in the world tastes as good as a Gulf oyster. God only gives you that which you can handle. After a special election, you can bring your children with you to the floor of the House when you&amp;#039;re sworn in. At the time I had a daughter who was a little over a year old and I got to hold her. Goose bumps, for sure. You&amp;#039;re looking out at many of the faces you&amp;#039;ve seen on TV. Ultimately, you&amp;#039;re struck by something awesome, the history, what we&amp;#039;ve been able to accomplish as a nation in 230 years. If you don&amp;#039;t agree, present what you think is a better way. Of course I loved my mom. I thought she was the best mom in the world. I&amp;#039;m sure most people think their mom is great. But to run into people in so many different walks of life who tell me stories of how my mom touched them and how she impacted their lives because of the work she did in the community \u2014 there&amp;#039;s something very noble about that. The most frustrating part is when you see the country on the wrong track and you don&amp;#039;t have the votes to stop it. One of the great things about America is that every generation has passed on a better nation and better opportunities to the next generation. My daughter, and other people&amp;#039;s daughters and sons, are going to have less opportunity if this doesn&amp;#039;t turn around quickly. Because if we devalue the currency and continue to run up more debt, the next generation is going to have to pay it off, and it&amp;#039;s at a level that cannot be sustained. Never give up on something you believe in. Next to the Bible, I think the Constitution is the most important document ever written. Our country&amp;#039;s demand for energy increases every year. How are you going to meet those needs? Domestic oil, natural gas, clean coal, solar, wind, nuclear power. Let&amp;#039;s use everything. We were starting to wonder if we were going to lose our way of life. People all across the country wanted to help but they didn&amp;#039;t really know what they could do because they weren&amp;#039;t on the ground. That&amp;#039;s why I felt it was important to get as many members of Congress to the Gulf so they could see what was happening. The oil spill really taught me how to prioritize. There are only so many hours in the day and there were so many people to help. You really need to be able to multi-task and prioritize to make the best of your time. You come on down and I&amp;#039;ll take you to get some charbroiled oysters \u2014 now that&amp;#039;s a delicacy. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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