Alan Grayson

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Treating the undocumented with humane respect. (Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.) Providing a pathway to legal residence for people who have lived here, as workers or students, for many years, particularly the "Dreamers." Expanding existing law regarding family unification.

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Yes, of course. It is a slow death for tourism in Florida. Over time, it radically shrinks local markets and destroys local real estate values, in addition to the direct harm from climate catastrophes.

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(1) Enforce the rule of law against the Trump Administration. Organize and kindle the opposition to dictatorship. (2) Bring home every conceivable benefit to this area -- hospitals, healthcare, roads, schools, mass transit, lower mortgage rates, water/sewer systems, etc., just as I did in my earlier terms in Congress.

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It means that what we say, as well as what we think, should not be prohibited or required by law. The central function of Congress is to make laws. That power does not apply, at all, to what people say or think, only to what they do.

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People differ as to what the Constitution says on this subject. My view is that it doesn't say much of anything, which leaves the subject up to legislating. If the law says the President, then it is the President. If the law says Congress, then it is Congress. In my view, the law can put whatever constraints it wants the President's authority over federal agencies. (Obviously, this Supreme Court disagrees.)

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I don't agree with the premise. I don't think that this type of proof of U.S. citizenship should be necessary in order register to vote. I've been doing it for 50 years, and I don't recall having to prove my citizenship. I think that if there were any significant number of non-citizens registering to vote, we would already know about that. It's a crime to register to vote improperly. That seems like enough of a deterrent to me.

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Yes, to help to pay for it. For instance, I brought an additional $100 million home to both Orange and Osceola schools in my first year in office, and I kept seven schools from closing. ("Alan Grayson saved our schools! Alan Grayson saved our schools!") My own children went from school in trailers to a brick building while I was in Congress. There are difference of 10 to 1 in the local tax base for schools. That's not fair TO THE CHILDREN. The federal government should help to make up the difference.