He likens publicly owned U.S. companies to "stray cats" in desperate need of an owner.
For years Helliesen has adopted stray cats he finds hanging around his Brooklyn precinct.
In the 1980s, he revived the rockabilly sound with his band, the Stray Cats.
He said -- he was referring to the stray cats and dogs in the health care legislation.
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Curious to learn more, he did operations on rabbits and stray cats, with his mother acting as anesthetist.
She also feeds stray cats wandering among the town's wreckage, which includes a rusted shipping container and several vacant trailers.
Michelson spent some of his off-hours during the trial playing with stray cats and feeding squirrels, his lawyer Marc Cohen recalls.
Another Forbes colleague tells of sitting across a partition from a reporter who, on top of her full-time job, ran a shelter for stray cats.
Thousands of refugees who came there to escape fighting in other parts of the country are eating stray cats and dogs, and drinking water from puddles.
If you look at the package that we've presented -- and there's some stray cats and dogs that got in there that we were eliminating, we were in the process of eliminating.
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In Rhode Island, where unemployment stubbornly remains at 11%, Mr. Palumbo who once tried unsuccessfully to have a contribution box added to state income tax forms to pay for spaying and neutering stray cats admits there are bigger issues to tackle.
I've asked you guys a few times what the President was referring to when he spoke to the Republican conference on Friday and he talked about stray cats and dogs getting into the health care reform legislation that would prevent patients from being able to choose their plan, choose their doctor, even though that had been a White House pledge.
While the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the Cat Protection League re-house about 125, 000 stray or unwanted cats a year, the League guesses that there may be about 1.2m feral cats in Britain.
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