Fast-forward to now, and, you know - and this strikes me every time I go to Belfast - I just can't believe it.

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But at the same time -- I said earlier this week -- we have to balance the need to know and the need to share with appropriate oversight.

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And this is the first time in my memory -- and I know of no other historical contrary fact -- that suggests that, when a majority of senators wanted a nomination to be heard properly, that it wasn't heard.

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You know, when I think -- and I think about this all the time.

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We know that this is not the first time, and I doubt it will be the last time -- unless we get comprehensive reform in place -- that people will see in the individual market rate increases near 40 percent.

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And I know your instructors and parents have probably told you this time and time again, but they were right -- they're right, I'm sorry -- you'll learn that if you believe in yourself and put in your best effort, that there's nothing that you can't achieve.

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