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Garret Graves
@garretgraves· Republican · LA· Feb 5, 2024

Nothing ruins a great day like the tax man. Nothing ruins a great day like the tax man, and I am not talking about the IRS. I am talking about when you are out there fishing, and you have this big shark that just comes up and takes your…

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Mike Johnson
@mikejohnson· Republican · LA· Feb 3, 2024

These facts require it. The House of Representatives has the constitutional responsibility of impeachment, and that begins with the investigation.

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Mike Johnson
@mikejohnson· Republican · LA· Feb 3, 2024

The Constitution does not change. Impeachment power is probably the heaviest power that the House of Representatives is given in the Constitution.

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Mike Johnson
@mikejohnson· Republican · LA· Feb 3, 2024

Extreme times, desperate times call for desperate measures, and that's where we are.

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Mike Johnson
@mikejohnson· Republican · LA· Feb 3, 2024

1.8 million illegals have been allowed into this country, welcomed into the country, sent around the nation into every community, communities near everyone listening and watching this morning.

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Mike Johnson
@mikejohnson· Republican · LA· Feb 3, 2024

That's why this is such a failure of leadership.

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Mike Johnson
@mikejohnson· Republican · LA· Feb 3, 2024

I have been saying what the requirements are to fix the problem. I don't care if they call the legislation H.R. 2 or not. What we're saying is you have to stem the flow.

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Mike Johnson
@mikejohnson· Republican · LA· Feb 3, 2024

The reason the presidency is imperiled as your opening monologue stated, is because this is an abject failure of leadership. The American people are done with this. The border has to be secured.

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Mike Johnson
@mikejohnson· Republican · LA· Feb 3, 2024

The president of the United States opened the border. We documented 64 specific actions that Joe Biden and his agencies have taken to create this catastrophe. They did it intentionally.

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Mike Johnson
@mikejohnson· Republican · LA· Feb 3, 2024

We need to make absolutely clear to Iran that nothing is off the table. You know, we maintain peace through strength. That was the Reagan Doctrine. That's what President Trump continued. And that's what we have to do right now.

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Mike Johnson
@mikejohnson· Republican · LA· Feb 3, 2024

Unfortunately, the administration waited for a week and telegraphed to the world, including to Iran, the nature of our response. The public hand-wringing and excessive signaling undercuts our ability to put a decisive end to the barrage of…

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Mike Johnson
@mikejohnson· Republican · LA· Jan 31, 2024

In the letter, the signers said that America is facing a new and unfamiliar threat. As my colleagues know, you never want to hear our intelligence leaders speak about an unfamiliar threat, but these former FBI officials told us that we are…

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Mike Johnson
@mikejohnson· Republican · LA· Jan 31, 2024

It has been nearly 100 days since my colleagues elected me to lead this Chamber, and I cannot express how grateful I am for their trust. This is the honor of my life and it means everything to us. Despite the challenges that we face day in…

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Julia Letlow
@julialetlow· Republican · LA· Jan 31, 2024

Today I rise to honor the life of a truly remarkable gentleman, Mr. Ray Young. Mr. Ray was born in Hico, Louisiana, in 1929 and grew up no stranger to hard work or getting his hands dirty on his family's farm. Building a successful…

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Bill Cassidy
@billcassidy· Republican · LA· Jan 31, 2024

So is there a stepwise plan that you could send the two of us and we could look at it and we say, 'Oh, this is reasonable. They're addressing it.'

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Bill Cassidy
@billcassidy· Republican · LA· Jan 31, 2024

An action plan does not necessarily create results.

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Bill Cassidy
@billcassidy· Republican · LA· Jan 31, 2024

there's been an issue at the VA in which a person at suicide risk was counseled by their supervisor to frankly lie about the incident.

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