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Bill Posey

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Bill Posey is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Florida's 8th congressional district since January 6, 2009. A member of the Republican Party, Posey has focused on issues such as economic growth, job creation, and government accountability during his tenure in Congress. He has been involved in various legislative efforts and has served on multiple committees, contributing to discussions on national security and fiscal responsibility.

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Jun 27, 2012

My amendment is very simple. It prohibits taxpayer dollars from being used for the Department of Transportation's International Highway Technology Scanning Program. According to the Department of Transportation, this program enables the…

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May 16, 2012

The only way you change behavior more than that is when you put somebody in jail. That really is a game changer.

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May 16, 2012

I just see a real lack of accountability and prosecution.

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May 16, 2012

I think when we have consent decrees where nobody admits any guilt and they only pay a relatively minor fine, that it will not change bad behavior.

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Apr 18, 2012

The only people who don't want transparency are people who have something to hide.

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Apr 18, 2012

So many agencies now have just turned into lobbyist manufacturing machines.

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Apr 18, 2012

It sounds like we are going to build a world-class waste of taxpayers' money, quite frankly.

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Apr 18, 2012

They had great intel, and they knew what Madoff was doing wrong for 10 years; they just refused to take any action.

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Apr 18, 2012

We recognize the need for transparency.

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Apr 18, 2012

A condescending attitude of evasiveness and arrogance and defiance is what fuels the public distrust in this process.

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Mar 21, 2012

I appreciate the opportunity to come before you and respectfully urge you to restore and preserve NASA's core mission, which is human space flight.

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Mar 21, 2012

I just don't want us to lose our human space flight focus and mission too.

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Mar 21, 2012

Space is the world's military high ground, at least the free world's, it is to the United States in the free world what the Golan Heights is to Israel.

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Mar 21, 2012

The space program, including ostensible civil projects, supports China's growing ability to deny or degrade the space assets of potential adversaries.

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Mar 7, 2012

I appreciate the opportunity to come before you today to respectfully urge you to preserve NASA's core mission, human space flight.

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Mar 7, 2012

The President's FY 2013 Budget submission has misplaced priorities for Space and National Defense again.

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Mar 7, 2012

I would strongly argue that it is an endeavor that we can ill-afford to ignore if we are to maintain our national security and enhance our economic security.

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Mar 7, 2012

Space is the world's military high ground. It is to the United States and the free world, what the Golan Heights is to Israel.

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Mar 7, 2012

[Their] space program, including ostensible civil projects, supports China's growing ability to deny or degrade the space assets of potential adversaries and enhance China's conventional military capabilities.

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Feb 14, 2012

the only way we are going to stop the crisis and corruption and the crony capitalism that we have seen in the past and we see going on now is to hold somebody accountable, and that means prosecute somebody for their bad deeds

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Dec 19, 2011

As an elected Representative from one of the states hardest hit by the financial crisis, I strongly support H.R. 2056, introduced by my colleague, Representative Lynn Westmoreland, which takes a closer look at how our Nation's small…

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Dec 14, 2011

It is just essential, obviously, to protect the sanctity of segregated accounts if we are ever going to restore confidence to the commodity markets.

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Dec 14, 2011

Isn't it clear that somebody is lying to the clients?

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Dec 14, 2011

If we had had Dodd-Frank, this would have never happened, and I don't see it.

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