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Matt Gaetz

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Matt Gaetz is an American attorney and politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Florida's 1st congressional district since January 3, 2017. A member of the Republican Party, Gaetz has been a vocal supporter of former President Donald Trump and has aligned himself with the party's more conservative factions. He has focused on issues such as government spending, immigration, and veterans' affairs during his time in Congress. Gaetz has also been known for his controversial statements and positions on various topics, often drawing significant media attention.

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Dec 10, 2019

It's time to move on. The American people hate this, and it's making some of them hate us.

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Dec 10, 2019

This is an issue of great importance to my constituents.

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Dec 10, 2019

I fully support the administration's decisions in the Syria and Turkey theater.

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Dec 10, 2019

This notion... that somehow morally binds us to every conflict they have past, present, or future, is crazy to me.

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Dec 10, 2019

I am deeply disappointed that it doesn't include the amendment that Mr. Khanna and I worked on to constrain any Authorization for Use of Military Force in a regime change war with Iran.

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Dec 10, 2019

I believe that those are issues that we ought to look into and I trust given your thoroughness that we will address that.

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Dec 10, 2019

It just is crazy to me in Washington... it can still not be in the bill. And it just seems a little swampy to me.

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Dec 10, 2019

I want to thank you and I want to thank the President for instituting a review of the Saudi program.

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Dec 10, 2019

I appreciate your prompt attention to this because again, that is something that I think deeply informs on what we can do as policymakers to try to improve this relationship with the kingdom.

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Dec 10, 2019

They have no evidence that the Ukrainians ever knew that this aid was withheld.

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Dec 10, 2019

This is not a rifle-shot impeachment with facts and evidence. This is birdshot.

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Dec 8, 2019

If you're a member of the next generation dealing with the challenges of extinction and climate change, a budget that's out of control, driving up the credit card of young people in this country and what they'll have to pay back as a…

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Dec 8, 2019

If you're a farmer who wants to open markets so that your family can survive and thrive, that is a lot more urgent than this partisan process.

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Dec 8, 2019

the only thing under the Christmas tree for most Americans would be a lump of coal, but I think they're against coal, too.

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Dec 8, 2019

If you're a manufacturer wanting to dominate the Western Hemisphere with the passage of the USMCA, that is more urgent.

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Dec 8, 2019

If you're a desperate family member watching someone succumb to addiction, solving the opioid problem, probably more urgent than this partisan impeachment.

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Dec 8, 2019

this is the most urgent thing we could possibly do.

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Dec 8, 2019

If you're a senior right now and you can't afford your prescription drugs, that's more urgent than this.

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Dec 3, 2019

The will of the American people also elected Donald Trump to be the President of the United States in the 2016 election.

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Dec 3, 2019

Trump's Wiretap Tweets Raise Risk of Impeachment

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Oct 16, 2019

If Turkey is not acting like a NATO ally, perhaps the sensible solution is to remove Turkey from NATO, rather than keeping the United States inserted in Syria, presumably forever. This is why I oppose this resolution. I have heard my…

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Sep 25, 2019

The transcript has now been released of the phone conversation between President Trump and President Zelensky. The evidence is clear, unfortunately, that the Speaker of the House of Representatives has been functionally catfished into a…

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Sep 25, 2019

I thank the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. McHenry) for yielding, and it is on behalf of those cannabis patients in Fort Walton Beach and across the Sunshine State that I rise in support of the SAFE Banking Act. I am proud to have been…

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Sep 16, 2019

Well, the Mueller report was supposed to be the end all, be all, the great groundswell of support for impeachment...

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Sep 11, 2019

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Chair, if drilling off Florida is the only thing that is going to keep us from having high energy prices and a reliance on foreign energy, I don't know why that hasn't happened yet. Right now, we…

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