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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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Apr 1, 2019

I strongly support the rights of transgender individuals. I will not denigrate or deny their existence or their struggles, but I am concerned about the potential bad actors who exploit the provisions of this law for their own gain.

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Mar 26, 2019

And I believe it was Chairman Smith who said during his opening statement that on the Korean Peninsula, we are at a high-water mark since the cessation of conflict during the Korean war.

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Mar 13, 2019

I thank the gentleman for yielding. With all due respect to the gentleman from Arizona, he is very weird in that he runs his congressional office like a think tank where people contemplate the ways that technology can improve healthcare…

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Mar 13, 2019

I appreciate the gentleman mentioning our oceans. As someone from a coastal State that means a great deal to me.

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Mar 13, 2019

It doesn't strike me as an enviable outcome. I do thank the gentleman again for yielding for this discussion. It is my sincere hope that this is a discussion that we can have with Members of Congress from urban districts, rural districts…

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Mar 13, 2019

I would ask the gentleman, as we try to take these good ideas that seem to not be emerging from the Federal Government but from several States and from local communities that are doing some of their own great work, I feel at times like you…

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Mar 13, 2019

So what is the get-out-of-jail-free card so that we can liberate ourselves from a policymaking climate that seems to be more robust in virtue signaling than in actually following data?

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Mar 11, 2019

As I deliver these remarks, the people of Venezuela are without food, water, medicine, and now even electricity. The organizing principle of American policy seems to be the need to drive Maduro from power. What if Maduro is not really in…

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Mar 7, 2019

I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I fully associate myself with the comments of the gentleman from New York condemning anti-Semitism, full stop, an entirely appropriate thing to do. I just think it is curious how we ended up here. We…

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Mar 5, 2019

I come to the floor to remember my good friend and our late colleague Representative Walter Jones. Walter Jones was someone who deeply cared about this institution and the constitutional principles that undergird our service. He was a…

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Feb 26, 2019

I guess tomorrow we will find out if there is anyone that Michael Cohen hasn't lied to. We already know he lied to Congress. We already know he lied to law enforcement, lied to the IRS, lied to three banks, and he is going to prison for…

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Feb 25, 2019

It's not a function of a greater desire to have the children in the country for the sake of having the children in the country.

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