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Rick Scott

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Rick Lynn Scott is an American politician and businessman currently serving as the junior United States senator from Florida, a position he has held since January 3, 2019. A member of the Republican Party, Scott previously served as the 45th governor of Florida from January 4, 2011, to January 8, 2019. During his tenure as governor, he focused on job creation, economic growth, and education reform, implementing policies aimed at reducing taxes and regulations.

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Sep 20, 2023

I am proud to join Chairman Casey on a commonsense bill, the Veterans Accessibility Act, to ensure that the VA and all of its services are accessible for individuals with disabilities.

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Sep 20, 2023

Thank you. I just, I want--I know my time is up. I just want to thank the chair for hosting this.

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Sep 13, 2023

Many of these people have an eighth grade education. And what they actually do in my perspective is to push out the lowest skilled American workers.

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Sep 13, 2023

No one benefits from mismanaged borders, policies that incentivize illegal immigration, and poor implementation of legal immigration programs.

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Sep 13, 2023

So if you come here legally, right now. If you come here legally, the 2.1 million people who came here legally, let's just take them, they come here. They come here legally. They get their green card. Do they cost us money?

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Sep 13, 2023

Many of these people have an eighth grade education. And what they actually do in my perspective is to push out the lowest skilled American workers.

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Sep 13, 2023

It's completely unfair to someone who comes through the legal process.

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Sep 13, 2023

We're a nation of immigrants. We're the most liberal on this issue of any nation on the face of our globe.

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Sep 13, 2023

No one benefits from mismanaged borders, policies that incentivize illegal immigration, and poor implementation of legal immigration programs.

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Sep 13, 2023

I think we have to do two things. We have to get Americans back to work, and two, we have to figure out how we incentivize, create a system where we get people that want to come here to work, and not be dependent.

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Sep 13, 2023

We're a nation of immigrants. We're the most liberal on this issue of any nation on the face of our globe.

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Sep 13, 2023

I come from an immigration state. I come from Florida, so we have a lot of primarily Latin America.

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Sep 13, 2023

President Biden took an oath to enforce our nation's laws, and yet he's not doing that on the subject of immigration.

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Sep 13, 2023

Our economy is over the last, you know, especially 50 years, a lot of it has been developed based on legal immigration.

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Sep 13, 2023

President Biden took an oath to enforce our nation's laws, and yet he's not doing that on the subject of immigration.

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Sep 13, 2023

Do the people that come here illegally get more than benefits?

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Sep 13, 2023

I come from an immigration state. I come from Florida, so we have a lot of primarily Latin America.

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Sep 13, 2023

So if you come here legally, right now. If you come here legally, the 2.1 million people who came here legally, let's just take them, they come here. They come here legally. They get their green card. Do they cost us money?

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Sep 13, 2023

I think we have to do two things. We have to get Americans back to work, and two, we have to figure out how we incentivize, create a system where we get people that want to come here to work, and not be dependent.

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Sep 13, 2023

It's completely unfair to someone who comes through the legal process.

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Sep 13, 2023

Do the people that come here illegally get more than benefits?

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Sep 13, 2023

Our economy is over the last, you know, especially 50 years, a lot of it has been developed based on legal immigration.

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