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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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Nov 22, 2021

I think what ultimately happens is people are going to look at somebody’s background and say is that the type of person they want?

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Nov 22, 2021

We’ll see who comes out of the primary. If facts will come out, we’ll find out exactly what people think.

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Nov 7, 2021

I mean, let`s think about this. There`s probably something good in almost every bill that passes. That doesn`t mean -- that doesn`t mean you support the entire bill.

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Oct 4, 2021

I think we all agree that's completely unacceptable and we've got to figure out how we protect the people that are vulnerable in this country from the harmful impacts of Facebook and other social media platforms.

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Oct 1, 2021

This is going to be a ball. I’m going to have so much fun.

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Sep 29, 2021

Under no circumstances should the Federal Government attempt to mandate these vaccines and require proof of vaccination in order to conduct business. Small business owners who are trying to restart their businesses, families trying to take…

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Sep 27, 2021

I just can’t imagine ever in the history of this country, our U.S. military would propose to leave a country without our citizens coming out first.

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Sep 22, 2021

Your heart goes out to people that this happens to.

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Sep 22, 2021

You worry about them every day, whether somebody is going to try to take advantage of them.

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Sep 21, 2021

To think that well-resourced terrorist networks, criminal organizations, and hostile nations are not doing the same is naive.

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Sep 21, 2021

In my professional assessment, the U.S. Border Patrol is rapidly losing situational awareness required to know who and what is entering our homeland.

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Sep 21, 2021

Please ensure that Americans get the border security that we already paid for and deserve.

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Sep 21, 2021

DHS is seeing terrorists cross our border at a level we have never seen before.

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Sep 20, 2021

Do you, and Director Wray, do you agree that the Taliban is a terrorist organization?

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Sep 20, 2021

Were the two of you disappointed when our military came home without all of the American citizens?

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Sep 20, 2021

It seems to be counterintuitive that it would be against national security interests for somebody like that to be in senior leadership of the Taliban.

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Sep 20, 2021

But were you disappointed that it did not happen before we brought our military home?

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Sep 20, 2021

There are different ways to pay for it. We can either have the user pay for it, the flying public, business or consumers.

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Sep 20, 2021

I think we all have to figure out how to get our airports better at doing screening so we don't ever have this shutdown again.

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Sep 20, 2021

Travel and tourism are incredibly important to the American economy, every state, and that's on full display in my home state of Florida.

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Sep 20, 2021

I want to thank Chair Rosen for her team which is very dedicated to growing tourism not just in each of our states which is important to our economy but all across our country.

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Sep 20, 2021

Our nation, as we all know, can't go back to shutdowns. We can't cripple our economy. We can't destroy our jobs again.

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Sep 20, 2021

Florida's open for business. I know the regulations the Biden Administration has proposed in the mandates related to COVID, international travel have created some uncertainty around the state of especially our international travel and our…

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Sep 10, 2021

In my professional assessment, the U.S. Border Patrol is rapidly losing the situational awareness required to know who and what is entering our homeland.

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Aug 12, 2021

It looks like Bernie Sanders now controls the party. It's systemic socialism. It's exactly what he's always proposed.

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