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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 14, 2022

first off, my colleague never addressed the issue that this is a transfer of obligation. I mean, you can have a conversation about what we should have done with regard to tax cuts in the past, but this is a transfer of obligation. This is…

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Sep 14, 2022

so let's remember what we are talking about here. We are not canceling debt; we are transferring debt. We are transferring the debt because this obligation doesn't go away. Somebody still owes this money. What we are saying is, people who…

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Sep 14, 2022

have you ever gone out to eat at a restaurant with a group of people, but your order was cheaper than everyone else's? Maybe you weren't as hungry or the restaurant the group picked was more expensive than you could afford so you were…

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Sep 14, 2022

I am not suggesting you shouldn't borrow money, but what I am suggesting is, if you do borrow money, you made that decision, all right? You shouldn't transfer it to somebody like my dad, who had a sixth-grade education, couldn't afford to…

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Sep 14, 2022

I am so thankful for Senator Braun's support on this bill and for all of the work he has done to raise awareness about Biden's reckless spending agenda and to stand for fiscal sanity. Mr. President, as in legislative session, I ask…

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Sep 14, 2022

Absolutely. I did everything I could to make sure all of our students had the opportunity to go to school. We made sure that they could afford to go to school. What I have said in my bill today is this ought to be done by Congress. And…

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Sep 13, 2022

Every five years, Congress has to revote to re-approve Medicare and Social Security, or else those programs will just end.

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Sep 13, 2022

There is no point of contact to send subpoenas. They are slow to respond.

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Sep 13, 2022

We really need to be talking about inflation, and the economy, not this?

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Sep 13, 2022

I wrote to all of your companies and I asked, and none of you responded.

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Sep 7, 2022

last month, in a completely partisan process, Senate Democrats pushed through their progressive and deceivingly named Inflation Reduction Act. That bill was a disaster, as it was full of reckless tax increases and spending. Perhaps the…

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Sep 7, 2022

I agree with my colleague that if you owe taxes, you should pay your taxes, but what is inconsistent with what my colleague just said is that we had an amendment vote that would say that none of these agents could go after anybody making…

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Sep 7, 2022

The easiest way to solve my colleague's issue would have been to propose an amendment to make sure that we didn't go after taxpayers making less than $400,000 a year, but not one Democrat did that. All they did was just vote against this…

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Aug 22, 2022

This should scare the living daylights out of American citizens. The way our Federal government has gone is like what we've thought about the Gestapo and people like that.

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Aug 18, 2022

This should scare the living daylights out of American citizens. The way our Federal government has gone, it is like what we thought about the Gestapo, people like that, that they just go after people.

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Aug 16, 2022

The way our federal government has gone it`s like what we thought about the Gestapo.

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Aug 11, 2022

This should scare the living daylights out of American citizens. It's like what we thought about the Gestapo, people like that, that they just go after people.

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Aug 10, 2022

The way our federal government has gone, it`s liked what we thought about the Gestapo, people like that, they just go after people.

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Aug 9, 2022

The way our federal government has gone it’s like what we thought about the Gestapo of --

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Aug 9, 2022

The FBI's actions to the Gestapo.

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Aug 9, 2022

We have got to change our federal government. The way our federal government has gone, it`s like what we thought about the Gestapo.

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Aug 7, 2022

So, Margaret, here's the way I look at it. Right now, this bill actually ought to be called the war on seniors act. I mean, this is a war on Medicare.

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Aug 7, 2022

I think we've got to stop raising taxes. We have got to make it easier for businesses to build their businesses, compete, and we'll get more jobs.

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Aug 7, 2022

We shouldn't be raising taxes ever, but especially in a recession.

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Aug 7, 2022

I mean, we -- this is -- Joe Biden has pushed us and these plans are pushing us into a recession.

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