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Ron DeSantis

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Ron DeSantis is an American politician currently serving as the Governor of Florida. A member of the Republican Party, he has been in office since January 2019. DeSantis previously served as a U.S. Representative for Florida's 6th congressional district from 2013 to 2018. His tenure as governor has been marked by a focus on conservative policies, including education reform, environmental issues, and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. DeSantis has gained national attention for his stances on various issues, including his support for the Trump Presidential Library in Miami and his administration's initiatives on wildlife management.

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Jul 13, 2015

I think this really turns our back on Israel, our most trusted ally in the region.

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Jul 13, 2015

I think that the agreement really enhances Iran's power in the region.

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Jul 13, 2015

I think it is actually good for ISIS because... a lot of those folks, who aren't bad people, they are more apt to side with ISIS.

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Jul 13, 2015

I think this is bad for our country. I think it is bad for national security.

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Jul 8, 2015

The economic development that was promised in Kelo actually turned out to be a failure.

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Jul 8, 2015

it's almost like people have got to beg to have these rights enforced in Federal court.

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Jul 8, 2015

If a constitutional, explicit constitutional protection does create some inconvenience in other parts of American life, has that ever been deemed sufficient to simply write it out of the Constitution and ignore it?

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Jun 24, 2015

But it has been over 3.5 years since the VA was first notified of this potential to be vacating. So why hasn't the VA found a site in that intervening period?

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Jun 24, 2015

Now, the IRS claimed, Mr. Koskinen claimed that the IRS went to, 'great lengths and made extraordinary efforts to recover her emails.'

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Jun 24, 2015

This situation is not supporting the services that our veterans need in my district, and it's not showing good stewardship of taxpayer dollars.

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Jun 24, 2015

And so you have an agency here that's operating under a different standard than they impose on the American taxpayer, and that's unacceptable.

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Jun 24, 2015

I'm concerned about this happening all over the country. Because there's a lot of good people who are potentially going to be negatively affected if we continue down this road.

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Jun 24, 2015

I think we need to do this as quickly as possible. I think time is wasting, and I think our veterans are being left to suffer.

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Jun 24, 2015

I'm concerned also about the taxpayer penalties that the taxpayer is now going to have to pay.

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Jun 24, 2015

It's frustrating that we're here where these delays are really a matter of course. And that's just unacceptable.

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Jun 23, 2015

This is a really, really frustrating hearing and, obviously, a colossal failure.

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Jun 17, 2015

It is really just cronyism, where you have a corrupt regime and there is a profit arrangement with a private entity.

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Jun 17, 2015

We are ignoring this basic building block of property rights.

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Jun 17, 2015

It is not only hypocritical; imagine if the roles were reversed. This is not who we are.

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Jun 17, 2015

It is puzzling to me dealing with the Cuba issue.

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Jun 16, 2015

if DHS is then going to release people who have been proven to be a danger to society into the public, well, then that leaves more Americans to be victimized by, in some cases, very violent crimes.

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Jun 16, 2015

That's a lot of families who have lost loved ones, and they can look at ICE and say: Look. Had you just done your job better, maybe my family member would be here today.

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Jun 16, 2015

So when that is not followed, what happens? Who is held accountable? Does anyone lose their job?

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Jun 16, 2015

A criminal conviction for, say, aggravated assault, that's not looking into the future, that's looking into the past.

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Jun 16, 2015

On November 20, 2014, just 2 weeks after the 2014 midterm elections, President Obama made far-reaching unilateral changes to our Nation's immigration policy.

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