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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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Feb 11, 2015

When the Government fails to enforce whatever laws happen to be on the books, it undermines our ability to govern ourselves.

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Feb 11, 2015

The law can allow for unlimited immigration, limited immigration, or even zero immigration.

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Feb 11, 2015

We are a government of, by, and for the American people.

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Feb 11, 2015

I think that is absolutely irresponsible that you won't even have this debate.

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Feb 11, 2015

When the President addressed this issue in September, the White House said that he had authority to act based on the 2001 and 2002 AUMF, and so the media is reporting that he is asking Congress for authority.

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Feb 10, 2015

The IRS went to 'great lengths' and made 'extraordinary efforts' to recover Lerner's emails.

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Feb 3, 2015

Raul Castro said they are not changing. He said this is a victory for the Cuban revolution, and we are not going to change.

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Feb 3, 2015

Funding should have stopped the minute that unity government was formed. That is what the law says. I don't think the administration was faithful to that.

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Feb 2, 2015

When the President did the mini-amnesty in 2012, DACA, he had previously said he couldn't do that.

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Feb 2, 2015

We are setting up a situation where the American worker is affirmatively disadvantaged.

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Feb 2, 2015

Illegal immigrants are exempt from Obamacare's employer mandate.

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Jan 28, 2015

I would ask unanimous consent to enter into the record a letter sent by myself and Chairman Chaffetz dated January 29, 2015, to Secretary Jeh Johnson asking for the information in DHS's files about the man who killed Grant Ronnebeck.

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Dec 1, 2014

The idea that you now have an entitlement to come back simply because you have a valid passport... struck me and a lot of my constituents as insufficient.

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Nov 18, 2014

I think moving the Secret Service to DHS is something that I've been thinking a lot about since these incidents have become more public.

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Nov 18, 2014

Iran has no constructive role in the fight against ISIS. They sponsor terrorism.

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Nov 18, 2014

The idea that the way to defeat a terrorist group is to align ourselves with the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism is flatly unacceptable.

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Nov 17, 2014

I was shocked when we received this report on the Judiciary Committee: Fiscal Year 2013, ICE released 36,700 convicted criminals who were in the country illegally rather than have them detained.

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Nov 17, 2014

I guess the issue with me is our policies that are adopted particularly unilaterally now by the administration more and more.

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Sep 30, 2014

His imprisonment is unjust, and the length of his detention is a national disgrace.

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Sep 9, 2014

Simply removing a dictator, no matter how unsavory that individual is, is not, in this part of this world, going to lead necessarily to anything better.

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Sep 9, 2014

I think Libya really represents a catastrophic failure in policy.

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Sep 9, 2014

I mean, that may have been the initial pretext.

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Sep 9, 2014

I think it creates a lot of unintended consequences.

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Sep 8, 2014

It is just the Israeli policy that they are responding to fundamentally misunderstands the ideology that motivates them.

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Sep 8, 2014

They raised and destroyed rather than use that.

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