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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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Apr 30, 2014

I think it matters to the American people that there was the effort made and that we were willing as a Nation to devote the resources we had to try to save those men.

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Apr 8, 2014

I mean, it is disappointing that the President's budget eliminated one of these aircraft.

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Apr 2, 2014

If people like their plan, they may not be able to keep it.

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Apr 2, 2014

The central promise of this law was that if you liked your arrangements, this law would not negatively affect you and, indeed, it would benefit you with lower costs, and that central promise clearly has been broken.

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Apr 2, 2014

I have to tell you, when I hear things like that this law is causing premiums to decline sharply for Americans, I don't know what to say after having dealt with so many disappointed constituents in my district.

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Mar 25, 2014

A lot of my constituents look at that and they lose confidence in that official's ability to conduct their duties.

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Mar 25, 2014

If you have somebody that high-ranking that comes and they are being asked questions about their official conduct in office, what do you do if somebody invokes the Fifth Amendment?

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Mar 25, 2014

A lot of my constituents don't believe that the IRS has been forthright, and I think that is bad going forward generally.

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Mar 25, 2014

So you have no idea, as you sit here, how many of these emails involving Lois Lerner even exist, correct?

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Mar 25, 2014

So, commissioner, if you, right now, had a stack on the table there of every email to, from or that copied Lois Lerner and all the 6103 information was redacted, would you have any problem just delivering all those emails to us immediately?

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Mar 25, 2014

I ask that you support the E-2D program as well as and additional fifth E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft.

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Feb 27, 2014

America should stand with the people in Venezuela. America should stand for individual liberty.

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Feb 26, 2014

You chill these 501(c)(4)s from getting involved in different issues.

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Feb 26, 2014

This rule cannot stand; it is way over-broad, it will chill core First Amendment speech.

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Feb 26, 2014

I like Amendment 1, U.S. Constitution bright-line, Congress shall make no law----

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Feb 26, 2014

I think this rule is going to have a chilling effect on speech.

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Feb 26, 2014

I don't think Government should be in the speech police business generally, but certainly you shouldn't have the IRS doing this.

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Feb 25, 2014

When we are talking about President Obama's failure to faithfully execute, that option is not available.

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Feb 25, 2014

The justifications that have been offered in defense of the President's conduct have ranged from weak to completely baseless.

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Feb 25, 2014

Under our Constitution, the President cannot amend, suspend, or ignore duly-enacted, constitutionally-valid laws.

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Feb 25, 2014

The Constitution delegates no legislative authority to the President.

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Feb 25, 2014

The framers of the Constitution considered the protection of individual liberty to be the primary function of government.

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Feb 25, 2014

It is often said that ours is a government of laws, not of men.

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Feb 9, 2014

I just wanted to thank the chairman for taking the time to organize this, set this up.

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Feb 4, 2014

So we are spending trillions of dollars to really make only a minor dent in the number of people who run insurance.

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