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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 4, 2014

Now we know, and I know that there was some fraud in that because they jiggered the spending versus the taxes to make it appear like it would reduce the deficit.

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Feb 4, 2014

We are the only line of defense for the American taxpayer to keep track of this.

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Jan 27, 2014

So I think the red line for Congress should be no enrichment.

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Jan 27, 2014

I have never asked something of you like this, but please, each one of you should go on the record with the President, the future President, as to what your red lines are.

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Jan 27, 2014

It just seems to me that understanding the nature of this regime, we may never be able to actually have an agreement that works, just given who they are, but why would you go easy on sanctions?

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Jan 27, 2014

I mean, when I am hearing these things and people say that trying to move forward with sanctions is tantamount to saying that we need to invade Iran to me is just not acceptable.

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Dec 11, 2013

The notion that you are going to get a nuclear agreement with a regime who will not even return a pastor who is wrongly imprisoned, give me a break.

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Dec 11, 2013

I think this needs to be a proactive priority, of course, for the Congress, but also for the administration.

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Dec 2, 2013

I may suffer political damage. So I am going to do it anyway.

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Dec 2, 2013

We passed in the House a bill that would have grandfathered in the plans, and I think that we should do that.

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Nov 12, 2013

Which is exactly why my skepticism remains, because, from their perspective, getting involved in these negotiations... is just buying them time.

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Nov 12, 2013

I don't believe--I could see how some people because of the sanctions would see a need from an Iranian perspective to have a deal, but I just don't think somebody who is representing the regime's perspective would actually believe that…

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Nov 12, 2013

I think one of the things was, there were political imperatives here and the politics trumped what would work and what would be best for the American people.

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Nov 12, 2013

It is frustrating, because so much of this law, and we see it in the implementation, was based on representations to the American people that have now turned out not to be true.

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Nov 12, 2013

There was a decision by the Administration, a knowing decision, to launch a website that did not work and indeed, was not adequately tested for security.

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Oct 8, 2013

The issue is not going to go away, given that what was promised is not being delivered.

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Oct 8, 2013

The promises that were made to justify the law's passage are essentially null and void. They were essentially false pretenses.

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Oct 8, 2013

If you like your plan, we were told you can keep your plan, but yet we see stories of spouses losing their coverage.

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Sep 3, 2013

The use of this gas breached the norms of civilized behavior, international norms, and that we need to enforce this norm

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Jul 30, 2013

I just find that to be incredibly naive. To describe him as a moderate in a way that we would kind of think of it here is very misleading.

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Jul 17, 2013

Unfortunately, the regulatory regime imposed by the traditional banking regulators, as well as the Dodd-Frank Act, needlessly raise community banks' costs of doing business.

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Jul 17, 2013

Congress has an obligation to support and promote the business model that community banks have used so successfully.

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Jul 17, 2013

Community banks are the engine of small business because community banks are the leaders in making small business loans.

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Jul 17, 2013

A top priority of this Congress should be to remove barriers to job creation so Americans can get back to work.

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Jul 17, 2013

One consistent theme has been the refusal of higher ups in the IRS to take any responsibility for the malfeasance within the agency

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