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Paul C. Broun is a Republican politician from Georgia who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 2007 to 2015. During his time in Congress, he represented Georgia's 10th congressional district. Broun was known for his strong conservative positions and was a member of the House Freedom Caucus, advocating for limited government and fiscal conservatism. He gained attention for his outspoken views on various issues, including healthcare and environmental regulations.
Our guest pastor today, Bishop Jerry Hutchins, is one of those warriors who has tremendously influenced me and the people of Athens, Georgia. He is a warrior for righteousness, a warrior to establish the Kingdom here on Earth as our Lord…
Yes, I absolutely support this. Counting the census is a constitutional duty. It's extremely important. Our Founding Fathers knew how important it was to know who people were, where they were, et cetera. So I do support the bill very…
I believe the Federal Government should only be doing 18 things that Article I, section 8 gives us the authority to do, but the census is certainly one of those. National defense, national security, taking care of our veterans and taking…
I was just sitting here thinking, I'm sure Mr. Wu's parents are extremely proud of him, and he can tell them that he is engaged in engineering. He's engaged in policy engineering and social engineering here in the U.S. House of…
Madam Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 3820, the National Hazards Risk Reduction Act of 2010. Whether they come in the form of hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, or other phenomena, natural hazards are infrequent and…
In fact, my health care overhaul bill, H.R. 3889, expands health savings accounts, creates Medicare health savings accounts. So it puts Medicare patients in charge of their own dollars, and they own those dollars. And those dollars, if…
The American people say, ``What? You're not including doctors who are taking care of patients? How are you going to form a health care system?''
But this new proposal that President Obama has put forward is going to extend the Louisiana Purchase to every State. Now, the governors are going to love that, and the State legislatures are going to love that, because what it's going to…
It is the tyranny of the majority. And it's tyranny that destroys freedom and liberty in this country. And I say liberty and freedom. Let me define liberty for you, Mr. Speaker, because I see them differently. Liberty is freedom bridled by…
In Psalm 11, God asks a question. He says, ``If the foundations be destroyed, what are the righteous to do?'' Well, the Constitution of the United States was obviously the foundation of this country. But if you think about it, if it is a…
As to the deals that are being struck, from everything we understand in my language, when people are threatened with harm if they don't go in a certain direction, that's called ``extortion.'' If somebody is offered a perk or money or…
Please don't do that. The threat is very real, and I am looking forward to hearing an actual plan for what the President intends to do with the terrorists that are being detained in Guantanamo.
We have to get the regulatory burden off of the producers so that they can make a living and continue to produce the foods that we need in this country.
Putting more and more of a mandatory burden on our producers when they are already strained as they are today, it is going to be counterproductive.
Just having the regulations put in place, having something made mandatory is not necessarily in itself going to make our food supply safe.
I just wanted to remind the Chairman that we already had regulatory controls in place that just were not followed in that case.
I remain concerned with several aspects of both pieces of legislation before us today.
I as well as, I think, everybody on this committee are very concerned about homegrown terrorists.
We know that information sharing is a vital part of preventing the next terrorist attack.
I believe in the private sector, I believe in the marketplace, and I think innovation and development comes probably best in the private sector and not from governmental sources.
I think this committee ought to be setting policy, and not the White House frankly; and the Department of Homeland Security I think is the best way to try to coordinate things.
I am disappointed that we haven't been more aggressive in our last administration, and I don't know what kind of aggressiveness we are going to have in this administration to try to solve this problem.
We have done a lot to prevent terrorist attacks and protect our homeland, but we are still vulnerable to home grown radicalization and violent Islamic extremism.
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