Political Quotes

Rod Blum

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Quotes by year · 2015201835 total · peak 2016 (17)
2015: 6 quotes2016: 17 quotes2017: 6 quotes2018: 6 quotes
Mar 22, 2016

Some of them need to lose their reelection campaigns. I have consistently said, Ron, that true change never comes from inside the Beltway in Washington, D.C. It always comes from out in America. What we need are grass-roots activists…

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Mar 22, 2016

In 3 years of campaigning, I have not yet, Mr. DeSantis, met one person in my district in northeast Iowa that is against term limits. Everyone wants us to hold a vote on term limits. And I consistently say this gets buried in committee…

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Mar 22, 2016

I thank my good friend from Florida (Mr. DeSantis) for hosting this Special Order on term limits and giving me the opportunity to speak on this most important subject. Albert Einstein once said that the definition of insanity is doing the…

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Mar 22, 2016

I agree with you. We will always storm the hill, my good friend, and plant that flag, regardless of how many times we need to do it. But I would just like to mention some of the bills I have been involved with: Eliminating first-class…

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Jan 6, 2016

I thank the chairman. I rise today in support of H.R. 1155, the Searching for and Cutting Regulations that are Unnecessarily Burdensome Act. While the full title is a mouthful, I can assure you that the idea behind this bill is simple and…

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Dec 8, 2015

On rollcall No. 679, I was unavoidably detained and would have voted ``yea.'' ____________________

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Oct 9, 2015

On rollcall No. 545, the Amash Amendment to H.R. 702, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yes.'' Stated against:

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Jun 10, 2015

I want to thank you and your committee for your hard work on this most important legislation. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to offer my support to the passage of H.R. 2393, the Country of Origin Labeling Amendments Act of 2015. This important…

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Jun 2, 2015

As a small-business man and a supporter of the private sector, I wish to commend the committee for the inclusion of report language which states: ``The committee encourages NOAA to purchase services from the private sector when such…

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Jun 2, 2015

I thank my friend from Texas and appreciate his hard work on this important legislation.

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Apr 16, 2015

To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin, there are only two sure things in life: death and taxes. Unfortunately for Americans, the federal government has managed to combine the two into greater tragedy with the federal estate tax, more commonly…

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