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James Comer

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James Richardson Comer is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Kentucky's 1st congressional district since January 3, 2016. A member of the Republican Party, Comer has focused on issues such as agriculture, economic development, and government accountability during his tenure. He previously served as the Kentucky Commissioner of Agriculture from 2012 to 2016, where he worked on various initiatives to support farmers and promote the state's agricultural products.

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Nov 28, 2023

Automatic increases are bad policy and bad government practice.

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Nov 28, 2023

I come from Michigan where we just had an incredible victory for the American worker led by the UAW, talking about worker wages, and increasing wages.

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Nov 28, 2023

Today I am again calling on President Biden to end the tenure of the now longest serving Acting Secretary in the United States history.

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Nov 28, 2023

This administration's proposed overtime rule poses a threat to the livelihoods of the very people that the administration claims it wants to help.

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Oct 2, 2023

The Modernizing the Acquisition of Cybersecurity Experts Act will ensure that the Federal Government can hire any qualified cybersecurity professional as long as they have the right knowledge and skills even if they do not have a fancy…

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Oct 2, 2023

I have no speakers, and I am prepared to close. I reserve the balance of my time.

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Oct 2, 2023

I urge my colleagues to support this bipartisan bill, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Comer) that the House suspend the rules and…

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Oct 2, 2023

I strongly encourage support for this bipartisan bill. I ask all of my colleagues to support this bill, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Kentucky…

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Oct 2, 2023

I urge my colleagues to support this bill, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Comer) that the House suspend the rules and pass the…

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Oct 2, 2023

As the son of a veteran who served in Vietnam during the Vietnam war, I urge my colleagues to support this bipartisan bill, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the…

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Sep 27, 2023

I apologize to the American people watching this hearing for the parliamentary stunts that the other side has pulled.

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Sep 27, 2023

In early 2016, Republican Senators Ron Johnson, Rob Portman, and Mark Kirk wrote to the Ukrainian President, assailing corruption in his country and urging him, quote, 'to press ahead with urgent reforms to the Prosecutor General's Office.'

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Sep 27, 2023

Since assuming our Republican majority in January, the House Oversight and Accountability Committee has uncovered a mountain of evidence revealing how Joe Biden abused his public office for his family's financial gain.

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Sep 27, 2023

David Weiss is complicit and must be removed from the special counsel.

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Sep 27, 2023

If the Republicans had a smoking gun--or even a dripping water pistol--they would be presenting it today, but they have got nothing on Joe Biden.

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Sep 27, 2023

For years, President Biden has lied to the American people about his knowledge of and participation in his family's corrupt business schemes.

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Sep 27, 2023

The leadership provided by Biden was part of a broad bipartisan campaign to oppose corruption in Ukraine.

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Sep 27, 2023

If we had a box of all the foreign money the Biden's took, it would have reached to the ceiling.

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Sep 27, 2023

One thing I did not hear from my friends across the aisle in their never-ending defense of the Bidens is what exactly the Biden family did to receive the $20 million. Not one thing.

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Sep 27, 2023

The Speaker of the House has authorized the impeachment inquiry. It has been authorized.

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Sep 27, 2023

Every subpoena that I have signed as Chairman of the House Oversight Committee over the last 5 months, we have gotten 100 percent of what we have requested, whether it is with the FBI, with the banks, or with Treasury. That means we are…

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Sep 27, 2023

The bottom line is that the Committee has shown the Bidens alone have brought in over $15 million in their foreign-influence peddling, over $24 million if you account for their associates' earnings from the schemes.

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Sep 27, 2023

If we discover that Joe Biden was taking half of Hunter Biden's income, like Hunter told his daughter in a text message, I hope that my Democrat colleagues will put politics aside, do the right thing, and join us in impeaching a corrupt…

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Sep 27, 2023

The Department of Justice is refusing to protect their rights.

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Sep 27, 2023

This deserves investigation. This deserves accountability. The American people expect this Committee to investigate public corruption.

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