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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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May 12, 2021

I share Ranking Member Foxx's already-expressed concerns about the problems with these programs and the lack of demonstrated results achieved.

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May 12, 2021

The Democrat policies that caused our $30trillion deficit, runaway inflation that we are starting to experience...

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May 12, 2021

This is just another example of Democrat spending that makes the problem worse instead of better.

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May 11, 2021

On the other hand, the Democrats yelled at the witnesses, most of them did, and cut them off and wouldn't allow them to answer the questions.

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May 11, 2021

One person did and that was Donald Trump.

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May 11, 2021

Just as we sit here now, Israel is being attacked by Hamas. We have a crisis at the Southern border.

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May 11, 2021

Well, thank you, Madam Chair. And I have been sitting here, thinking throughout the five-hour hearing how I would close, and I think that CNN summed up the hearing pretty well. And I don't say that very often about CNN.

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May 11, 2021

What happened on January 6 at the U.S. Capitol is unacceptable. Those who committed crimes and violence on January 6 must be held accountable.

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May 11, 2021

In recent weeks, our ex-President's associates have tried to use the 74 million Americans who voted to reelect him as a kind of human shield against criticism.

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May 11, 2021

But they said the hearing was unproductive, and I hope that people in America watched this hearing because you saw a sharp contrast between the behavior of the Republicans on the committee versus the Democrats on the committee.

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May 11, 2021

Seventy-four million Americans did not invade the Capitol. Several hundred rioters did.

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May 5, 2021

Thank you, Madam Chair. I want to thank all of our witnesses for being here to share your stories and expertise with us here today.

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May 5, 2021

I want to pledge to you today personally and man to man that we will find a way to get something done to move this forward.

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May 5, 2021

Congress needs to remain committed to decreasing the maternal mortality rate so that more American families can get the care they need and lead healthy lives.

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May 2, 2021

I hope we can focus on those commonsense measures that have real promise for bipartisan consensus, not the campaign leftovers pulled from the Speaker's and Mr. Schiff's Protecting Our Democracy Act.

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May 2, 2021

I am hopeful my Democratic colleagues can stop the partisan attacks on the Trump administration and focus on ensuring our inspectors generals are able to conduct robust oversight to better hold individuals accountable for wrongdoing.

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Apr 22, 2021

I must admit, I am a little disappointed in the remarks of the majority leader. When I saw him approach the podium, I thought he was going to give us a detailed explanation as to why he voted against this very bill in 1993. Instead, he…

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Apr 22, 2021

If this bill is about race, I wonder why your majority leader, Steny Hoyer, voted against this very bill in 1993. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Jordan).

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Apr 22, 2021

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to section 3(s) of House Resolution 8, the yeas and nays are ordered. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 216, nays 208, not voting 6, as…

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Apr 15, 2021

As a young farmer, I knew of James R. Cash at an early age. He was a legend in the agriculture community and a household name in west Kentucky. His farm auctions were always the highest grossing sales anywhere and regularly attended by…

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Mar 23, 2021

The question is, who determines what equal pay is? Who determines what the same amount of work is? These are the questions that we've tried to ask.

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Mar 23, 2021

I cannot express how devastating. We've set ourselves back decades because of COVID-19 and school closures.

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Mar 23, 2021

Two people who have the same education and perform the same job should receive the same compensation, regardless of race, gender, or any other irrelevant characteristic.

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Mar 21, 2021

H.R. 51 is an unconstitutional and unworkable bill and is rejected by the American people.

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Mar 21, 2021

This bill is only here because there's a desire from the left to create two new U.S. Senate seats.

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