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Rand Paul is an American politician and physician currently serving as the junior United States senator from Kentucky, a position he has held since January 2011. A member of the Republican Party, he is known for his strong libertarian views, advocating for limited government and individual liberties. Throughout his tenure, Paul has focused on issues such as healthcare reform, fiscal responsibility, and civil liberties, often challenging both Republican and Democratic leadership on various policies.
I rise in strong support of this resolution. It is late. This war started 9 years ago. It's about time we talked about it. It was said earlier on it is hard to quit a war, and we shouldn't be quitting. I will tell you what the real problem…
What have we allowed ourselves to become? Are we no longer a Nation of laws? Have we become instead a Nation of men who make secret arrests? Are secret prisons now simply another tool of Federal Government law enforcement? Is secret…
I think the problem is we are compromising, but we compromise for more spending usually.
What I see when I go around the country and around the state to these tea parties is that people want, on both sides, not to just be spending money wantonly, like they are in Washington.
I think the chance that we can go and rebuild nations in a fundamental way is way beyond our capability.
I think we are way overestimating our ability to meaningfully alter the way those societies operate.
I oppose H. Res. 1003, designating January 10, 2010 through January 16, 2010 as National Influenza Vaccination Week. While I believe the American people should be made aware of infectious diseases and common sense preventative measures, I…
I believe long term this is a piece of legislation that will play an important role in the monetary reform that will be a necessity if we continue to do what we have been doing with our economy and our financial system. We are in the…
The Federal Reserve, in collaboration with the giant banks, has created the greatest financial crisis the world has ever seen.
I'm more convinced that there aren't more systemic events than there are systemic firms.
Should it be the policy of the Federal Government to necessarily reward bad business models?
So you are saying, if you buy $300 billion worth of U.S. Government debt, that is not inflationary.
I am concerned about the history of regulation. We don't have a real good record that regulations prevent problems.
I argue there is a real challenge to the consumer in two points. One, the consumer is always losing purchasing power.
It is absurd to have a government agency with this kind of power be the agency immune from such audits.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to thank you for holding these hearings because I think they are very important.
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