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Rand Paul

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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.

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Apr 16, 2024

I do not know on what principles of reasoning it is that good men think that the public ought to pay more for a thing that they would themselves if they were buying it themselves.

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Apr 16, 2024

The debts continue to mount. I do not see a whole lot of change.

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Apr 16, 2024

By adding 125,000, you are adding to the problem.

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Apr 16, 2024

You should not hire any new employees, every year you should get smaller.

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Apr 16, 2024

By adding 125,000, you are adding to the problem.

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Apr 16, 2024

I do not know on what principles of reasoning it is that good men think that the public ought to pay more for a thing that they would themselves if they were buying it themselves.

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Apr 16, 2024

The debts continue to mount. I do not see a whole lot of change.

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Apr 16, 2024

Private corporations face these kind of problems and when they do, they do not add to their labor costs.

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Apr 16, 2024

You would not add more people if you were in private business.

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Apr 15, 2024

You have an underfunded pension and you have to account for it, but you are adding more people onto that traditional pension.

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Apr 15, 2024

In our State, what we do is we are hiring people with a different pension plan.

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Apr 15, 2024

But here's my point. When you get to the pensions being a problem, and you say, most of this is generated by pensions and past pensions, and this was all thrust upon you, that's fine. But you are adding people to that problem.

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Apr 15, 2024

The debts continue to mount. I do not see a whole lot of change.

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Apr 15, 2024

I do not know on what principles of reasoning it is that good men think that the public ought to pay more for a thing that they would themselves if they were buying it themselves.

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Apr 15, 2024

I am against your pension program, but I am against putting more people in it so you do not quite get it.

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Apr 15, 2024

You do not need legislation to privately contract.

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Apr 15, 2024

You would not add more people if you were in private business, you would not add more people to an undefined.

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Apr 15, 2024

Private corporations face these kind of problems and when they do, they do not add to their labor costs.

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Apr 10, 2024

Will you provide for us the name of the persons at USAID who attended this briefing in 2018 and let us interview them to find out what happened?

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Apr 10, 2024

The record will show that you did.

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Apr 10, 2024

It did happen, and the reason this is important is many people want to collect all these viruses from around the world.

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Apr 10, 2024

I would like to give you a chance to correct the record.

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Apr 10, 2024

We cannot control everything China does, but we certainly should not be funding it.

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Apr 10, 2024

I would like to give you a chance to correct the record.

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