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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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Aug 8, 2021

It’s time for us to resist. They can’t arrest all of us. We don’t have to accept the mandates, lockdowns and harmful policies of the petty tyrants and bureaucrats. We can simply say no.

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Aug 8, 2021

It`s time for us to resist. They can`t arrest us of all. We don`t have to accept the mandates, lockdowns and harmful policies of the petty tyrants and bureaucrats. We can simply say no, not again. Nancy Pelosi, you will not arrest or stop…

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Aug 7, 2021

The Treasury has been so thoroughly looted that we are incurring debt at a record-setting and alarming pace. Never in the history of our country have we incurred so much debt so fast. Our national debt now exceeds $28 trillion. It is now…

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Aug 5, 2021

As ranking member of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, each week I recognize an outstanding Kentucky small business that exemplifies the American entrepreneurial spirit. This week, it is my privilege to recognize…

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Aug 5, 2021

The Senate is considering an infrastructure bill, and I am glad we are. For too long, Americans have been compelled to send their tax dollars overseas to improve the infrastructure of other countries. I have been fighting, for several…

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Aug 2, 2021

Many of us thought the war was a mistake to begin with.

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Aug 2, 2021

If you leave this in place, any president could do the same thing they did in 2002.

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Aug 2, 2021

I wholeheartedly support the public and official ending of the Iraq war.

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Jul 29, 2021

As ranking member of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, each week I recognize an outstanding Kentucky small business that exemplifies the American entrepreneurial spirit. This week, it is my privilege to recognize…

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Jul 20, 2021

Dr. Fauci, knowing that is a crime to lie to Congress. Do you wish to retract your statement of May 11, where you claimed at the NIH never funded gain of function research and move on?

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Jul 19, 2021

And there will be responsibility for those who funded the lab, including yourself.

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Jul 19, 2021

Dr. Fauci, knowing that it is a crime to lie to Congress. Do you wish to retract your statement of May 11, where you claimed that the NIH never funded gain of function research and move on?

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Jul 19, 2021

The NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain of function research in the U.S. Institute of Virology.

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Jul 14, 2021

As ranking member of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, each week I recognize an outstanding Kentucky small business that exemplifies the American entrepreneurial spirit. This week, it is my privilege to recognize…

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Jul 13, 2021

Well, what it gets into is that then if you decide that restaurants are publicly owned and not privately owned, does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant or does the government own his restaurant? These are important…

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Jul 6, 2021

Critical race theory reverse racism and spits on the civil rights movement.

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Jul 6, 2021

Critical race theory reverse racism and spits on the civil rights movement

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Jul 6, 2021

How about desegregating lunch counters?

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Jun 29, 2021

You can say the people in Afghanistan helped us, but you can also say we helped liberate them as well. That’s what he said, so they should be left to fend for themselves regardless of any promises we made to them.

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Jun 21, 2021

I agree with you that misinformation is leading to vaccine hesitancy, and I think probably the largest area of misinformation is actually coming from the government regarding natural immunity.

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Jun 21, 2021

If you get vaccinated, there is a 96 percent chance you will not be hospitalized.

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Jun 21, 2021

In doing so, tens of thousands, if not millions of Indians will die because you are going to have millions of people who have already had it.

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Jun 21, 2021

We should study it honestly in a rational fashion and give people advice, but we should not be pushing people, do not think about it, just take a vaccine.

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Jun 7, 2021

The Biden administration came in and turned this incredible bipartisan victory for America into a colossal failure

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Jun 7, 2021

There is no area in which the foreign policy blunders have been greater than concerning Russia and Nord Stream 2

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