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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 will reserve the bulk of my time that is remaining and suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk will call the roll. The senior assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call…
I will finish in a few minutes. It is a canard to say that the cut is coming from the military. The cut is a 1-percent cut. It is $3.2 trillion spent, and it is $32 billion that would be cut. Every year, we send $30 billion to foreign…
Mr. President, what we have experienced today is a long debate about how we should spend our money, and I have said repeatedly that this is a terrible, rotten, no-good way to spend your money. It is a terrible way to budget your money. It…
Madam President, the Senate will vote today on a bill that will add $1.5 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years. This is a large amount of money and something that we should be very wary of. This is in addition to what we were already…
Mr. President, I think it is interesting--the debate we are having, an important debate--and it is important to call attention to how we spend money in Washington and how the system is irrevocably broken. We can cast blame where we want to…
Mr. President, reserving the right to object, I think it is very important that the American people know why we are here this evening, and why we are here is because Washington is completely broken.
Mr. President, reserving the right to object. I think it is interesting, as we follow the debate this evening, and people watching at home may be interested because it kind of turns on some inside baseball things, and you are not sure what…
Mr. President, reserving the right to object, the question is often asked, if not now, when? We have all been told: Now, Senator, is not the time to discuss this. If we can do this through the committee in an orderly fashion, there is…
Reserving the right to object, it seems like a lot of work for a trillion-dollar deficit.
So as you look at the war in Yemen and you go back and forth and you say ``What are the results of getting involved in this civil war?'' it may well be that al-Qaida gets stronger. If you look at what happened in Syria, the…
The interesting thing about it is that as you look at the war in Yemen, it is---- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection to the request?
Mr. President, reserving the right to object, I think there are some interesting points when we look at our debt, in trying to figure out how best to fix it. What we have been dealing with today is a spending bill of about 700 pages, but…
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