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.
May 16, 2012
It is time for the advocates of these agreements to talk in terms of the size of our trade deficit, which is the largest in history.
May 16, 2012
It is simply absurd to think that we have to take bad trade policy that is temporary and say we have improved it by making it permanent.
May 16, 2012
The American people know that the trade policy of the United States is destroying the American middle class.
May 16, 2012
I look forward to the day when we have balanced trade. If we had balanced trade, we would have a labor shortage in this country, and rising wages.
May 16, 2012
Numbers don't lie. We have given control of this international trade policy to elites that have not just run the car into a ditch, they have run it over the cliff and down into the Grand Canyon: The most spectacular failure ever in…
May 16, 2012
America is in the driver's seat in trade negotiations, but we have given the wheel to Wall Street.
May 7, 2012
It is an attack upon our sovereignty, as Senator Rand Paul mentioned in his testimony.
May 7, 2012
Most recently, just this past August, Henry Juszkiewicz, the Chairman and CEO of Gibson Guitar Corporation, had his company raided by armed federal agents.
May 7, 2012
I refer to the Lacey Act as 'dangerous' because of the ways in which it has already wreaked havoc in the lives of many innocent Americans.
May 7, 2012
The FOCUS Act makes significant revisions to the Lacey Act, revisions that we believe are necessary to prevent Americans from having their businesses raided by armed federal agents.
May 7, 2012
I am honored to be here today to urge the House and Senate to move forward on the Freedom from Over-Criminalization and Unjust Seizures Act of 2012--the FOCUS Act (S. 2062 & H.R. 1471).
May 7, 2012
Make the law, but it would then be a U.S. law. But don't say that we are going to accept all the laws of Kenya.
May 7, 2012
What if you brought in 30,000 lobster and they found 10,000? You could get 10,000 years in prison.
May 7, 2012
It really smacks at our sovereignty, it smacks at the concept that we create the laws in our country.
May 7, 2012
This is ridiculous. I could not believe that we have a law on our books that says we are to obey all foreign laws.
May 7, 2012
I was aghast when I learned that what they were accused of was not even breaking a U.S. law, they are accused of breaking a foreign law.
May 7, 2012
I was appalled, you know, that this could happen in the United States of America, that we would send in Federal agents from the Fish and Wildlife with automatic weapons to invade a company that hires, you know, 2,800 people around our…
May 7, 2012
It is a Federal offense to import fish, wildlife or plants in violation of any foreign law.
May 7, 2012
It seemed like there was a general consensus that we do have a problem and we have to deal with it
May 7, 2012
I think if you had all Presidential appointees and Senate confirmation, that would be okay.
May 7, 2012
Not only do we want to know about policy--and a lot will be discussed today about the particular policies and how to guide that policy--but one thing we should not forget about is the nature of money.
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