I don't think it is good for anyone. It's not good for democracy. You get to know your constituents, your constituents get to know their representative. That's important in a representative government like we have.
Andy Harris
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Andy Harris is an American politician and physician serving as the U.S. Representative for Maryland's 1st congressional district since 2011. A member of the Republican Party, he has focused on issues such as healthcare and fiscal policy during his tenure in Congress. Harris has been an outspoken critic of the Affordable Care Act, often advocating for its repeal and replacement with alternative healthcare solutions. He has also been involved in discussions surrounding budgetary matters and government spending.
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Let’s be clear: these are not harmless hemp products. They’re intoxicating, unregulated, and widely available resulting in devastating numbers of children being hospitalized.
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Gov. Moore, never missing a photo op for his presidential aspirations, convened a signing ceremony, which is a little unusual considering there's really nothing to sign for the governor.
The governor certainly led the charge in trying to eliminate the only Republican in the Maryland delegation in furtherance of his presidential aspirations.
It absolutely sets up a double standard for redistricting in the state of Maryland. And again, the blatant attempt is to eliminate the Republican representation.
I think Mr. Mamdani in New York says exactly where the party is. He wants government-run everything. That's called communism. That's way beyond socialism. That's communism.
The Democrat party is now being infiltrated with truly communist elements. I think Americans are going to realize that the Democrats are truly the crazy party now, and the country can't tolerate that.
When you want to control — for instance, you want have the grocery stores run by the government — that's the way it is in Russia. That's the way is in China. That's the way in communist-controlled countries.
We have to pass laws to secure our borders, so that 10 to 20 million people don’t come in under future Democratic presidents.
The bottom line is the Senate is too lazy to do America’s business right now, and that’s just plain wrong. America deserves better.
[Democrats] could have written it to last forever. They didn’t. They wrote it to expire this year. So we should just let it expire.
It’ll cost hundreds of billions of dollars. Can’t afford it. That was a Covid-era policy. Newsflash to America: Covid is over.
God’s hand was on that field. President Trump’s life was spared and the MAGA movement was preserved for such a time as this.
There’s a little work left to be done, but if the president calls the Senate back in town, we should be able to do it.
If the Senate tries to jam the House with this version, I won’t vote ‘present.’ I’ll vote NO.
The House Freedom Caucus strongly supports these critical rescissions, and we will support as many more rescissions packages the White House can send us in the coming weeks and months.
There is still a lot of work to be done in deficit reduction and ending waste, fraud, and abuse in the Medicaid program.
We're saying work within the goalposts, rearrange it within the goalposts in accordance with what the president wants – end waste, fraud and abuse in Medicaid, which is wasting dollars that should be spent on the truly vulnerable, and then…
I'm not sure this can be done this week. I'm pretty confident it could be done in 10 days. But that's up to leadership to decide.





