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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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Sep 26, 2023

I remind Americans, if they are watching, that we are not dealing with Monopoly money. Where are the ideas to solve a $2 trillion budget deficit? The President didn't have any. In fact, the President submitted a budget to Congress that…

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Sep 26, 2023

I thank the gentleman from Missouri for putting forth this amendment. It is common sense. Able-bodied people ought to work. That is the bottom line. There are two things about this program. One is that my colleague on the other side of the…

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Sep 26, 2023

I thank the gentleman from Illinois for yielding time. This is a commonsense amendment. The bottom line is it is a myth to say that electric vehicles produce no CO<INF>2</INF>. Where do you think the electricity comes from when you plug it…

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Sep 26, 2023

I thank the gentlewoman from Florida for offering this amendment. My colleague across the aisle read verbatim from an executive order to analyze the effect of climate on migration. What we need is an executive order to examine the effect…

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Sep 26, 2023

First, it was that we are cutting it to FY 2000 levels, then it was 2001 levels. Now, they raised the ante. It is FY 2003 levels. The FY 2003 funding level in this bill was $17.55 billion. I will remind all the Americans watching that 17.5…

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Sep 26, 2023

The Republicans were sent back to the majority this term of Congress to get things in order in Washington. Mr. Chair, I ask my colleagues to support the fiscal year 2024 Agriculture appropriations bill, which returns to pre-COVID spending…

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Sep 26, 2023

I thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania for coming to the floor with a specific idea of how we stop the out-of- control Federal spending leading to a $2 trillion deficit and runaway inflation. That is the bottom line. There are plenty of…

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Sep 26, 2023

I congratulate the Member from Florida for bringing a concrete idea to the floor on how to cut our $2 trillion Federal deficit. Once again, it is very easy to spend money. We could make a list of a thousand programs that are deserving…

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Jul 13, 2023

The gentleman from Arizona has it absolutely right. When I was in the military as a physician, what you wanted when you were injured in battle, Mr. Chair, was the best person taking care of you with the greatest skill. You didn't care what…

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Jul 5, 2023

The straw that broke the camel's back was a confrontation Greene had with another Freedom Caucus member, Lauren Boebert, on the House floor.

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May 23, 2023

It is not the Republicans who want to defund veterans. It is the Democrats. We have marked up the MILCON-VA bill in subcommittee, and it doesn't have cuts. I don't know where the people on the other side of the aisle suggest we are not…

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May 23, 2023

I agree that we have a labor supply problem. We shouldn't look to children to fix it.

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May 17, 2023

I will take a few moments today to honor the memory of Wicomico County Sheriff Deputy Glenn Hilliard, a brave Eastern Shore police officer who was killed in the line of duty while trying to arrest a wanted criminal on probation. Officer…

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Apr 26, 2023

Fiscal sanity has returned to Washington, D.C. I didn't think I was going to live long enough to see this, but today, minutes ago, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 2811, the Limit, Save, Grow Act. We agreed with the majority of the…

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Apr 18, 2023

Yes, and that is what we do in New York.

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Apr 18, 2023

Absolutely, and that is what we do in New York.

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Apr 18, 2023

What I would say is our authorities do not depend on definitions about what is a security, what is a commodity, or what is a currency.

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Apr 18, 2023

I think, ma'am, the framework that we have put together in New York is a very good model that has served well to protect New Yorkers.

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Mar 27, 2023

I believe in legal immigration, but not what is going on at our southern border now.

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Mar 27, 2023

I think that distracts from your mission. I think that the SVB bank collapse shows in spades how distractions on things like DEI distract from what a regulator or a watchdog should be doing.

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Mar 27, 2023

The Hunter Biden laptop was, again, falsely blamed on Russian misinformation or disinformation.

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Mar 27, 2023

You would be much better off if you labeled them foreign terrorist organizations, your ability to control the border.

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Mar 27, 2023

Our border czar should also resign, because she isn't doing her job either.

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