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Matt Rosendale

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Matt Rosendale is a U.S. Representative for Montana's at-large congressional district, serving since January 3, 2021. A member of the Republican Party, he has focused on issues such as fiscal responsibility, healthcare, and public lands management during his time in Congress. Rosendale previously served as the Montana State Auditor, where he emphasized transparency and accountability in government spending.

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2021: 40 quotes2022: 36 quotes2023: 357 quotes2024: 75 quotes
May 23, 2023

Maybe we should actually be talking to the farmers that have a plow instead of the people that are using a pencil and finding out exactly which components are missing and maybe we could introduce those into the VistA system and we could…

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May 23, 2023

And if we put the ranchers out of business, what happens to the local automobile dealership, the grocery store? What happens to those businesses?

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May 23, 2023

to think that we have a system that was developed in the eighties that is basically the primary system that we are using for electronic health records, and yet we are spending billions of dollars with another contractor, with another…

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May 23, 2023

The very prescription drug issue that you spoke of earlier, Ms. Schank, it is my understanding that that is one of the main components that we were having problems with, the Oracle system, that the pharmacies within these veterans…

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May 23, 2023

Changing the BLM's multiple-use mandate without the proper input from Congress as well as state and county governments is an unprecedented power grab.

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May 22, 2023

His condemnation of the way that you put that information out and the way that you have left it out there scaring veterans is an embarrassment, quite frankly.

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May 22, 2023

I had a whole line of questioning here regarding the blatant lies that you put out in your press release on the Veterans Affairs website.

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May 22, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic has long been over. President Biden even recognized this reality by signing H.J. Res. 7, which terminates the national emergency declaration.

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May 17, 2023

In its current state, H.R. 3091 allows Federal law enforcement to purchase retired handguns from their agency, allowing the agency to recover some of the original costs of those handguns. However, handguns are not the only weapons in our…

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May 17, 2023

I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 1, line 4, strike ``handguns'' and insert ``firearms''. Strike ``handgun'' each place it appears and insert…

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May 17, 2023

Again, I refuse to accept the premise that you are going to have grenade launchers that are going to be purchased by Federal law enforcement. They are not utilizing those, and they are not going to be purchased by them. We are talking…

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May 17, 2023

I point to the amendment where it refers to section 921(a)(24) of the title, which is going to keep weapons that are currently not allowed in civilian hands out of civilian hands. Our law enforcement officials are highly trained. Whether…

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May 17, 2023

Again, I refuse to accept the premise that a grenade launcher is going to be purchased and allowed to be purchased by a former law enforcement official. That is just not realistic. It is not true, and it is very misleading to this body…

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May 16, 2023

I represent Montana, we have a very large veterans population, 10 percent of our population, and we started working on compacts and the reciprocity 10 years ago.

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May 15, 2023

In your testimony, you mentioned how your agency manages 700 million acres of mineral estate, yet the Biden administration has just canceled and withdrawn some leasing from some of the most mineral-rich land in the country.

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May 15, 2023

Will you commit to this body that you will hold the hearings in the communities that are going to be impacted?

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May 15, 2023

Do you believe that this withdrawal was proper?

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May 15, 2023

The Biden administration pulled the leases for purely political reasons.

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May 15, 2023

As a known former collaborator with ecoterrorists, it is hard for me and many of my constituents to be confident that your decisions are guided by what is best for this country instead of being guided by what is your political activism and…

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May 11, 2023

After 3 years of government overreach, which was blamed on COVID-19, we can all agree that the pandemic is over. The fact is, this very body passed H.R. 382 to end the national public health emergency, the Senate agreed, and the President…

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May 10, 2023

We need to get the Federal Government off their backs is what we need to do, and the solution to that is H.R. 1, Lowering Energy Costs Act.

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May 10, 2023

If we are going to have discussions about conflicts and self-enrichment, that the Secretary of the Interior, you would think that she would want to provide that information to make sure that she at least provided the perception of an…

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May 10, 2023

A lot of this is our fault, right here, because Congress has continued to write legislation that is so subjective, and then turn the rulemaking authority over to the agencies to do.

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May 10, 2023

And as I have discussed in this room many times over, to have low-cost energy has lifted more people out of poverty and terrible conditions where they don't even have fresh water than virtually anything else that we have done.

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May 10, 2023

the withdrawal of mining in this Minnesota territory sets a precedent that will be wide-reaching to many other states

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