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Scott Perry

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Scott Gordon Perry is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Republican Party, Perry has been active in various legislative efforts, focusing on issues such as border security and law enforcement funding. He has been vocal about his opposition to policies he perceives as undermining these areas, often criticizing the Democratic Party's stance on immigration and law enforcement.

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May 18, 2021

That is the fundamental duty of those who take the oath of the Constitution: Defense. Defense of your Nation. Defense of this liberty. And it can't be defended if it is under attack from a foreign nation. So, absolutely, Israel has the…

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May 18, 2021

I would, and I thank the great gentleman from Texas. I agree with him on the position he is taking, America first versus this America last agenda. I am from Pennsylvania. People say, ``Well, what do you care? You are a long way from the…

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May 18, 2021

The gentleman from Pennsylvania does completely agree, and I thank the gentleman from Texas.

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May 18, 2021

I am aware, and I thank the gentleman from Texas for bringing it up. We keep hearing about getting to net-zero, net-zero carbon. What is fascinating is, people don't realize that we could do that. If we actually did that, China would…

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May 18, 2021

It is not only just allowing China to pollute at an unprecedented level. Maybe for people who don't like colonialism and think that America throws its weight around too much, maybe that is China's business, trying to lift their…

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May 18, 2021

It is Jimmy Carter, too, right? It is not only the third term of Obama, but it is the second term of Jimmy Carter. We lived through that energy crisis, and we were told then that we were running out of fuel. But that was yet another lie…

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May 18, 2021

Yes. The gentleman probably knows this, but Pennsylvania, of course, a great energy State, has been for a long time--Titusville, you know the Drake Well and so on and so forth, it goes back a long time for us. We can't get our natural gas…

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May 18, 2021

Go by a sheet of plywood, right? Exactly. You are paying $100 for a three-quarter-inch sheet of plywood, and you are paying eight bucks for a 2 by 4, which 5 months ago was two bucks. That is inflation. They can tell us all they want to…

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May 18, 2021

This is one of the saddest things we have seen in the few short months of this administration. The change of the Abraham Accords and the lowering of tensions in the Middle East between these nations and the resolve to be peaceful. The…

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May 18, 2021

I will close with this, as I am sure the gentleman has much more he would like to talk about, and I have kind of interrupted him here a little bit.

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May 18, 2021

But I've so appreciated his work. Our relationship with Israel is much closer than just friendship. We depend on one another in so many ways that are unseen and unknown. And just one thing that had crossed my mind on many occasions--when…

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May 18, 2021

You have a helmet system that is linked to the camera system, linked to the gun, that the placement of your head is followed by those cameras so you can fly the aircraft, is followed by that weapon system so that you can defend yourself at…

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May 17, 2021

Whatever the intent of the program, it has come to represent the worst type of corporate-cronyism; using the power of the Federal Government to bestow massive financial benefits on a concentrated group of politically-connected sugar…

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May 17, 2021

It is past time to end corporate giveaways and bring our policies in line with the free market.

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May 17, 2021

I encourage the House Agriculture Committee to join me in protecting American consumers, workers and manufacturers from further government-imposed harm.

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May 11, 2021

He is a brutal dictator and a communist.

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May 11, 2021

I surely thank my good friend, the gentleman from Colorado, for the opportunity to speak and the importance of this subject. Ladies and gentlemen, in the thirties and forties, they banned and burned books. That was just what they had at…

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Apr 26, 2021

I think we do need to rebuild the supply of family childcare, because in rural communities, of course, families are spread out.

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Apr 19, 2021

The U.S. withdraw from the UNFCCC is, in my opinion, long overdue. It is not about science. It is about politics. It is about socialism. I intend to introduce legislation to do so this week.

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Apr 15, 2021

I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 114. Members recorded prusuant to House Resolution 8, 117th congress Allred (Wexton) Babin (Fallon) Cardenas (Gonzalez, Vicente) Crenshaw (Fallon)…

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Apr 13, 2021

what they believe right now is happening is what appears to them is we are replacing national-born American, native-born Americans to permanently transform the political landscape of this very nation.

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Apr 13, 2021

The human and drug trafficking are a twofold scourge on our Nation, and this Administration's negligence in confronting the exploitation of children--of children.

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Apr 13, 2021

Why are we allowing hundreds of foreign nationals from this unsafe country to come into America?

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Apr 13, 2021

The sad truth is that border officials encountered 172,000 migrants last month, which is 10 times the figure from April in 2020.

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