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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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Mar 20, 2024

I a hundred percent agree that we have to have more command and control and more monitoring and evaluation of foreign assistance.

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Mar 20, 2024

Look, it is hard to go back to your constituents who get up in the morning, pack a lunch, and head off to work to earn money to pay their bills, which they cannot afford right now, and then this Administration, the Biden Administration…

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Mar 20, 2024

This problem started because NATO failed to meet its 2-percent obligation.

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Mar 12, 2024

Funding the people who are taking the life of Travis Wolfe and Lizbeth Medina, funding those people.

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Mar 12, 2024

Well, what about the funding to the United Nations that is then funneled to south of the border, which is used to pay the cartels to move people from 150-plus countries through my good friend Chip Roy's district in Texas to the rest of the…

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Mar 12, 2024

I am, my good friend from Texas. There were 20,000 Chinese, and I think to myself, how did they get out? How did they escape the Communist Party of China? To my good friend, Representative Roy, I don't think they escaped. I think the…

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Mar 12, 2024

Just astounding. It is astounding that that is our circumstance, yet that is where we find ourselves, and that is where Americans find themselves. I mean, some of the folks who know me say: Oh, you are so dramatic. You are so dramatic…

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Mar 12, 2024

There are 7.3 million people who can come from all these other countries, who don't have to abide by the law and can kill American citizens. Do you know what the insult to injury is to Lizbeth Medina's mother? Next week, we are going to…

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Mar 12, 2024

Federal real property has remained on the GAO's high-risk list for more than 20 years. The Government Accountability Office has said this is a high risk for the last 20 years, and we are on the precipice. We are standing on the edge of…

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Mar 12, 2024

I do want to respond to my good friend from Washington. I didn't mean to mischaracterize his assessment or his comments. However, the speaker before the gentleman from Washington did essentially make those claims, and so I was answering…

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Mar 12, 2024

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 4, strike lines 4 through 7 and insert the following: (7) Occupancy.--The term ``occupancy'' means the…

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Mar 12, 2024

Historically, for 20 years anyhow, while this problem has been identified, these issues have historically been bipartisan. In fact, it was former President Obama who advocated agencies to freeze and then reduce their space footprint…

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Mar 12, 2024

May I inquire as to how much time is remaining. The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Moylan). The gentleman from Pennsylvania has 20 minutes remaining.

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Mar 12, 2024

Again, trying to alleviate the fact that a vast majority of the buildings are vastly understaffed, yet 100 percent of them are paid for, that is what we are trying to do here. It has been a 20-year-long problem--20 years long. The Obama…

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Mar 12, 2024

The gentleman knows that I will be registering a strong ``no'' in objection to those things that are destroying the greatest military the planet has ever known.

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Mar 12, 2024

It is going to be quite a number. Unfortunately, it is going to be quite a number of Republicans. This week, they will say they condemn the Biden administration for dereliction of duty, the lost lives created by wide-open borders. Then…

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Mar 12, 2024

We had an amendment on the floor to defund the United Nations Relief and Works Agency that funds Hamas directly. Unfortunately, it didn't pass, and then, within days of that, Hamas attacked Israel. {time} 1815

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Mar 12, 2024

There is no American--left, right, or center--listening to this list who says: Sign me up to support that.

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Mar 12, 2024

I suspect that we will get almost twice as many votes from that side of the aisle for a bill brought by the Republican majority, and the reason why that is is because most of their priorities, the vast majority of their priorities are…

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Mar 12, 2024

It was 15 months ago that every single Republican in this Chamber voted ``no'' on what was and what is just unbelievable spending, unaffordable. We are spending a trillion dollars every hundred days now. Every single Republican voted…

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Mar 12, 2024

Of course, we are all concerned. It is unconscionable. Those who disagree with us say that our position on the border is inhumane, but I would submit that losing track of 85,000 children who-- just let your mind wander--are God knows…

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Mar 12, 2024

To my good friend, the ranking member of the full committee, the current administration doesn't even count every single employee in the Federal system. This bill, as he knows, does not affect flex schedules or telework schedules. It has…

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Mar 11, 2024

the self-certification process is very concerning to me and the fact that we just identify the individual

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Mar 11, 2024

Increasingly, it seems, states are asking for help in more and more incidents that states themselves should be prepared to handle.

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Mar 11, 2024

I mean, that's what we're talking about here.

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