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Jeff Duncan

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Jeff Duncan is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 3rd congressional district since January 5, 2011. A member of the Republican Party, Duncan has focused on issues such as energy independence, fiscal responsibility, and Second Amendment rights during his tenure in Congress. He has been an advocate for conservative policies and has worked on various legislative initiatives that align with his party's platform.

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Dec 6, 2016

Only 10 percent of what's being classified probably really needed to be classified.

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Dec 6, 2016

I agree with Mr. Grothman in saying that I'm astounded by the amount of spending that's being done on this.

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Dec 5, 2016

I fully respect the sovereignty of nations to do what is in their best interest.

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Dec 5, 2016

I want to use my time to call on him at this point and the Modi government to end the pre-approval requirement for Compassion so that money can flow to where the rubber meets the road and where the needs are most dire.

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Sep 20, 2016

The cost of getting a drug or a medical device to market, on average, has become in many cases, most cases over a billion dollars.

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Sep 20, 2016

A true free market, you have ease of entry. You certainly don't have that in the drug industry.

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Sep 20, 2016

But the greed is astounding. It's sickening. It's disgusting, almost any words that you can think of.

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Sep 20, 2016

Nobody can really earn or deserve $19 million a year.

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Sep 20, 2016

If more gun laws were the answer, more restrictive gun laws that are affecting the Second Amendment rights of Americans, the south side of Chicago would be the safest place on Earth.

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Sep 20, 2016

More gun laws are not the answer.

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Sep 14, 2016

What we are seeing... is just some things that we may not agree with going on with free and fair elections.

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Sep 14, 2016

They need to go back, reread their founding documents, reread their charter and come to a meeting of the minds on what they exist for.

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Sep 14, 2016

I think we are approaching a point where the OAS is becoming less effective because they continue to kind of deviate or water down their traditional stances.

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Sep 14, 2016

I think if a country is a recipient of the money from the U.S. taxpayers for economic assistance... these countries ought to be a little more friendly to the United States.

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Sep 14, 2016

I think Nicaragua does. You are a diplomat. I am a politician.

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Sep 14, 2016

Such actions suggest flagrant disrespect by the Ortega Government for commonly accepted principles of government-to-government relations.

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Sep 14, 2016

For the record, Chairwoman Ros-Lehtinen was a great chairwoman of the Foreign Affairs Committee. She was very fair to me when I was a freshman member.

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Sep 14, 2016

I was proud to work with my good friend from Florida, Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen and our Chairman Duncan, among several other colleagues from both sides of the aisle to introduce and pass H.R. 5708, the Nicaragua Investment Conditionality…

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Sep 14, 2016

I want to applaud the efforts of Representatives Wasserman Schultz and Ros-Lehtinen for highlighting the U.S. congressional concerns about the events in Venezuela and Nicaragua.

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Sep 13, 2016

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee up 62 percent.

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Sep 13, 2016

I'm still looking for the affordable part of health care.

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Sep 13, 2016

I don't believe that we can assure the people in South Carolina that you can properly vet those that have transited Latin America and come across our Southern Border.

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Sep 13, 2016

Active combat zones, Syria, Iraq, where ISIS battle in Afghanistan, Boko Haram is in Africa, Abu Sayyaf is in the Philippines, al-Qaeda is global, ISIS is now global. I am not talking about just people from Syria, of course you know that…

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Sep 13, 2016

So if they come through this terrorist pathway into this country crossing our Southern Border and apprehended by our security personnel, they claim asylum and are let go, how do I assure folks in South Carolina that we don't have elements…

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Sep 13, 2016

How do we shut down that terrorist pathway if our Southern Border is unsecured?

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