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Joe Wilson

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Joe Graves Wilson is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 2nd congressional district since 2001. A member of the Republican Party, he has been involved in various legislative efforts during his tenure in Congress. Wilson is known for his focus on issues such as military and veterans' affairs, education, and energy policy. He has also been active in promoting economic development in South Carolina.

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Jan 22, 2013

He continues, why weren't Marine guards posted in Benghazi in the first place?

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Jan 22, 2013

And 7 hours, I mean, goodness gracious, there should have been a response. Why the delay in labeling the attack as terrorism when it was immediately known that it was.

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Jan 22, 2013

I believe that part of the priority is telling correct information.

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Jan 22, 2013

I do not believe women should be segregated.

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Jan 22, 2013

Increasing instructor-to-student ratio is an absolute must.

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Jan 22, 2013

The true yardstick for an effective leader has nothing to do with their gender.

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Jan 22, 2013

Our job as enlisted leaders is to find the standard and make everyone absolutely understand that we have no problem removing anybody in a blink of an eye if they cross that standard.

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Jan 22, 2013

I agree we should increase the number of female MTIs to at least the percentage that they are in the Air Force.

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Jan 22, 2013

I believe the following steps that are being taken will have a positive effect on the training environment at Lackland.

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Jan 22, 2013

We want the best for our family members. We want them to achieve to their highest.

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Jan 22, 2013

I am particularly grateful to General Rice that you were ahead of the curve.

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Jan 22, 2013

And for me it is firsthand. My dad served in the Flying Tigers in the Army Air Corp.

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Jan 15, 2013

Article 1, section 8: ``The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises…

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Dec 19, 2012

Well, I would certainly hope that, and I want to thank you for what you are doing, but my goodness, I appreciate Foreign Service Officers, your courage of service, but we want the best security possible.

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Dec 19, 2012

And it concerns me, too, there is a foreign emergency support team, a FEST team, but yet it was not requested, it was not provided. That just is really just tragic to me.

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Dec 19, 2012

These truly heroic Americans lost their lives in Benghazi to a terrorist attack, but their dedicated service will always be remembered by the American people.

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Dec 19, 2012

I do want to express again my deepest sympathy to the heroic Americans that were killed at Benghazi.

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Dec 19, 2012

I look forward to the leadership of Chairman Royce. He and I have a shared interest in promoting a better relationship, and particularly with the very important country of India, the largest democracy on Earth.

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Dec 19, 2012

Thank you, Madam Chair. And, Madam Chairwoman, I want to thank you for your extraordinary leadership.

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Dec 19, 2012

Wouldn't you agree that empowering Qatar in this regard was a poor policy choice?

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Dec 19, 2012

This was a policy choice on the part of the administration.

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Dec 19, 2012

He called it a security vacuum that had developed there.

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Dec 18, 2012

As the senior Republican member of the delegation from South Carolina, it's my honor, on behalf of my colleagues, Congressman Mulvaney, Congressman Duncan, and Congressman Trey Gowdy, to be here to recognize--and I will be recognizing the…

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Nov 28, 2012

Our foreign policy needs to be much more farsighted.

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Nov 28, 2012

Sometimes you get things you really don't want.

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