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Lindsey Graham

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Lindsey Olin Graham is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from South Carolina since 2003. A member of the Republican Party, Graham has been a prominent figure in national politics, known for his work on issues such as national security, foreign policy, and judicial appointments. He has played a key role in various legislative efforts and has been an outspoken advocate for military support to Ukraine in recent years.

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May 11, 2022

How would that affect inflation? Not well. So, absolutely would crush an economy that needs some help.

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May 11, 2022

Under your proposal, every doctor and nurse... would become a Federal Government employee.

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May 11, 2022

Delay in getting medical tests and treatments: 70 percent say they would oppose a system that created greater delay.

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May 11, 2022

If you really want this to become law, you need to start voting.

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May 11, 2022

We need to reform Medicare, not invite a bunch of people onto the system that would sink it.

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May 11, 2022

I welcome a vote on Medicare for All in this Committee this year.

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May 11, 2022

Let us vote on it. I am welcoming a debate and a vote.

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May 11, 2022

I do not want to sunset it, as some people are talking about.

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May 11, 2022

Because the future of the country hangs in the balance.

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May 11, 2022

Raffensperger said he was stunned that Graham appeared to suggest that he find a way to toss legally cast ballots.

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May 11, 2022

What this does, there will be a rallying effect for the country says we`re better than this.

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May 11, 2022

Totally, he’ll maybe the best person to have, right? I mean, how mad can you get at Joe Biden?

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May 11, 2022

He plays the TV game and he went too far here. That rally didn’t help, talking about primarying in Liz. He created a sense of revenge.

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May 10, 2022

Without urgent and immediate global action, we may witness social and political unrest, as we have seen only too often in the past.

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May 10, 2022

Thank you. We have votes, and I am going to go vote and we will do the best we can.

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May 10, 2022

Means you are in charge--maybe----

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May 10, 2022

Wow. Thank you. That may change next week.

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May 10, 2022

I am hoping we can pass the supplemental appropriations bill this week and that there will be $5 billion in the package to help the problems identified by our witnesses.

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May 10, 2022

Ranking Member, Senator Lindsey Graham, it was also great to see you in Abidjan when you visited.

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May 10, 2022

The downside to famine and hunger is so enormous that the amount of money we are spending, I think, is inadequate to the task.

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May 10, 2022

We need to spend this money and spend it now for the reasons you said, but I promise the American taxpayer, we are going to rattle some cages.

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May 10, 2022

It is in your interests and our interest that we deal with this hunger problem not only just from a moral point of view, but from a national security perspective.

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May 10, 2022

I would like the Committee to think about creating a global fund for food security to get a new line of revenue from the private sector.

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May 10, 2022

One of the things I learned on the trip from the Gates Foundation, there was a single mother, I think, with four daughters, and where the power lines go, everything changes.

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May 10, 2022

I promise the American taxpayer, we are going to rattle some cages.

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