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Tim Burchett

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Tim Floyd Burchett is an American politician and member of the Republican Party who has served as the U.S. Representative for Tennessee's 2nd congressional district since January 3, 2019. Born on July 25, 1963, Burchett has been active in Tennessee politics for several years, previously serving as the Mayor of Knox County from 2010 to 2018. He has a background in local government, which has informed his approach to federal issues.

Quotes by year · 20192026522 total · peak 2023 (97)
2019: 73 quotes2020: 35 quotes2021: 88 quotes2022: 60 quotes2023: 97 quotes2024: 92 quotes2025: 58 quotes2026: 19 quotes
Apr 18, 2023

I appreciate the chairman and his leadership. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of overriding President Biden's veto of H.J. Res. 27. Overriding the veto would get rid of a Biden administration rule that hurts American landowners, small…

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Apr 17, 2023

So Assad, I think he's a dirtbag.

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Mar 28, 2023

I appreciate the work that the chairman and the committee have done on this very important piece of legislation. Mr. Chair, I rise today to talk about why we need H.R. 1, the Lower Energy Costs Act. I can't think of anybody in this…

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Mar 28, 2023

It feels like the Administration is kind of reluctant to enforce some mandatory sanctions against the Chinese entities enabling sanctions evasions by Russia and North Korea.

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Mar 27, 2023

You know, we want to -- we want to legislate evil. It's just not going to happen. We need a real revival in this country.

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Mar 22, 2023

flying is not a right, it is a privilege.

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Mar 8, 2023

the accountability. You know, I know, literally multimillionaires, who go to work every day, and they work in a cubicle next to the people in their businesses, and the reason they are in that cubicle is because they can have eye-to-eye…

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Mar 8, 2023

that is pitiful, and it needs to be corrected.

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Mar 8, 2023

I am wondering what can the Abraham Accords do to help put a stop to some of it?

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Mar 8, 2023

I think we need to get people back to work, as mentioned before, in the office.

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Feb 7, 2023

conservative voices are being silenced on social media and the mainstream.

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Feb 6, 2023

Haiti is descending into chaos. These folks just lost their democratically elected government, and the violent gangs, which were already running rampant in the country, have basically taken over the country. Mr. Speaker, this is one of the…

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Feb 2, 2023

I thank the chairman for yielding me the time. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of condemning the horrors of socialism. The biggest crimes in humanity have happened under socialist regimes. It has taken more than 100 million lives…

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Feb 1, 2023

I thank Mr. Clyde and the Speaker for your service to our great country. I don't have any notes for this, but I do want to say the ATF, to me, is the swamp. Now, here we have a group of unelected bureaucrats, dadgummit, that have taken…

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Jan 31, 2023

I believe it is the Volunteer State. The Butternut State, I never heard that. Dadgummit, Mr. Speaker, here I am again bringing attention to yet another example of our woke telecom companies targeting conservative speech. I am very glad…

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Jan 11, 2023

I appreciate my friend, Chairman Jordan, yielding to me. I thank my friend, Representative Ann Wagner, for introducing this important bill again--no better person than a mama and a grandmama--and she does a good job at both of those. Madam…

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Dec 23, 2022

I thank the ranking member for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to this bill which I feel is pumped full of woke nonsense. This $1.66 trillion package has billions of dollars set aside for LGBT centers, museums, hiking trails…

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Dec 14, 2022

Today I rise to congratulate Coach Lamar Brown and the Knoxville West High School football team on their undefeated season in the Second Tennessee Class 5A State championship. Knoxville West earned their ring at Finley Stadium in…

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Dec 14, 2022

I am glad you are up there, but I am disappointed that the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Cooper), my friend, has left. He is the dean of the Tennessee delegation, and he has been a good friend to me since I came to Congress. I would see…

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Dec 5, 2022

All this is just an accounting of American taxpayers' dollars.

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Dec 5, 2022

What are we afraid of? What are we afraid of finding out?

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Nov 28, 2022

Taxpayers should hear how much a bill will cost before it is passed in Congress.

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Nov 28, 2022

Right now the American people don't trust us about as--they can only trust us about as far as we can throw the dome off the Capitol.

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Nov 28, 2022

We need to start working, because we have hired on.

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Nov 28, 2022

Americans I feel like have been lied to. They have been misled and left entirely in the dark on a legislation that made their lives worse.

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