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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 · 2019–2026368 total · peak 2023 (76)
2019: 63 quotes2020: 24 quotes2021: 50 quotes2022: 30 quotes2023: 76 quotes2024: 52 quotes2025: 51 quotes2026: 22 quotes
Feb 7, 2023

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

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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

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

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Nov 28, 2022

Bills should not be written by a few leaders behind closed doors.

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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

We don't need to sneak secret pay raises or rogue climate equity programs in the bills behind our constituents' back.

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Nov 28, 2022

If a bill is called the Dog Catcher Act. And daggone it, the bill needs to be about dog catchers, not about pay raises.

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Nov 28, 2022

America should always have access, easy access to information about what is happening in Congress.

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Nov 28, 2022

We need to earn back their trust. And it starts with real transparency and accountability on our part.

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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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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 16, 2022

I think you all have a PR problem.

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Nov 16, 2022

I would hope at some point we would look into creating entrepreneurs in Africa, not just creating sweatshops.

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Nov 16, 2022

Unless the Lord or somebody else takes me out, I am going to be here for 2 more years.

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Jun 22, 2022

I was always amazed in my hometown, as a young man, I would watch people protesting out in front of a fur shop, and they had leather-soled shoes on. I always wondered if those cows died of natural causes. Madam Speaker, next we have the…

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Jun 22, 2022

They definitely need to do better. Madam Speaker, if it wasn't for the great State of Tennessee there wouldn't be a great State of Texas. I yield to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Babin), one of the great ones.

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Jun 22, 2022

I thank Mr. Grothman for his remarks. As I have stated many times since I learned it when I first came up here, there are three really great things that come out of Wisconsin. One is Harley-Davidson, two is cheese, and the other is Glenn…

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Jun 13, 2022

We are always looking for more opportunities. We know----

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Jun 13, 2022

If there is anything the FRA can do, the administration can do to increase the workforce for them, the railroads to increase their workers or retain workers, we are happy to work with them.

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Jun 13, 2022

I am referring to the rule that President Biden's administration has moved forward to hire personnel or operators with more people on a train than a lot of folks feel is necessary.

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May 11, 2022

The term clean energy transition is nothing more than a Soviet style propaganda and completely untrue

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May 11, 2022

And this driver of rapid deforestation is only going to grow in intensity as the misguided push away from fossil fuels before its time should be continues.

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May 11, 2022

It's not very green there. It's not green in the DRC.

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May 11, 2022

Yet, the environmentalists conveniently leave out the ecological devastation that will result from the pursuit of the so-called clean energy alternatives.

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