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Dan Crenshaw

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Dan Crenshaw is an American politician and former Navy SEAL officer currently serving as the U.S. Representative for Texas's 2nd congressional district since January 3, 2019. A member of the Republican Party, Crenshaw has focused on issues such as national security, veterans' affairs, and economic policy during his time in office. He gained national attention for his advocacy on military and foreign policy matters, leveraging his military background to inform his legislative priorities.

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Apr 12, 2024

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Texas will be postponed. amendment no. 5 offered by Mr. Waltz The Acting CHAIR. It is now in…

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Apr 12, 2024

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Add at the end the following new section: SEC. __. INCLUSION OF COUNTERNARCOTICS IN DEFINITION OF FOREIGN…

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Feb 6, 2024

I think we need to continue seeing more of it. I think we need to know that the administration meant what they said when they said we're going to keep doing this for a period of time.

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Feb 6, 2024

What he ended up doing which was great, he made a deal with Mexico. He did the remain-in-Mexico policy.

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Feb 6, 2024

I think you can beat Biden. I think -- I will help you beat Biden. That's my message.

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Feb 6, 2024

Look, I am going to be pissed off every day that we have almost 300,000 illegal people crossing our border and most of them let loose in the United States.

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Jan 31, 2024

I'm extremely disappointed in the very strange maneuvering by many on the right to torpedo a potential border reform bill. That's what we all ran on doing.

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Sep 27, 2023

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 42, line 6, after the dollar amount, insert the following: ``(reduced by $200,000) (increased by…

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Jun 21, 2023

Whenever we are imposing a cost on Americans, you have to directly link it to a benefit, and that benefit is very clearly not there in this case.

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Jun 12, 2023

It's very problematic. There's a reason I'm not defending it.

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May 22, 2023

What do we think this multihundreds of billions of dollars of investment, what do we think it is going to do for our climate? This is just a cost-benefit question.

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May 22, 2023

Well, I can tell you if the entirety of the OECD countries, all developed countries stopped emitting tomorrow and we all went back into the Stone Age, do you know how much we would reduce the temperature by the year 2100? Point four…

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May 22, 2023

So because we are talking about subsidizing rich people so they can buy a Tesla. That is what we are talking about.

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May 22, 2023

I mean let's look at the total EV subsidies in the IRA, almost $400 billion when you actually account for probably what is going to happen in the next 10 years.

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May 22, 2023

There is a social cost of energy and security. It is a massive social cost.

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May 22, 2023

I would love to put them out of business. I guess we are on the same page there.

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May 15, 2023

It's a simple but positive step in the right direction and I hope this committee will include this policy in the NDAA.

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May 10, 2023

Eighty-five percent of APIs are from foreign countries. Sixty percent of our finished dose forms are from foreign countries.

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Apr 25, 2023

Everything we are referring to here is a cost-benefit analysis. What is the benefit you are getting for the cost that you are incurring on people who can probably afford to pay it the least?

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Apr 25, 2023

I think this legislation would go far in allowing States to experiment with their own Medicaid programs.

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Apr 25, 2023

I am introducing bipartisan legislation that would seek to--open access to independent primary care physicians in State Medicaid programs.

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Apr 25, 2023

One of the problems here was that the DSH cuts did come from the ACA.

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Apr 25, 2023

It is important that, particularly as we still have uninsured in the country, to make sure that hospitals are paid for caring for them.

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