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Frank Wolf

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Frank Wolf is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Virginia's 10th congressional district from 1981 to 2015. During his tenure, he was known for his work on issues related to transportation, education, and human rights. Wolf served on several committees, including the Appropriations Committee, where he played a significant role in shaping federal funding priorities. He was also a strong advocate for religious freedom and international human rights, often focusing on persecuted minorities around the world.

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Feb 25, 2014

Hypocrite. I have got some quick marijuana questions.

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Feb 25, 2014

I think that we have the ability to educate the hotels and the staff there as far as what some of the warning signs are.

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Feb 25, 2014

I really expect the next couple of years are going to be more difficult.

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Feb 25, 2014

This decision will open the floodgates to Internet gambling which will have devastating sequences if it is not reversed.

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Feb 25, 2014

I would have a hard time frankly voting for aid to Egypt.

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Feb 25, 2014

I think this administration is adrift and if it has reached the CIA.

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Feb 25, 2014

Boko Haram which are killing Christians that are--we just had some people in Nigeria in my office. Boko Haram is involved?

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Feb 25, 2014

Do you think it would be helpful to have, going back to the previous question, it would be helpful for targeting even markets...

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Feb 25, 2014

If this Congress does not kind of deal with this issue aggressively now and it gets out of there.

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Feb 25, 2014

I want the FBI to get in there and talk to this guy, Jamal.

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Feb 25, 2014

You've been given a great, great opportunity to serve the country you will never again have.

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Dec 11, 2013

There is absolutely everything they can do and I would say parenthetically that on Jacob Ostreicher...

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Dec 11, 2013

I asked Secretary of State John Kerry if it was a mainstream issue and he said it was not part of the negotiation.

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Dec 9, 2013

Don't we owe it to him as a Nation to stand up for his human rights and for his freedom?

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Dec 9, 2013

I was devastated to learn that the administration didn't even ask for my husband's release when directly seated across the table from the leaders of the government that holds him captive.

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Dec 9, 2013

This is almost the last bastion in the Congress that really holds hearings and deals with these issues.

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Aug 5, 2013

The bill would put the money in escrow for anyone charged like this and if they were found innocent they would receive the money. If they were guilty, they would not get the money because you should not be paying somebody, particularly in…

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Aug 5, 2013

The military and the Department of Defense should not be politically correct. I have talked to some doctors who practiced with the major. They say he was advising young men and women who served in the military who were in Afghanistan and…

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Aug 5, 2013

That's ridiculous. Mr. Leiter, who is head of the Counterterrorism Center, which was in McLean, in my district, initially called this an act of terror. This was a political decision and my committee funds the FBI. The FBI was told to use…

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Jul 10, 2013

With this report, we are holding China to account for its complicity in profits off of modern-day slavery.

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Jul 10, 2013

I am disappointed and I would say this with all respect to my friend, Ambassador CdeBaca, we were disappointed, many of us, to see that Vietnam was not downgraded to the Tier II Watch List or Tier III.

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Mar 20, 2013

Until we deal with the entitlements, until you are prepared to raise the retirement age for social security, until you are prepared to pass something like Simpson-Bowles these programs will continue to get squeezed and squeezed.

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Mar 20, 2013

In 2010 the ocean economy contributed $258 billion to the U.S. gross domestic product.

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Mar 20, 2013

Until there is a grand bargain, something along the lines, and I am speaking for myself now of Simpson-Bowles, this is going to continue.

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Mar 20, 2013

Our oceans and our coasts are among our greatest natural resources and largest public trust.

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