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Glenn Grothman

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Glenn S. Grothman is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Wisconsin's 6th congressional district since January 6, 2015. A member of the Republican Party, Grothman has focused on issues such as fiscal responsibility, education reform, and government accountability during his time in office. He has been an advocate for reducing federal spending and has expressed strong opinions on various social issues.

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Feb 2, 2023

I don't intend to use the full 60 minutes, but first, I yield to the gentlewoman from North Carolina (Ms. Foxx), the wonderful chairman of the Education and the Workforce Committee. Denouncing Socialism

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Feb 2, 2023

The next thing I am going to address is Ukraine. Again, I don't think the American public or the American press, the mainstream media, are asking the right questions on this vitally important topic. It would be better for Ukraine, it would…

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Feb 1, 2023

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I have been waiting for this day for quite a while. Whenever I go back to my district, I talk to my staff back there. Again and again, we hear stories that they want something done with the…

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Feb 1, 2023

By the way, I don't bring this up back home. We are talking about it today, but I think it is such an insult to all the people back home, many of which are whole factories that never took any time off, to be told that they have to wait for…

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Feb 1, 2023

As I go about my district, I like to meet with the average Wisconsinite to see what is on their mind. It is so much more illuminating than hanging around Washington and meeting with lobbyists. Whether I stop in convenience stores or food…

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Feb 1, 2023

It is unfortunate that this week things have--the quality of intellectual thought in this country has declined to the degree that we have to bring a resolution to the floor condemning socialism, but that is the way it is. Recently, polls…

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Jan 27, 2023

Sometimes the press--when a story goes on for months and months--begins to not pay attention or address things they ought to be addressing. I am going to briefly address the Ukraine war. It sure would be wonderful if that war ended. There…

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Jan 26, 2023

We have an ongoing saga which the mainstream media has begun to wake up to, but they are still not publicizing enough; and that is what is going on at our southern border. I stand today because last Friday--always on Friday when the…

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Jan 24, 2023

We have another issue I think that this body ought to take up and that the news media ought to be looking into--and that is another cost of the huge number of illegal immigrants entering this country. It has been brought to my attention by…

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Jan 24, 2023

As has been mentioned, prior to 1973, there would be what I would consider a consensus in this country that it would be horrific to prematurely kill a child in the womb. At the time, as a practical matter, there were only two or three…

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Jan 12, 2023

First of all, I would like to start out with some housekeeping. A lot has been said over the last few days about the huge number of IRS employees that are intended to be added by the Biden administration, and I just want to clarify some…

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Jan 12, 2023

Let's look one more time at the new numbers that were released over Christmas break as far as the immigration situation in this country. We have a new all-time record for the number of people coming here in November, over 200,000, 210,000…

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Jan 11, 2023

One of the scary, ongoing stories over the last few years, more typical of an atheistic totalitarian regime than our wonderful constitutional Republic, has been a tax on pregnancy counseling centers. They are hated because they try to…

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Jan 10, 2023

The population ought to be aware of the fact that very late in the last month the administration released the new figures on what we will call legal immigrants crossing into this country. This was before there were any changes in title 42…

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Jan 9, 2023

I have a very high opinion of the gentleman from Massachusetts, but what scares me in this bill are the numbers. Right now, the IRS has about 78,000 employees, of which about 10,000 are what they describe as agents. It is not surprising…

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Dec 15, 2022

Just a few minutes ago on this floor, we were admonished for not wrapping up our budget in time. That is a fair thing. We are supposed to take care of our budget. Another thing we are not taking care of, and the American public ought to be…

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Dec 12, 2022

I one more time plead with the press corps here to report what I thought was the most significant story to come out in the last 2 weeks. And that is, that there were 73,000 got-aways who came across the southern border in October. So our…

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Dec 8, 2022

I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay'' on rollcall No. 514. Members Recorded Pursuant to House Resolution 8, 117th Congress Axne (Pappas) Baird (Bucshon) Bass (Cicilline) Beatty (Neguse) Brooks…

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Dec 7, 2022

It is always difficult to follow the always interesting Congressman Schweikert. There are a variety of issues that we haven't addressed for a while but that are in the news and demand some attention. First of all, I noticed our President…

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Dec 6, 2022

I would like to address the problems in China, the protests in China, and the degree to which perhaps the largest American corporation, Apple corporation, out of sheer greed, is weighing in and preventing protesters from communicating with…

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Dec 6, 2022

I thank Mr. Lamborn for organizing this little group of speeches. As has been mentioned, the first National Bible Week was less than 2 weeks before Pearl Harbor in 1941. Why do we have a National Bible Week? Because the Bible was the…

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Dec 2, 2022

For those folks back home and the members of the news media, when we talk about the number of illegal immigrants coming here, they basically come in here two ways. Either they check in with the Border Patrol, say that they are going to…

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Dec 1, 2022

I use this opportunity to try to wake up our slumbering press corps on another very relevant story related to the southern border. In the last week, it became apparent that, in the last month, 73,000 illegal immigrants snuck across the…

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Nov 17, 2022

I want to talk about some issues that I feel the mainstream media is ignoring. If anybody is listening here today, please put them on page one where they ought to be. The first issue I am going to talk about is Ukraine. I have felt all…

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Nov 15, 2022

I was a little bit disappointed in things you didn't know, and I was disappointed in that I felt there was a lack of sense of urgency.

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