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Ron Johnson

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Ron Harold Johnson is an American businessman and politician currently serving as the junior United States senator from Wisconsin, a position he has held since January 3, 2011. A member of the Republican Party, Johnson has focused on issues such as fiscal responsibility, healthcare reform, and government accountability during his tenure in the Senate. He has been an outspoken advocate for reducing the federal deficit and has often emphasized the need for economic growth through private sector initiatives.

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Feb 4, 2015

I think it is a market that needs further refinement.

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Feb 4, 2015

I think one of the things when we have this conversation that we forget sometimes is the fact that the card market is really two different markets to some degree.

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Feb 4, 2015

I think what it does is it points to the need to have really a data security standard that is attentive to any data breach standard.

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Feb 3, 2015

If we educate them, we want them to stay to produce those innovations and grow our economy.

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Feb 3, 2015

Per Senator Johnson's comments, people come here because it is a land of economic opportunity.

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Feb 3, 2015

I think you would be hard pressed not to at least consider the fact that that deferred action, that policy of this Administration, did incentivize people to come to this country illegally.

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Feb 3, 2015

until we secure the border it is never going to be perfect

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Feb 3, 2015

I do not believe the Senate bill did that.

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Feb 3, 2015

restrict appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security so that no funds can be used to implement executive actions or policy directives that prevent enforcement officers from carrying out their responsibilities.

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Feb 3, 2015

We are not doing enough to support you, to give you the resources you need.

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Feb 3, 2015

The Senate bill was--yes, I know you do not want me to say it to you--it was a matter of compromise, but it got us down the road.

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Feb 3, 2015

authorize the U.S. Border Patrol to keep illegal border crossers in custody in the immediate border region and ensure expedited removal.

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Feb 3, 2015

we will have more of it. It will create higher pressure on the border

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Feb 3, 2015

I refuse to write or mark-up and be involved in a border security in name only bill.

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Feb 3, 2015

the guest worker programs that were set up in the Senate bill were meager.

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Feb 3, 2015

Coming to the United States for work is the number one incentive for illegal immigration.

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Feb 3, 2015

But they would have been put on a sort of probationary status that would have allowed them to work.

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Feb 3, 2015

I think we also are coming to realize how incredibly complex this problem is.

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Feb 3, 2015

I think every Democrat voted against proceeding to that debate.

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Feb 3, 2015

In past bills, I think the McCain-Kennedy bill, we actually had a system by which the undocumented would move through the expanded temporary-worker programs.

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Feb 3, 2015

I would check the effectiveness of those, as well, on the Federal level.

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Feb 3, 2015

I think it is clear that the United States broken immigration system is an issue that needs to be dealt with.

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Feb 3, 2015

Technology is the key to securing the border.

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Feb 3, 2015

we would have had to... obtain effective control of the border, 90 percent.

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