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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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Sep 12, 2023

I find the Saudi Arabian human rights abuses abhorrent, as I think we all do.

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Sep 12, 2023

If the DOJ and FBI continue to withhold these relevant documents, I hope this Subcommittee will use every authority we have to compel compliance through our legitimate congressional oversight.

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Sep 12, 2023

I am highly concerned if Congress all of a sudden inserts itself into a process of saying, we are going to identify a U.S. business that we are going to say it so iconic that no foreign government or, we are going to say who can and cannot…

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Sep 12, 2023

I think the overall solution here is a free press that holds everybody accountable.

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Sep 12, 2023

transparency starts with within our own government, to become transparency to cough up what they know.

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Sep 12, 2023

It seems like our Federal Government is probably doing more covering up for the Saudis than the Saudis are doing for themselves.

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Sep 12, 2023

Our government is not being honest. They are not being transparent.

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Sep 12, 2023

I always feel a great deal of sympathy for the people that are being ruled by authoritarian regimes.

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Sep 11, 2023

On Monday, this Monday at 7:46 a.m. Central Time, I was in the Milwaukee airport awaiting my flight to D.C. when the entire terminal stopped and stood silent for 60 seconds to somberly commemorate the 22nd anniversary of the horrors of…

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Sep 11, 2023

On Monday, this Monday at 7:46 a.m. Central Time, I was in the Milwaukee airport awaiting my flight to D.C. when the entire terminal stopped and stood silent for 60 seconds to somberly commemorate the 22nd anniversary of the horrors of…

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Sep 10, 2023

On Monday, this Monday at 7:46 a.m. Central Time, I was in the Milwaukee airport awaiting my flight to D.C. when the entire terminal stopped and stood silent for 60 seconds to somberly commemorate the 22nd anniversary of the horrors of…

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Jul 26, 2023

It seems to me that the overall question we ought to be asking is with limited resources, and we have limited resources, what's the best way to spend them?

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Jul 26, 2023

So that is a huge vulnerability, I guess what I'm arguing with limited resources, I would much rather see us spend $60 to $90 billion to purchase those now, put those in place offline in case you have one of those high catastrophic events…

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Jul 26, 2023

This is an apolitical science based issue, and we are using the process as a rhetorical tool to stop the projects that you don't like.

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Jul 26, 2023

If it's going to be spent to mitigate climate change, I would argue it's probably going to be misspent because I don't think there's anything we can really do to hold back the tides.

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Jul 26, 2023

Don't expect the federal government to come in and you know, bail you out.

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Jul 26, 2023

This is no longer a republican issue, and I'm almost surprised in many ways that republicans pitch permitting reform, as it should be coming from the other side.

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Jul 26, 2023

It seems to me that the overall question we ought to be asking is with limited resources, and we have limited resources, what's the best way to spend them?

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Jul 26, 2023

If it's going to be spent to mitigate climate change, I would argue it's probably going to be misspent because I don't think there's anything we can really do to hold back the tides.

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Jul 26, 2023

Don't expect the federal government to come in and you know, bail you out.

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Jul 26, 2023

This is an apolitical science based issue, and we are using the process as a rhetorical tool to stop the projects that you don't like.

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Jul 26, 2023

This is no longer a republican issue, and I'm almost surprised in many ways that republicans pitch permitting reform, as it should be coming from the other side.

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Jul 26, 2023

So that is a huge vulnerability, I guess what I'm arguing with limited resources, I would much rather see us spend $60 to $90 billion to purchase those now, put those in place offline in case you have one of those high catastrophic events…

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Jul 25, 2023

Don't expect the federal government to come in and you know, bail you out.

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Jul 25, 2023

It seems to me that the overall question we ought to be asking is with limited resources, and we have limited resources, what's the best way to spend them?

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