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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 15, 2022

So just talk--this will be my last question--just talk in a little bit greater detail, Russia's influence, not just in Serbia or Kosovo, but within the Western Balkans in total.

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Feb 15, 2022

So you just transitioned to my next question. Can you describe China's involvement in the region?

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Feb 15, 2022

We are just not going to do that. We are not going to do it on a bipartisan basis.

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Feb 3, 2022

Senators like Cynthia Lummis and Ron Johnson and Kevin Cramer got live briefings from the craziest people at the heart of this as late as two days before the January 6th attack.

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Jan 27, 2022

I’ve never really felt it was society’s responsibility to take care of other people’s children.

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Jan 27, 2022

Parents are responsible for their children. And I really don`t want government gaining greater control over families. That`s -- I mean, it`s pretty basic. I don`t see anything controversial about that. We`re $29 trillion in debt. The last…

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Jan 27, 2022

People decide to have families and become parents. That`s something, you know, they need to consider when they make that choice. I`ve never really felt it was society`s responsibility to take care of other people`s children.

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Jan 27, 2022

People who decide to have families and become parents, that’s something they need to consider when they make that choice. I have never really felt it was society’s responsibility to take care of other people’s children.

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Jan 27, 2022

We have heard story after story, I mean, all these athletes dropping dead on the field. But we`re supposed to ignore that. Nothing happening here. Nothing to see. This is a travesty. This is a scandal.

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Jan 12, 2022

I am for disclosure and for transparency, but I am also hoping for greater racial healing.

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Jan 11, 2022

If the vision for a Europe 'whole, free and at peace' is ever to become a reality, we must work in close coordination with our European allies and partners.

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Jan 11, 2022

We must work in close coordination with our European allies and partners, leveraging our position in international institutions, to reject and combat Russia's illegal and unprovoked atrocities and war crimes in Ukraine.

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Jan 11, 2022

I knew those are people that love this country, that truly respect law enforcement, would never do anything to break the law, so I wasn't concerned.

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Jan 11, 2022

It seems like how you engage in malicious poison is purely partisan.

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Jan 11, 2022

I completely agreed with his goal that he laid out, his number-one goal to unify and heal this nation.

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Jan 11, 2022

That is about as serious and vile accusation as you can hurl against somebody.

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Jan 11, 2022

Now, had the tables been turned--now, Joe, this will get me in trouble--had the tables been turned and President Trump won the election and those were tens of thousands of Black Lives Matter and antifa protesters, I might have been a…

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Jan 11, 2022

I think one way to try and heal our nation, try and unify it, is person to person.

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Jan 11, 2022

You have engaged in the malicious poison. You have accused people you do not know of very vile things.

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Jan 11, 2022

A way not to heal, I think, is what is happening on social media.

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Jan 11, 2022

I thought that was interesting. You say you never criticize the person.

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Jan 11, 2022

Do you feel bad about that at all?

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Jan 10, 2022

If you have a vaccine, quite honestly, what do you care if your neighbor has one or not?

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Jan 10, 2022

Why do we think that we can create something better than God in terms of -- in terms of combating disease? Now, there are certain things we have to do. But we`ve just made so many assumptions and it`s all pointed toward everybody getting a…

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Jan 10, 2022

Our Republican legislature -- Republican-dominated legislature should be able to overturn the results of elections.

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