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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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Mar 22, 2021

Isn't that key? Don't you need an election commission that is completely impartial, nonpartisan or at least--there is partisanship everywhere, but at least you have a balance between one party and the other party so that nobody feels that…

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Mar 18, 2021

A very few didn't share the jovial, friendly earnest demeanor the great majority, some obviously didn't fit in and he describes four different types of people, plainclothes militants, agents provocateurs, fake Trump protesters and then…

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Mar 18, 2021

Now, had the tables been turning, Joe this got 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 little…

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Mar 18, 2021

I`m also criticized because I`ve made the comment that on January 6, I never felt threatened, because I didn`t.

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Mar 17, 2021

I am highly concerned that we are making our electrical grid even more vulnerable to these types of attacks.

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Mar 17, 2021

We are just not recognizing how vulnerable we are.

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Mar 17, 2021

The Federal Government has a hard time keeping pace.

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Mar 17, 2021

I think it is one of the reasons we helped facilitate the passage and now hopefully the appointment of a National Cyber Director so that we have somebody in charge, somebody who can be held accountable, and somebody who can enforce that…

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Mar 16, 2021

I think it is the accumulation of power.

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Mar 16, 2021

I think there is an awful lot of areas of potential agreement here on this particular issue.

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Mar 16, 2021

I knew those are people that love this country that truly respect law enforcement would never do anything to break a law. So I wasn't concerned. Now, had the tables been turning, Joe, this got me in trouble, had the tables been turned, and…

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Mar 15, 2021

On January 6th, I never felt threatened. I knew those were people that loved this country, that truly respect law enforcement, would never do anything to break a law and so I wasn`t concerned. Now, had the tables been turned, Joe, this…

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Mar 15, 2021

I`m also criticized because I`ve made the comment that on January 6th I never felt threatened, because I didn`t. And mainly because I knew that even though those thousands of people, there were marching the Capitol, were trying to pressure…

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Mar 15, 2021

Those are people that love this country, that truly respect law enforcement. If those were tens of thousands of Black Lives Matter and Antifa protesters, I might have been a little concerned.

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Mar 15, 2021

There was nothing racial about my comments, nothing whatsoever. This isn`t about racist about riots.

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Mar 14, 2021

There was nothing racial about my comments, nothing whatsoever. This isn't about racist, it is about riots.

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Mar 14, 2021

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

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Mar 14, 2021

On January 6th, I never felt threatened. I knew those were people that loved this country, that truly respect law enforcement, would never do anything to break a law.

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Mar 14, 2021

On January 6, I never felt threatened, because I didn`t. I knew those are people that love this country, that truly respect law enforcement, would never do anything to break a law. And so I wasn`t concerned. Now, had the tables been turned…

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Mar 5, 2021

Had I not forced that 11 hour reading, and I sat on the floor of the Senate, I listened to the entire 11 hours, what we would have been doing is we would have gone into vote-a-rama last night, no time during the bill, no time to really…

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Mar 4, 2021

I don’t want to sound like a leftist but I’m going to resist. Okay, so the first way I’m going to resist is I’m going to go down and object to the waiving of the reading to the bill. I will make them read their 600 or 700-page bill.

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Mar 4, 2021

I don`t want to sound like a leftist, but I`m going to resist, OK. So, the first way I`m going to resist is I`m going to go down and object to the waving of the reading of the bill. I will make them read their 600 or 700-page bill.

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Mar 4, 2021

Ron Johnson -- very simply, I fall back the terrible Republican Senator from Wisconsin Ron Johnson, who, trying to make a point, had the Senate clerks spend -- waste 12 hours reading the entire text of the bill.

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Mar 3, 2021

Why in the world would the Biden administration rescind such a common-sense, good government transparency effort?

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