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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 17, 2018

I do not think anybody wanted to do that.

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Sep 12, 2018

He has done a lot of work in terms of national security, maintenance of our nuclear stockpile to keep this Nation safe.

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Sep 12, 2018

We all traveled with him. We saw his commitment to individual liberty, freedom, the type of hero he was not only in America, but you go over to Ukraine because he was fighting for, again, those kind of democratic values.

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Sep 12, 2018

We need an attitude change. When you look at NATO, the combined economic firepower of NATO is well north of $30 trillion. Russia is less than two. How can NATO, how can the EU, how can America allow that puny little economic power push us…

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Sep 12, 2018

Our bill is just the simple first step in tackling this mounting problem.

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Sep 4, 2018

Do we not also have to take a look at what right now is the alternative to Poroshenko?

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Sep 4, 2018

To me, Ukraine has to be a top priority. We need to stop and push back Putin's aggression there.

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Sep 4, 2018

I do not think in any administration we have taken that on as aggressively as we should.

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Sep 4, 2018

The European Reassurance Initiative... is the right move.

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Sep 4, 2018

Moving our battalions into Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland... is the right move.

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Sep 4, 2018

We are engaged in a war of ideas with authoritarian powers because Putin and definitely Xi Jinping... believe that their model is superior to ours.

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Aug 21, 2018

Thank you, Senator McCaskill. Again, we want to thank both of you for your past service.

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Aug 20, 2018

There was a Dirksen study, a billion here, a billion there, you are talking about real bucks.

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Aug 20, 2018

Again, all of these things we are talking about, this is in core Medicaid right now and just people really taking advantage of the system.

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Aug 20, 2018

I would highly recommend, let us get in all 50 States, and let us do the audits.

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Aug 20, 2018

I am happy to spend $90 million on doing it right off the bat. I am dead serious about that.

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Aug 20, 2018

This is just giving an option. It is going to dramatically lower premiums for people that have been priced out of Obamacare markets. It is called freedom.

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Aug 20, 2018

Short-term limited duration plans are a part of Obamacare.

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Aug 20, 2018

We simply cannot afford to waste $37 billion out of this program.

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Aug 20, 2018

We need a little more meat on the bones there in terms of we need more audits, 50 State audits.

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Aug 20, 2018

I personally think that would make a restraint.

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Aug 15, 2018

So I think the most important thing that the West needs to do is pay attention, let them know that we really do want to help them proceed, shed legacies of corruption, install rule of law, advance economically.

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Aug 15, 2018

I personally believe that these countries, although they are not huge, they are important.

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Aug 15, 2018

The responsibility continues to be on the Government of Zimbabwe to set itself on a new path of robust reforms that may allow the United States and our international partners to engage the country in ways that have not been previously…

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Aug 15, 2018

We are going to write legislation. We are starting on that now, as you know, and you can make us an unguided missile or a guided missile.

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