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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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Jan 2, 2018

Senator Johnson. So as Senator Murphy--and I do not want to speak for the Senator, but as we have traveled around Europe, it is the same story: the propaganda, the disinformation, the destabilizing efforts, the invasion of Georgia, Crimea…

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Jan 2, 2018

The table stakes is you need security. But that is not only national security, but you need the economic security.

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Jan 2, 2018

It is a tragedy of historic and global proportions that Russia did not continue down the path begun by Boris Yeltsin and Boris Nemtsov.

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Jan 2, 2018

Helping the Government and people of Kosovo to strengthen rule of law, to counter corruption is so important to us.

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Dec 11, 2017

So you think that is the top one, legacy regulatory impediments.

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Dec 11, 2017

It is amazing if you are a monopolist and all of a sudden you even have potential competition, how you might start modifying your behavior.

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Dec 11, 2017

we have got to block Nord Stream 2 because that is going to be totally counter to what our efforts really need to be long-term

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Dec 11, 2017

And again, I was not really, at this point, talking about U.S. involvement.

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Dec 11, 2017

Do you have any idea of how much it would take to really completely diversify it?

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Dec 11, 2017

I think there is a fairly broad political consensus in the EU as a set of institutions to move against Nord Stream 2

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Dec 11, 2017

Again, I am just trying to get some sort of sense.

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Dec 11, 2017

I just think that is a key feature.

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Dec 11, 2017

I think the country that could do the most to stop this project is Germany.

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Dec 11, 2017

What is the stumbling block? I am not a real good diplomat here.

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Dec 11, 2017

if you want a safe and secure Europe, if we want to help out Ukraine, we need to get real here

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Dec 5, 2017

I would say that is the pretty consistent complaint I have from State and local is send a lot of information up, do not get nearly as much back down.

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Dec 5, 2017

Because the fact of the matter is, if we make it more difficult to obtain this, we make it illegal to download it...

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Nov 13, 2017

So when the President would determine that we are under the threat of almost an imminent attack, he has almost absolute authority, correct?

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Nov 13, 2017

the President of the United States is going to make this decision, and he is going to make it quite quickly, if he has to.

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Nov 13, 2017

So the point is there is a lot of human intervention between a presidential order when there is time, it is not imminent, to really ask the questions, to lay out the fact that we have not gone through this process, this is not well thought…

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Nov 7, 2017

And the threat of Islamist terrorism has evolved, metastasized, and spread all over the world--including to our homeland.

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Nov 7, 2017

I would love to work with you and other Members...

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Nov 7, 2017

America is facing enormous challenges. Our national debt exceeds $20 trillion, and there is no serious effort being made--by either party--to significantly reduce the 30-year projected deficits that are currently expected to exceed $100…

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Nov 7, 2017

The Iranian Nuclear Agreement did modify Iran's behavior--for the worse.

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