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“Look at what is happening in China and in Russia. They have units that are specifically targeted cyber warfare. They are carrying it out. Our critical infrastructure is attacked thousands of times a day.”
“It is Republicans that have led the fight for women's equality. Go back through history and look at who was the first woman to ever vote, elected to office, go to Congress.”
“The British health care system is a blueprint for the failure of Obamacare, as it is structured.”
“One of the most important tasks of the United States House of Representatives is to pass a budget resolution.”
“My legislation provides that Net Neutrality rules would have 'no force or effect' and prohibits similar rules from being published or re-issued.”
“Here in Tennessee, instead of the big spending, big government, job killing agenda of the Obama Administration, Tennesseans have tightened their belts and are struggling to find jobs that will enable them to support their families.”
“If a natural disaster strikes your community, reach out to your friends, neighbors, and complete strangers. Lend a helping hand.”
“We are for abiding by the Constitution and recognize that Article I, Section 8, Clause 4 enumerates the power of establishing 'an uniform process of naturalization' to the Congress.”
“I think so many of our educators, when they hear about these programs coming from the federal government, they're just thinking, 'Uh, that's another book of paperwork that I'm going to have to do,' and teachers are so weighed down with that.”
“Can any of us even imagine, after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt suggesting we negotiate a resolution or that we could simply prosecute those involved? Of course it is unimaginable. We are right to be in the Middle East, and we are right to treat this as the war it is.”
“Ironically, one of the clearer threats to consumer privacy is the government's largely unchecked ability to collect your sensitive information without due process.”
“Yes, what has happened is we have moved from responding to these terrorist attacks as acts of civil disobedience to getting to the point after September 11 that we said, no, this is not just civil disobedience, this is an act of war.”
“Republicans are not going to play I-told-you-so, but it is pretty obvious that the tax reductions passed in 2003 helped Americans dig out of a recession and get back to work.”
“You look at the violence that is there in entertainment, in video games, and don't just go say, 'We're going to do an assault weapons ban, and that's going to solve the problem,' because it is not going to get to the root of the problem.”
“We should be careful and deliberate in how we allow public entry into our vibrant communications marketplace... This is an issue that should be left to our states.”
“The American Dream is not being dependent on the federal government for your health care, for your automobile, for your college education, for your student loan on and on and on.”
“I often quote Ronald Reagan, who is pretty close to my favorite President ever, I will have to say that, but one of my favorite remarks he ever made was that when you look at Federal programs, there is nothing so close to eternal life on Earth as a Federal Government program.”
“We've already seen the federal government stretch their regulatory tentacles into our homes and determine what kind of light bulbs we have to use.”
“As more delivery systems for entertainment producers come on board, you have all these different formats where people are compensated.”
“To get our economy back on track and keep it functioning properly without the problems of our financial institutions, we need reasonable regulations that will protect Main Street while at the same time allow Wall Street to do what it does best - make money for American investors.”