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Ronald Harold "Ron" Johnson is the senior United States Senator for Wisconsin and a member of the Republican Party.

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It’s not our side that has politicized this, it’s the Democrats that have politicized this, i’m getting tired of hearing the false accusations coming from the other side. I’m getting sick of being attacked for just asking legitimate questions.

– Ron Johnson

Found on FOX News 8 days ago Politics

I don’t know when all of the sudden the CDC, the NIH, and the FDA have become the gods of information and we should never question their considered judgment, there’s plenty of other people that have different views. Those views should be respected and they should be allowed to be aired. And I totally agree with Sen. Cruz. I’m completely opposed to mandates and passports.

– Ron Johnson

Found on FOX News 8 days ago Politics

Mr. Gonzalez, you are engaging in the same state of denial, denial of reality that is happening under this administration, with DHS and Secretary Mayorkas and if you’re denying the problem, we have no chance of fixing it whatsoever. This is a crisis and it's a tragedy for this nation.

– Ron Johnson

Found on FOX News 21 days ago Politics

We've seen plenty of video of people in the Capitol, and they weren't rioting, it doesn't look like an armed insurrection when you have people that breach the Capitol -- and I don't condone it -- but they're staying within the rope lines in the Rotunda. That's not what armed insurrection would look like.

– Ron Johnson

Found on CNN 29 days ago Top News

Biden and his fellow Democrats refuse to acknowledge their socialist policies are creating greater dependency, hampering economic recovery, and further mortgaging our children’s future, everyone agrees we must invest in infrastructure.

– Ron Johnson

Found on FOX News 1 month ago Politics

This didn't seem like an armed insurrection to me.

– Ron Johnson

Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

Together with deciding not to impose sanctions to halt the completion of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, his limited demand on cyberattacks signals weakness that our adversaries will notice and take advantage of, president Biden's summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed our worst fear: he is too weak to stand up to adversaries.

– Ron Johnson

Found on FOX News 1 month ago Latest Headlines

The fact that I just question the narrative that there were thousands of armed insurrections intent on overthrowing the government; you've seen how that's worked out for me, so our colleagues say look at that and decide they don't want to touch that issue with a 10-foot pole. But this is highly alarming. Every American should be concerned when we see the unequal administration of justice.

– Ron Johnson

Found on FOX News 1 month ago Latest Headlines

Although we respectfully disagreed on the added value of the proposed commission, I did commit to doing everything I could to ensure all their questions will be answered.

– Ron Johnson

Found on FOX News 2 months ago Latest Headlines

I challenged his use of the term ‘Vaccine Hesitancy,’ i told him that based on the VAERS deaths, and my conversations with people who have chosen not to get vaccinated, a better description would be: ‘People who are hesitant to be coerced into participating in the largest drug trial in history.’.

– Ron Johnson

Found on FOX News 3 months ago Latest Headlines

Happy to have her visit Milwaukee but she really ought to inspect the crisis President Biden created at the border.

– Ron Johnson

Found on FOX News 3 months ago Latest Headlines

Instead of creating more opportunities, it will kill people’s jobs, increase their taxes, and further implement radical leftists’ agenda.

– Ron Johnson

Found on FOX News 3 months ago Latest Headlines

In response to a bipartisan effort to give federal workers another day of paid leave by designating Juneteenth a federal holiday, we have offered a counterproposal that does not put us further in debt, we support celebrating emancipation with a federal holiday, but believe we should eliminate a current holiday in exchange. We chose Columbus Day as a holiday that is lightly celebrated, and least disruptive to Americans’ schedules.

– Ron Johnson

Found on FOX News 3 months ago U.S.

I think there are some real issues that have not been answered and I think these are legitimate concerns about the election, i'm not afraid of the truth, OK ?

– Ron Johnson

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

I'm under no pressure to decide anything soon.

– Ron Johnson

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

I felt bad for the clerks who are going to have to read it. But it’s just so important, so often we rush these massive bills that are hundreds, thousands of pages long. You don’t have time. Nobody has time to read them.

– Ron Johnson

Found on FOX News 5 months ago Opinion

I have heard some of my Republican colleagues argue that this trial would be unconstitutional because Donald Trump is no longer in office, an argument that has been roundly repudiated, debunked by constitutional scholars left, right and center, and defies basiccommonsense, it makes nosensewhatsoever that a president — or any official — could commit a heinous crime against our country and then be permitted to resign so as to avoid accountability and a vote to disbar them from future office. It makes nosense.

– Ron Johnson

Found on FOX News 6 months ago Politics

I'm all for freedom of speech and expression, i just wish Twitter was.

– Ron Johnson

Found on FOX News 6 months ago Politics

I am not that nuts about the tweets because you are always asking me to defend them, and I don't want to, but we needed someone like him because what most conservatives do share is a revulsion to the deep state, the swamp, and if anything resonated with people it was his message of draining the swamp.

– Ron Johnson

Found on CNN 9 months ago Top News

Congressional Democrats have put Congressional Democrats in the crosshairs of another hyperbolic false narrative perpetrated to gain political advantage.

– Ron Johnson

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

It doesn't sound like any progress has been made, however, I am always amazed how quickly a bipartisan deal can be crafted to spend hundreds of billions, and in this case a couple of trillion dollars. Never discount the big spenders' ability to do a big spending deal.

– Ron Johnson

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

You might as well repurpose that, rather than authorize more.

– Ron Johnson

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I'm not aware of every piece of information our committee has gathered. We're encouraging people to send us information, but then we fully vet it, we take everything with a grain of salt we get from Ukraine. I think you have to.

– Ron Johnson

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I'm not aware of every piece of information Congressional Democrats ' committee has gathered. Congressional Democrats ''re encouraging people to send Congressional Democrats ' information, but then Congressional Democrats ' fully vet it, congressional Democrats ' take everything with a grain of salt Congressional Democrats ' get from Ukraine. I think you have to.

– Ron Johnson

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

In some cases, we are already working with the agencies and individuals identified to obtain the information we need to do our work, and inclusion on the list should in no way be interpreted to suggest they have been noncompliant, i am asking for this authority to ensure the committee has the ability to quickly and efficiently seek compulsory process should it become necessary.

– Ron Johnson

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

We talked about infrastructure, we talked about that specific problem right now with a law regarding the certification of those masks. We talked about, obviously, payroll tax relief, he wants action.

– Ron Johnson

Found on CNN 1 year ago U.S.

Looking ahead, we should be passing laws to make sure we have that manufacturing capability, that we have sufficient stockpiles. You know things expire. We need to be far more strategic about how we approach these things for the next potential pandemic, these are serious issues.

– Ron Johnson

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

It's not great if you're lactose intolerant, it's really not great if you're stuck on the floor and you're lactose intolerant.

– Ron Johnson

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I think people are starting to realize that that would be a pretty messy and unproductive process.

– Ron Johnson

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

He reminded me how thoroughly corrupt Ukraine was and again conveyed his frustration that European Union doesn't do European Union fair share of providing military aid.

– Ron Johnson

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

No way. I would never do that. Who told you that ?

– Ron Johnson

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

This would have been far better off if we would've just taken care of this behind the scenes, this never would've been exposed, that funding would've been restored and our relationship with Ukraine would've been far better off than it is today... I'm sympathetic with President Trump as he's been tormented( since) the day after the election.

– Ron Johnson

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

That's why it's taking some time.

– Ron Johnson

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

Ron Johnson is focusing on a limited part of the problem. Most members realize that in order to pass something, you're going to need to expand the universe of what needs to be dealt with.

– Ron Johnson

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

If we have that discussion, if we're going to offer grants to states to pass red flag laws, we ought to attach to those grants very strict guidelines in terms of due process.

– Ron Johnson

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

All I can tell you is what I hear in Wisconsin. The debate really hasn't changed much at all, people still ask the same questions. OK, if you propose some kind of gun legislation, first of all, how would that have prevented these tragedies in the past ? How would they prevent them in the future ?

– Ron Johnson

Found on CNN 1 year ago U.S.

As sympathetic as I am toward anyone who yearns for the freedom and opportunity that Central America provides, it is not possible to properly accommodate all who do. Those who enter our country illegally without a valid asylum claim, put themselves and our society at risk, the goal of our policies should be to reduce the overwhelming flow of illegal migration and convert it to a controllable number of legal immigrants. Hopefully, Operation Safe Return will convince Central Americans, that on a bipartisan basis, Central America will do everything we can to prevent human traffickers from exploiting our laws and abusing immigrants seeking a better life, Central Americans said. The Trump administration ANNOUNCES MAJOR CRACKDOWN ON ASYLUM SEEKERS The bipartisan push comes amid a continuing crisis on the southern border, with tens of thousands of migrants being encountered and apprehended at the border each month. The Trump administration has focused The Trump administration efforts on trying to end loopholes in which family units who meet the initial credible fear test are released into the U.S. as cases are processed. This week, The Trump administration announced a policy that requires most migrants entering through Central America southern border to first seek asylum in one of the countries they traversed whether in Mexico, in Central America, or elsewhere on their journey. The Democrats meanwhile have focused more on the humanitarian aspect of the crisis, and have been extremely critical of the conditions in detention facilities, as well as Immigration and Customs Enforcement( ICE) operations in the homeland. Kyrsten Sinema told The Arizona Republic that the idea was in response to a meeting with administration and White House officials who Kyrsten Sinema said were focused on changing asylum laws and challenging the 1997 Flores agreement that set standards for treatment of migrants and how long minors can be held in custody.

– Ron Johnson

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Politics

I'm not sure what leverage the President thinks he has at this moment. The way you create leverage is keep this issue alive and keep arguing why we need to secure the border, this could all change in 30 minutes, too.

– Ron Johnson

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

I'm not sure how we would even get that information.

– Ron Johnson

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

They were certainly reading probably the most relevant ones as well. Some of the less relevant ones are ones being passed around. It's an interesting process, i've never seen anything like that before. ... This is unusual circumstances calling for kind of( an) unusual process.

– Ron Johnson

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

He was a colleague. We all respect him. We feel bad for him, truthfully. This isn't good to see. I don't like to see this kind of public division and this thing play out in public.

– Ron Johnson

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

They're coming before us with a proposal that hasn't all been fleshed out, if they weren't doing this, if they got the proposals fleshed out, had all the data and it was going to take more months, there'd be the complaints,' How come you weren't consulting with us ?'.

– Ron Johnson

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

We will continue our oversight on that.

– Ron Johnson

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

Absent an outright confession, they're not going to be able to draw that conclusion, that will be up to the American public to draw their own conclusion : I don't see how the inspector general can draw the conclusion.

– Ron Johnson

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

I don't have a catalog of all the texts.

– Ron Johnson

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

The federal government does not have the legal authorities it needs to protect the American public from these kinds of threats. The threats posed by malicious drones are too great to ignore, it is not enough to simply tell operators of unmanned aircraft not to fly in certain areas; we must give federal law enforcement the authority to act if necessary.

– Ron Johnson

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Politics

That secret society -- we have an informant that's talking about a group that were holding secret meetings offsite.

– Ron Johnson

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

It is not enough to just tell drone operators not to fly in certain high-risk areas; we must give federal law enforcement the authority to act if necessary.

– Ron Johnson

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Politics

It indicates they’re considering joining the Mueller special counsel investigation.

– Ron Johnson

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

There’s a lot of work to be done to reconcile the treatment of pass-throughs in the Senate and House bills, and I am glad to have received assurances I will have a seat at the table during those negotiations.

– Ron Johnson

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

Right now, the vast majority of pass-throughs will not be able to deduct state and local income taxes, where C Corps [C Corporations] will, i don’t see how that is politically sustainable. It’s certainly not fair. It widens with disparity and puts those pass-through businesses at a competitive disadvantage.

– Ron Johnson

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Latest Headlines

The practice also put non-union employees, or union employees who supported other candidates, at a disadvantage, if those employees sought unpaid leave for several weeks for campaign activity, they would not have received the same treatment.

– Ron Johnson

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Latest Headlines

From my standpoint it's repairing the damage done by Obamacare, the biggest most notable damage is these skyrocketing premiums.

– Ron Johnson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

There is no excuse for retaliation against VA whistle-blowers like Dr. Klein. The president’s recent executive order makes that abundantly clear. The VA should fully comply with the committee’s request and stop the retaliation against Dr. Klein, who was only trying to expose substandard patient care.

– Ron Johnson

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

It is concerning that when I wrote to the FBI and Department of Justice, they never told me about the fact that they had some FBI asset, whether it was an agent or informant, tailing Soofi and Simpson, why didn’t they intervene? As a member of the Senate oversight committee, I think these agencies should be honest when we actually ask them the questions. But it begs the question, what was the FBI doing in Garland, and why wasn’t the agency direct with me when we first started writing letters about this back in 2015?

– Ron Johnson

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

We haven’t seen any publicity about the unaccompanied children coming in from Central America and we want to highlight that, it’s a real problem, but it’s not the only problem.

– Ron Johnson

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

Based on the results of the election, I am encouraged by the fact that we have an incoming Administration that is dedicated to securing the border.

– Ron Johnson

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

I think it’s one of the messages of this election that the public is disgusted when they see double standards, when they think people in high places, high government officials can get away with what ordinary citizens can't, so, I just think it’s extremely important to follow this thing through and get all the information. Make it public.

– Ron Johnson

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

Specifically, unaccompanied children have been forced to work in unsafe conditions, miss school and become the victims of sexual predators after being dispersed by the U.S. government throughout the country.

– Ron Johnson

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

The DHS was created to unify and improve coordinated efforts to defend our homeland. Refusing to allow armed ICE agents into a USCIS facility to detain a suspected terrorist just a day after a deadly terrorist attack is disturbing.

– Ron Johnson

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Latest Headlines

It’s about holding the bad actors accountable and transparency.

– Ron Johnson

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Politics

I am concerned that ICE is attempting to identify and retaliate against whistleblowers who revealed a lack of cooperation between USCIS and ICE in the aftermath of the terror attacks in San Bernardino, those who have the courage to come forward should not be retaliated against.

– Ron Johnson

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Politics

Instead of trying to improve communications, Ron Johnson said, it appears ICE and its parent agency, DHS, are trying to root out Ron Johnson source. Ron Johnson believes the whistleblowers could face retribution for the revelation. The federal government has a very poor record of retaliation, we’ve held numerous hearings about this. It is really quite shocking how often the federal government retaliates. But I certainly will not stand for it, and I certainly don’t think this committee will stand for any retribution against those who had the courage to come forward to reveal this incident. Federal law expressly protects federal employees who provide information to Congress. In the Dec. 3 incident, USCIS agents were investigating Marquez for marriage fraud, stemming from his 2014 union with Mariya Chernykh, a Russian national married to Farook’s brother. Rodriguez told Johnson’s committee that it was a mistake for his agency’s San Bernardino office to refuse entry to ICE investigators.

– Ron Johnson

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Politics

ICE has a track record of retaliating against whistleblowers, as in the case of Homeland Security Investigations Agent Taylor.

– Ron Johnson

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Politics

It should not take years and years and billions and billions of dollars.

– Ron Johnson

Found on Reuters 5 years ago U.S.

I’m happy to answer questions, or not answer, as the case may be.

– Ron Johnson

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Politics

We'll see how this process plays out.

– Ron Johnson

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I'll continue to make the case that the most reasonable position at this point in time in history, the best course of action on something so incredibly important is to let the American people decide.

– Ron Johnson

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

The possibility that the administration is pressuring intelligence analysts to conform those assessments to the president's narrative, that we are winning the war against ISIS, when we are not, is unacceptable.

– Ron Johnson

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Politics

It is not the fanciful to think that ISIS may be assaulting some of those refugees with some of their operatives.

– Ron Johnson

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Politics

Any governmental official who is responsible for failing to do so must be held accountable.

– Ron Johnson

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Politics

OPM says it has undertaken an aggressive effort to update its cybersecurity posture, plainly, it must do a better job, especially given the sensitive nature of the information it holds.

– Ron Johnson

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Technology

I am deeply concerned that someone has the ability to fly for over an hour through the most restricted airspace in our country, past the White House, and land on the lawn of the Capitol.

– Ron Johnson

Found on CNN 6 years ago Politics

No, I mean the explanation would be there is cultural problem there. It's like, 'Ohhh, he's one of ours. Let's send him home. Let's bury this, let's whitewash this. Let's pretend this never happened.' Why else would it be?

– Ron Johnson

Found on CNN 6 years ago Politics

I think the United States Congress should have that exact same input into the process.

– Ron Johnson

Found on FOX News 6 years ago Politics

Now that the judiciary branch is involved, the courts ultimately will decide the constitutionality of the administration’s ‘deferred action’ memorandum.

– Ron Johnson

Found on FOX News 6 years ago Latest Headlines

The problem is, we don't exactly know what President Obama views, you know, defeat of ISIS is. There's no strategy.

– Ron Johnson

Found on FOX News 6 years ago Politics

As long as ISIS is not losing, they are perceived as winning, we have to defeat ISIS. We ca n’t let them continue threatening the rest of the world for years. … This is not a threat that is going away. It’s growing. It’s metastasizing.

– Ron Johnson

Found on FOX News 6 years ago Politics

The people there are the worst of the worst, they should not be released.

– Ron Johnson

Found on FOX News 6 years ago Politics

Imposing additional sanctions is the only way to bring Iran to the table in good faith.

– Ron Johnson

Found on FOX News 6 years ago Politics

When I got there, I began to see people that I knew, out on that street, and, you know, when you see fire and you're hearing gunshots and you see people that you know, and you know their life story and you know their families and that (their) dreams are just like yours, and you're seeing the kids that are friends with your kids and that you've coached in football and baseball, it told me that I needed to be there.

– Ron Johnson

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

I tell people that was a changing point.

– Ron Johnson

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

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