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I really get angry when I see people try to politicize it for their own personal agenda, especially when we do n’t even know the facts, let’s get the facts. And let’s work to see if there’s something that we can do to help secure schools.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Washington shouldn't be the last place to get back to work. It should have been the first, but yet as we see today, at many agencies more than half of their federal workers are not showing up to work. And it's hurting families back home across America.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Seniors have experienced delays with the Social Security Administration, American taxpayers have struggled to get help from the IRS during tax filing season and veterans have been unable to access the records.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
(If) Vice President Biden took classified documents with him and held them for years and criticized former President Trump during that same time that he had those classified documents and only after it was uncovered did he turn them back, I wonder why the press isn’t asking the same questions of him … that they were asking President Trump.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
We're ready to go to work for all those hard-working families across the country, and the person that's going to lead the way is our next speaker, Kevin McCarthy.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I've said it very clearly… and again, I think Kevin's going to win next week, and we're going to be talking about getting to work, i know a lot of people like to focus on all of the drama in Washington. We're going to get to work for the hard-working families who gave us this majority.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We're going to have our elections next week. I'm supporting Kevin McCarthy for speaker, and he'll win that race, and ultimately, you've seen us pull together these last few months and focus on the attack against big government socialism. What they've done to our country and our economy is what's united not only Republicans. But again, we've already won in a number of places Republicans haven't won in decades.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Biden’s begged Russia, he’s begged Iran, Venezuela and other countries to produce oil when we should be producing it in America.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I feel very confident the [GOP majority] will be in the double digits, the question is whether it's a dozen or 35, it could be anywhere within that range … but we're going to win in a lot of places.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We've got a great field of candidates, we're going to double the number of African American Republicans, [see] huge increases in women members, Hispanic members.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Look at what they've done, they've wrecked the economy. They've wrecked our energy dominance where we now need to be reliant on foreign countries. They've opened the border. [Created] foreign policy debacles and seen crime explode.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
People from all parties should condemn political violence when it happens, and I would encourage President Biden and other Democrat leaders to equally condemn this heinous act.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Democrats’ reckless spending and job-killing policies have put our country into a recession and caused record-high inflation, now they’re doubling down on their failed, radical agenda with this massive spending bill that raises taxes on Americans, hires an army of 87,000 IRS agents, and creates … slush funds for their leftist climate allies at the expense of taxpayers.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
This legislation comes to the House precisely as Senate Democrats have allegedly struck a deal on their partisan reconciliation bill, pairing up a tone-deaf agenda that on one hand gives billions away in corporate handouts, and on the other hand undoes historic tax cuts implemented by Republicans.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It’s truly unbelievable how out of touch big-government socialists are with the concerns of hard-working taxpayers who are struggling to feed their families and even be able to afford to drive to work, rather than wasting millions of taxpayer dollars on Hollywood show trials attacking their political opponents, and changing bathroom gender designations in the Capitol, Speaker Pelosi and President Biden should get to work fixing the litany of crises that they alone created.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I haven't seen what they're referring to. But it's not surprising that the liberal media wants to keep talking about January 6, because they don't want to focus on all the crises that President Biden's created from inflation to gas prices to the border.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
The challenge is that President Biden still won't say yes to American energy, because to replace that Russian oil is the real critical step.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Speaker Pelosi and President Biden’s radical Green New Deal agenda will be a major issue in November’s elections.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
President Biden should immediately reverse his devastating policies that are causing gas prices to skyrocket and are giving Putin leverage against the rest of the world and return to the policies that were working under President Trump to create American energy dominance with gas prices below $2 a gallon, speaker Pelosi and President Biden’s radical Green New Deal agenda will be a major issue in November’s elections.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
My focus has been on what we need to do to take back the House GOP, we need to flip a lot more seats that are currently held by Democrats, switching them to Republican, so we can fire( Speaker Nancy) Pelosi.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
In fact, President Biden’s own CDC director said the vaccine does not prevent transmission, this is the same administration that allowed union bosses to write their own school reopening guidelines and has created mass confusion with their mixed public health messaging.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The only achievements Democrats will have to show for their year of total government control are record breaking inflation, skyrocketing gas prices, millions of illegal border crossings, crime, COVID outbreaks, and deadly failures on the world stage, it’s been obvious to anyone besides liberals in Washington that the American people do not support President Biden’s radical tax and spend bill that would make the crises we face even worse, and they need to bury their Build Back Broke bill with the ghosts of Christmas past.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Inflation crisis, border crisis, energy crisis, confidence crisis and Joe Biden's policies -- that's what the focus needs to be on, and how we can solve these problems that they've created, everybody's been away for Thanksgiving. And now that we're back, we've got to get back focused on the things that matter to families back home.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
President Biden and Democrats have politicized Covid from the start and refused to acknowledge its origins from China, republicans have been sounding the alarm on these issues for well over year, and Dr. Birx’s closed-door testimony confirms that the world was misled.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
What I said is there are states that didn't follow their legislatively set rules.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
It seems like any member of Congress you talk to, Republican or Democrat, they've got some kind of frustration with that relationship on the ground with the Corps of Engineers because of how projects work and come out of Washington with a lot of red tape, i'm going to be fighting to make sure they're not left behind, but it's a valid concern that gets raised in times like this.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
And just like we have some primary infighting on our side, the Democrats have a lot of primary infighting on their side.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I'm against the far-left $ 5 trillion tax hike and Green New Deal scheme masquerading as an infrastructure bill.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Too often we've seen this pattern by Speaker Pelosi of trying to cover up a narrative that she doesn't want out there when we should be trying to get all of the facts.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I would hope she would look at the actions that Speaker Nancy Pelosi took that were unprecedented and in fact go against what Liz Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said and step down from the committee because it has no credibility and why would anybody want to be associated with that ?
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I had the antibodies but ultimately with this new Delta variant you're seeing, I've toured a lot of hospitals in the last few weeks and you're seeing the cases go up.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
It seems like Speaker( Nancy) Pelosi just wants to go with more of a defund police approach, where they go after qualified immunity, which would really be devastating to police officers on the beat.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
No, it's a protection for good cops, and why would you want to undermine that ?
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Republicans are not going to stand idly by. Next week, Republicans on the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus will be having a hearing into the origins of COVID-19, that'll happen Tuesday, we've invited many respected doctors, scientists, as well as members of Congress who have been investigating this on their own to come forward and testify.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
They are covering for China right now, it’s a Soviet-style cover-up. We’re going to keep calling them out on it.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
He went there to kill Republicans, and he had a list of Republicans in his pocket, he specifically asked if that was the Republican practice before he went back and got his guns and came out. He didn't know the security detail with me were cops, because they were plainclothes officers.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It's not about right or wrong, it's about the focus of our conference, and focusing on pushing back on the agenda that's being pushed by the Biden administration.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's not about right or wrong, it's about the focus of Conservative Political Action Conference, and focusing on pushing back on the agenda that's being pushed by the Biden administration.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
This idea that you just disregard President Trump is not where we are, and, frankly, he has a lot to offer still.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I was shot by a deranged leftist who came to the baseball field with a list of congressional Republicans to kill, this was not ‘suicide by cop.’ End of story.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I haven't heard any Democrats speaking out against what Maxine has said, and it's time for Democrats to speak out when they see it on both sides, they only want to speak out on one side of the aisle, not on both, and that hypocrisy, I think, is starting to shine through.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
President Trump used the words peaceful, ... I haven't heard Maxine saying anything about peacefully protesting. She's talking about violence.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
There is no caucus that they’ve formed. ... I think what Marjorie said was a staffer wrote that [caucus platform document]... She said she’s not pursuing that, there is no member of Congress who said they are creating that kind of caucus.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It’s hard to speculate on rumors. But if something really formal happened from Justice, we would of course react and take action, there have been a few cases where members have had charges filed against them for various things and we’ve removed them from committees immediately.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
This is a dangerous kind of game she is playing, she needs to stop doing this because we’ve seen where this goes if they try to demonize their opponents. It seems that’s like all they know how to do is throw out distractions.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The people that know her say her real drives and passions are fighting for life and battling socialism, those are things that a lot of people are very interested in fighting for.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
These comments are appalling, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has no tolerance for them.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
It is outrageous and telling that the first action committee Democrats have taken is blindly sending harassing letters to individual companies that followed the law to keep their workers on the payroll, treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has already stated that the Treasury Department is looking into all companies that have received loans through the overwhelmingly successful PPP fund.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I don't know that other presidents would have been able to take it ; some people said no, they wouldn't have, but I can tell you, at a minimum, you have to focus on this because it can get away very quickly. No matter who you have with you, it can get away very quickly.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
What I wanted to do is get the facts to our members as quickly as possible so that everybody can stay focused on what really happened.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
First of all, this is nothing like the Bill Clinton and the Nixon impeachment, both sides got to call witnesses under Bill Clinton and under Nixon. The presidents legal counsel was in the room, able to ask questions to the witnesses. ... In fact, the resolution they just passed in a very partisan way gives the chairman the full discretion to kick the presidents legal counsel out of the room and to veto any witnesses that we would call. That was in the resolution.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Making the current system work better while protecting the rights of law-abiding citizens. That's where the focus needs to be.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Whether or not the president submits a formal proposal, he has been having good-faith negotiations and conversations with a number of senators from both parties, i'm not sure ... ultimately if they're going to get an agreement, but they are having some good-faith negotiations.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We don't want to see it escalate to where it is a military operation.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
More than six million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust ; there is nothing' calming' about that fact.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
There is no justification for the twisted and disgusting comments made by Rashida Tlaib just days after the annual Day of Holocaust Remembrance, more than 6 million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust ; there is nothing' calming' about that fact.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
With her background as majority whip in West Virginia, she was the perfect person to add on to the whip team.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The reports that there will be no new indictments confirm what we've known all along: there was never any collusion with Russia. The only collusion was between Democrats and many in the media who peddled this lie because they continue to refuse to accept the results of the 2016 election.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Steve King comments about Hurricane Katrina victims are absurd and offensive, and are a complete contradiction to the strength and resilience the people of New Orleans demonstrated to the entire nation in the wake of the total devastation they experienced.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The time for political games has long passed. Democrats must put their personal dislike of The President aside, end their obstruction, and finally come to the negotiating table. Its time Democrats do what is right for the functioning and security of our nation and agree to a deal that opens our government, and includes funding for a border wall and other measures to solve this serious immigration crisis at our southern border.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
This bill takes a bipartisan approach to re-opening the closed portions of the federal government. It pairs the border security investment that our nation needs with additional immigration measures that both Democrat and Republican members of Congress believe are necessary. Unlike the bills that have come from the House over the past few weeks, this proposal could actually resolve this impasse. It has the full support of The President and could be signed into law to quickly reopen the government. the time for political games has long passed. Democrats must put their personal dislike of The President aside, end their obstruction, and finally come to the negotiating table. Its time Democrats do what is right for the functioning and security of our nation and agree to a deal that opens our government, and includes funding for a border wall and other measures to solve this serious immigration crisis at our southern border.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I think it's important that we all reject that kind of hateful ideology, it's evil and we ought to reject everything it represents.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The President has been very clear that The President needs $ 5 billion to properly secure the border, we need to be there for The President and make sure this gets signed.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I have always known Jim Jordan to be honest, and I'm confident Jim Jordan would stand up for Jim Jordan athletes, just like Jim Jordan's always stood up for what's right, i'm glad that Jim Jordan is committed to working with the investigators to see that the full truth comes out and justice is served.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I never saw the shooter, never really saw where he was and then, it just hurt a lot, but( I) wanted to have him walk me through what he saw and did.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
To be able to go back out on that field, in a major league ballpark, play the game, especially to be able to go back out in uniform and actually get an opportunity to go out on the field -- that's going to be real emotional.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We're looking at moving the farm bill on June 22 and having the Goodlatte-McCaul bill come up the third week of June.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We have a narrow path, these are the bills that are always the toughest to pass.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I have deeper and deeper concerns the more I see some of this, not only the stonewalling, but what’s been in some of these memos, we’re also trying to get a lot of other information from the Department of Justice about this investigation, and everything that we uncover raises even deeper concerns about the direction.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Rest assured that I plan to be fully engaged in my work as I recover from this surgery and I am eager to be back at the Capitol as soon as my doctors say I'm able.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I've got a job right now as the House majority whip and there's a lot more we need to do.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I did n’t know who all of these groups were and I detest any kind of hate group.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
We are continuing to fix the DACA problem that was left on our doorstep when Barack Obama created a program that had no resolution, now is the time to solve that problem. And we’re working to get that consensus.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
So far, there's been no suggestion that we cannot continue to go forward.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Whatever health care plan you have today, If you have a preexisting condition, you can never be denied coverage, and you can never be charged a dime more, not any more than anybody else in that plan. That’s maintained and can not be waivered by a state. No House Democrat voted in favor of the measure, which President Trump supports. Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., argued Thursday on the House floor before the vote that.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I think this might actually gain seats … because people didn’t like ObamaCare.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
A lot of our members were very vocal, as was I, commending Governor Haley and the people of South Carolina for how they handled this and their decision to pull down the flag. At a time like this, a tone of unity and bringing people together is what the country wants rather than division.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
They took a hostage that they might realize now they can't afford to shoot.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The budget's always a visionary document, but it's also a unifying document.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
And that vote is over. We are moving forward, ... And obviously he's speaker. He's going forward.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Our goal is to fight this President's illegal actions on immigration, and we're now in a position to force the Senate to go to conference committee. they need to light up the Senate switchboard.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
One of the many groups that I spoke to regarding this critical legislation was a group whose views I wholeheartedly condemn. It was a mistake I regret.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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