| We Need To Know Where We Come From To Know Where We Are Going |
April 26, 2013 |
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Ted Yoho, R-FL
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"When the Constitution and the Second Amendment were written, the story of the Boston struggles during the Revolutionary War was still fresh in America’s memory. British troops looked at every American as a threat and treated them like virtual prisoners in the communities that they built. That’s why our Founders made sure that it would be law, and a birthright for every law-abiding American, that everyone would have the freedom to protect themselves."
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| Comprehensive Immigration Reform—Continued |
April 11, 2013 |
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Dana Rohrabacher, R-CA
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"There is nothing wrong with supporting your family. That doesn’t mean you’re being selfish by not selling your car or giving away your children’s birthright to some other person down the block. No, you should be taking care of your family. And we Americans are a family that’s made up of every race, every religion, and every ethnic group."
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| Budget |
March 15, 2013 |
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Rob Woodall, R-GA
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"Mr. Speaker, I don’t wonder why it is that entrepreneurial activity is the lowest it’s been since we began keeping records. The wonder is that folks are still trying at all. I had someone say that to me, Mr. Speaker. I was visiting with a group of honor students in Forsyth County there in the north metro Atlanta area, and we were talking about what do you want to do when you grow up. We were talking about America as a land of opportunity where you can do anything that you want to do, where it’s our birthright to be filled with opportunities that our parents never dreamed of having. A young woman on the front row raised her hand. She said, Congressman, you’re talking so much about going out and hanging out your own shingle and being an entrepreneur. She said, It looks really, really hard. She said, Why would anybody even try today?"
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| Hollow Ideologies |
March 5, 2013 |
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Steve King, R-IA
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"And why would we have 100 million people of working age not in our workforce while we’re running up a debt of $1.2 trillion a year? We’ve seen that the per capita national debt now for a baby born in the United States—babies born today, their share of the national debt is $53,000. It went over $53,000 just the other day. So, welcome to the world. You’re an American citizen born here by birthright citizenship, but you don’t have a right not to contribute to paying off the national debt, and your share is $53,000."
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| GOP Freshman Class Hour: The Second Amendment |
March 4, 2013 |
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Ted Yoho, R-FL
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"Mr. Speaker, I rise to address this body tonight about a subject that weighs heavy on the minds of many of my constituents and many Americans. It is a subject and a right that has been granted to us by our country’s founding principles, the Constitution, not by government. It is the birthright of any law-abiding citizen of the United States of America, and it is their choice to exercise that right. It is the role and duty of government to protect those rights."
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