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Dr. Rand Paul Releases Statement on National Emergency Vote
US Senate ^ | Rand Paul

Posted on 03/14/2019 7:17:32 PM PDT by RandFan

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) released the following statement after voting to disapprove of the national emergency declaration regarding the border:

“I stand with President Trump on the need for a border wall and stronger border security, but the Constitution clearly states that money cannot be spent unless Congress has passed a law to do so.”

(Excerpt) Read more at paul.senate.gov ...


TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: aliens; alreadyposted; completeidiot; demagogue; fur; nationalemergency; paultardation; paultards; randbuttboy; randsconcerntrolls; randspam; tds
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To: RandFan

Fuhget you, Rand.

Rand is too bipolar for words.

(Someone no one should ever want in the same fox hole.)


41 posted on 03/14/2019 8:37:19 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public Ed & Academia are the FARM TEAM for more Marxists coming, infinitum.)
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To: Guenevere
I was so in his corner.... ....very disappointed now

I feel the same. Very disappointed in him.

42 posted on 03/14/2019 8:38:37 PM PDT by Vinnie
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To: RandFan

You’d be better off with Ayn.


43 posted on 03/14/2019 8:42:53 PM PDT by waterhill (I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
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To: RandFan

KMA Spanky.


44 posted on 03/14/2019 8:44:01 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: RandFan
Obama sends pallets of cash money, how much? 250-500 Billion dollars to Iran! Any screams? Anybody even aware he was going to do it?

Pres, should frame the Wall as a building infrastructure government program.
Call it the WWW project. Wall Wall Wall.

45 posted on 03/14/2019 8:44:15 PM PDT by Vinnie
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To: RandFan
2016 Republican primary popular votes
Donald J. Trump 14,015,993
Rand Paul 66,788



2016 Kentucky election popular votes
Donald J. Trump for President 1,202,971
Rand Paul for U.S. Senate 1,090,177

46 posted on 03/14/2019 8:45:38 PM PDT by greedo
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To: RandFan

Rand Paul is taking a principled stand. The others just want to make sure their monthly check from the cartel bosses clears OK.


47 posted on 03/14/2019 8:47:50 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Vendome

I’m stealing that!


48 posted on 03/14/2019 8:50:25 PM PDT by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong.)
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To: RandFan

I’m only mildly upset. This was a symbolic vote because they did not have the votes to override a veto. If they don’t want a President to have these powers they are just going to have to pass a repeal of a power already granted.


49 posted on 03/14/2019 8:53:54 PM PDT by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong.)
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To: RandFan

He is a liar. Did this nitwit ever object when Bush and Obama passed dozens of their emergency bills? No.


50 posted on 03/14/2019 8:56:42 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Dandy

I think the Congress can lower the President’s authority whenever they can find the votes, as it stands, the purpose of giving the executive this authority is for situations that require action that is needed faster than Congress can reasonably act. Such as when we are struck without warning.

Congress has shown that for one reason or another, they are unable to act and I would say that makes this the type of emergency that Congress had in mind when they passed the law.

And don’t forget the this is money that Congress has in fact appropriated, so the President is not usurping congressional power of the purse, again — I believe the court will find this entirely within the pages of the constitution.


51 posted on 03/14/2019 9:13:59 PM PDT by KC_for_Freedom (retired aerospace engineer who also taught)
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To: RandFan

DO NOT TRUST RAND PAUL!!!

He’s a lunatic like his father before him!


52 posted on 03/14/2019 9:17:08 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Boycott The NFL! Molon Labe! Oathkeeper)
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To: mo

12. The Dirty Dozen:

Rand Paul (R-KY)
Mike Lee (R-UT)
Susan Collins (R-ME)
Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
Mitt Romney (R-UT)
Jerry Moran (R-KS)
Pat Toomey (R-PA)
Rob Portman (R-OH)
Roger Wicker (R-MS)
Marco Rubio (R-FL)
Roy Blunt (R-MO)


53 posted on 03/14/2019 9:25:24 PM PDT by WWG1WWA (Brothers, what we do in life echoes in eternity." -Marcus Aurelius)
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To: RandFan

Rand Paul's Press Conference explaining how he stabbed America in the back supporting OPEN FREAKING BORDERS.

Hey Rand, did you find your brains up there?

54 posted on 03/14/2019 9:59:52 PM PDT by BTerclinger (MAGA)
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To: Reno89519

This “principal old” stand that they’re taking is complete nonsense

they’re all open borders nonsense losers

Look kids this is why we have votes - put it on the line

Now that we know who you are - you’re gone

Ask Bob cork ass how it’s going?

Ask Asswipe piece of Shiite flaky boy out it’s going?

( again what is wrong with Utah ? Is it something in the water? )


55 posted on 03/14/2019 10:01:05 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: RandFan

FOAD, Rand. Like your father before you, you think the US Constitution is a suicide pact.


56 posted on 03/14/2019 10:10:20 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: RandFan
Mods, please lock this thread

The mods will never see that because you didn't address it to them.

57 posted on 03/14/2019 10:12:47 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: RandFan

Rand, take a hike!


58 posted on 03/14/2019 10:19:14 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration
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To: Dandy

The emergency act may be a bogus law, but it a law. Take it to the Supreme Court and get it overthrown. We have a crises on the border, the Congress won’t give the money necessary to protect, the President has every right to get the money to do so.


59 posted on 03/14/2019 10:21:38 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation
I guess Randy Paul doesn’t care that Congress passed the “National Emergencies Act of 1976.”

Congress also passed The Secure Fence Act of 2006, but so what? Laws and the Constitution mean nothing to our political elites. They do what they want and ignore the rest.

The President has every legal and constitutional authority to do what he's doing, but the globalist elites and their minions in Congress and the media don't care. They will bulldoze their way through anything to stop him from protecting our country.

We need several million armed patriots to March on DC , now.

60 posted on 03/14/2019 10:23:07 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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