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Senator Rand Paul comments exclusively on Congress' stalemate over new stimulus provisions and breaks down President Trump's executive orders in response to the stall in progress. Paul also reacts to comments made regarding the executive orders made by Senator Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. - with Newsmax TV's Bob SellersVideo...

Sen. Rand Paul joins Your World with Neil Cavuto on Fox News. Harsh words from Rand to his colleagues Re: spending. "They make President Obama look conservative." Watch...

.... He took a few minutes to make his short stump speech about his parents coming to this country legally and how he has lived the American dream. He then addressed two issues, with the first being the COVID crisis, which he said is real and serious. “But this Fauci guy,” said Sethi obviously connecting with his audience, “I’ve had about enough of this guy.”Over the cheering and applauding crowd, Sethi continued, “It’s time for the president to bring him into the board room and say ‘You’re fired!’” With regard to hydroxychloroquine, Sethi said we’re not sure, but it saved...

@RandPaulICYMI: Today in the Foreign Relations Committee hearing I questioned Elliot Abrams on regime change and the socialist plight in Venezuela. Video...

Sen. Rand Paul is joined by Sen. Mike Lee for a discussion on current events, freedom and individual liberty in the first lecture of the 2020 Capitol Hill Lecture Series. This is Great!They discuss: - The Tea Party and why Rand and Lee are senators. - Big government Republicans. - Bail outs. - Bush/Obama deficits. - Coronavirus and the the tyrannical governors. Plus a wide ranging discussion about the Constitution, the states and individual liberty. [51:00 mins] Video....

Tens of thousands of Germans marched through Berlin on Saturday, proclaiming a “Day of Freedom” and demanding an end to government-mandated face masks and “social distancing.” The UK and Netherlands also saw large protests against their governments’ tyrannical actions in response to the coronavirus outbreak. ... Europeans are realizing that their government-mandated lockdowns did little or nothing to protect them from the virus, while causing economic catastrophe ... Sweden, which never locked down its economy, rejected face masks, and kept its restaurants and other places of business open, did not fare any worse than the countries that have been turned...

FL and NY have an identical number of per capita coronavirus infections but FL has 5X less per capita deaths. Will Dr. Fauci be praising @GovRonDeSantis’ response to the pandemic? Will he point out that @NYGovCuomo’s response allowed a fivefold greater per capita death rate?— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) August 3, 2020

"How long is it going to take? What is our current mission? Why are we in Afghanistan? Do we have a cogent mission to be in Afghanistan, right now?" More...

Talk radio host Phil Valentine interviews Sen. Rand Paul. This is a great interview. 15 mins long and covers a lot of ground (mainly COVID-19 related). Rand discusses:- Massive spending ("I'm sick of it!"). - His support of US Senate candidate Dr. Manny (TN). - His experience of getting COVID-19. - HCQ for treating COVID-19. - Social media censorship. - Using steroids to treat coronavirus - How the left wants you to submit and live in fear. - The governors shutting down economies. - New York having the worst death rate from COVID-19 in the world. - Putting patients back...

The man who tackled Republican U.S. Sen. Rand Paul in 2017 in anger over Paul piling yard waste near their shared property line will serve another 14 months behind bars or on home detention. A federal judge initially sentenced Rene Boucher to 30 days in jail for the attack, along with 100 hours of community service and a $10,000 fine. Prosecutors argued that sentence was unreasonably light given Paul’s injuries, which included six broken ribs. Prosecutors won the right to try to get a longer sentence for Boucher. U.S. District Judge Matthew F. Leitman imposed the additional punishment in a...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — At first, the cheers for U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz were louder than those for the man he came to stump for Friday morning, but that changed. Cruz, R-Texas, came to Knoxville in support of Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Dr. Manny Sethi and a crowd of nearly 200 people crammed inside a dining room of the Southern Rail Station to hear from the two as Sethi attempts to go toe-to-toe with Bill Hagerty, the former U.S. ambassador to Japan. The race has both tightened and gotten uglier in recent weeks ahead of the August 6 Election Day. Both...

(CNN) President Donald Trump's endorsed candidate in the US Senate race in Tennessee has suddenly found himself in an increasingly competitive primary fight that has divided top Republicans and prompted anger over one GOP senator's tactics. Bill Hagerty was expected to coast to his party's nomination after the President endorsed him a year ago. But with less than two weeks to go before the Republican primary election, Trump's former US ambassador to Japan is facing a fierce challenge marked by a late infusion of ad spending, high-profile endorsements and rallies crisscrossing the state. Dr. Manny Sethi and Hagerty traded attacks...

Federal prosecutors have renewed a push for a 21-month sentence for the man who tackled and injured U.S. Sen. Rand Paul in November 2017. Rene Boucher deserves to spend more time behind bars because of the serious injuries Paul sustained, including six broken ribs that left him in intense pain and led to bouts of pneumonia and damage that ultimately required removing part of Paul’s lung, Assistant U.S. Attorney Bradley P. Shepard said in a memorandum filed Monday. Shepard also argued that the initial 30-day sentence against Boucher wasn’t enough to deter other potential assaults on members of Congress. “Aggressive...

Rand says Cuomo’s nursing home debacle was 'the worst public policy and public health decision in a century'Sen. Rand Paul said on Thursday that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo should be impeached for what he sees as a mishandling of the state's coronavirus response. “What you found in New York is that we ended up having horrendous death,” Paul told “America’s Newsroom.” Paul, R-Ky., said that New York had a death rate of 1,600 per million people, which is the highest in the country.” “Eight times worse than Florida, 10 times worse than Texas, even now with the surge in...

The debate over the size of the next coronavirus relief bill is reopening the same divisions within the Republican Party that spawned the Tea Party movement more than a decade ago, putting Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in a delicate spot. McConnell is up for reelection this fall in Kentucky, a state that has been a hotbed of Tea Party activism over the past 10-plus years. His home state colleague, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), a Tea Party favorite, is taking an outspoken stand against another large federal relief package. The situation is eerily similar to 2008, when McConnell was...

Sen. Rand Paul, a long-time critic of Rep. Liz Cheney, joined the conservative pile-on of the Wyoming Republican, saying on Wednesday: "I don't think she's good for the country" and accused her of trying to "sabotage" President Donald Trump's foreign policy. Paul, a libertarian-minded Republican, has long sparred with Cheney, who supports hawkish views on national security. And asked about House conservatives lashing out at Cheney behind closed doors, Paul joined in on the criticism in an interview with CNN. "I mean she tries to sabotage everything he tries to do in foreign policy, so I don't know whether she's...

The time came when the emperor decreed: “The people are in need; a plague is upon the land. I will give them money.” The people had been made to believe that paper was money. So, the emperor ordered that paper bearing the government insignia be printed and distributed to the people. Now, the people had been trained to accept paper as money, but they still hung onto the belief that even paper money required work to be considered valuable. But the emperor reassured them that paper is money backed by the full faith and credit of government (aka paper money...

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) called Wednesday for the impeachment of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) over his handling of the state's coronavirus outbreak, saying, "The people we are lauding are actually making catastrophic decisions." "I think Gov. Cuomo should be impeached ... for the disastrous decision he made to send patients with coronavirus back to nursing homes. ... Virtually half his people who died were in nursing homes," Paul said on Fox News's "Rundown" morning podcast. Earlier in the show, Paul called in to question the pandemic lockdown imposed in New York in March, referencing the surge of cases...

In a free society, citizens should be able to easily distinguish between civilian law enforcement tasked with keeping the peace in our communities and the armed forces tasked with protecting our country from foreign adversaries. Unfortunately, thanks to the federal government flooding our neighborhoods with billions of dollars of military equipment and property over the years, the line between peace officer and soldier of war has become increasingly blurry. Police officers have an incredibly difficult and often thankless job where they lay their lives on the line every day. Without the rule of law, a civilized society cannot exist, and...

Senator Rand Paul reacts exclusively to Dr. Anthony Fauci's latest round of comments regarding virus death rates and case numbers across several states, his take on a 'one size fits all' approach to pandemic response, a possible 'immunity' that has been reached in certain regions, the legislative struggle over reopening schools, and more...