[64][65][66], On August 20, 2009, Paul's supporters planned a moneybomb to kick off his campaign. [208] He delivered the Tea Party response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address on February 13, 2013,[209] while Marco Rubio gave the official Republican response. [35], Paul maintained his own ABO certification from 1995 to 2005. [25] After his election to the U.S. Senate, he merged his practice with Downing's medical practice. [181], On September 19, Paul asserted the Graham-Cassidy bill as immortalizing the Affordable Care Act and "a big government boondoggle of a trillion dollars of spending" that Republicans should abandon in favor of pursuing measures that would allow for health insurance to be purchased across state lines. [299][300], In 2020, Paul held up bipartisan legislation that would make lynching a federal crime. [5][6], Paul was baptized in the Episcopal Church[7] and identified as a practicing Christian as a teenager. He recreated the board in 2005, but it was again dissolved in 2011. [146] Paul also introduced the FAIR Act, or Fifth Amendment Integrity Restoration Act, which would restrict civil forfeiture proceedings. The announcement left only Paul and Secretary of State Trey Grayson as the remaining candidates for the Republican nomination,[63] with Paul announcing on August 5, 2009, that he would officially run for the U.S. Senate as a Republican. [147] Paul spoke for ten and a half hours on May 20, 2015, in opposition to the reauthorization of Section 215 of the Patriot Act. Referencing the movie Gattaca, Paul quoted almost verbatim from the Wikipedia article about the film without citing the source. [169] In December 2018, in the wake of court filings implicating President Trump's involvement in campaign finance violations, including an attempt to buy a woman's silence, Paul played down the alleged violations and said that they should not be "over-criminalized. 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In addition, a three-page-long passage of Paul's book Government Bullies was taken directly from an article by the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation. Paul made this announcement on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show, though a Kentucky news site first broke the news. We must shrink the Federal Gov't, shrink spending, & stop printing [37], Paul spoke on his father's behalf when his father was campaigning for office,[42] including throughout the elder Paul's run in the 2008 presidential election, during which Rand campaigned door-to-door in New Hampshire[43] and spoke in Boston at a fundraising rally for his father on the 234th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. [108], In June 2012, Paul endorsed Mitt Romney after it became apparent that he would be the Republican nominee for the 2012 presidential election. "U.S. [154], In March 2017, Paul introduced the Stop Arming Terrorists Act that would prohibit the use of United States government funds to provide assistance to Al Qaeda, Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and to countries supporting those organizations. [136], Two weeks later, after the Russian parliament authorized the use of military force in Ukraine[137] and Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered military exercises along Russia's border with Ukraine,[138] Paul began taking a different tone. [31] By Paul's estimate, about 50 or 60 doctors were certified by the NBO. Senators Booker and Paul Introduce Legislation Calling for Criminal Justice Reform", "Sen. Rand Paul Wants to Make it Harder for the Feds to Take Your Stuff", "Here's Rand Paul's Plan To Reform Drug Laws", "Sens. "[198] Later, he accepted the state-certified electors that named Biden. The state doesn't own your children. The federal prosecutors had sought a 21-month term and appealed the lenient sentence. [83] Paul said that he abhors racism, and that he would have marched with Martin Luther King Jr. to repeal Jim Crow laws. [18], The Wall Street Journal reported in 2010 that, although Paul had told a Kentucky television audience as recently as September 2009 that KTU published ratings each year on state legislators' tax positions and that "we've done that for about 15 years", the group had stopped issuing its ratings and report cards after 2002 and had been legally dissolved by the state in 2000 after failing to file registration documents. [305], On cannabis legalization, Paul says the issue should be left up to the states and that "you ought to be able to pretty much do what you want to do as long as you don't hurt somebody else". [103] On August 3, Paul voted against a bill that would raise the debt ceiling. Bush. by Paul Bedard, Washington Secrets Columnist | February 21, 2023 08:17 AM With two Republicans already in the 2024 presidential race and possibly a half He is the the 2nd Person born in [369], Boucher's attorney, Matthew Baker, described it as "a very regrettable dispute between two neighbors over a matter that most people would regard as trivial". 04-26-2022, 07:52 PM SanJuanStar GET THE INSIDE SCOOP FIRST WITH WASHINGTON SECRETS. [381], In August 2020, immediately following his attendance at the keynote speech delivered by President Donald Trump for the 2020 Republican National Convention held at the White House, Paul was confronted by protestors on his way to a hotel with his wife. Senator or continue a potential bid for president. Growing up, he went by "Randy",[10] but his wife shortened it to "Rand. This was in response to two alleged terrorists who came to the United States through a refugee program and were receiving welfare benefits when they were arrested in 2011 in Paul's hometown of Bowling Green. ", "Reid vows to block vote on Paul's 'life at conception' amendment to flood bill", "Sen. 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[256] He has said that he blames supporters of the Iraq War and not President Obama for the growth in violence that occurred in 2014, and that the Iraq War "emboldened" Iran. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, a potential 2024 Republican presidential contender, argues that "its time to stop election fraud" in a mailer sent by the Protect WebRandal Howard Paul (born January 7th, 1963), is an American politician who served as the 46th President of the United States from 2025 to 2033. "[339] Afterward, he added about vaccines, "I've heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines. [19], In response to President Bush's breaking his election promise to not raise taxes, Paul founded the North Carolina Taxpayers Union in 1991. From $1.51. [45][49], On the announcement of the filing of the lawsuit, Mattie Fein, the spokeswoman for and former wife of attorney Bruce Fein, complained that Fein's intellectual contribution to the lawsuit had been stolen and that he had not been properly paid for his work. Just for clarity, in spite of all the preaching about saving our democracy, we have , or rather, had a Republic, not a mob rule democracy. 03-26-2022, 03:19 PM SWFL_Native 8,307 posts, read 5,417,061 times Reputation: 13727 [266], In 2016, Paul was one of the first members of Congress to come out in opposition to United States support for the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen. [240], Paul describes himself as "100% pro life", believing that legal personhood begins at fertilization. [244][245] Since 2010, he has said he would allow for a doctor's discretion in life-threatening cases such as ectopic pregnancies. If any Kentuckian is in the running for the 2024 presidential election, it is Sen. Rand Paul, not Gov. [90][91][92] He later proposed a five-year budget plan intended to balance the budget. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) took to Twitter to react to a report published by The Wall Street Journal about the origin of COVID-19. [118], In March 2013, Paul, with Senators Ted Cruz and Mike Lee, threatened another filibuster, this one opposing any legislative proposals to expand federal gun control measures. This proposal included cutting the Department of Education by 83percent and the United States Department of Homeland Security by 43percent, as well as folding the Department of Energy into the Department of Defense and eliminating the Department of Housing and Urban Development. "[170], Paul introduced a bill on January 25, 2017, that sought to replace the Affordable Care Act which included each person's having a tax credit of $5,000 and not requiring everyone to have coverage, unlike Obamacare. [177][178], Paul told reporters on June 15 that he was willing to vote for a partial repeal, but not the implementation of new Republican entitlement programs, which he identified as present in both House and Senate versions of the bill. White or transparent. Nashville: Center Street. The announcement was made through a series of national TV events, radio, and other programs, as well as newspapers in Kentucky. With two Republicans already in the 2024 presidential race and possibly a half-dozen more in spring, some forward-thinking strategists are already looking to next year, when the eventual nominee will pick a running mate. [191] Paul's office stated that the disclosure form was filled up on time, but by mistake was not submitted. In tweets responding to the act, Paul stated the executive order that created DACA was illegal and congressional bipartisanship was needed to solve or fix the program. [148][149] Sections of the Patriot Act were prevented from being reauthorized on June 1. [225][226][227] Paul has since given his support to the idea that the Kentucky Republican Party could decide to hold a caucus rather than a primary, potentially giving Paul more time to decide whether he should run for U.S. Our founding fathers went to the local courthouse to be married, not to Washington, D.C. [184], On July 17, 2019, Paul blocked Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's motion for unanimous consent on a bill renewing the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund along with Utah Senator Mike Lee. Parents own the children, and it is an issue of freedom. [123], In September, Paul stated that the United States should avoid military intervention in the ongoing Syrian Civil War. [25] His medical work has been praised by Downing and he has medical privileges at two Bowling Green hospitals. [23][24] He worked for Downing McPeak Vision Centers for five years. "[202] Once Trump was impeached in January 2021, Paul introduced a motion to the Senate declaring the impeachment to be unconstitutional. [260] In 2011, shortly after being elected, Paul proposed a budget which specified $542 billion in defense spending. [104], On September 7, Paul called for a vote of no confidence in United States Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner. [241][242][243] In 2009, his position was to ban abortion under all circumstances. [368][370] According to a memorandum filed by Baker the dispute was over Paul repeatedly leaving tree yard debris near his property line with his neighbor. [378][379] Paul received bipartisan criticism from his Senate colleagues after it was discovered that he attended Senate lunches and used the Senate gym while awaiting his test results; he defended his actions because he had no symptoms of the illness and believed it was "highly unlikely" he was sick.
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