American - Politician | December 12, 1961 -
Human trafficking robs victims of their basic human rights, and it occurs right under our noses. Many efforts have been focused in other regions of the world, but this is a major problem here at home.
Blake Farenthold
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The purpose of the criminal justice system is both to rehabilitate and to punish. If we can rehabilitate somebody, that's a huge, huge win.
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I'm a Texan - my idea of gun control is hitting what you aim at and nothing else.
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'Those people' is a bad word.
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I think anybody who's had an alcoholic in their life, or somebody with a drug problem, realizes that until things get bad enough, there's no incentive to change.
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The fourth amendment specifically was designed to prohibit general warrants. How could collecting every piece of phone data be perceived as anything but a general warrant?
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I sit on the House Judiciary Committee, where we've been actively working on concrete solutions to fix our nation's immigration policy, piece-by-piece.
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The census should not be political.
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I took an oath to protect the Constitution, and protecting the Constitution means not letting the president bypass the separation of powers.
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The American people should not be footing the bill for federal employees who stonewall Congress or rewarding government officials' bad behavior.
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I've been through several of his campaigns, and I can tell you nobody can out-campaign Rick Perry.
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I went in with the youthful vigor that I could single-handedly change the world. But you fast come to the realization that you're 1/435th of one-half of one-third of the government.
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