By RonPaul.com on January 9, 2012
by Ron Paul This week, partisan games in Washington reached a fevered pitch as Congress acted to prevent recess appointments, yet the administration made them anyway. Congress has been gaveling into session for less than a minute every three days for the express purpose of technically staying in session. The 40 second “pro forma” sessions [...]
Posted in Ron Paul's Writings, Texas Straight Talk | Tagged Congress, Constitution, Consumer Financial Protection Board, Gridlock |
By RonPaul.com on July 12, 2011
After serving almost 24 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, Congressman Ron Paul announced this morning he will not be seeking another term for the District 14 seat. Paul, 75, will instead focus on his quest for the presidency in 2012. “I felt it was better that I concentrate on one election,” Paul said. [...]
Posted in Ron Paul 2012 | Tagged Congress |
By RonPaul.com on January 14, 2011
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) announced Thursday that she would retire from the U.S. Senate in 2012 at the end of her current term. One of the candidates that might replace her is Ron Paul. Should Ron Paul run for U.S. Senate in 2012? What should Ron Paul do in 2012? Ron Paul should run [...]
Posted in Ron Paul 2012, RonPaul.com Polls | Tagged Congress, Elections, House, Poll, President, U.S. Senate |
By RonPaul.com on January 6, 2011
First time father and son in House and Senate talk to Fox News’s Neil Cavuto and CNN’s John King about the experience. Date: 01/05/2011
Posted in Rand Paul, Ron Paul in Congress | Tagged Congress, Debt Ceiling, Senate |
By RonPaul.com on January 4, 2011
Ron Paul and Rand Paul discuss military spending, the Afghanistan quagmire, politics, and 2012. Date: 01/03/2011
Posted in Foreign Policy, Rand Paul, Ron Paul 2012 | Tagged Afghanistan, Congress, Politics, Rand Paul, Senate |
By RonPaul.com on November 13, 2010
Ron Paul and Rand Paul talk about auditing the Fed, preparing for a true revolution in Congress, their differences on earmarks, and fiscal conservatism vs. social conservatism. Date: 11/13/2010 Transcript Rand Paul: Do we believe in the individual or do we believe in the state? Thomas Jefferson wrote that government is best that governs least, [...]
Posted in Rand Paul, Ron Paul's Interviews | Tagged Audit the Fed, Congress, Earmarks, Freedom Watch, Revolution |
By RonPaul.com on November 5, 2010
Ron Paul talks with John Stossel about the midterm elections and what the results mean for the future of freedom. Date: 11/05/2010 Transcript John Stossel: Okay, the results are in and the Republicans took the House and when campaigning they were very excited about stopping the orgy of spending. “We’ll practice fiscal restraint”, they said. [...]
Posted in Elections 2010, Ron Paul's Interviews | Tagged Congress, John Stossel, Libertarian, Rand Paul |
By RonPaul.com on November 3, 2010
Ron Paul easily won re-election to the House today. According to early reports Paul gained 76.6% of the vote, delivering a crushing defeat to Democrat Robert Pruett (23.4%). Ron Paul represents Texas’s 14th district and will be serving his 12th term in Congress. In Kentucky, Ron Paul’s son Rand Paul was elected to the U.S. [...]
Posted in Elections 2010 | Tagged Congress, House, Rand Paul, Senate |
By RonPaul.com on August 19, 2010
Alex Jones welcomes back Congressman Ron Paul to the show to discuss the latest on Iran, legislation in the house, and more. Ron Paul also addresses rumors about a 2012 run for President. Date: 08/18/2010 Show:
Posted in Foreign Policy, Ron Paul 2012, Ron Paul's Interviews | Tagged Alex Jones, Competing Currencies, Congress, Iran, Read the Bills, Ron Paul 2012 |
By RonPaul.com on May 2, 2010
Date: 5/3/2010 Congress Freezes Its Own Pay by Ron Paul Last week Congress did something fiscally responsible. It’s not very often I can say that. Granted, it was small in the grand scheme of things, but I was glad to be an original cosponsor, along with Congressman Harry Mitchell of Arizona, of a bill to [...]
Posted in Ron Paul's Writings | Tagged Congress, Income Tax, Pay Raise, Peace, Spending, Troops |
By RonPaul.com on March 22, 2010
Ron Paul tells it like it is: There is no “right” to healthcare. Obamacare will be repealed by a national bankruptcy. The IRS is hiring new agents to steal more money. Central economic planning has failed. A much bigger economic crisis is coming. And, every country in the world is technically bankrupt. Channel: Fox Business [...]
Posted in Economy, Health Care, Ron Paul's Interviews | Tagged Abortion, bankruptcy, Central Economic Planning, Congress, Fox News, IRS, Obamacare |
By RonPaul.com on February 1, 2010
Spending Freeze Not Likely by Ron Paul Last week politicians in Washington made a few things clear about how they really feel about the state of the union. First, they are beginning to hear the growing discontent with the size and scope of government and the broken promises that keep piling up. Certain events in [...]
Posted in Economy, President Obama, Ron Paul's Writings | Tagged Barack Obama, Congress, Foreign Aid, Government Spending, Spending Freeze, State of the Union |
By RonPaul.com on January 21, 2010
Channel: CNN Date: 01/15/2010 Transcript Ron Paul: We’ve been going in the wrong direction for a long time, not just with this administration. This administration has only had one year. The problems we have today are a consequence of bad policies for decades. It takes a long time to destroy a healthy, vibrant economy and [...]
Posted in Ron Paul's Interviews | Tagged 2012, Barack Obama, Change, Congress, Healthcare Bill, John McCain |
By RonPaul.com on January 10, 2010
Date: 01/07/2009 Show: Alex Jones Show Transcript Alex Jones: He’s now all over mainstream television, The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Houston Chronicles say, “Ron Paul is right”, from outsider to mainline. And thank God he’s been there telling the truth so that people now have a choice between collectivism, big government, and [...]
Posted in Economy, Foreign Policy, Ron Paul's Interviews | Tagged Alex Jones, Body Scanner, Congress, Healthcare Bill, Homeschooling, Terrorism |
By RonPaul.com on October 22, 2009
Date: 10/20/2009 Show: American Morning Channel: CNN Transcript: Kiran Chetry: It’s a mix that is hard to figure out for many Americans with an unemployment rate of nearly 10% put in the Wall Street Journal, the nation’s top 23 banks and investment firms are poised to pay a record 140 billion dollars in bonuses to [...]
Posted in Economy, Federal Reserve, Ron Paul's Interviews | Tagged American Morning, Audit the Fed, CNN, Congress, Corruption, Kiran Chetry, Wall Street |
By RonPaul.com on October 18, 2009
Venue: U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs Date: 10/15/2009 Transcript: Ron Paul: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In the last months, we have had a pretense of having a debate about Afghanistan, but unfortunately, it’s not much of a debate. We’re deciding whether or not to send 40,000 or 80,000 troops over to Afghanistan and we [...]
Posted in Foreign Policy, Ron Paul in Congress, Ron Paul's Speeches | Tagged 9/11, Afghanistan, Congress, Obama, Pakistan, Peace, War |
By RonPaul.com on September 8, 2009
Date: 9/8/2009 Ron Paul: Well, it’s Tuesday morning and we’re getting ready to go back to D.C. Congress has been out for five weeks. It used to be said that the country was safe when legislature was out of session but in this day and age it’s not true anymore. Government’s on auto-pilot. The bureaucracies [...]
Posted in Health Care, Ron Paul's Video Updates | Tagged Congress, Education, Obama |
By RonPaul.com on August 24, 2009
Is Congress just a decadent caricature of its former self, timidly executing the secret orders of the hidden elite? Sometimes it appears that way, especially when congressmen and women obediently vote on a bill without reading it and without having had the opportunity to do so, as it was made available just hours before. Ron [...]
Posted in Ron Paul in Congress, Ron Paul's Legislation, Ron Paul's Writings | Tagged Congress, HR 216 |