Matt Gaetz
Kneeling for the anthem does nothing to advance solutions to racial injustice, police brutality, or any other social plight. It is a slap in the face to patriotism itself. It is a statement that America as a country is no longer worth standing for.Collection: Patriotism
History will judge harshly my Republican colleagues who deny the science of climate change. Similarly, those Democrats who would use climate change as a basis to regulate out of existence the American experience will face the harsh reality that their ideas will fail.Collection: Science
Climate change isn't something people get to choose to believe or not: it's happening.Collection: Change
I will be damned if the people in South Florida are going to dilute the legal votes of my constituents, who have a right to an honest, fair, representative republic.Collection: Legal
President Trump says his highest priority is America and the American people. The fact that this idea has been met with shock is itself shocking; if America's success is not the president's goal, what is? Is it looking good in photo-ops, while debt grows, jobs dwindle, bureaucracy reigns supreme, and the American people suffer?
I'm a Christian, and I believe the Immaculate Conception was how Jesus was born.
I strongly support the rights of transgender individuals. I will not denigrate or deny their struggles.
The reality of climate change is a stupid thing to argue about.
We cannot live in a country where losing an election functions as de facto immunity deal.
If we got more efficient with electric grid capacity, we would substantially reduce our carbon footprint, and people would be likely to copy us.
Russia engages in a malign influence campaign all over the world. I would expect that they would try to undermine democracy here just that they - as they have in other places.
A melting Arctic creates a more permissive environment for Russia and China to seize territory.
The Green Real Deal rejects regulation as the driving force of reform and instead unlocks the unlimited potential of American innovation and ingenuity.
Tax Day is right up there with 'Root Canal Day' in terms of days that no one wants to celebrate.
The question for America is pretty simple: either we want a bunch of bureaucrats in Washington telling us what we can't do, or we empower American innovators to unlock things that we can do.
For the good of the American people, we must place our own interests first.
People in the media grew up in the Northeast and can't comprehend the notion that there are people who like to go out to the clay pits and shoot and, afterward, go eat fried chicken.
It's a big deal when you have got to fire the deputy director of the FBI because he lies four times, twice under oath. It's also a big deal when you have got to reassign people off the Mueller probe, when you have got cash at the Democratic National Committee that is convertible into a warrant to spy on American citizens.
In a world where the body politic has the attention span at times of a goldfish, yep, you've got to have the ability to reinvent yourself in this game many times.
I did one cable news hit during my first 10 months in Congress.
I'm on the pro-science side of the Republican Party.
The most valuable real estate in the world lies between the president's ears.
Upon further reflection, I think that the things Alex Jones has said and done are so hurtful to so many people that a member of Congress should not grace that platform and legitimize it, and I would not go back.
At best, a 100-day measurement of a new presidency is a meaningless abstraction. At worst, it's an invite to cheap politicking at the expense of the common good.
President Trump is not an isolationist and builds closer friendships when he can.
Tax reform has been a congressional priority for decades. It should be a bipartisan issue. I don't know why anyone in Congress would want their constituents to pay more.
I don't know why anyone would prefer a more complicated tax code instead of a simpler one.
I don't know why anyone would want businesses and families and individuals nationwide to suffer. But by voting against tax reform, Democrats showed that was exactly what they stand for: less money for families and more money into Washington, D.C.
It's easy to have strong, visceral feelings about disrespecting America. It's harder to get passionate about tax law.
In some egregious cases, cities built new stadiums even while their citizens were still paying off old stadiums that had since closed. This is corporate welfare run amok, and a gross misuse of American citizens' tax money - something the government must treat with respect.
If players want to protest, let them do it on their own time and on their own dime.
Why should 'big sports' get tax breaks that businesses and families across America don't get?
Congress has broad powers to regulate and control commerce. Congress also cannot force a state to 'un-decriminalize' something; states' rights are routinely upheld by the Court.
Legalizing betting would create over a hundred thousand new jobs, over $6 billion in wages, and inject $25 billion into our economy.
No one wants to be the next Pete Rose.
The black market poses a greater risk to the integrity of sports than open, visible, and regulated betting.
We are a nation of laws, not department-wide memos.
We shouldn't tell prosecutors to 'pick and choose' what laws to uphold.
When Federal law conflicts with state laws and the will of the American people, it's time to change the laws, not circulate edicts.
I wish climate change wasn't real.
Mass migrations of climate refugees erode borders and nations, creating a global playground for terrorists and traffickers.
While we glorify football players for their accomplishments on the field, they are not heroes.
Choosing to disrespect our flag is an over-generalized indictment of the greatest nation on Earth.
It is bizarre to see the NFL attacking an America that has treated it so well over the years. Taxpayers pay over 70 percent of the cost of stadiums. Our citizens pay more and more for tickets, and valuations of professional sports franchises have skyrocketed. Player compensation keeps growing.
Agricultural products ranging from citrus and dairy to beef and chicken face stifling tariffs or nontariff barriers in many countries around the world.
While the Washington swamp, which loves shipping American jobs offshore to make a buck or Euro, is already rising up against the proposed legislation, the USRTA is just plain common sense.
Ask anybody on Main Street whether it makes any sense to allow foreign countries to charge higher tariffs than we charge them, and the answer will surely be a resounding 'heck no!'
The USRTA recognizes that the United States is the largest importer of goods even as it maintains, on average, the lowest combination of tariffs and nontariff barriers of any of its major trading partners.
If Democrats insist on looking for skeletons in the closet, they should take a long look at themselves. They've hidden more than their fair share.
Democrats want to peer into every second of President Trump's life, hoping to find a smoking gun.