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The Government Wants to Join You in Bed the Tanning Bed

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Paul Gosar Member of Congress March 17, 2016 Published on Breitbart News We’ve been watching for some time how one federal agency or another wants to take away your freedom of choice. Usually your freedom is taken from you under the guise of “public safety,” but in reality most of the time it is simply someone who wants to stick their nose in your business because…

Ending Instant Amnesty for Cubans

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Ending Instant Amnesty for Cubans By: Rep. Paul Gosar February 12, 2016  Published in Conservative Review  As a Congressman representing the state of Arizona, I am never surprised that illegal immigration is the hottest topic of discussion at my town halls meetings.…

Why Im Voting Against Massive Omnibus Spending Bill

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Paul Gosar U.S. Congressman December 17, 2015 Once again I find myself shaking my head at the wasteful spending in DC and a flawed process that drops thousands of pages of text on us with 48 hours to “read” and understand. I wish I could put all the blame on big spending Democrats, liberals who seek to bankrupt our nation and others who are ignorant of the fiscal crisis…

Stop HUDs Takeover of Local Zoning

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Stop HUD’s Takeover of Local Zoning by ROBERT ASTORINO AND REP. PAUL GOSAR December 7, 2015 Published in Breitbart News The founders of our nation understood that successful governance in a democracy depends on the consent of the governed. In return for the people’s consent, they set limits on government, divided authority, and established checks and balances to…

Fair Isnt Fair

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Fair Isn’t Fair  Congressman Paul A. Gosar, D.D.S November 5, 2015 Patrick Henry—an ardent supporter of a smaller, local government—once said, “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” Something tells me that he would not utter such a statement were he alive in 2014. Henry and many other Founding Fathers are likely…

Iran Deal Will Ensure War in Middle East

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Iran “Deal” Will Ensure War in Middle East Rep. Paul Gosar September 15, 2015 Published in the Prescott Daily Courier Twice over the past month, a very small group of pacifists have called on my office in Prescott to decry war with Iran. The goal of these activists is for me and other members of Congress to support the deal President Obama has reached with the rogue…

What if there were no Mexican gray wolves in Arizona?

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Paul Gosar, Defenders of Wildlife debate the impact of the Mexican gray wolf in Arizona July 4, 2015 Published in the Arizona Republic What would happen if there were no Mexican grey wolves in Arizona? The Arizona Republic asked Representative Paul Gosar, who has introduced a bill to strip Mexican gray wolves of their Endangered Species Act protections, and Eva Sargent, Defenders of…

Don't Blame GOP: Dems Want DHS Shutdown

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Don't Blame GOP: Dems Want DHS Shutdown By: Rep. Paul Gosar Feb. 24, 2015 Published in the Arizona Republic Last week, federal judge Andrew Hanen issued an injunction barring President Obama and his administration from implementing “any and all aspects or phases of” their November 2014 amnesty order. The president initially said he was going to comply with the…

Protecting Private Property Rights, The Facts of My Water Rights Settlement Bill

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Protecting Private Property Rights, The Facts of My Water Rights Settlement Bill Paul Gosar  December 16, 2014 One of the most important, fundamental principles upon which America was founded was the protection of private property rights. The Founding Fathers of our nation believed the right to acquire property was one of the utmost liberties guaranteed by our Constitution, and…