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Trent Franks

Profession : Politician

Birth : June 19, 1957

At present, it's not really clear who is in charge of protecting the nation from solar and nuclear EMP.

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Our focus should be on the more than 70 cures and treatments that have been successfully produced from other forms of stem cell research that do not destroy a human life.

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President Shimon Peres has embodied a commitment to the mutual values shared by the United States and Israel - values that include the preservation of life, faith, family and freedom.

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I will tell you that my position is that funding bills should include as little money for Obamacare as possible.

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Mr. Gingrich has a number of elements in his record that could be criticized accurately. But to suggest that he was somehow anti-Reagan or to suggest that Reagan was anti-Gingrich is preposterously untrue.

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Sometimes we have to take measures to protect the innocent that we do not like. Severe interrogations are sometimes part of doing that.

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I always want to make sure we protect our soldiers' pay if there is a shutdown of any kind.

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I wholeheartedly believe that Andy Biggs is the right man to take up the legacy that Matt Salmon is leaving behind. I have worked with Andy for a number of years, and I have been impressed by his commitment to the Constitution and the principles of conservatism.

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I think that the important thing to consider here - Hubert Humphrey said that a society is measured by how he treats those in the dawn of life, those in the shadows of life, and those in the twilight of life. And it is true that Terri Schiavo lives among us in the shadows of life, but she is not brain dead. She feels pain.

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Every U.S. citizen should have the assurance that the U.S. government will come vigorously to their defense in a time of need, especially when they are unjustly tried in a foreign country.

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At the very least, Secretary Clinton should publicly call for the unequivocal release of Saeed Abedini.

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Class-action lawsuits should allow those with serious injuries to have their own day in court. The Fairness in Class Action Litigation Act would do just that.

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Of all government expenditures, defense spending is the... most stimulative to the economy.

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I think cutting our defense capacity not only demonstrably diminishes our national security, but it has a tremendous negative impact in the long run on our economy because we end up having to fight wars and clean up after terrorist disasters.

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We simply have never been able to predict what our next challenge will be.

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A big goal of the liberal Democrats in Congress is to try to do away with any effective cooperation to enforce federal immigration laws.

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When you don't have a voice like Michele Bachmann's, who personifies all of the good things that the Tea Party has come to mean to America, then it's more difficult to have any sort of unified or representative message with the same profile in the media.

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The franking commission is not there to fact-check.

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I would want THAAD outside in our backyard, if we could get the military to put one there, because I believe it will be a protection to my children and no danger to them.

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The notion that the levels of radiation would be damaging to human life is preposterous. It's simply not true. It is a political claim more than it is a scientific claim. THAAD has been a thoroughly tested system, and it has been extremely effective.

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