Best quotes by Blake Farenthold on Government
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‟ Historically, the Justice Department has been Congress' ally in fighting wrongdoing in government, but under this Justice Department and Eric Holder, rather than being the people's attorney, Eric Holder sees himself as the president's attorney and he'll do anything to defend the president.
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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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‟ As a government watchdog, I'm always looking for ways to make government smaller, more efficient, and fairer.
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‟ It's Congress' job to keep an eye on the other agencies and the workings of the entire government. It is our constitutional duty.
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‟ In cutting government, we cut a huge variety of programs, a lot of which I would have liked to see increase, and a lot of which I'd like to see decreased more.
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‟ Congress has the constitutional authority to investigate the other agencies of government. We are the watchdogs of the taxpayer's money, and we have the right to know how that money is being spent and to conduct oversight over the government.
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‟ We have testimony saying, and I think common sense also dictates, that in a failed state like Syria, you don't have any government information, police reports to rely on to vet somebody. So there's no way to do a background check from somebody coming out of Syria. There's no way we can find out whether they're safe or not.
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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 would consider it to be immoral to take a paycheck when the people in the federal government are not.
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