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Blake Farenthold
American
Politician
Born:
Dec 12
,
1961
Congress
Every
Government
People
Think
You
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The purpose of the criminal justice system is both to rehabilitate and to punish. If we can rehabilitate somebody, that's a huge, huge win.
Blake Farenthold
Justice
Win
Somebody
Criminal
Criminal Justice
Criminal Justice System
Punish
System
Both
Purpose
Huge
I took an oath to protect the Constitution, and protecting the Constitution means not letting the president bypass the separation of powers.
Blake Farenthold
Constitution
Separation
Bypass
President
Took
Oath
Protect
Powers
Protecting
Means
Letting
The American people should not be footing the bill for federal employees who stonewall Congress or rewarding government officials' bad behavior.
Blake Farenthold
Government
People
Behavior
Employees
Congress
Bad
Bad Behavior
Federal
Footing
Government Officials
American
Officials
Rewarding
American People
Should
Bill
Who
Census data influences decisions made from Main Street to Wall Street, in Congress and with the Federal Reserve. Not to mention, the American people who look to, and trust, the data the government releases on our nation's unemployment, state of our economy, and health insurance coverage.
Blake Farenthold
Government
Health
Trust
People
Made
Nation
Congress
State
Our
Release
Data
Mention
Federal
Federal Reserve
Main
Main Street
Economy
Look
Health Insurance
Insurance
Insurance Coverage
Coverage
Unemployment
Wall
Wall Street
American
Influences
Census
Decisions
American People
Who
Reserve
Street
I'm a Texan - my idea of gun control is hitting what you aim at and nothing else.
Blake Farenthold
You
Gun
Gun Control
Control
Nothing
Else
Aim
Idea
Texan
Hitting
Immigration specifically was laid out in the Congress, giving the power of Congress to create a uniform system of naturalization.
Blake Farenthold
Immigration
Giving
Power
Congress
System
Out
Laid
Uniform
Create
Specifically
Hillary Clinton and her media machine try to dismiss, but anybody who understands anything about how email works - and this is millennials in particular, who grew up on the Internet - know that you're an idiot to keep sensitive information on a server in your house.
Blake Farenthold
You
Try
Internet
Idiot
Email
Machine
About
Particular
Know
Hillary
House
Hillary Clinton
Understands
How
Clinton
Up
Anybody
Grew
Anything
Information
Sensitive
Dismiss
Your
Who
Works
Keep
Media
Millennials
Server
Her
How is having every phone call that I make to my wife, to my daughter, relevant to any terror investigation?
Blake Farenthold
Phone
Wife
Daughter
Every
Phone Call
Relevant
Having
Investigation
Make
Call
Terror
How
Any
I've got a quad copter on my Christmas list, as I suspect quite a few people do.
Blake Farenthold
Christmas
People
Few
Got
Suspect
Few People
List
Quite
We can't get serious about immigration reform until we stop people from crossing the border illegally.
Blake Farenthold
People
Immigration
Border
Immigration Reform
About
Crossing
Until
Reform
Get
Stop
Serious
I've been through several of his campaigns, and I can tell you nobody can out-campaign Rick Perry.
Blake Farenthold
You
Several
Tell
Through
Nobody
Been
His
Perry
Campaigns
Rick
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.
Blake Farenthold
Government
You
Change
World
Change The World
One-Third
Could
Come
Single-Handedly
Realization
Vigor
Youthful
Fast
Nobody in the Washington regulatory bureaucracy gets fired for saying no.
Blake Farenthold
Saying
Fired
Nobody
Bureaucracy
Gets
Regulatory
Washington
If you are just using the service to look at Web sites and download e-mail, then a DSL line may be cheaper. It is when you have more data going out that wireless can make a difference.
Blake Farenthold
Service
You
Out
Web
Web Sites
Data
More
Wireless
Cheaper
Look
Make
Make A Difference
Line
Sites
Going
May
Just
Difference
Then
Using
Download
Companies that are hosting Web sites or do a lot of teleconferencing need a lot of bandwidth going both ways.
Blake Farenthold
Ways
Web
Web Sites
Both
Both Ways
Hosting
Lot
Bandwidth
Sites
Going
Companies
Need
Nobody likes to make a hard decision, because you're running every two years.
Blake Farenthold
You
Decision
Every
Running
Nobody
Likes
Make
Because
Years
Hard
Two
Every member of Congress has highways in their district.
Blake Farenthold
Congress
Every
Member
District
Highways
I actually enjoy having the Capitol view. We started referring to it as the trillion dollar view.
Blake Farenthold
Enjoy
Trillion
Having
Dollar
Referring
View
Capitol
Actually
Started
I think there's no problem getting through the House a pathway to legal status. A pathway to citizenship is going to be tougher, but I think it is potentially doable, if we can show the American people that the border is secure.
Blake Farenthold
Legal
People
Problem
Think
Secure
Border
Status
Citizenship
No Problem
Potentially
Through
Tougher
House
American
Getting
Going
Pathway
American People
Show
My message on immigration is that the people who want to come to this country, by and large, even those who have done it illegally, are coming for the right reasons, not to take advantage of our welfare system.
Blake Farenthold
People
Immigration
Welfare
Take Advantage
Country
Our
Right Reasons
Those
System
Take
Advantage
Come
Message
Coming
Done
Want
Who
Reasons
Large
Even
Right
As a government watchdog, I'm always looking for ways to make government smaller, more efficient, and fairer.
Blake Farenthold
Government
Looking
Ways
More
Smaller
Fairer
Make
Always
Efficient
It's Congress' job to keep an eye on the other agencies and the workings of the entire government. It is our constitutional duty.
Blake Farenthold
Government
Job
Duty
Congress
Other
Our
Eye
Constitutional
Entire
Agencies
Workings
Keep
I understand that, for some, everything is political.
Blake Farenthold
Political
Everything
Some
Understand
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.
Blake Farenthold
Government
Increase
Programs
Would
See
More
Variety
Like
Liked
Lot
Huge
Which
Cut
Cutting
It's said that you can tell a lot about someone by who opposes them. In the case of liberal pundit Bill Maher - a man who called America's actions cowardly in the wake of 9/11 and who mocked WWII veterans who wanted to visit the monument built in their honor - I wear his disapproval of me as a badge of honor.
Blake Farenthold
Me
You
Man
Veterans
Honor
Cowardly
Liberal
Monument
Visit
Tell
Wear
About
Case
Someone
Badge
Disapproval
WWII
Said
Built
His
Lot
Wake
Mocked
America
Wanted
Them
Bill
Who
Actions
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.
Blake Farenthold
Government
Money
Taxpayer
Congress
Other
Spent
Constitutional
Investigate
Over
Know
How
Oversight
Conduct
Authority
Being
Agencies
Right
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