Mike Gallagher
Republican Mike Gallagher of Green Bay was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in November 2016. He is the senior global market strategist at Breakthrough Fuel, a Green Bay supply chain fuel management company. Gallagher previously served as a human intelligence and counterintelligence officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. He was a foreign policy aide to GOP Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's 2016 presidential campaign.
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China sends “fentanyl into America killing 80,000 Americans a year.”
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“Inflation has gone up every month of the Biden presidency and just hit another 40-year high.”
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On supporting Liz Cheney for House Republican leadership position
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“Congress has one job here: to count electoral votes that have in fact been cast by any state.”
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"New data shows in-person learning isn't driving spikes in cases."
"The average family in America forks over more of their hard-earned income to their local hospital than to the IRS.”
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Says the House impeachment vote was the third by Democrats — "They tried to impeach Trump for criticizing the NFL and for some other things."
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"We’re spending 18 percent of our GDP on healthcare while the average among industrialized countries is closer to 8 percent."
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Says Tom Nelson "backed higher taxes on Social Security, costing Wisconsin seniors $95 million."