Marco Rubio

“ And they saw how some States tinkered with and even mutilated State election laws, and they have doubts that the election was legitimate.
It gives this country this extraordinary crisis of confidence, which is very dangerous because democracy is very fragile, and it is not held together by elections. Democracy is held together by people’s confidence in the election and their willingness to abide by its results. ”

“ I think politics has made us crazy. Everybody in this country has lost their minds on politics, and we have forgotten that America is not a government, America is not a President, America is not a Congress.
Let me tell you what America is. America is your family. America is your faith. America is your community. That is America. ”

“ However, companies are hard at work to weaken and circumvent the rule’s export controls. Nvidia, for example, is creating downgraded versions of its products for the Chinese market to skirt the rule. [4] While these lower-performance chips increase the time and expense for Chinese end users to perform tasks, they are still an improvement over Chinese-produced alternatives, allowing those end users to continue work in advanced fields that threaten our national security, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) . ”

“ Individuals, businesses, local governments, and nonprofit organizations in Florida must be free to focus on safe preparations and post-recovery activities without bearing the burden of arduous federal regulations that may inadvertently amplify obstacles to recovery.
In times of disaster, Americans come together to overcome daunting challenges to rebuild and recover. A thoughtful assessment and revision of bureaucratic mandates that impede disaster recovery efforts is necessary to address victims’ health and safety needs effectively. ”

“ If a grantee does not express support for DEI as a “core value” of their research, will this applicant be denied from consideration? How does the agency prioritize ideological diversity when selecting grantees? How much of the NIH’s Fiscal Year 2024 budget does the agency intend to use to promote DEI within the agency’s workforce and its grantees? What role do liberal activist groups play in crafting your department’s guidance on awarding funding to grantees? ”

“ Chinese firms are reportedly bundling lower-performance chips and finding other workarounds to generate the computing power necessary for their work. Other companies, such as Korean chipmaker Samsung, have lobbied for and won special, one-year exemptions from the export controls, allowing business as usual at production facilities in China. [5]
Industry executives believe that these export controls are an annoyance and not a longterm problem for Chinese technology champions. Chinese chipmakers have found similar ways around the rule. ”

“ We must focus on addressing continuing bureaucratic inefficiencies to ensure a more robust federal response for the next disaster, particularly as the State of Florida continues to recover from last year’s tropical cyclones. Streamlined efforts across the federal government are of critical importance to the success and timeliness of disaster response. ”

“ All time and effort put towards these efforts distracts NIH from its mission of pursuing research to solve some of today’s most pressing medical challenges.
Not only is the agency spending millions of dollars to support wokeness, NIH grantees are encouraged to reject candidates that do not fall in step with this liberal ideology. ”

“ We already know that the CCP has close ties to TikTok, and America’s top intelligence officials have warned of the threats posed by this app. In the words of a former ByteDance executive, the CCP “maintains supreme access to all the company data.” [3] We also know that the CCP harvests the personal information of Americans, as evidenced by its hack of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management in 2015, which compromised the data of millions of American government workers and their families, including Social Security numbers. ”

“ The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) should move to ensure that veterans living in rural areas, such as the Florida Panhandle and the Florida Keys, have a full suite of medical service options available to them in their own communities as roads and highways are impacted by debris, flooding, traffic, and emergency response activities. ”

“ A recently published study, in the New England Journal of Medicine, evaluated the psychosocial outcomes of youth experiencing gender dysphoria who received hormone treatments resulted in two of the patients dying by suicide. ”

“ The agency has released guidance, on many occasions, encouraging its workforce to prioritize DEI in its hiring processes. [4] It is critical for the NIH to be evaluating grantees based on the competence of the researchers and how impactful their work will be to the field of biomedical research, not how important they prioritize woke values. ”

“ ChangXin Memory Technologies, for example, is proceeding with a major expansion after confirming it can purchase American chipmaking equipment used for less-sophisticated products. [6]
The BIS rule needs to be strengthened, finalized, and vigorously enforced. ”