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Robert Phillips Corker Jr. is an American businessman and politician who served as a United States senator from Tennessee from 2007 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he served as Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2015 to 2019.
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“Top Secret - Science Officer's Eyes Only...Bring back life form. Priority One. All other considerations secondary. Crew expendable.”
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“We also have a crown prince that”
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“strong denouncing of a crown prince and holding them responsible for the murder of a journalist”
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“sort of the parasitic relationship that Canada, and France, and other countries have towards us”
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“obviously made a large mistake”
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Yahoo: Bob Corker, Jim Cooper: Laws should be fixed to help DACA recipients go to college
The same day it also and approved a measure to pull support from the Saudi military campaign in Yemen
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Published video “Corker Votes to Discharge Yemen War Powers Resolution From Senate Foreign Relations Committee”.
Published video “Natalie Grant Testifies at Senate Foreign Relations Hearing on Global Fight to End Modern Slavery”.
Published video “Corker Convenes Hearing on Progress in Global Fight to End Modern Slavery”.
Published video “Corker Votes to Confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh”.
Published video “Corker Holds Fourth in Series of Hearings on US-Russia Relations”.
Published video “Corker Convenes Third in Series of Hearings on US-Russia Relations”.
Published video “Corker Convenes Second in Series of Hearings on US-Russia Relations”.
Published video “Corker Convenes Nomination Hearing for Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs”.
Published video “Corker Convenes Hearing for Nominee to Head State Department Trafficking in Persons Office”.
Published video “Corker Opening Statement at Hearing Featuring Testimony From Secretary of State Pompeo”.
“on our most important trading partners is the wrong approach and represents an abuse of authority intended only for national security purposes.”
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“instead of appealing to our better angels and trying to unite us like most people would try to do”
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“having deliverable nuclear weapons as his ticket to dying as an old man in his bed”
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Corker, who previously said he would "take a close look at the product developed in conference before making a decision on the final legislation," voted in favor of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act conference report, saying, "I
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PolitiFact rated the claim ““Bob Corker gave us the Iran Deal.”” False.
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FactCheck.org rated the claim “Sen. Bob Corker “gave us the Iran Deal.”” Misleading.
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Corker announced that he would not seek reelection in 2018; U
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Corker announced that he would not seek re-election in 2018, keeping his pledge when he ran in 2006 to only serve two terms in the Senate
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Claimed: “"Today, 27 million people .. are enslaved."” — rated Mostly True by PolitiFact.
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Career landmark: United States senator (2017–2019).
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“get on the phone with someone”
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Corker criticized President Trump's tweets against North Korea as impulsive
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Corker was one of 11 Republican Senators who voted with Democrats in support of giving social security benefits to same-sex couples living in states that had not yet recognized same-sex marriage
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Supported a resolution expressing that humans do contribute to it
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Career landmark: United States senator (2015–2017).
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Corker, a long-time opponent of unions in Tennessee, tried to influence the ballot election of blue-collar workers at the Chattanooga Volkswagen plant whether to allow the United Auto Workers to represent them
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"said to the world that we could not be counted on" and that the US propped up Assad more than any other country
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Career landmark: United States senator (2013–2015).
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Corker endorsed the Marketplace Fairness Act and voted for its passage in the Senate
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“I think our help to the opposition has been an embarrassment and I find it appalling you would sit here and act as if we”
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Corker was reelected, defeating Democrat Mark E
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Corker voted in favor of the Republican alternative budget proposed by Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI), a proposal that would eliminate the healthcare provided through the Medicare program and instead give seniors subsid
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Career landmark: United States senator (2011–2013).
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Was that it would hurt industry and jobs if passed
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Despite his initial role as the key Republican negotiator on financial regulatory reform, Corker voted against the Senate financial regulations bill ("Restoring American Financial Stability Act", S
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Career landmark: United States senator (2009–2011).
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And opposed releasing the additional $350 billion of it in 2009
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Corker was one of the only sixteen Senators who opposed the tax rebate stimulus plan, criticizing it as "political stimulus" for electoral campaigns
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Career landmark: United States senator (2007–2009).
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Lawyers involved in the case announced a settlement agreement
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The Commercial Appeal reported that the blind trust that Corker set up to run his businesses to avoid conflicts of interest while he was mayor "may not have been all that blind"
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Corker supported making the 2001 tax cut and the 2003 tax cut permanent
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Sold the properties and assets that had formed these companies to Chattanooga businessman Henry Luken
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During Corker's United States Senate campaign against Democrat Harold Ford Jr
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The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga named him to their "Entrepreneurial Hall of Fame
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Corker announced that he would seek the U
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In the Chattanooga Times Free Press publicly identified Corker's ownership interest in the land, through Osborne Enterprises, and that as mayor, a blind trust barred Corker from being involved in issues like these that a
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Corker started a program called ChattanoogaRESULTS, facilitating monthly meetings with public service department administrators to evaluate their performance and set goals for improvement
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Osborne Enterprises, an affiliate of the real estate company Corker Group, sold protected wetlands near South Chickamauga Creek in Chattanooga to Wal-Mart for $4
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Awarded teachers and principals bonuses for improving student performance at Chattanooga's lowest performing schools
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To fund the city's debt service on the bonds, fulfilling a commitment Corker made that there would be no financial burden on the citizens of Chattanooga
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Career landmark: Mayor of Chattanooga (2001–2005).
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Corker acquired two of the largest real estate companies in Chattanooga: real estate developer Osborne Building Corporation and property management firm Stone Fort Land Company
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Career landmark: commissioner (1995–1996).
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Corker was appointed by Governor Don Sundquist to be Commissioner of Finance and Administration for the State of Tennessee, following David Manning; he was succeeded by John Ferguson in 1996
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Finishing second in the Republican primary to eventual winner Bill Frist
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Campaign: 1994 U.S. Senate election and Tennessee Finance Commissioner.
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Corker founded a construction company, which he sold in 1990
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Studied at University of Tennessee, Bachelor of Science (1974).
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And earned a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial management from the University of Tennessee in 1974
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Born 1952-08-24.
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