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Randal Howard Paul is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Kentucky since 2011. A member of the Republican Party, he is the chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee.
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2026· 17 entries
“s high fatality rate showed that mitigation efforts were insufficient. Fauci replied,”
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“the Fourth Amendment is equally as important as the Second Amendment”
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“you ought to be able to pretty much do what you want to do as long as you don”
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“end the needless suffering and death of animal test subjects”
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“s entrance into NATO. In July, Ukraine”
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“an error in filing paperwork or not categorizing”
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“s websites and signed on as potential class-action participants would be available in the organization”
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“Should Senator Bunning decide not to run, I think Rand would make a great U.S. Senator.”
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Snopes rated the claim “In July 2026, a chef claimed he knew U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., was vaccinated because he attended an event the chef cooked for in early 2022 that required unmasked attendees to provide a negative COVID-19 test.” Mixture.
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Public attention spiked: 12,618 Wikipedia readers in one day, 8.7× the usual 1,452, with 0 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 68,272 Wikipedia readers in one day, 47× the usual 1,452, with 4 article edits. Editors noted: cleaned up clunky prose
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Public attention spiked: 5,461 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.8× the usual 1,452, with 1 article edits. Editors noted: External links seniority after Graham death
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Public attention spiked: 7,320 Wikipedia readers in one day, 5× the usual 1,452, with 0 article edits.
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The Guardian: Rand Paul’s son apologizes for antisemitic and anti-gay rant after accosting lawmaker
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2024· 1 entry
Paul announced that he had a major announcement about the 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries planned for the following morning
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2023· 5 entries
USA Today rated the claim “Image shows Rand Paul in a bathrobe at the Capitol after dress code changes” Altered.
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AP News rated the claim “A photo shows U.S. Sen. Rand Paul sitting on the Capitol steps in a red bathrobe.” False.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Picture Shows Rand Paul In Bathrobe” AI Image.
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PolitiFact rated the claim “Image shows Sen. Rand Paul in a bathrobe on the steps of the U.S. Capitol.” False.
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Career landmark: United States senator (2023).
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2022· 4 entries
USA Today rated the claim “Video shows Rand Paul calling Nancy Pelosi a traitor” False.
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Published video “Rand Paul for US Senate”.
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Paul stopped a vote on a $40 billion spending bill for aid to Ukraine during the 2022 Russian invasion, objecting that it would be the second spending bill for this purpose, and that it was 3 times larger than the first
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Paul introduced the Right to Try Clarification Act to clarify that the Right to Try Act allows terminally ill patients to use Schedule I drugs for which a Phase I clinical trial has been completed
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2021· 25 entries
Published video “Dr. Paul Joins America Reports on Fox News To Discuss Tornado Devastation”.
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Published video “Dr. Paul Joins Bill Hemmer on Fox News”.
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Published video “Dr. Paul Joins Larry Kudlow on Fox Business”.
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Published video “Dr. Rand Paul Joins Sean Hannity to Discuss Dr. Fauci's Ever-Changing Covid Guidance”.
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Published video “Dr. Rand Paul Joins Chris Salcedo on Newsmax - December 2, 2021”.
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Published video “Dr. Rand Paul Joins John Bachman on Newsmax - December 2, 2021”.
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Published video “Dr. Rand Paul Joins Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business to Discuss Covid Restrictions - December 2, 2021”.
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Published video “Dr. Rand Paul Joins Rob Schmitt on Newsmax - December 2, 2021”.
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Published video “Dr. Rand Paul Joins Eric Bolling on Newsmax - November 30, 2021”.
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Published video “Dr. Rand Paul Discusses Omicron Variant On America Reports - December 1, 2021”.
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Published video “Dr. Rand Paul Fires Back At Dr. Fauci's Outrageous Claims - November 29, 2021”.
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Published video “Dr. Rand Paul: Fauci Ignores Science of Natural Immunity - November 30, 2021”.
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Published video “Dr. Rand Paul Addresses President Biden's Covid Hypocrisy - November 29, 2021”.
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Published video “Senator Paul Joins FOX News Primetime to talk Fauci and the Attacks on Our Rights”.
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Published video “Rand Paul Joins Sunday Morning Futures With Maria Bartiromo to talk Fauci and the VA Governor Race”.
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Published video “Fauci's Lies Finally Exposed”.
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Claimed: “"Most of the masks you get over the counter don’t work. They don’t prevent infection."” — rated Masks limit virus spread by PolitiFact.
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Published video “It's Time to Resist”.
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Published video “Healthcare Access”.
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Published video “Support Rand Paul in his re-election efforts”.
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Paul voted against creating an independent commission to investigate the 2021 United States Capitol attack
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Snopes rated the claim “U.S. Sen. Rand Paul was right about unmasking before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced on May 13, 2021, that fully vaccinated people no longer need to mask in public or private.” Mixture.
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Snopes rated the claim “U.S. Sen. Rand Paul claimed to be a "board-certified" ophthalmologist on the basis of being certified by a board that he created himself and that he put his wife and father-in-law in charge of.” Mixture.
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Paul was named a ranking member of the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee
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Career landmark: United States senator (2021–2023).
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2020· 7 entries
fact checker rated the claim “Senator Rand Paul has more credentials than Dr. Deborah Birx, who is on the coronavirus task force.” misleading.
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Claimed: ““There’s also the preexisting immunity [to COVID-19] of those who have cross-reactivity, which is about a third of the public in many estimates.”” — rated Misleading by FactCheck.org.
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The Senate rejected Paul's amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act which would have required the withdrawal of all U
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Paul's wife purchased between $1,000 and $15,000 worth of stock in Gilead Sciences, a pharmaceutical company that produces an antiviral drug used to treat COVID-19, before the threat from the coronavirus was fully unders
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Introduced the Hemp Economic Mobilization Plan (HEMP) Act to increase the THC limit of hemp from 0
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Paul held up bipartisan legislation that would make lynching a federal crime
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“Despite climate alarmist predictions, humans will likely survive for hundreds of millions of years into the future. In the meantime, we should begin creating atmospheres on suitable moons or planets.”
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2019· 5 entries
Paul called on the media to reveal the secret identity of Trump's Ukraine quid pro quo whistleblower after threatening to reveal the name himself
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Paul blocked Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's motion for unanimous consent on a bill renewing the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund along with Utah Senator Mike Lee
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“offends [himself] and a lot of people”
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Career landmark: United States senator (2019–2021).
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To vote against Trump's demand for "emergency border funding"
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2018· 2 entries
Claimed: “"It cost us more to shut the government down than to keep it open."” — rated True by PolitiFact.
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To protect the health and safety of pregnant women in prison, and the Justice for Breonna Taylor Act in 2020 to end the use of no-knock warrants
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2017· 3 entries
The Trump administration announced the intended rescission of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program
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That sought to replace the Affordable Care Act which included each person's having a tax credit of $5,000 and not requiring everyone to have coverage, unlike Obamacare
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Career landmark: United States senator (2017–2019).
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2016· 5 entries
Election lost: 2016 presidential election.
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President Obama called on Paul to stop "blocking the implementation of tax treaties that have been pending for years", arguing that they assisted law enforcement in off shore investigations into tax evasion
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Shortly after the Iowa caucus, where he finished in fifth place
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Campaign: 2016 presidential election.
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Paul was one of the first members of Congress to come out in opposition to United States support for the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
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2015· 9 entries
In opposition to the reauthorization of Section 215 of the Patriot Act
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To allow cannabis businesses increased access to banks
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Called for a defense budget of $697 billion
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“While I disagree with Supreme Court”
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"While I disagree with Supreme Court's redefinition of marriage, I believe that all Americans have the right to contract
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To legalize medical cannabis at the federal level
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To reduce the use of military equipment by police, the MERCY Act in 2015 to restrict the use of solitary confinement on juveniles, the Pretrial Integrity and Safety Act in 2017 to encourage states to reform bail policies
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“I personally believe that this group would not be in Iraq and would not be as powerful had we not been supplying their allies in the war [against Syrian Bashar al-Assad”
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Career landmark: United States senator (2015–2017).
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2014· 2 entries
To rein in police use of civil asset forfeiture, the RESET Act in 2014 to address the crack sentencing disparity and how drugs are weighed, the Police CAMERA Act in 2015 to increase the use of body cameras by police, the
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Cosponsoring the STATES Act in 2018, and introducing other amendments
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2013· 8 entries
Paul said, "I basically say he is bailing them out over my dead body because we don't have any money in Washington
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But was dismissed by cloture, in a 68–31 vote
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While Marco Rubio gave the official Republican response
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“I basically say he is bailing them out over my dead body because we don”
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To provide judges with greater sentencing flexibility, the Civil Rights Voting Restoration Act in 2014 to restore voting rights for non-violent felons, the REDEEM Act in 2014 to allow sealing and expungement for non-viol
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Career landmark: United States senator (2013–2015).
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During which he said "misinformation works, so try to trick your opponents"
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And 2014, Paul was included in a list of the world's 100 most influential people by Time magazine, to which he is a contributor
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2011· 5 entries
Along with his father, who was simultaneously in the House of Representatives
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Shortly after being elected, Paul proposed a budget which specified $542 billion in defense spending
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Career landmark: United States senator (2011–2013).
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Paul signed onto the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act which was intended to prohibit federal funding for abortion, with the exception of abortions in the case of rape, incest, and to save the life of the mother
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In Paul's hometown of Bowling Green
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2010· 4 entries
Based on the advice of what Dobson described as "senior members of the GOP", but on May 3, the Paul campaign announced that Dobson had changed his endorsement to Paul after Paul and some Paul supporters had lobbied Dobso
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That, although Paul had told a Kentucky television audience as recently as September 2009 that KTU published ratings each year on state legislators' tax positions and that "we've done that for about 15 years", the group
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Supported a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage nationwide
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“crisis that allows people to think there would be some other sorts of marriage.”
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2009· 2 entries
To help provide eye surgery and exams for those who cannot afford to pay
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His position was to ban abortion under all circumstances
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2008· 1 entry
Paul formed his own private practice across the street from John Downing, his former employer at Downing McPeak
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2003· 1 entry
“The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed; socialism doesn't work.”
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2000· 1 entry
After failing to file registration documents
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1999· 1 entry
Incorporated the National Board of Ophthalmology (NBO) to offer an alternative certification system, at a cost substantially lower than that of the ABO
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1998· 1 entry
Joined a private medical group practice, the Graves Gilbert Clinic, in Bowling Green, for 10 years
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1995· 1 entry
Paul was certified to practice by the American Board of Ophthalmology (ABO)
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1994· 1 entry
Founded the anti-tax organization Kentucky Taxpayers United (KTU), and was chair of the organization from its inception
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1988· 1 entry
Studied at Duke University School of Medicine, Doctor of Medicine (1988).
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1984· 2 entries
Paul took a semester off to aid his father's campaign in the Republican primary for the 1984 U
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Studied at Baylor University (1981–1984).
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1968· 1 entry
Where he was raised and where his father began a medical practice and for a period of time was the only obstetrician in Brazoria County
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1963· 3 entries
In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Carol (née Wells) and Ron Paul, who is also a politician and physician
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Born 1963-01-07.
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“s hawkish foreign policy beliefs. In June 2019, Paul criticized the Trump administration for escalating tensions with Iran. Said Paul:”
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